Something Unexpected

Chapter Seven

"So," Five starts ashe leans back in his chair, his cup of coffee in his left hand. "nowthat you've heard about me, let's talk about you."

Julia smiles and rest herchin on her hand. "What about me?"

"Well,... what made youdecide to become a librarian?" Five asks.

Julia sighs dreamily. "Mylove for books."

Five returns her smile."How did you come to love books?"

"My grandmother."Julia tells him. "She used to take me with her to work, which wasin The Library of Congress. She used help restore old manuscripts."

"Does she still workthere?" Five can't hide the eagerness in his voice.

Julia shakes her head."No. She retired after I graduated high school."

Five nods his head, eventhough he feels a little bummed out about it. "Bummer."

"Yeah." Julia agrees."But we still go there at least once a year, around Christmas."

Five smiles. "Nice. Mustbe beautiful."

Julia nods. She takes asip of her coffee. "Anything else you wanna know about me?"

"Loads." Five repliesflirtatiously.

"Okay." Julia can'thelp the blush that appears on her cheeks. No one, no man or woman,had even given her this much attention before. Not even in heryounger years in college. "Then, how about we play twentyquestions?"

"Sounds reasonable."Five responds before setting his cup down. "Should we flip or playto see who goes first?"

Julia makes a fist withher right hand and places it in the palm of her left. "Yes."

Five does the same. "Rock,paper, scissors, shoot.:" Five makes the hand motions as he callsout the words. When he finishes, he makes his fist appear as a pairof scissors while Julia's fist stays the same.

"Ha!" Julia exclaims."I get to go first."

Five motions with hishand. "Then, please, ask away."

"Okay." Julia saysbefore tapping her chin with her pointer finger. She then straightensup. "Okay. Question number one: What's the favorite place you'vevisited when you worked for The Commission?"

Five's eyebrows raise allthe way to his hairline at Julia's question. That was not what he wasexpecting to be Julia's first question. He stares at her for a fewseconds before asking, "You really wanna know?"

Julia shrugs her rightshoulder. "I wouldn't of asked."