Ilia Amitola is color coded for your convenience (amitola) wrote in valarlogs,
Ilia was.... she didn't really know, honestly. There was too much shit going on in the world. With the trial of Jacques Schnee coming up the next month and the fact she had agreed to testify and then the news and how she worried Schnee might pull something similar - better to die than go to prison, assuming he felt he wouldn't get off, plus worrying about Chloe? It was a lot and it meant that the 19 year old was more on edge than she had been as of late.
But that was why she was at the bookstore. Okay, so reading was more Blake's thing, but there were usually some good books and it would be a distraction.
Luckily for Jughead, despite the fact she was on edge, she didn't take the tripping or falling books as a sign of a threat and go into fight mode. Instead she just quirked a brow and once she realized who it was, one of the first friends she'd made when she'd gotten to California and had still been living in tent cities? She instead just knelt down to pick up the books to hand over.
"Orange County is a small world. Plus my roommate works here." It was definitely why Ilia tended to gravitate towards this particular bookstore at any rate.