Disclaimer: The characters belongs to Hiro Mashima
Drabbles of First Meetings!
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Library
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Sting hated Physics. He hated it. He would have willingly dropped it long before but he needed to pass the class to get his degree. So, as much as he loathed it, he needed to study and approve his last exam, which meant he needed to go the college's library almost every afternoon.
The examen would be next day, a he still needed to do a long research based on an specific book which only copy was at the college's public library and couldn't be taken off it. Damn policies. Every time he had tried to check it was already being used by someone else, so Sting had put off his research has long as he could, looking at all the other things that needed to be done. But he couldn't do it anymore. It was the last day so he had to get the book now.
He asked to the librarian for the book and miraculously it hadn't been picked yet. The woman gave him the instructions to find his way through the maze that sometimes the shelves were. Sting thanked her and went to find the damn book so he could finally start studying the subject, get a good grade and be free of the curse that Physics was.
Just as he reached the right corridor, he saw someone else picking something from the bookcase and leaving by the opposite side Sting was. He didn't think too much about it and instead looked for the right row, when he was told he would find the so needed book. But it was just space what he found instead. Empty. Totally Empty. Just in the spot when he had saw the other person before.
Sting cursed loudly and sprinted through the library, risking to the caught and banned from it. He soon spotted the guy he had saw before, sitting at one of the study tables. With the book. The book Sting needed to pass his class and be forever free. He wasn't going to allow it.
Sting slapped his hand on the table near him, making him jump.
"Give me that book"
"What the… Who are you?"
"It doesn't matter. Give me that book"
"What, no. Why? I found it first and already registered with the librarian, it's mine"
"I need it"
"Well, smart one, I need it too, or I wouldn't have picked it"
"Listen, I don't know what you think but I'm pretty sure I need it more than you. I have my final test tomorrow and this is the only copy available and…"
"I have a test tomorrow too. I have been waiting for weeks."
His resolve crumbled and Sting deflated. Good. Perfect. He was going to fall his class just for being thirty seconds too slow.
"Hey, uh… we can... uhm, maybe share it?" the other guy suggested a bit hesitantly, looking at him with something like pity. Any other day Sting would have been furious of getting that look, but he had no option. It was taking the offer or failing. And he wasn't planning on retake Physics.
"Uh… Sure, thanks"