Don’t Tell Anyone I Read Romance has a lot of scenes set at the Hatfield Falls Library. Here’s an excerpt from one of those scenes from chapter 1 and an image (above) that I created to go with it.
…“Can I help with any of your work?” Josh offered. He was a good kid in that way. Very obliging and willing to put himself out for someone else. “I did all the shelving that was on the cart, and there’s still half-an-hour before I can start going through the bookshelves in there.” He thumbed to his right. “To search for books that are out of order.”
In the children’s area, Eddie could see Jenna weaving her way in between tables where a half-dozen elementary school kids were bent over books doing homework or whatever. To send Josh with his grade ten “geeky cuteness,” as Eddie had heard one of the older elementary girls describe it, into the area to look for wayward books would not help Jenna keep things in the afterschool program running as they were supposed to.
“I’m afraid I don’t have anything I can pass on to someone else. I’d hate for either you or me to get in trouble.” Edmund paused as his eyes roved the library, looking for something for Josh to do that wasn’t following him and possibly overhearing that he read romance.
Ah! There! A magazine lay open on a chair. “I don’t know if the magazines have been checked yet today. There were quite a few moms here waiting for story time to end earlier. If you could check that, it’d be a big help.”
A broad, but still lopsided, grin spread across Josh’s face. “I can do that. Thanks, Mr. – er… Eddie,” Josh corrected.
Finally. It had taken a full summer and a month and a half of the school year, but Josh had finally remembered that he could call him Eddie and not Mr. Bennett…
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