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kicking Tim’s legs. The way they engaged, it was immediately apparent that they weren’t strangers. Far from it. But they weren’t close
either, not exactly.
“Don’t listen to this degenerate,” Emily said. “Take the book. And if he gives you any trouble, let me know.”
Tim stuck his tongue out at her.
“Very adult of you.” Emily turned, making a point of her sultry sway as she went back to sit with Tina.
Tim pointed to the book in Amanda’s arms. “It’s not exactly Wikipedia, you know?”
“I’m trying to find out about the Imagineers’ use of television in the parks. The history of it and stuff.”
“No way!” Tim sat up sharply and ripped off the headphones, further tousling his unrulyhair.
“Why? What?” Amanda said.
Beside her, Jess hid a smile, silently admiring Amanda’s skill at working the boy. She and Amanda had researched Tim’s field of study before coming to the library—but they
weren’t about to let him know that.
“Metaphorically speaking, alongside my name you’ll see Tim-with-an-asterisk,” Tim said.
“Why? Speaking metaphorically, of course.”
“BecauseImagineering communication technology is my specialty, my area of interest. My major, if we had majors.”
“You’re kidding me!” Amanda made her surprise sound genuine.
“What in particular interests you?” Tim asked.
“Probably better if I read up first. But your enthusiasm is noted.”
“I’m not flirting.”
“Okay.”
“You think I’m flirting.” He sounded crushed.
“I just thinkI need to do some reading before I talk to a person with an asterisk by his name.”
“We live on the edge,” Jess said, laughter obvious in her tone. Tim turned to her for the first time, jutting out his chin.
“You speak for each other, do you?”
“She takes the adjectives, I take the adverbs,” Jess said.
“Feisty! I like that.”
“No one asked,” Jess said.
“Read all you want,”Tim said, sitting back and kicking up his feet on the desk. “But I could save you a lot of time.”
“How so?” Jess asked.
“Making things difficult if not impossible to reference has to be carefully planned.” Tim shrugged. “I’m just saying. That may have gone on here.”
“So you’re a conspiracy theorist?” Jess said.
“I’m in lighting and sound, and the odd computer networking job.”
“All computer networking is odd.”
Amanda fought back a grin at Jess’s quick come-backs.
Tim grinned, too. Nodded. Smiling was something that came naturally to him, it seemed. And he was far more handsome than Amanda had thought at first.
Catching herself, Amanda clutched the book tightly, and thanked Tim for it.
“Don’t go too far,” Tim said. “Because you’ll be back.”
Jesssighed, unimpressed, and followed Amanda back to their corner chairs. Tina called loudly after them, “Watch out for him, ladies. Killer smile, but he’d rather spend time with a
circuit board than engage in active conversation.”
“I have a love of learning!” Tim said, indignant.
In the book’s index, Amanda found only a single reference for television:
Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color
. There were four pages and they consisted almost entirely of
photographs.
“He’s right,” she said. “Nothing here.”
Tim was watching them. He seemed to be celebrating their failure.
“Little known fact,” he called across the room. “
Set Design, 1950 through 1966
includes not only the addition of New Orleans Square, but the 1964 creation of
Progressland for the General Electric Pavilionat the New York World’s Fair.”
“You’re putting us to sleep over here,” Tina called out.
“It’s on the second shelf from the top, nearly all the way to your right,” Tim said, directly to Jess.
Jess climbed the ladder, looked around, descended, and pushed the ladder to the end of the shelving unit. Absorbed in the photo spread, Amanda lost track of her. When she glanced curiously inthe direction of Tim,
either, not exactly.
“Don’t listen to this degenerate,” Emily said. “Take the book. And if he gives you any trouble, let me know.”
Tim stuck his tongue out at her.
“Very adult of you.” Emily turned, making a point of her sultry sway as she went back to sit with Tina.
Tim pointed to the book in Amanda’s arms. “It’s not exactly Wikipedia, you know?”
“I’m trying to find out about the Imagineers’ use of television in the parks. The history of it and stuff.”
“No way!” Tim sat up sharply and ripped off the headphones, further tousling his unrulyhair.
“Why? What?” Amanda said.
Beside her, Jess hid a smile, silently admiring Amanda’s skill at working the boy. She and Amanda had researched Tim’s field of study before coming to the library—but they
weren’t about to let him know that.
“Metaphorically speaking, alongside my name you’ll see Tim-with-an-asterisk,” Tim said.
“Why? Speaking metaphorically, of course.”
“BecauseImagineering communication technology is my specialty, my area of interest. My major, if we had majors.”
“You’re kidding me!” Amanda made her surprise sound genuine.
“What in particular interests you?” Tim asked.
“Probably better if I read up first. But your enthusiasm is noted.”
“I’m not flirting.”
“Okay.”
“You think I’m flirting.” He sounded crushed.
“I just thinkI need to do some reading before I talk to a person with an asterisk by his name.”
“We live on the edge,” Jess said, laughter obvious in her tone. Tim turned to her for the first time, jutting out his chin.
“You speak for each other, do you?”
“She takes the adjectives, I take the adverbs,” Jess said.
“Feisty! I like that.”
“No one asked,” Jess said.
“Read all you want,”Tim said, sitting back and kicking up his feet on the desk. “But I could save you a lot of time.”
“How so?” Jess asked.
“Making things difficult if not impossible to reference has to be carefully planned.” Tim shrugged. “I’m just saying. That may have gone on here.”
“So you’re a conspiracy theorist?” Jess said.
“I’m in lighting and sound, and the odd computer networking job.”
“All computer networking is odd.”
Amanda fought back a grin at Jess’s quick come-backs.
Tim grinned, too. Nodded. Smiling was something that came naturally to him, it seemed. And he was far more handsome than Amanda had thought at first.
Catching herself, Amanda clutched the book tightly, and thanked Tim for it.
“Don’t go too far,” Tim said. “Because you’ll be back.”
Jesssighed, unimpressed, and followed Amanda back to their corner chairs. Tina called loudly after them, “Watch out for him, ladies. Killer smile, but he’d rather spend time with a
circuit board than engage in active conversation.”
“I have a love of learning!” Tim said, indignant.
In the book’s index, Amanda found only a single reference for television:
Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color
. There were four pages and they consisted almost entirely of
photographs.
“He’s right,” she said. “Nothing here.”
Tim was watching them. He seemed to be celebrating their failure.
“Little known fact,” he called across the room. “
Set Design, 1950 through 1966
includes not only the addition of New Orleans Square, but the 1964 creation of
Progressland for the General Electric Pavilionat the New York World’s Fair.”
“You’re putting us to sleep over here,” Tina called out.
“It’s on the second shelf from the top, nearly all the way to your right,” Tim said, directly to Jess.
Jess climbed the ladder, looked around, descended, and pushed the ladder to the end of the shelving unit. Absorbed in the photo spread, Amanda lost track of her. When she glanced curiously inthe direction of Tim,
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