iHelp Tasha out - an iCarly fanfic
disclaimer - I do not own iCarly
chapter 1:
Carly's POV:
It all started in the morning. Me, Sam and Freddie went to school just as usual. We laughed and told jokes, made a little fun of some people, and went to class. A class taught by ms. Briggs. "Oh, I hate that horrible ms. Briggs!", I thought out loud in frustration, and Sam and Freddie agreed with me. So we stepped into the classroom' and met some friends' who said they loved the really awesome web show we did last night - we played a really awesome prank on Lewbert there! And then, I saw a girl, sitting alone, and no one seemed to care about her. She had something folded up into thin pieces under her chair, a laptop on her desk, and a strange little device under its keyboard. So I went up to her, while Sam sat down, but Freddie came along with me.
"Hi. Why are you alone?" we asked her "What are these devices?"
"I'm Tasha. I'm a new student here." she replied. "That's my white cane under my chair, and it's folded up right now, and that's really convenient. I use it when I walk around, so that I won't bump into stuff, and so that people realize that I'm blind. The device under my laptop is called a braille display. It displays whatever is shown on the screen in braille on this row of braille cells, which contain dots that can raise and lower themselves, forming braille symbols. I can use these keys to type in braille, and whatever I type is shown on the screen as text that sighted people can read. I can use these other keys to navigate around the screen. You guys want a demo?" "Sure!" we replied.
Tasha got up, picked up her folded white cane, pulled a piece of it, and click, click. click, click, it unfolded. She put it in her hand and took a few steps, swinging the cane on the floor in arches a little wider than the front part of her body, around it. I noticed that the cane has a large, flat, and slightly thick tip, that can roll as the cane is swung in these arches. The cane bumped into the leg of a nearby desk, and Tasha walked away from it. Then, she walked back to her desk, folded up the cane, sat down, and placed it back under her chair.
Then, she turned on her laptop screen, and started to rapidly press a button on her braille display. As she did so, the dots on the display raised and lowered themselves, and I figured out that they represented the names of items on the screen. "There it is, the word professor!" Tasha called out. "You see it says its name here in braille, and you guys can see it on the screen in print.", she said, and pushed another button on the display, which launched the software. She then put her fingers on six keys close to each other on the display, and her thumbs on another key, which I'm guessing is the space bar. She then started typing on them, really quickly, 'Hello, I'm Tasha Danielson from Illinois, blind since birth. I recently moved here to Seattle, and I was really excited about it. But no one seems to like me, just because I'm "The blind girl"! They can't see that I'm a human. They're blind themselves. Such jerks!' "Totally", I said. "Mentally blind jerks. But we can see the human in you. you seem really nice! We can be your friends. Right, Freddie?" "Right." he said, "You seem awesome!"
"Want to come to my house after school?" I asked, and Tasha happily said yes. We took a seat by her, and told her so. Just then, ms. Briggs came in. "Be quiet, you wild animals!" she yelled at us "And you all failed the quiz!"
"Wow, she's the worst!" Tasha whispered to me with a smile on her face. "True, but you've seen nothing yet!" I whispered back.
And that was chapter 1 of this iCarly fanfic. Hope you guys like it. Reviews are welcome. I'll update soon.