Excerpt: Lovecraft

It only took Ellen the librarian about ten or fifteen minutes before she came out of the stacks carrying three books that she then handed to Jason, who was sitting at one of the tables while he waited. She sat down on the edge of it as she placed them on the table in front of him. All the books looked pretty thick and old and Jason stared down at them wondering how he was even going to manage to get through all three of them in a matter of few days and write a paper. He was tempted to ask Ellen another favor and help him wade through the thick intimidating looking tomes.
He looked up at her, to see if maybe he could possibly ask her for another favor and noticed that she was looking down at him with a strange expression on her face that he was pretty sure he wasn’t going to like and he hand was playing with the top button on her blouse. At that point Jason decided that it would probably just be best if he got out of there as soon as possible. After all he could always ask his tutor Eric to help him weed through the books and help him write his paper.
“We um… thanks it looks like there’s plenty of material here for me to use to write my paper, so I’d better go get that nap so I can get started on it. It has to be five pages long and all that. It’s going to be a lot of work so I’d better be well rested.”
“Well if you don’t mind I have a favor I might want to ask you…”
“Um… Sorry Ellen I um, am super busy. I mean I really appreciate it and if I can do something to pay you back later I will, but right now I really just need to take a nap and start working on my paper, but um, we’ll get in touch later I promise.”
“Please call me Ellie and I are you sure? ‘Cause I think you’ll like it.”
“I’m sure. I appreciated it, really I do, but I have to go now. Thanks, bye!”
And with that Jason grabbed the books and ran out of the library as quickly as he could right past the magical wards which began wailing like crazy because the books he was taking hadn’t been properly checked out yet. He could hear Ellen calling after him, but he didn’t stop running until he reached the safety of his dorm room. Fortunately she didn’t try following him. He wondered if he’d get in trouble for stealing the books, though he fully intended to bring them back, though he was hoping to wait until after the spell he’d cast had worn off of he’d found a way to make it stop.