The Perfect Candidate - Chapter 2 - The Meeting
"Hi Boy. 6pm. The Library. Nonfiction section. Section.613. Clean attire."
Scott looks at the text, curses under his breath, and hops into the shower. As he's washing himself, he can't help but remark at the progress he has made on his fitness. For the past year, he had been going to the gym multiple times a week and was focusing on a protein heavy diet. Recently, it's paid off in a broader chest, defined shoulders, bigger arms, and a solid core. It's hard for him not to flex in the mirror every time he walks by. Scott has slowly discovered that feeling like a Greek God is addicting.
Once he gets out of the shower, Scott dries off and then goes to get dressed. He picks out some black Calvin Klein briefs, blue jeans, untucked button down, and some brown shoes and heads out. He hails a taxi and rides to his destination - the library.
In the back of the taxi, Scott's mind was swimming with questions.
"Who was Sir?"
"What was Sir going to do to Scott?"
"Why did Sir choose Scott?"
By the time he hops out of the cab and walks into the main room of the library, Scott's heart is pounding against his throat. "The room is so quiet, I hope the patrons can't hear it." Scott says praying to himself.
He looks down at his directions, "Nonfiction section. Section.613." Looks like it's down towards the back of the library. He walks down the main corridor towards the nonfiction section.
His head turned to the side as he walked. Aisle after aisle, occasional flashes of an old person or a student peering into the row. As the numbers start to get closer to his destination, he slows down.
It wasn't until the to the row with the sex education books, that's when Scott finally see him.
He's wearing black boots, blue jeans, a leather jacket, t-shirt and a hat which both show the same symbol as the first email. He looks to be in his late fifties or early sixties and clearly spent many of those years outdoors. He's got a wise face that shows he scowls more than he smiles. He is an intimidating frame - if this meeting had been in a back alley instead of a library this would have looked like a textbook mugging. The man before Scott showed all of the traits of a dominant and confident man - who did whatever he wanted without compromise.
There was no doubt in Scott's mind that this was the man.
When his eyes make it up from the man's boots to his eyes - the man holds eye contact for a moment and then speaks.
"Good boy. I'm so happy you made it here in person. You've taken the first step in discovering who you truly are."
"I'm confused, how do you think you could possibly know who I am?"
The man chuckles a bit and then hands me a thick three-ring binder with my name on it. I open it up to find hundreds of pages organized in tabs. As I flip through the tabs, my heart sinks.