Jake Randolph: Origins Pt. 23

"Hello, Claudia," I said as she pulled me in by my shoulder and hugged me tightly.

She was smiling widely. "How did you find... I mean, what are you doing here?"

"I work for the library of our old high school now. It seems you checked out Dickens' A Christmas Carol in December of '39 and you never returned it. You now owe the school a hundred and fourteen dollars... and ten cents."

She howled with laughter. "Jake, you always were a character!"

She pulled me by the arm over to her couch. She seemed genuinely glad to see me...