I just want to be there when the morning light explodes

Phone rings. I pick up.

"Hello?"

"Hi, is this Miss Jocelyn ***, studying at USQ?"

"Erm... yeah it is"

"I'm calling from the library."

"Uhuh"

We pause for a moment here to include a note from the author: It was very believable 'cause just that afternoon, I submitted my resume to the library so they can call me when they have casual work available. It was such a coincidence okay!

"Have you ever borrowed any books from the library?"

"Yeah, I borrowed one book before last semester"

"What was it called? Because in our records, you didn't return it."

"Organisational Behaviour or something like that. I can't really remember. But I'm very sure I returned it before the due date last semester!"

"Yes, but it shows here that you have an outstanding fee of $62. So the book wasn't returned."

At this point, I was starting to panic 'cause I know for sure that I had returned the book. And I was getting a tad bit suspicious too 'cause why wouldn't the librarian (the librarian with a M'sian accent at that) know what book I had borrowed if it shows in the records that I hadn't returned it? But my panic overcame my suspicion so the conversation carried on.

"But I'm very sure I returned it!"

"Where did you return it to?"

"What do you mean? I just returned it to the book-returning slidey thingy place in the library...?"

"The Toowoomba campus?"

"Yeah yeah"

"Oh, so you returned it to the main campus. 'Cause we have a few campuses you see."

Now obviously Ms. Chia has done her research 'cause there ARE a few USQ campuses and the Toowoomba one IS the main campus. AND the libraries often share their resources.

"Yeah yeah, I returned it to the main campus. I'm very sure that I returned it."

"Yes, but it doesn't show in our records. We need you to go to the library as soon as possible and settle this. Maybe tomorrow?"

"Okay okay, I'll go look for the librarian tomorrow. But I'm still very sure that I've already returned the book before the due date."

The conversation carried on for a full 5 minutes with me agreeing to go to the library to sort this out before "HAHAHA, joce, it's me lah!"

*** Family name protected for privacy/anti-stalker reasons.

O M G. Never EVER do that to me again. It's not good for my heart. I actually believed it 'cause for one thing, I had been to the library that very afternoon to submit my resume, so I assumed that 'cause of that, they checked my library records to make sure I was "clean" before letting my resume through. For another thing, I really had borrowed a book before from the library, and she even knew about the many USQ campuses and Toowoomba being the main one! O M G. I was panicking 'cause I have only ever borrowed ONE book in my whole entire semester in USQ and how could I possibly have incurred a $62 fine on myself from borrowing ONE book. Was I really that unlucky?

ARGHHHH. Evil evil evil. Gave my heart quite a workout. Chia Yii Fang is a master liar. Confession time for you, mi dear!

Nevertheless, it was still really great to hear from you guys! Hehe.