The girl looked at her watch, a pink and black one that she had gotten for a birthday two years back. It was her precious then, now it was scratched and slightly yellow, but she still loved it as much as ever. It was almost time.
Looking up from the screen, she looked around the crowded room, the noise level almost to the point of being rowdy, her expression stoic as she surveyed the room in general, looking at the girls flirt with the guys, the guys ogling the girls. Disgusted, she turned back to the screen, flashing blue in front of her.
And she sighed.
Executing a bunch of complicated codes on the black keyboard, she successfully averted yet another computer crash, and went back to the screen she was at before. Calmly she looked through the text quickly, her eyes moving across the page. Her speed of reading has always been known as "really-fast", she could finish a novel in less than a day if she really wanted to, probably in a few hours if she concentrated on it. But she loved to read, and so she didn't usually read as fast as she could, savouring the words.
Glancing up as another section of the computer lab erupted into loud and disrupting laughter, she turned back to her computer screen to see the screen turn blue again. She hated the cyan blue the computer screen flashes every few minutes, especially around her. Computers just don't like her. If only the blue screen of death was a pleasant sky blue, or even purplish-blue. But no... had to be the most irritating blue colour she had ever known.
Sighing, she executed another bunch of codes, getting back to the document she was working on.
People around her started to pack up. She glanced at her watch again, realising that it was no more than ten minutes to the end of the lesson. Hurriedly she saved her document on her diskette and switched off the computer, grabbing her bag as she hurried out of the cold computer lab.
It took the lab assistant almost five hours to get the computer in the corner to work properly again...
chiiyo's comments :
The computer girl is me! The girl who gets every computer to crash on her! The girl who sees the blue screen of death everyday! *superhero music streams in* *laugh* I'm exaggerating of course, but sometimes I really feel like that. Despite my good feelings towards computers, they just don't seem to like me. This piece was actually written in the computer lab, and most of it was true, besides the l33t skillz of the computer girl and the constant crashing of the computer, that is... *grin* I just found it amusing to write about my affinity (or lack thereof) with computers in general..