There Was Margaret

Chapter 2

- September 15, 1979 -

🎶'It's a game and prize for us, it's a game and prize for us' 🎶

A thick wooden table carrying a pile of crumbly aged books that were longingly waiting for a sanitation after a few years of cleaning abscene, Augustine with concern, clamped her long dust brush to sweep all the filth and fine dirt inside the bookshelves as she sang a song with calm and angelic voice.

At the same time, Vanessa, a book nerd, is very stimulated by the appearance of each paper.
She turned on the book - page by page as she read many profounded words and stories drafted inside of it.

'Vanessa, stop playing with those books, you might also want to put some gloves on. You don't want to damage yourself with a mold or..arsenic'

Vanessa continuely analyzing the script with closed ears that is now ignoring Augustine's order, she kept her hands softened by an old texture that she have never felt and seen before.

'How long does these books and manuscripts been sitting in the shelves? It looks like their very subtle and could be handed by a collector of rare books'

'Beats me!'

Vanessa pointing her index finger in each of every detailed compositions of obscure pictures and said

'I don't know what these codes and pictures purpose but I really find it very suspicious and also made my brain ache by considering such a difficult and ancient thing'

' Yes, I know, these books are no picnic for you, but you should also know that it's a no-no for me to have you play with it, I could even address the nuns that you crave for some convent's property without any permission which I know you won't like'

said Augustine who warns her to not touch a thing considering that she's a very attentive person when it talks about things that puzzles Vanessa's mind like the old cryptic and strange books that's displayed on the table.

'I don't mean to steal it, you're overeacting..' said Vanessa, rolled her eyes and walked away.

But deep inside, her mind is filled with energy to abduct that thing that is sitting on the table.

Which is the BOOK OF ENOCH.

Nonethless, she knows that Augustine will be very protective for the book, so Vanessa insist to make up her mind and try to atone or apologize with her attitude that she have shown in front of her.

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Aside from cleaning the bookshelves inside the convent's library, most orphans worked with their hands inside of the main room of the orphanage.

Zen pushed his bucket of water with a soggy mop, he forced his arm to manage and made the dusty floor, shiny, as how Margaret wanted it to be.

While Zen's busy from all the mopping, Gina with her clumsy little hands tried to wash the dishes by her own, it was so reckless that she accidentally broke the clear octagon glass plate that they always use for the dinner foods.

Everybody looked at the broken pieces of plate at the floor while Eleanor is trembled by the situation and didn't know what to do to clean the mess that Gina made.

'Anybody help me clean this, and for once! Don't let Gina clean the dishes again, you know what's gonna happen if you put her in this kind of work!'

said Eleanor reaching her supreme irritated voice that echoes around the room and made the kids to flutter and anxious as they rush their feet just to hand her the broomstick.