*Turns out the reason these kept getting automatically deleted is because I derped and put links in the OP, lol. Link to Chapter 2 will be in the comments once it’s up.*
# Chapter 1 — It
I love the library. We go almost every Saturday — Mom, my little sister Bo and me. Even Dad tags along sometimes, but today he’s gone fishing with friends, so it’s just us girls.
The library’s almost on the other side of town, but since it’s a small town, it’s just a twenty-minute walk, most of it through the park. We cross the river twice, stopping on the bridges to look out for some fish of our own so we can tell Dad later. Mom’s really good at spotting them “sitting” in the stream. Sometimes it takes Bo and me half a minute to see them even after she’s pointed them out.
They built the library on the top two floors of an old monastery. I mean really old — it was built in the year 803. Last year, there was a festival celebrating its 1,200th anniversary. They had a booksale and a big cook-off, and at night they played movies on a large screen in the garden.