3. Technology/Computers
Cam waves goodbye to Maya, Tori, Zig and Tristan having already begun their chat session. Today is one of the few days he actually has lunch with his team. He hasn't done so in about a month and even though most of the time his presence is acknowledged- only to be ignored again, he knows that no one is going to treat him like part of the team if he doesn't act like it.
He pulls out his apple and sandwich before quietly seating himself at the rowdy table. Owen glances his way, Luke does the same not too long after, but 2 of their teammates are playing chubby bunny and Cam guesses that's pretty enthralling so the boys offer barely there nods and look away.
Cam finishes his lunch pretty quickly and just awkwardly stares at the nutrition posters in the lunch room before remembering that yeah, there's a crap load of work he needs to get started on and pulling out his bag from underneath the table. He decides on tackling French first as he stares blankly at his book, trying to remember how to conjugate parler.
His attention span quickly dissipates and he's doodling robots in the margins. He isn't sure how long he's been doing it but there's about 3 ½ full bots before there's a tan finger covering the head of one and a low voice from behind him.
"Those are pretty cool"
Cam turns around to find Dallas, attention on Cam's defiled French notes. Before he can fully react his pen is being slipped out of his hands and his team captain takes a seat beside him. Cam looks around and notices the slightly confused expressions of Luke, Owen and a few other guys but the rest are laughing at something or the other. Cam shrugs slightly before pulling out a blue pen from his pencil case. Dallas has already decorated the page with shurikens* and ninjas and even a few robots (though the ones Dallas has created leaves his own drowning in shame).
When the warning bell for the end of lunch sounds, Dallas leans back with a satisfied sigh, surveying their work.
"This is straight up legendary"
Cam laughs lightly "Yeah I guess"
"It could be a kickass videogame don't you think? Robots vs Ninjas"
Cam has to pause a moment from all the stupendous awesomeness.
"Yes!" he says with a bit more vigor than the occasion really calls for.
Dallas smiles for a few moments (big and bright) before his brows furrow.
"I can't make a game"
Cam feels his own mouth form a frown as he takes it in.
"Maya says her sister Katie knows this super smart kid named Connor, maybe he could help"
Dallas' smile returns as he claps Cam on the back "Good thinking Rookie, meet me in front of the rink right after school, we will so make this happen."
Cam nods, not quite believing the events that had just taken place
...
"What do you mean you can't do it?"
The exasperation in Dallas' tone is making him sound a bit whiny, but Cam guesses the older boy wasn't expecting that. He couldn't say he was either.
"Well that's not accurate," the bespectacled boy answers evenly "I can do it. I just refuse to."
"What why?"
An even whinier voice comes up and Cam realizes that it's his own. He clears his throat and speaks at a lower register "I mean, why won't you do it?"
"I don't know you, and from what I've heard about you at least," the boy looks at Dallas who looks just a bit embarrassed "I've concluded that I don't want to"
That is all Connor offers before he walks away from the 2 hockey players.
"Well that sucks" Dallas speaks up
"Yeah" Cam sighs with a slight twitch of the mouth. He was actually a bit (or maybe a load) more excited about this than he'd care to admit.
"Well, at least we made a kickass doodle thingy. And you know, memories and all that" Dallas says, returning to his usual confident attitude before he too walks away.
...
Cam ends up staying up until midnight working on his French alone.
(And if he tears the wonderfully chaotic page out of his notebook and stashes it with the things he plans to take back home then who's business is it but his?)
I enjoyed writing this one, definitely more than the Space one, ugh. Again, I apologize to people who came here expecting serious Scifi, I am extremely uneducated in the genre so I'm kind of just writing whatever the hell I want to be honest. I almost didn't update because I was busy most of the weekend and no ome even reads this anyway but I decided I'd honor my commitment, even if nobody cares
Tell me what you think of the story so far in the form of a review. I love me some ego stroking but constructive criticism is also much appreciated.
For the first time I'm doing the story as I go and it isn't pre written so I can take suggestions. The next one will be Robots and omg wtf I just saw that. Guess the next one will probably be a continuation of this then.