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Chapter 5: The Library

We reached the third floor where the library was. We stood in front of these two large doors, Axel opened one of the doors and gestured me inside.

I walked inside, he followed behind me after closing the door. I looked around and saw that the library was huge and circular around us. It had these large bookcases all around, stacked high towards the ceiling with a large ladder that could move around the room from either side of the large room. From the left to right the books were in categories and in alphabetical order by last names of each author. There was a long table in the center of the library with 13 chairs around the table. And there were a few small sofas and seats around the library.

"Wow, this is the biggest library I have ever seen," I said excited.

Axel smirked. "Yeah, sometimes I come in here and read."

"Really?" I said looking at him, "I wouldn't think you would be much of a reader."

"Yeah, I tend to surprise people," he shrugged.

"I'll say," I giggled.

"So, out of all of the genres of books which one is your favorite?" He asked.

"Romance, definitely. Or fantasy," I smiled.

"Makes sense," he said rolling his eyes.

"What?" I eyed him curiously.

"Girls liking romance books," he said.

"Well, I am a girl after all," I shrugged.

"True. Here I'll show you where the romance category is," he offered his hand towards me.

I took it and we walked around the long table and reached the romance genre.

"Do you need the ladder?" he asked.

I looked through the long bookcases looking for last name beginning with S.

"Which author are you looking for?" he asked.

"Nicholas Sparks," I replied.

"Let me go get the ladder," he walked around the long bookshelves retrieving the ladder and brought it to me.

"I'll hold it steady so you can climb up there without worrying about falling off, okay?" he said.

I nodded and slowly climbed up the ladder towards the row of authors of last names that start with the letter S.

I skimmed through past Scott, Shakespeare, then Smith until finally seeing Sparks.

I saw A Walk To Remember, Message in a Bottle, Nights in Rodanthe, and The Notebook.

I grabbed The Notebook, because it had been my favorite Sparks book. A Walk To Remember being my second favorite Sparks book.

And quickly walked down the ladder.

"Found what you were looking for?" Axel asked.

"Yeah, I did," I smiled showing him the book.

"The Notebook, huh, never read that one. But then again, I'm not the type whose into romance books," he shrugged.

"Oh well. It's a very good one although, very sad, too."

"Why would you want to read a sad book?" he asked curiously.

"Well, it's a great romance, but it's known most romances end in tragedy somehow like death," I revealed being the tragedy in this story.

"I see. Well, whatever you're into I guess," he shrugged, again. "So want to sit down and read it for awhile?" he asked.

"Sure," I replied walking over towards the nearest sofa. I sat down on the sofa with him and started reading the book.

I curled up on one end of the sofa and he stayed his distance on the other end, but his eyes fixated on me the whole time.

I tried to ignore it, but it was getting hard not to.

I closed the book and looked at him, "What?" I asked.

"Nothing," he shook his head.

"You keep staring at me," I stated.

"Oh, sorry about that, I tend to space out sometimes," he said.

"Okay," was all I said before rolling my eyes and opening the book up to the page I left off of.

"Kairi?" I heard him say.

I sighed and closed the book, again. "Yes?" I said in an annoyed tone.

"What's the story about?" he asked curiously.

"It's about an old couple, Noah and Allie. And Noah is reading to Allie, who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, the story of their life and how they met."

"Oh. Okay," was all he could say.

I sigh, again. "Alright, fine. I won't read."

"No, I'm sorry. I won't bother you. I'll just go pick out a book, myself." He said and got up from the sofa and went to go grab a book.

He came back to the sofa a few minutes later. And I peeked up from my book to see what he was reading.

I read it was a mystery type book, like Sherlock Holmes. And went back to reading.

A few minutes later, he got back up and went back to the bookcase to put the book back.

'He couldn't have read the whole book within a few minutes could he?' I shrugged the thought away quickly as he came back to sit on the sofa with me, empty handed.

"You like mystery books?" I asked.

He put his arms behind his head and smiled before replying, "Yes, sorta like Sherlock Holmes. Mysteries and crime solving always fascinated me."

"Interesting." I hummed and turned the page of my book before looking back up at him just laying on the other end relaxed and smiling with his eyes closed.

I shook my head, I got up from the sofa and I walked past him to go put the book back up on the bookcase.

He got up, too and followed me. When I got to the ladder, he did what he did before and held the ladder in place while I climbed back up to put the book back.

I started to climb back down, but I lost my footing. Axel must have noticed because he caught me and brought sat me back down on the floor.

"Thanks," I blushed.

He chuckled and said, "No problem."

"I'm such a klutz sometimes," I giggled.

"Well, want to go back to my room then?" he asked.

I nodded. "Yeah, I guess."

We walked out of the library and down the stairs back to the second floor.