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Chapter 6 - The Weird Librarian

Nassim getting dragged towards East Public library chatted with Gavin as he observed the city.

Around him were majority brick houses with different sizes. The biggest of which was the size of a mansion.

As they went more east the houses grew smaller and smaller. While apartment complex building got increasingly common.

Nassim noticed that Gavin hadn't let go of his hands since he was left his house.

" Soo, when are you going to let go of my hand?" Nassim said to Gavin.

The feeling that Nassim got from Gavin was not him wanting to hold his hand but to prevent him from escaping.

" I know that incredibly handsome and that it's difficult to resist but I have you know that I'm not into men." Nassim continued

Gavin letting go of Nassim's hand looked at him with shock at how the polite man he just met can show such a level of narcissism.

" You don't have to worry about that." Gavin shaking his head as he responded to Nassim.

" Anyway we are almost at the library. It should take about 5 more minutes of walking." Gavin continued as smile grew increasingly larger the closer they got to the library.

"Seeing your happy smile you must really like the library or you are excited to see someone there." Nassim smiled as he noticed the embarrassment appearing on Gavin's face.

" Cough, that's not important. Instead shouldn't you shows some more hop in your step at the thought of your first day at work?" Gavin said quickly diverting topic.

" Yeah, I totally excited to start working for the rest of my life instead of staying in my warm comfortable home." Nassim sarcastically responded as he rolled his eyes.

"That the spirit!" Gavin said ignoring Nassim's sarcastic tone.

After turning the corner they were able to see the East Public library. The library stood out like a sore thumb.

The library dwarfed the other buildings surrounding it. The library also showed signs of regular cleaning and the amount of money spent to build it.

With the big metal sign located at above the front of the glass door that seemed to be made for giants. Walking to the front doors, Nassim and Gavin looked at each other taking a deep breath before heading in.

Walking in the first time, they saw clean wooden floors with fresh cool air. The massive hallway was bright as the glass door let in the warm sunlight.

Deeper in the library they were able to see towering book shelves as tall as 2-3 people standing on each other shoulder. It was completely unrealistic to be able reach any of the top books without a latter of some sort.

In the center of the bookshelves was a smooth wooden counter or more accurately a large messy desk. On the desk was an assortment of pens, pencils, papers and of course books.

After hearing the sound of the doors open and the footsteps a person popped out from behind the desk. It was a man in glasses, wearing a blue sweater with the underneath black collar popping out, with gray pants.

Seeing the man come out of the desk. Nassim shivered as a thought popped into his head.

Turning his head to Gavin he thought ' Could it be that Gavin was excited to see this guy. Nassim patted Gavin's shoulders and nodded to show his support.

Gavin feeling that Nassim looking at him with a weird gaze felt that something was wrong but couldn't figure it out. When he went to ask Nassim about it, the man at the desk noticed them and called them out.

" Hey, hello are you here to check out books or buy! If you need any help I'll always be around here!"

' A screaming librarian, something that is the contradiction to it's very existence.' Nassim marking the man as a weirdo went to the front desk with Gavin.

As they got closer they noticed that the glasses on the man didn't have any lenses in them. What was strange was even though they were fake glasses they were made with unknown fancy metal.

The blue sweater that the man was wearing a strangely thick. To the point of it being on usable in the winter chill. Unfortunately to the man winter was still 6 months away. As they got closer they noticed that it wasn't just the sweater that had abnormalities but the man's clothing altogether. Every single part of his clothing was thick all the way from the top of his sweater to the bottom of his socks. The man's pants had pockets that seemed to be made to large items, of which it seemed they were empty.

Once they reached the desk they saw the wide range of books laying randomly. The book covers had titles ranging from, How to be a mathematician for dummies, to The Love tale of a maiden and a Gardener.

The man in the fake glasses looked at the duo before laying his eyes on Nassim. The man has a small look of confusion on his face before hiding it.

" Sup Nixon, why are you here today? I thought that Victoria would be here." Gavin spoke in a deflated tone to the man. Completely ignoring the man's weird sense of style.

"I'm substituting for her today since she seems to have gotten a bad cold recently." The man called Nixon responded to Gavin looking away from Nassim.

" So who's your friend here?" Gavin continued to ask full of curiosity.

" Oh, this fellow here is Nassim Gilmore." Gavin introducing Nassim as he pointed to his face.

" Hey, it nice to meet you. My name is Nassim." Nassim said moving his hand to handshake Nixon's hand.

" Nice to meet you too. Are you the one Victoria said would be the new employee by chance?" Nixon asked while shaking Nassim hands.

" Yeah, if I'm not mistaken that would probably be me." Nassim responded while showing his best smile to his easy future working at the library.