Don’t you just love libraries? In my day, they used to be the only source of information, the only place that had the whole set of Encyclopaedia Britannica. They had other books as well but when I was a teenager I was only interested in Science and Ancient Greece for some reason.
Then of course I hit college. I was directed into areas of the library that contained all manner of books on Mathematics and Computer studies, both of which were a bit on the boring side. Computer studies in those days was different, there were only mainframes, punch card readers and people with long beards that wore glasses, that never ever looked at another human being. That tiny little thing you carry around in your pocket and call a phone, the thing that connects you to all your friends and offers up all manner of information, was not invented then.
Libraries went out of fashion very quickly when the internet took off and people could get all the information they needed from their phone or computer.
I miss libraries, which is why I went to my local one the other day. I spent several minutes browsing the shelves, not looking for anything in particular. Just looking at what they had that interested me. I choose an old sci-fi book that I had last read when I was a teenager and sat in a comfy chair close to the window overlooking the main street.
I opened the book and started to read. Suddenly the story flowed into my brain, every word, every scenario, all in order. I held the book open and looked out of the window onto the passing people below me.
And then she arrived.
I glanced at her out of the corner of my eye, not wanting to glare too obviously. But those legs!
They cried out loud.
Watch me!
With every step she took. Her camo bag was slung over the shoulder of her stripy blue top, and as for the pure white skirt. Well, I would have sent it back to the shop seeing as how much it had shrunk in the wash.
It wasn’t until she got close that I could see the pale brown boots that she wore and I thought, in my day, they would have been heels for sure, or maybe full length jeans and trainers. How things have changed!
I must have ended up staring, watching her walk towards me because she caught my eye and smiled. My face, instantly replicated the colour of her bright red lips for being caught out.
I nodded and tried to make out that I was reading but I never pulled it off, not when my face betrayed me. So I locked onto her eyes and braved it out.
Her smile was something else. Not a quick smile and a nod and then a casual look away. No. This was full on sultry. The purse of her lips, the slight movement as her tongue slipped between them, and then the slow opening of her mouth before she closed her lips.