Realizing that Alec watched her, Victoria felt her cheeks grow warm.
	“Study rooms,” she said awkwardly as she pointed in the same direction as the sign. She hung her head as she hurried down the space between the wall and rows of bookcases, hoping her hair would conceal the gentle brush of pink on her cheeks.
	She just managed to resist the urge to look back to see if he followed her lead or chose to stay behind. She adjusted the hem of her shirt as she went, compelled by a sudden bout of self-consciousness, then fiddled with the purse strap on her shoulder.
	[i]Why do I care?[/i] she scolded herself quietly. [i]He was watching me. So what? People watch people.[/i] She cleared her throat as the thought only worsened the matter.
	She took a breath, and her steps slowed as she felt the heat in her face fade. 
	A series of doors lined the far right-hand wall, a thin sliver of a window in each door. Victoria cautiously peered through one of the windows.
	A small table surrounded by four chairs sat in the middle of the vacant room. Two more armchairs that looked more comfortable than the others she had seen so far were shoved into the far corners.
	“So, uh,” she finally glanced behind her, “anything else I should see in here, or is it time to go to the next place?” For once in her life, she was not sure whether she wanted to stay in the library, or put as much space between her and it for the afternoon as possible... though not for too long; she swore she could already hear the books begging her to read them.