The Unlikely Friendship

More bread sticks please!

My laptop is laying on my desk, screen pitch black displaying an error message across the screen. At this current moment, the only saving grace is Sam bent over the desk with his reading glasses perched on the end of his nose. While I am staring in disbelief at his back, dumbfounded at what has happened to my precious laptop, "I can't believe this is happening to me right now!"

"Calm down, everything is going to be fine. Just take a deep breath," Sam glances over his shoulder from his position at my desk to where I am sitting cross-legged on my bed.

"Sam, how can I calm down when my ten-page paper was deleted!!! And it's due tomorrow, please please please work your magic and do something,"

Sam glances at me and rolls his eyes, he has been working on my laptop for the past hour and I give him all the credit in the world for putting up with my state of panic at the moment. "This is why you don't wait till the last minute to write a paper, Andrea,"

I send him the meanest glare that I can come up with. Sam just simply shakes his head and turns back to face the laptop.

"And it's not like I can simply just wave my hand over the screen and fix it magically," The screen of my precious laptop flashes and turns blue just as Sam waves his hand in its direction. The loading icon starts up and my laptop slowly comes back to life. Sam's mouth drops open as he stares at the screen.

I jump off my bed and walk to the desk hesitantly, "Is it working? Did you get it to work?" Sam blinks at the screen and scratches his head thinking hard, not saying a word to me. He looks at the laptop, back to his hand, and then back to the laptop again. I roll my eyes at his antics. "Sam, you aren't a wizard with godly powers, relax. Did you fix my computer?"

"But how do you know I don't have powers?" Sam turns his head, looking at me with wide eyes.

"Would you like for me to start calling you Merlin?"

He looks at me while he raises his eyebrow, grins, and shakes his head turning back to my laptop. "Nah, I'm good. I wouldn't want to become too conceited and let the power all get to my head."

I snort a laugh at him. "Always the humble and modest one. So what's the verdict?"

"Well, I think you might be having issues with your hard drive. I temporarily stabilized it, but I don't have the pieces I need to replace the hard drive. If I were you I would save everything you have on a flash drive if you do not already have everything backed up in the cloud or on an external hard drive while you still can. And then buy yourself a brand new computer and transfer everything over."

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" I tackle him, giving him a hug causing us to tumble off the chair.

"Holy Crap Andrea!" Sam gasps out. "Can't breathe!"

"Oops, sorry Sam." I get up and help pull him up off the floor. "Do you think my paper is saved?"

"Let me check, you were using Microsoft Word, and many of the newer versions automatically save the work if it is forced to closed. I should be able to do some backtracking and find it." Sam picks up the chair and opens up Word.

He finds the word document of my ten-page paper, but only half of the paper was saved. On the bright side, at least not all of it was deleted.

I thank Sam out my front door and to his car for fixing my computer, even if it was temporary, and ran back upstairs to finish my paper before it was due at midnight in the shared Google Classroom folder.

After submitting the paper I lay in bed thinking about tomorrow since tomorrow night was the homecoming dance. I was not prepared for it, in any shape and form. The only thing that was ready for tomorrow is the dress that I will be wearing. I was staring out my window into the night sky thinking about all the things I had to do tomorrow and before I knew it my eyes were closed and I was in a deep sleep.