Waiting for War

amy

I need to find my hacker friend from last year but I still don't know his name. what can i say. my memory is immaculate. i've been looking all over for him. the problem is the school is too big. there's too many places to get lost in. too many crowds to disappear into. and too many shoulders to scoot past. sometimes there's a few that won't let me scoot past and im left stuck behind some guy two feet taller than me. but if i could just find who im looking for amongst them. tell him i need his help—-

i sigh. but can my random friend i can't remember the name of help me? it's not like i can know for sure if i can trust him. what if i just present the code to him and strip it from the servers so he doesn't notice where it's from. i sigh. he'll know. each code is like a signature. he's bound to know the schools signature by now. but i have to try. i can't let myself not get where i need to go just because i might get betrayed. what's the worst that could happen? okay bad question to think about.

i sigh and keep weaving my way through the hall. i have 30 minutes until my next class. thirty minutes to find him. i try and think of places a nerd would be. some place he might hide away from humanity. and then it hits me. the tech room. i turn around and head back down the claustrophobic hall way. i'm stuck behind some tall kid that somehow takes up all of the room in the hallway and isn't moving quickly at all either. it's a mess. i sigh as i keep walking. maybe i just need to look for the nerd later. even if i don't want to wait. and then i see her. katie's mom. it's odd seeing the president of the school walk down a normal hallway. somehow it doesn't seem to fit her. just like the kid lumbering on in front of me. my eyes follow her as she disappears down the hallway into the onrush.

maybe she would know something. maybe she could tell me something. the thought thrills me. tells me i might have a chance. i gulp and keep walking down the hallway. i will have to give her office a visit soon.