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“It was probably just a prank, or meant for someone else It just annoyedwhen you experience them in person”

She bit her lip and didn’t agree or disagree with me I entered ood I looked up at Dovie over the

“My laptop has a blue screen”

She blinked and got up to walk around the side of the table so she could look at it

“Uh-oh”

I gulped and turned it off and started it back up Still ugly, glaring blue

“Shit”

She squeezed my shoulder “That’s bad”

“You have no idea My entire college life is in there My paper due tomorrow, allMath Theory, I need everything that the blue screen just sed This can’t be happening”

I barely resisted throwing the entire thing on the floor and tap-dancing all over the pieces

“You can probably recover the stuff on the hard drive” She was trying to sound opti

“Well, that’s one probleht be solved, but I can’t afford a new computer” I didn’t mean to say it, it just slipped out

Dovie had been to the house; she knew that at one point in time my parents had been pretty well off It sounded du money for a new computer when I lived in a nice suburb and drove a BMW, but the truth was I HAD to keep my job at the restaurant if I wanted to keep ree There was no morein the stock hts on in the house

“And I don’t have the tiy to try and fit in a second job to pay for one This sucks”