Charles poured over his laptop, changing passwords and hacking into the digital sound system that made this arena the best arena for the world championships. But all they were using this glorious sound system for was for a guy to drone his voice again….and again.
Charles and Nick had better ideas.
Charles had known the twins since first grade when they met walking to school together.
"Why are they're two of you?" he had asked.
"Why are they're only ONE of you!" Nick had shot back.
And they had been friends ever since.
They weren't inseparable but they defiantly worked well together, everything from class projects to class pranks were dominated by Nick and Charles…with a little help from Cassandra.
He was definitely the geek of their trio, but he didn't mind that. He knew that without him, most of their endeavors wouldn't have worked without him.
Charles rubbed his eyes for a moment then prepared the final sequence that would lock anyone else out of the system, so no one could turn over control of the stereo except him.
'Damn Jocks!' He thought 'They think all this computer stuff is easy!' He smiled.
The twins were hardly jocks, even though they were outrageously good at pretty much every sport they tried, but they pulled top marks in class, only topped by him of course. Except maybe in gym class.
Charles sighed as a window pooped up asking him to flip over the stereo system to his play list. He looked up and saw Nick walking to the center of arena and locked eyes with him. He quickly gave him the thumbs up letting him know that they were a-ok.
He examined his play list again. It read that one song had been added to the "Fence Match" play list. The song title read "Mix 2006". They we're set.
"Set…"
Startled, Charles quickly brought up window asking him about the stereo flip. He waited.
"…MATCH!"
'Now or Never!' thought Charles, hitting the enter key.
A circuit snapped in the arena power box and then….