As they walked into the library, both Violet and her mother placed the books they were returning into the book return. Violet loved feeding the books in one at a time, through the swinging door, and always worried a bit if they would land safely and not open and bend the pages.
Her mother headed off to the grown up books, and she headed to the kids books. She stopped first at the books that older kids can choose from. They are thicker and have less pictures and Violet is excited for when these are the books she will be allowed to look through and choose from; but then she heads to her area.
This is one of her favorite places to come. Violet gets some books, and sits down in one of the little chairs at the table and starts to look through them; carefully choosing which one she will read first. It is easy to forget about everything else and just become part of the book, but then someone pushes up against her chair, jolting her back into the library and her surroundings.
As she looks up she sees it was the mean boy, and he had pushed her chair as he walked by and now was standing a ways off and smiling at her. Violet was very angry, he is mean and does not deserve to get to come to such a special place, she thought and then a book fell off the top of the shelf and nearly hit him on the head. It was her turn to smile, but she quickly looked back at her story.
He did not pick up the book, but did quickly look around to see if anyone else saw it happen. Seeing no one he reached up and pushed over all the books that were standing at the top of the shelf, one at a time just pushing them over. Violet heard the books falling one, two, three and she looked over to see what he was doing. He was smiling and enjoying knocking each one down.
Violet was so angry, she thought “I wish someone could knock HIM down!” and she thought it so hard, and was so mad that for a moment she was afraid she had said it out loud. And then it happened he took a step to the side, to reach the next books and down he fell, flat on the ground!
By now the librarian had come over to the area, and she asked the boy if he was ok? He said “NO! I am not ok, there are books on the floor here, and I tripped” as he pointed to the one that had fallen and nearly hit him on the head and then he looked at Violet, pointed at her and said “and SHE did it! she made a mess in here”.
Violet was so surprised, she had no words, her eyes opened wide and she shook her head no to the librarian. Then her mother walked in and said “what is happening in here?’ The librarian replied that everything was fine, gave the boy a firm look, and a reassuring smile to Violet. Violet’s mother said she thought it was best they left now and asked her to quickly choose the books she would take home and meet her at the counter.
As Violet was looking through the books on the table she could tell that the boy was coming closer to her, and as she turned and looked his way, the chair that was nearest him slid over a bit and one of the legs caught his foot and he fell for the second time that day. Violet grabbed her books, and quickly walked to the counter, wondering how the chair moved all by itself?? ©
