Gaz/Belle: He goes suddenly more frequently in the libary. One day Belle finds a little note in on of the returned books.
Belle hadn't seen him at all for the first month she had worked at the small library in Sheffield, until one day he had come in with a young boy, his son from the looks of it, for some books the boy needed for a project.
After that he'd been in every day. Never for very long. Just long enough to look around, look at her a bit, and leave. A couple of times he actually signed out a book.
She didn't know his name, and perhaps she should have been disturbed by him looking at her, but it never felt uncomfortable and he never even tried to approach her, let alone anything worse.
He was handsome, with more worry lines than he really should have, she thought, because he didn't look all that much older than her 28. And the few times she had seen him smile had been beautiful. She found herself hoping he had reasons to smile each day.
One afternoon she watched from behind her desk, feigning reading a book, as he walked quietly to the front desk and slipped a book through the return slot before turning and immediately hurrying back out of the front doors.
When she picked the book up, she found a piece of paper sticking out of it. On it was a name, Gary Schoffield, and a phone number. She smiled to herself as slipped the number into her purse for later and went about re-shelving the newly-returned book.
