Tales from Oakboro: A Collection of Short Stories

Abby the coder

Summary

|Abby was a bright and curious young girl who loved nothing more than spending hours coding and reading books about technology. She was always eager to learn new things and explore the world around her. Despite her young age, Abby had already developed an impressive skillset in coding and had a natural talent for it.

One day, Abby met a boy at school who shared her love for coding and technology. They quickly became close friends and spent many hours working on coding projects together. As they hung out, Abby started to develop feelings for the boy and hoped that he felt the same way.

One day, Abby finally mustered up the courage to tell the boy how she felt. Unfortunately, he didn't feel the same way and Abby was left heartbroken. She couldn't believe that someone who shared her passions and interests could reject her in this way.|

The old wooden door burst open as the young girl ran inside straight to her room loud sobs could be heard Rosaline her mother immediately stood up and ran to her bedroom door knocking loudly "sweetheart darling what's wrong! Did something happen?"

"Go away! " Abby screamed throwing a pillow at her door her sobs got louder her mother took a deep breath knowing that she should leave her alone and walking away from the door meanwhile inside of the bedroom Abby was curled up into a ball on her bed staring at the small website she made on her computer.

Tears pricked at her eyes but she took a deep breath and deleted all the code the website was made for her and Timothy a boy she befriended well.. used to be friends until she confessed her love to him today "ew no.." those words kept replaying through her head those were the words he said when she told him she loved him

Her lip quivered as she slammed her computer shut holding her head in her hands as she sobbed her phone started ringing and she picked up immediately recognized in the voice to be Anna her best friend "hey abby.. I heard what happened Timothy's jerk isn't" Abby stayed silent for a bit before speaking up

"I can't believe he would do that to me..." Anna could obviously be heard sighing over the phone "forget about him" "it's not that easy!" And explained the two pre teens sat there in silence

Abby rolls over onto the side of the bed and stands up put in her phone up to face her turning on FaceTime "I mean come on we were meant to be!!"

And took a deep breath "I know how you feel but come on he's just a boy besides you can teach me how to code" she giggled to softly Abby turned almost surprised

"You said you we're not interested?" Abby sat back down in her bed "well I see how important it is to you now so I want to at least try to support you!" Abby squealed happily "perfect!" She wiped her tears grabbing her phone "meet me in the library tomorrow I will teach you everything!!" She quickly hung up the phone before her friend could even say goodbye and she jumped around the room teaching someone how to code was her dream she laid back on her bed.

Looking up at the glow in the dark stars on her roof she realized that Timothy never really hung out with her besides wanting to make that website together so she smiled happy she had Anna...