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- Author: Annie Crown
- Language: English
- Genre: Sports Romance
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I’ve always loved libraries after dark.
This one—the only twenty-four-hour library at Clement University—may
not have the marble floors and cathedral ceilings that adorn Pinterest boards
and travel Instagrams, but it’s still one of my favorite places on campus.
And despite the outdated furniture, questionable carpet stains, fake ferns,
and lingering stench of old coffee, there’s something magical about the way
moonlight floods the central atrium through the glass ceiling overhead,
casting the mostly empty tables far below in a soft blue glow.
There’s nowhere else I’d rather be at ten o’clock on a Friday night.
It helps, of course, that I’m getting paid to do nothing.
At the beginning of my shift, I did a lap around the second and third
floors to collect stray books, which took me all of fifteen minutes. Now I’m
wrapped up in my biggest knit cardigan and seated behind the circulation
desk. It’s the end of October—just past the usual midterm rush—so there
are only a few people still scattered around the tables in the atrium: five or
six students who seem deeply engrossed in their laptops, a group of girls
who are currently packing up to leave, and a boy who’s walking back and
forth between one of the desktop computers and the old copy machine that
never seems to print what you want it to on the first try.
Soon the library will be a ghost town, but outside, campus is buzzing with
students. Some of them are trudging back to the dorms from their night
classes, but most are leaving pregames in search of house parties. Their
drunken laughter and shouts echo in the quad and drift in through the glass
front doors of the library. I watch them stumble past from my seat at the
circulation desk with a sense of detached curiosity, like I’m on one side of
the glass at a zoo exhibit.
I can’t figure out if I’m the visitor or the captive animal.
Maybe I should feel lonely during these long and quiet night shifts, but I
don’t. Not when I’m surrounded by books. And definitely not when the rest
of my life feels so loud and bright and inescapably hectic.
Besides, I’m not totally on my own. I have Margie, my supervisor and the
resident overnight librarian at Clement—who, right on cue, appears at my
side and drops a stack of heavy tomes on the desk. Margie might be a foot
shorter than me and three times my age, but she’s got the arm strength and
no-nonsense attitude of a drill sergeant.
“These were on the floor outside the drop box,” she says. “Apparently,
putting them into the box is too much work.”
“People are the worst. Here—I’ll log them.”
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