Sorry if I divided the chapter into two parts. I'm so busy this week, um I mean month. But I promise to update, as I can! Big thanks to those who are reading this! :)
>>> Part 1 <<<
Aunt Tessa went to her room almost immediately that night and didn't come out. Tori, full of confusion, tried without success to keep her mind on her homework. She walked Bagel at ten, and went to bed soon afterward.
In the morning, Tori didn't see her aunt. She must have gone to work early.
Tori grabbed a piece of toast for breakfast and washed it down with a glass of milk. She gave Bagel a walk down to Hudson Street and back. Then giving him a good petting, she closed him in her room. "Be strong," she said. "I'll be home before you know it."
Everybody seemed draggy in school that day. It was a drizzly day, and a Monday to boot. Even Mr. Toussaint, her first-period English teacher, wasn't quite as wonderful and electric as usual. They were reading a very long poem by Shakespeare. It wasn't easy to understand, and it didn't seem to make any more sense by the end of the class.
Her friend Ana Suarez, sitting beside her, was trying hard to pay close attention. Ana loved Mr. Toussaint, as did just about all the kids, except maybe a couple of complete boofheads. But Tori could see that even Ana was struggling to keep from daydreaming.
About five minutes before the class was over, Ana passed Tori a note. It had a funny drawing of a stick figure banging away at a computer with a hammer. ''Can you meet me in 712 after school?'' said the note. ''I need major help with the computer! If you don't help me, one of us is going to die, the computer or me!''
Tori flashed a grin at Ana and whispered "no problem, mate." She'd planned to stop by the newspaper office anyhow.
Ana was an amazing athlete. Running, biking, and swimming were her thing, not computers. She didn'r have much patience when things went wrong with the computers in the school's newspaper and website office. There was always some practice she was supposed to be at, so Ana needed to run in there, file her sports stories, and run out.
And if she ever did decide to take a hammer to one of the machines, that thing would be plastic dust in no time. Ana had serious muscles. Tori wasn't practically interested in the kinds of organized sports that attracted Ana -- she herself was more into sports that were extreme or out there -- but she definitely respected Ana's athleticism and determination.
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Bending the Rules
Teen FictionDiscovering something new is fun, isn't it? Going to places you're not familiar with is fun too, um I mean it's fun because you get to see different things that you haven't seen before. Adventure. That's it.
