Strange Behavior

The time is 2:52 on a semi-warm Monday afternoon. The lounge area is quiet and full of a comfortable cool that offers a much appreciated break from the outside sun. The inside of the library is noisy, as if multiple groups are talking, cracking jokes, laughing at said jokes, and moving things around for the sheer purpose of filling the typical void of empty study. Despite all this I feel strangely at peace, perhaps due to the comfortable temperature of the inside. A ton of familiar faces joined the library groups today. In the right corner of the library sits a cap less Cap. She lays back lazily in a pink plush chair, arms and legs crossed, a content smile on her face as she looks at something on the glass screen of her laptop, of which sits on a red roller desk  before her. I note that she has a set of white ear buds in that attach to the device. At that moment, an older man and woman exit, talking loudly to one another. Jill is also a part of this new observation. She sits two chairs and two clear glass display cases away from Cap, working (or so I’d like to assume) on her famous black laptop. Her left leg propped on her right, as to secure the placement of the laptop on her lap. She once again has the elaborate looking headset on her head, except as opposed to last time, the muff area resides behind her ears so she gets no sound from the device. Jill stares at her screen with intensity, off and on typing and scrolling. She does this for a span of a few minutes then looks off, then going back. Jill seems to be easily distracted today as she pays mind to every individual exiting and entering the lounge. A Man in a tight red sweater exits, face glued to a phone as he texts. A middle aged looking woman in blue enters the library through the lounge. A rush of four people enter and exit the lunge. About three female and two male, all young adults, as is the typical clientele of the library. Meanwhile, as Cap looks intently at her laptop, her notice her leg stretch out, and her hand go up to her temple, then leave to scratch her nose. A few seconds later she talks to the screen of her laptop in a foreign language, smiling as she does so. She takes pauses in-between talking , as if awaiting a response. One word in the assumed conversation sounds like a question. It is to be assumed I am witnessing a video chat. 3:12, Jill has placed her headphones over her ears and continues to work in-between distractions. Jill later gets out her cellphone, dials a number, and says nothing, a finger moves to her lips as she waits. Soon after she hangs up, and puts the phone back into her pocket. the finger still at her lips, she scrolls on her laptop once more. Jill is now packing up her things, checking her phone as she goes.  She goes to the lounge exit door, stops, and turns back, then goes into the library. Jack and Jill (as anticipated) emerge moments later and exit together. The inside of the lounge seems to have quieted down, thought I can still make out the faint chattering and shuffling from the inside of the library. A young woman exits as a tall young woman enters, these two are followed by a Hispanic man whose shoes squeak loudly as he makes his way across to the exit and leaves. Three individuals enter in almost single file, two male, one female, all young. Cap is now talking quietly to the laptop, after she looks away and plays with the card attached to the headphones. She does this for two minutes then says something quietly. Then says the same thing over again louder to the laptop, of which she is now looking at. Two young men enter the library. A middle aged looking man enters. Later a Large  and shorter thinner man enter the library scene, taking loudly the two place their things on the desk in front of cap, (who doesn’t seem to notice.) the smaller one places his back pack and skateboard by the seat. Both men take out their respective journal and binders. The larger man leaves into the library after doing this, leaving the smaller man to working on his paperwork alone. Back at Caps area, I see a man talking to her, asking for her red roller desk, Cap reluctantly says yes, and moves her turned off laptop to the chair closest to her, and watches in silence as the man drag the desk deep into the library. Cap crosses her arms and looks menacingly at the wall in front of her after the man leaves. Three new people enter and exit the library then. Cap later stands and walks to a far off chair with a back pack and lunch on it. Cap fishes out another laptop from the backpack and sets it up back at her previous seat. The smaller man previously doing work soon follows his friend into the library. I leave this cool library scene in a state of fairly constant calm. Cap is all that remains, typing silently, and much happier than she was previously, I leave this quiet scene.