15 School Days 2 (2/2)

With a ding, the elevator doors opened and the two soon found themselves speed walking to the library to not be late for class. When they got there, Aria felt her heart shatter.

The librarian working today was Patricia Keenel, or as she was very determined you called her, Librarian Keenel.

Even though she had worked at the library since the school opened, she was horrible at her job and only maintained the position due to family connections. In return for employing their relatively useless daughter, her somewhat wealthy family had given a significant contribution during the early stage's of Maple-leaf's life that allowed it to launch successfully.

Normally, seeing her work there would make Aria simply come back several hours later when the woman's shift would be over, but they needed to get Aika's books right then and they had no choice.

Librarian Keenel wasn't especially mean or strict, and most students actually liked her carefree attitude. The problem was that her laziness and her low level of skill with her job meant that checking out books would be extremely slow and they were already running late.

”Librarian Keenel, this is my roommate Aika who just transferred here. We're here to get her her books for classes today.”

”Ah! The girl who spoke for you during all that drama yesterday.”

As Librarian Keenel turned to go get the textbooks, she muttered under her breath.

”Though I don't know why anyone would choose to support a weird girl like you...”

When she saw that Aika had heard what was said as well and looked like she was going to speak up about it, Aria shook her head at her and signaled to be quiet.

She didn't mind having someone stand up for her and actually found it rather nice, but she didn't want to end up late to class either. Especially after the past two days, she did not want any extra attention on her and arriving late to class would bring just that.