As I looked around to see if anyone had noticed my open yawn, I saw an older man in a three-piece suit nude man and womennude woman staring directly nude man and womennude woman at me.
I nodded at him and then turned back to my book.
I had just about finished the textbook I was studying and as I started to close it, the lights went out!!
Since I was on the third floor of the Public Library, there were hardly any windows and it was DARK!!!
I stood up and fumbled my way to the end of the table and bumped into someone, but I couldn see who it was.
I turned around and mumbled, "Excuse me, please." As I finished turning, I bumped into someone else kind of hard and when I reached out my hand to steady myself, I encountered something which was warm and hard, at the same time as being sort of soft.
I felt my school skirt being flounced upward and quickly reached out to yank it down.
Then I, as quickly as I could, being rather blinded, went to stand near one of the stacks I remembered as being near the table Id deserted.
I stood there, with my arms wrapped around my waist, for comfort, until I could see a glimmer of grey ahead of me.
I walked toward the glimmer and discovered, by feeling around with my hands, that Id found the marble main stairway leading to the second floor and onward to the Main Exit.
Cautiously, I felt my way down the stairway and could hear a clatter of steps all around me.
Feeling more comfortable because I thought thered be safety in numbers, I followed the sound of people making haste toward the exit.
Within just minutes, I found myself outside in the daylight...
it was so bright outside, I was once again temporarily blinded.
I ran down the broad marble steps leading to the sidewalk and stood next to a group of people who were discussing why the lights had gone out.
"I hear the lights are out all over the city," said one man.
"Yeah, all over the WHOLE city," chimed in a woman.