by Basil Benson » Thu Mar 30, 2017 3:43 am
Basil had been hitting the books quite heavily recently. With all the rigmarole and nonsense with his stupid genes, he hadn't actually been properly focusing on anything but showing up for his assigned shifts, and he needed to make sure his dawdling in his own menial, personal affairs hadn't screwed up his actual grades and get him kicked out of here.
Today the invisible boy was wearing actual clothes while at work and not his 'special suit'. People could actually receive help without calling out to him, IDing him by his empty wardrobe.
The library was going dead earlier and earlier in the day as the classes were dwindling, some of the better off students having the finances to return home for Thanksgiving and having already finished classes this semester or being giving the option to satellite in the last of their work.
That meant Basil having more time to himself, but lead to quite a bit of boredom.
Having collected a pile of textbooks that had been returned on his cart, he went about putting them back, singing a jaunty little 'ba ba bum' tune as he made his way to the proper section. By the time he made it there, it had evolved into full on song as he shelved them.
"Pretty women, fascinating, sipping coffee, dancing
Pretty women, are a wonder, pretty women
Sitting in the window or standing on the stair
Something in them chills the air
Pretty women, silhouetted, stay within you, glancing
Stay forever, breathing lightly...."
The last book had to go on the top shelf and he climbed the roll-ladder as he was instructed to for 'safety reasons'.
Thinking himself to be the only person in the library, Basil brought a lanky leg up and pushed off the side of the bookshelf to repel himself along the case as quickly as it would go> When it came to the end of the shelf with a loud clatter he started tittering in amusement.
And became fully visible.
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