It was getting late when Jeremy returned from hanging out in Perez Park with everybody. Diego was still up though, working on his computer. Doing homework maybe?
“Hey Diego! What’s up!” He gave Diego a cheerful wave.
“Hola, Jeremy. Just doing some work.” He returned his focus to his computer. He’d been kind of distracted lately. Oh well, he probably shouldn’t interrupt his homework or whatever he was doing.
Jeremy had homework of his own he should probably finish up, but before doing that, he wanted to check his email. He hadn’t checked it for a few days so he was probably overdue!
He sat down at his desk. His computer was on the floor nearby. Thanks to Syd it was well insultated and pretty safe from Jeremy’s electrical surges as long as he didn’t mess around with it too much directly. Plus he used a wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse, so if he fried either of them it didn’t hurt the computer itself. He had a stack of spare wireless keyboards and mouses on the floor next to the computer... he did tend to go through them sometimes. Oh well.
Before turning on the computer or messing with the keyboard or mouse though, Jeremy relaxed and tried to focus on not sparking as much. It kind of was like holding your breath, except you weren’t holding your breath you were holding sparks, but it didn’t feel like holding sparks, it felt more like holding your breath, except it wasn’t holding your breath at all. In fact he had to make sure he didn’t hold his breath because when he did that it doesn’t stop him from sparking at all. It was kind of confusing and he wasn’t really sure what he was doing but if he concentrated on it right... there! The sparks stopped! He gave his monitor a thumbs-up, then turned the computer on.
While the computer was booting up, he thought about what they’d been talking about in Perez Park. Was Jamie--Jessie!--was Jessie serious about him getting a kiss after prom? Did that mean she actually liked liked him? He’d need to work on coming up with some better condiments, he couldn’t just always say she looked pretty. Oh, he could condiment her spots! He liked the way they-- oh! Windows was finished booting.
He clicked open his email and started skimming through them. There was one about girl’s soccer but he wasn’t a girl so he wasn’t interested in girl’s soccer. Well except maybe to watch sometimes. There were a few FacePlace notifications, he’d have to go look at that tomorrow. The one about pfizzing was probably a spam since it didn’t make any sense, so he clicked the spam button on it. There was one about prom, which was a few weeks off yet--wait! He had to read over it again.
- From: prom@westbrook.edu
To: patersonjs@westbrook.edu
Subject: Prom King Nomination
Congratulations, Jeremy! Your peers have nominated you to run for prom king this year. If you’re interested in accepting this nomination, please email us back by Wednesday, May 18. Thanks, and see you at Prom!
Someone nominated him to run for prom king? No way! That was awesome! Beaming, he clicked reply and started typing and--the keyboard wasn’t working.
Oh. He was sparking again... and probably fried it.
“Hey Diego! Are you busy! I got nominated for prom king but I fried my keyboard and I need to reply to the email but I probably shouldn’t plug the wireless plug thingie into the computer myself even if it’s insulated ohmygod I’m running for prom king!”