My phone vibrated against the wood of my desk and five minutes later I was stuffing textbooks into my bag and striding out of the library.
“Oh, calling it early tonight Vivian?” a prim, dark haired woman asked from behind the library’s front desk.
“Yeah…I wasn’t really getting much done today. I think I’m just due for a break you know? And, c’mon I keep telling you to just call me Viv…Vivian makes me sound old.” I reply, hoping that my excited breathing just comes across as taking the stairs up two-at-a-time finally catching up to me.
“Ah, and being an old woman would be oh so terrible,” she replies dryly, her hand resting on her hip.
“O-oh, I didn’t mean…well first of all you’re not-” I start to stammer in response before she breaks into a smile, shaking with subdued laughter behind her hand.
“It’s alright, *Viv,* I’m just teasing you. Oh but, I don’t mean to keep you! If my cute little book rat’s finally decided to treat herself I don’t want to get in the way. Savor your youth and cut loose as the saying goes~” she says as she shoos me away from her desk with a wide grin on her face.