Chapter 9
YouTube Career Ruined
Marine entered an office with a few computers sitting on top of desks. He felt utter joy. He had no idea why but he felt a sudden urge to play hundreds of video games right now. So he made plans to do that just as soon as he figured out what video games were.
When he found a working computer, he was about to click on a button until it disappeared and Elliot Swann's face appeared on the secondary screen. "Hey, I see you've made it to my computer."
Marine glared daggers at the man who removed the button he so desperately wanted to click.
"Now, I have a favor to ask of you," Elliot said. "Could you just delete my internet search history? I mean…" He raised his hands defensively. "Not for any particular reason. I just think it'd be a good idea, just in case, you know." His face disappeared.
Marine continued to glare at the screen for a few seconds before he noticed that the buttons reappeared on the other screen. The two buttons said "Transmit" and "Cancel" The cursor immediately flew to the cancel button.
"Boop," he said as he clicked on it.
Shortly after that, the face of Elliot reappeared on the other screen, only this time, his expression was much more furious.
"You idiot?" He yelled. "You just wiped out my computer's hard drive! I was rendering a video! It took me two weeks to set up all those audio files and video files!" He angrily pointed a finger at Marine. "Screw you, dude! Go die!"
"Well, gee, sorry," Marine said a half-second too late before the call was cut off. But it didn't matter. He wasn't really sorry, anyway. He restarted and set up the computer as his own and decided to try playing video games for the first time. Now he would fit in with the cool kids.
But then he realized that he wasn't a kid anymore and started questioning his life choices again.