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Jessie had pulled out the list of books that needed to be pulled for collection as well as her paperwork. She glared at her stack of paper and debating on if she could put it off a little bit longer. When Mercy came up she sighed and looked over at her. "Don't suppose you know anything about property taxes, balancing spreadsheets, and other mind numbing paperwork?" It was said as a joke, really what Jessie figured she would get the younger girl to help with was pulling requests from the stacks. But it never really hurt to ask right?

As Jessie began to think about the books they needed to pull something occurred to her, “Mercy… why 50 Shades? Why that book? If those girls were interested in S&M there is more then enough on the web and the movie comes out soon so they totally could sneak in or what ever. And there are better books out there for that information. Hell some of the books in the romance section could fill in that role… I have the Kama Sutra upstairs if you want to borrow it.” It was a rare thing for Jessie to nonchalantly offer to let someone borrow one of her own books. “Sadly its not really something I keep stocked because it just doesn't quite fit anywhere. Its not art, or history, or romance.... besides when I do get a copy it seems I get inundated by giggling middle school boys for a few weeks until I sell the book.” She really didn’t see what the appeal was but inevitably she would always break up the group, embarrass the boys enough to get them to leave, and stick the book behind the counter.

Jessie glared at the stack of papers once more before sighing and shaking her head, "nope. Not worth it right now. I'll go through it later to see what I can pawn off on the accountant." It's what she always ended up doing even though she keeps trying to learn how to do it on her own. The last time she ended up delaying it so close to the due date she left the professional scrambling to fix it when she did finally give up on it, it was one of the main reasons she was working on it now. With that decided on she glanced up and chuckled, "at least you know how to do that this early. It took me forever to get it right... In college I use to over spend my budget on books then end up eating pb&js for the rest of the month. My dorm mate hated it." Then again maybe she hatted tripping over all the books she mentally added with a slight smile.

Jessie's smile faded as she studied the young woman standing in front of her. "Marcy do you remember the series you picked up a while back, The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede? Remember how Cimorene just didn't fit in with her sisters and she acted nothing like other princesses? She didn't want to fit in... She was happy to be herself. Just be yourself Mercy. You can't go wrong that way and besides any friends you make while being yourself you will know that they really like you for you."

She grabbed the lists and headed back around the counter. No time like the present to start filling in the requests. Jessie didn't even noticed the shift in topic or even the embarrassment of Mercy. "Well maybe later. It really is pretty interesting read. Come on the sooner we get these lists done the sooner we can enjoy some tea on the porch. I moved the squirrel again. Let's see if you can spot him out in the garden." Jessie passed two of the four pages to Mercy and collected a small basket before heading back into the stacks.