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[notalfredjones]

Characters: Matt, you, etc,
Location: Library
Time: Sometimes
Content: Matt reads. A bunch.
Format: Action.
Warnings: None?

Comments

[childweapon]

[In the library looking for something to read]

[Finds a book of fairy tales in Italian]

[goes to find a spot to read and stumbles across Matt]

Oh!

[notalfredjones]

[blinkblink] Hello, did you need somewhere to sit? [scoots books to one side]

[childweapon]

[embarrassed] I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you.

[notalfredjones]

It's fine, really, just reading.

[love_hurricane]

[It's been a while since he visited this particular haunt, and anyway he still has a few of those books that Robin recommended to him to start on.]

[Dumps a fair pile of tomes on a desk a little behind where Matt is sitting before sticking his nose in a thick volume about Scandinavian lore. He has no idea Matt is even there (not female = below radar of priorities at this juncture) =|]

[notalfredjones]

[startled out of his book stupor into whirling around for the source of the noise. Eyes settle on Sanji quickly]

Oh! [marks his page and turns in his sear to peer at his pile of books]

[love_hurricane]

[Is behind a book.]

[Is aware of being peered at.]

[Does not approve B| damn nosy kids.]

What? Never seen someone read in a library before? [Although, hell, in this place it probably is unusual.]

[... wait, hasn't he seen you before somewhere?]

[notalfredjones]

Oh-sorry. [waves hand] Just wanted to see what you were reading, sorry.

[trumpcard_ace]

[Ace's book choices are rather atypical for a twelve year old girl. Rather than reading young adult fiction, or maybe something for a research project for Storm's class, she's got a small stack of books on government conspiracies. She's about to go find a table when she trips over a book that had dropped on the floor, and her books land with several unceremonious thuds on Matt's table]

Oh! I'm sorry!

[The diminuative girl's voice is soft, and she gets up looking rather embarrassed about the whole situation]

[notalfredjones]

[startled into looking up and blinks] Oh--no it's fine. [smilesmile, helps gather back up her books]

[trumpcard_ace]

Thank you. [She returns the smile as Matt helps her pick the books up, and she can't help but notice the books on the table]

Wow...you're interested in lots of things.

[notalfredjones]

I...got carried away. [sheepish laugh]

[meiblossoms]

[Here's someone who's not exactly a stranger to the library. Studying was a big part of her life after all.

Still studying is shoved to the backburner when she sees her cousin with a rather large pile of books. Mandarin? Cantonese? Someone was finally talking in her language, so to speak, and literally.]

Matt. I didn't know you were interested in learning Mandarin.

[She peers over his shoulder to see what he's currently reading.]

Are you making them out okay? I know it can be a little confusing when you're first starting out. It still is for me sometimes too.

[And here's she'd grown up speaking mandarin and she still had to puzzle over some words sometimes.]

[notalfredjones]

[Zut alors, what was it with people and startling him today. He glanced up at Mei and his thought process ground to a halt. Oh. Right. His cousin. spoke...duh. Idiot.]

I--Ah my friends suggested it when I mentioned I was looking to learn a new language. It's...far more confusing than I assumed when I thought about it but they did warn me about that. [smiles and shrugs]

[meiblossoms]

[Admittedly trying to learn from a book when you had someone around who spoke the language fluently was a little silly.]

It is pretty hard. It's not so bad once you get used to it. It's not much like English at all, so it takes quite a bit of adjusting to.

[notalfredjones]

Yeah I'm getting that impression. I'm far better learning by immersion I think. How I learned French at least.