Librarian DiAnna Diaz

December 22, 2011 5:18 PM
For the past couple of years, DiAnna had enlisted the help of student volunteers to aide her with her more basic librarian duties, because she had taken on the additional task of teaching Divination. This year, as her normal role had resumed thanks to the hiring of a permanent Divinations professor, DiAnna didn't technically need the help in the same way. Although after some consideration, she had decided to go ahead and recruit some student assistants anyway. It gave the less sporty sorts something to sign up to, and as some of the volunteers had returned year after year, DiAnna thought it safe to assume that they gained some benefit from the activity, too.

So it was, DiAnna penned out a sign-up notice and pinned it to the library noticeboard part-way through the term, once students had gotten used to their existing classes and other extra-curricular commitments. She used purple ink, and carefully underlined the important parts in black. Her neat, curly handwriting, read:

Would you like to volunteer in the library a few hours a week? There are two roles for you to consider: Library Monitors will help to check books in and out, organize the stacks, answer student queries, and complete occasional errands for the librarian. With fewer responsibilities, Library Assistants will place returned books back to their correct position in the stacks, and help the Library Monitors where necessary. If you would like to be considered for either of these roles, please register your interest by signing your name, year, and role preference below. If you have any questions, please see Miss Diaz.

Below this notice was a sheet of parchment with space for students to add their details to the list. She hadn't yet turned anyone down entirely, but younger students were less likely to be considered as Monitors than their older, more experienced counterparts.

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Ryan O'Malley

January 06, 2012 4:03 AM
Ryan stood looking at the noticeboard. He generally checked things like that due to the fact that he needed to be aware of stuff like changes in policies. He'd hate to be caught unaware and get in trouble. Even though he no longer had to deal with her , Ryan was still utterly paranoid about doing something wrong and facing the wrath of someone else. Having them dislike him for what ever mistake he made. He needed to be liked.

And the Crotalus felt bad enough these days. Ryan was noticing girls an awful lot and sometimes he could think of nothing else. He had these...urges that he couldn't seem to help and he just felt filthy. Like a disgusting creepy pervert. He'd be trying to focus on lessons or something and he'd find himself gazing at one of...them. One or the other of the two girls he found prettiest.

But he didn't want to be a stalker. Ryan was certain that if either girl knew he found them particularly attractive, they'd run away in the other direction. Especially as neither struck him as opportunistic enough to care about his money, bloodlines and family connections. Which made them both all the more attractive actually. Ryan didn't want to be with someone for all the wrong reasons. That was why his mother had married his father, for money and that...had not worked out well.

He couldn't even talk about this with anyone. Not Sophie-she was a girl and Merlin that would be embarrassing-or his dad or Uncle Seth or James or anyone. For one thing, Ryan was too afraid they would see him as repulsive for it, the way his mother had always said he was and not want anything to do with him anymore. If he lost Sophie, he didn't know what he'd do, he'd be devastated, and if his dad abandoned him, Ryan didn't know where he'd go to live.

The Crotalus was just lucky his mother was no longer a part of his life. At least not her physical presence. He was certain that if she'd found out his thoughts-an illogical possibility really, but it still made Ryan paranoid- or even if she hadn't, it was likely she'd have thrown him out on the streets. He still had a tendency to hear her voice in his head, telling him how awful he was at every turn.

The fourth year needed a distraction. In the worst way possible. That's when he spotted the sign-ups for Library Assistants and Monitors. Ryan quickly scanned the list of other volunteers, feeling both relieved and disappointed not to see either of their names. On the one hand, he'd like to spend time with them, get to know them better, hopefully make one his girlfriend if by some miracle either would like him. On the other, it would distract Ryan from his distraction which would defeat the purpose.Plus he'd feel the greater need to impress them than he did usually with everyone.

Fortunately, none of the other volunteers were distracting either. Thaddeus and Russell were guys. Alicia and Waverly were first years-which really would be disgusting and wrong. Samantha and Rachel were girls Ryan had never given much thought to-both were older and not pureblood girls so they wouldn't likely give Ryan the time of day anyway-and Renee was one girl he was definitely not attracted to. Something about her personality reminded him too much of Carrie for his tastes and she wasn't even his type physically.

All would be fine.Ryan placed his name on the list.

Ryan O'Malley, fourth year, Library Assistant

He'd not done this before so it was better for him to start as an Assistant this year. Plus, it was less for Ryan to screw up.
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