9. a face in the crowd

 Chelsea felt she'd worked forever at the library. In fact, she'd started as a shelver in high school. She'd gone to great lengths to get it. Even interviewed the director for the school newspaper. Oh, it felt like over a decade ago. But she managed the part-time job through college. The library was her second home. She became a clerk and learned customer service from the best.

Never did she imagine she would have been part of the 'old school'. After all, she was the youngest to become head of circ which panned out to be being a nervous wreck over scheduling people's shifts.

And then Gavin arrived. He might as well have been Devil Boy to her because he was always questioning her and seldom did much even in Adult services. It was a bitter battle, but in the end..patrons kept asking..are you two married?

Chelsea would laugh, thinking what are these people seeing? Even a little girl asked her one day how her husband was doing. She hadn't seen him in a while.

"Oh, I have him working in the basement," she whispered. "He's been very bad." She smiled. Of course, there was no basement. All she could hope for was that he found a job at a nearby library as a director. After all, that was what he was shooting for. But no, he'd figured out a way not to work weekends. Chelsea guessed she wasn't the smartest tool in the shed, after all.