Sadde knocks on Isabella's door at 7PM sharp.
"About half the time. He sleeps really lightly. It's worse if he has an alarm. So he wakes up five times during the night, and by the time it's almost time to leave for school he's short on sleep and Renée usually can't bear to wake him any earlier than she has to. She packs him extra lunch, which in theory he could eat earlier in the day, but the bus route's full of potholes so he doesn't like trying to eat on the way and then his teachers are jerks about letting people get things from their lockers or eat in class -" Shrug. "You know how if you're away from a place for a long time - even just a grocery store or something, or a friend's house - you come back and, even if you were really trying to keep in touch, they've changed all these things and didn't think it was important to tell you and the place isn't familiar anymore? Alex and I drown each other in detail so that won't happen, we try to live on top of each other as much as we can across state lines."
"I know I've said this before but you two sound really adorable. And an implication of that last sentence also belatedly occurs to me."
"Alex does not want - and I am not in the least tempted to give him - any pornographic details," Isabella assures him. "But he knows that I like you and what I like about you and where we have gone on dates and I have quoted some of your non-pornographic remarks to him and so forth."
"Alright. What do you like about me? Um, other than gender-swapping and looking at you a certain way and wanting to make everyone immortal?"
"I can't do pictures yet - I'm not actively working on communications, so all my progress is purely from practice and that's slow - so I have put some effort into describing what you look like. And when I mentioned you wanted to make everyone immortal Alex's immediate response was that I'd better propose immediately... I can't reproduce my exact words and don't know that I'd want to anyway though."
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He won't go talk to Jackson right now, he'll go see if there's any info on jobs that he can take while still a student because money. Wasn't there a pamphlet about that in his room? Maybe he should look there.
So, how would one go about starting to work in the library?
Er, that shouldn't have been the narrator.
"Hi!" he says to one of the librarians.
A form! He can fill one out, that is definitely one of his skills, is filling forms out.