Chapter 1: A Friendster Message
Author's Notes:
Here's my second MA fanfiction. This fanfiction is a collection of stories about Elena Potato and her favorite hobby — which is surfing the net. So here's the first story.
Last Updated: September 7, 2009
-- Caught by the 'Net' --
Website Number One: Friendster Dot Com
Elena was doing this again and again: click, scroll, click again, back, another click…
"Where is that post? It should be somewhere in these pages." Elena muttered to herself.
"I'm going. I still have to go to the tamers' armory," Zick said.
"Wait for a minute, Zick!" Elena cried, pulling Zick's shirt.
"Fine, fine. Hurry up."
.....
After five minutes of waiting, Zick ran out of patience. "That's it, I'm going out!"
Still clicking, she answered, "Wait another minute. I'm now on page 48."
"What are you finding anyway?" Zick stood up to see what website Elena was looking.
"It's just a story I found in Friendster's bulletin board."
"Friendster?"
"Yeah, it's Friendster." She noticed a subject title. "What's this? 'I Miss You' by Aaliyah? How come these people are posting lyrics on the bulletin board?"
As Elena continued to finding the story, Zick saw duplicate pictures of a familiar face. "Annie? Woah, is that Annie? She looks like Annie."
"That's her primary photo and I prefer to call her Froggy."
"What happens if you click her picture?" Zick snatched the mouse. He moved the mouse playfully, and the cursor moved as well. Amused, he laughed. "This is so cool!"
Elena wasn't pleased. "It will redirect to her profile, darn it! You're asking too many questions." She snatched the mouse from him.
Zick did not answer. He just made a few facial expressions.
.....
"Aha! Found it!" Elena proudly said.
"Where?" Zick stood up and read, "Do you love someone this much?" Zick was shocked by what he read. 'What's this? Love?' he thought.
"Are you ready to read it?" Elena smiled.
"What? Huh? Oh…" Zick did not know what to say. He would feel awkward to read such a message beside the person he had liked. He had to think of an excuse to prevent himself from reading it.
"Zick?"
A lightbulb appeared above his head, symbolically. "Oh, yeah. I've got to go now. I just remembered my mum told me that I should stay at home so... bye." He smiled while he tried to go out of Elena's room.
Annoyed, Elena grabbed his shirt. "Not so fast, Zick. I almost killed myself finding that story and you're going to put my effort to waste?!"
"Okay then." He guessed he didn't have a choice. "Here goes nothing," Zick said as he looked at the monitor.
Elena clicked on the title and the message came out. "Read it, Zick!" she commanded.
"I will if you'll let go of my shirt."
Elena released his shirt. "There! Read it now!"
Zick started to read. Elena was pleased.
Zick noticed another familiar face. "Greenminded? Who's this? He looked like David."
"He is David. He just changed his name."
"Is that even legal?"
"This is internet, Zick, so shut up."
Zick continued to read the message silently.
From: greenminded
Do you love someone this much?
"Slow down," the girl requested."I'm scared,"
"No, this is fun," the guy replied.
"No it's not. Please it's too scary!"
"Then tell me you love me."
"Fine, I love you. Slow down."
"Now give me a big hug."
She hugged him.
"Can you take my helmet off and put it on yourself?" he asked."It's bugging me."
"Alright." She took it. "Now slow down."
"I love you, babe."
"I love you too.Please, just slow down now! Please?"
In the paper the next day,a motorcycle had crashed into a building because of a brake failure. Two people were on it, but only one had survived.
The truth was that halfway down the road, the guy realized that his brakes broke, but he didn't want to let the girl know. Instead, he had her say she loved him and felt her hug one last time, and then he had her wear his helmet so that she would live even though it meant that he would die.
"Done!" Zick exclaimed. He was disappointed because he was expecting another message; like a confession message or something.
"So?" Elena said, expecting Zick would comment about it.
"What do you mean 'so'?"
"The guy just proved to his girlfriend that he loves her so much. Isn't he sweet?"
"He does not have a choice."
"You don't mean that!"
"The guy just realized that his breaks broke... so he had no choice but to let her girlfriend live."
"That's why he's so sweet."
"If you were the driver and you're with a friend or a family member instead of your boyfriend, won't you give that helmet to him or her instead?"
"Hmm, you have a point."
"So it doesn't mean that a person loves someone so much by doing that because he may do that for everyone even if it's someone he just known... depending on his personality."
"Oh..." Elena answered. She should give him a better reply or else she would lose the argument. She opened her mouth, "But still..."
"I'm going. Thanks for letting me read that good story," Zick said ironically then he left the room.
'What's his problem?' Elena thought. She logged out her Friendster account.
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The End
Additional notes: I don't own the message above. It was a real message in the Friendster's bulletin board, but I edited it.
Thank you for reading.