Raining On Heaven by Amanda Foote

Author:Amanda Foote [Foote, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-31T05:00:00+00:00

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I was finishing up the last few pages of my book while at work when a familiar voice broke me out of the spell I was under. I glanced up, confused. Dillard was standing in front of me, clad in jeans, sandals, and an oversized black T-shirt, saying, “Heaven. Earth to Heaven. Hello down there!”

“Hi,” I responded.

He laughed. “Got lost in there, eh?” he said, then smirked.

I smiled. “Yeah. Occupational hazard.”

He grinned, then glanced around. “So this is where you work now, huh? Interesting. Can you show me around?” I shot a look to Joann who was at her own desk, staring at her computer screen.

“Yeah, I could probably do that,” I said, and stood up. “What do you want to see?”

“Hmmm. I guess… show me your favorite section of the library,” he smiled.

“Okay.” I led him to the Young Adult Fantasy section.

“I see,” he said. “She loves mythical worlds and all that. Good to know,” he murmured as he playfully rubbed his chin and pretended to look pensive. “So why is this your favorite section?”

“Well, I do love fantasy books, but that’s not why this is my favorite section of the library.”

He looked intrigued. “Oh, tell me more.”

I motioned him over a few feet until he could see just past one of the shelves to a small table with some plush chairs around it. One little girl with jet black hair, dark skin, and striking green eyes was sunk into the blue faux leather of a chair. She couldn’t have been more than eleven but she had a rather large book propped up on her dark legs. A notebook was pulled open on the table next to her and a green gel pen rested on top of it with the cap off. She was mouthing the words in her book quietly as she read them. I smiled and said to Dillard, “That’s Annabeth. She comes in nearly every day wanting a new book. She particularly likes non-fiction but will take most any suggestion.”

“Okay,” Dillard smirked, amused but not quite understanding my excitement.

I looked at him and he looked at me. “She doesn’t read the whole book. She starts in the middle and reads from there. Sometimes she doesn’t even read the ending. And the whole while, she takes notes on what she reads. Names, places, plot twists, character descriptions. Everything. I finally asked her yesterday if it was for a school project. She said no, it’s for research. I said, ‘Research for what?’ And guess what she said.”

He smiled the biggest grin I had seen on him yet. It made the scar on his forehead stand out but it added a charm to his face that was undeniable. “What?” he asked.

I paused for effect. “‘Research for my future,’ she said. ‘Research for my future!’ I was so stunned I couldn’t even think of anything else to ask her.” We glanced back over to her, and Annabeth had moved her attention from her book to the notepad, where she was jotting something down with the bright green gel pen.

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