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It was noon. A bright pink haired boy was now making the wrong turn and slipping in to the Library which was very much not the cafeteria. This was pink haired boy would never had made such a dastardly turn into such a place if he knew how to read signs ... and was good with directions.

Charlie HAD been to the cafeteria before and SHOULD have known better but the fact was the boy was way to distracted by the grumbling of his stomach to really be paying much attention to anything else. When he looked up and found rows and rows of books as apposed to a shemale serving lunch, he knew he had made a miscalculation in his navigation.

But, lucky for him, he'd packed a brown bagged lunch from his dorm. So eating in the library, long as a certain ice demon didn't catch wind, seemed like the sensible thing to do. The demon made his way over toward the study area where a couple wooden tables and chairs laid free and made him self uncomfortable. A couple students gave him the eye when instead of study material he had his lunch but no one said a word. Though instead of food in the brown paper bag all Charlie found was Masaru his mini and an apple core.

Charlie frowned. But since he was here he figured he could make the most of it. The demon grabbed a book another student had set on the table he was using and promptly popped it open... upside down.. and pretended to read. The now full of Charlies lunch Masaru took this time to coil around the young boils neck and rest off a well stolen meal.

Charlie lifted his head to see who was talking to him. He was actually surprised to find a cute white haired ghoul ( Err... Calder) talking to him. Voice was a little deep but she was still very pretty.

"Witch thing? I'm clearly to manly for being a witch." Charlie puffed out his chest. Indeed the pink haired demon was anything but manly. Still the demon put forth the effort to emphasize his manliness. He clearly had no idea the content what he was reading was actually the history of broom sticks and that he was indeed holding it up side down.

"Sorry.. Did I take your book?" Charlie shut the book, loudly, and offered it up to the white haired what he assumed to be female. The loud slam of the book got even more glares and some disgusted sighs from some of the student population trying to study. Charlie either didn't notice or didn't care or both.

The students now gone they had the entire corner of the library to them selves which actually pleased Charlie. It showed in the goofy grin he wore ear to ear.

"Witches.. I'm not sure if they can be guys or if the guys just look like girls or what... Most of the ones I've met have been old and saggy with warts on their noses and their boobs to their knees." Charlie stood up and showed Calder what he meant with the boobs with his hands. "I've seen some cute ones though. You'd be a cute witch I'm sure." His grin widened.

Then talk of brooms started and his mouth faltered a bit. Charlie looked at the cover and then back at Calder. "I was .. errr........ Confused? By the... content?" Heres the part any smart person would have gone they thought it was a book about cleaning but not Charlie. "I swear I thought it was a book on tape worms." and thats when it occurred to the pink haired boil he should have said cleaning. Charlies face twitched.

Phew, it seemed Calder was confused by the comment Charlie had just made but not immediately on to the fact that Charlie was illiterate. Charlie would have let out a sigh of relief but now Calder was eager to show him where the bug books actually were. He watched Calder fool around with his sleeve for a short while before giving up. All Charlie could do now was follow the pretty kelpie what he assumed to be female.

"Soo..." Charlie chewed his lip a little nervous, "Why do they call this room a LiBerry? There aren't any berries here as far as I can tell." The demon wrapped his arms around his head and followed after Calder at his own pace. "Is that how they trick students to come here and study?" The ladder part of the tone was a tad bitter. Charlie actually wouldn't mind the liberry if it didn't require so much reading.

"Errmmm.... My names Charlie by the way. Charlie Night. Its a pleasure to meet such a cute ghoul as your self."

"Aha.. that makes sense.. Lie berry.." Charlie nodded. Finally Libraries were making since. Though Calders sudden confession to being a boil instead of a ghoul caught Charlie completely off guard. The demon blinked.

"Wha-.... No not the skirt... Err..... Your just sparkly?" Charlie wasn't sure how to say it so sparkly came out instead. But it seemed Calder was already pointing to the book Charlie had been pretending to be reading. Tape worms. The demon reached out and grabbed the book right next to the one Calder had been pointing too. Instead of 'Tapeworms' Charlie had picked up 'Puppy dog tails and snails' which had been miss placed on the book rack. To make matters worse Charlie actually flipped the book open, upside down, and was pretending to read it.

"Oh.. yes .. TAPEWORMS..... mmmm hmmmmm..... This is the book I needed. Everything about TAPEWORMS right here.." A smug look would not have been so firmly planted on the demons face if he knew he was reading the wrong thing upside down.

Charlie had taken quite a bit of pleasure in pretending to read a book where he knew the, or thought he knew, the subject matter. So he felt safe bull shitting his way through what the content of the book was actually saying when Calder came up against his shoulder to see what the book was saying.

"Oh? It just says all the reasons why one should eat more tape worms and the scientific way they ...uhhh." Charlie thought for a moment, "That line right there says Tape worm is especially good served in a deep fryer with a spicy lava dipping sauce." He gave Calder a big grin.

Nope, none of what Charlie was feeding Calder was true. The upside down print that Charlie had pretended to read actually said ' Trimming the behind of the dog is actually not preferred before cutting off the puppies tail.' But Charlie had no idea what book he actually was reading. So the pink haired demon sat there smiling up at Calder feeling quite witty and proud of him self.

Charlie was not expecting that at all. In fact the smile didnt falter when Calder indeed called him out for not being able to read. It took a few seconds before the words processed all the way through his brain and back again. 'You can't read'.

"Wh-what are you talking about? This is a book clearly about Tapeworms. . . . . " Charlie closed the book and really looked at the cover. There were no Tapeworms in sight. " I picked up the wrong book didn't I."

Charlie chewed his lip some as Calder pointed out that indeed he had messed up big time. There were a ton of books of tape worms up there but out of all of them Charlie had picked up the miss placed library book. One about cooking at that not even a close subject matter. Well, kinda. Tape worms were a tasty treat if served just right.

"....I..... Ermmm.. Its not something I like to really admit," And the shameless boil had actually admitted something he was shameful about. Charlie knew most his age could read and write and he knew it was abnormal for him not to be able to be. Being a demon at that it was out right disgraceful. Out of all the things Charlie could have been embarrassed about it was the reading.

And then the boil grabbed on to Calder, "YOU CAN'T TELL ANYONE!" Desperation. Pleading. Just a few ways to describe what Charlie was feeling right now.