techno.
Nothing settled Techno quite like a nice cup of pleasantly bitter coffee, but tonight, it wasn’t very calming.
He stared, frozen, at the black laptop in front of him like it happened to be a dangerous mamba ready to bite and kill. The fuzzy, flash-to-white-fuzz-back-to-fire-background screen fluttered infuriatingly at him. His unwelcome task had loomed over him for a week, and the return of the computer tomorrow afternoon didn’t quite help his case.
Techno’s steady green eyes stared absently at the screen. How had he gotten into this mess?
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Just a week earlier, he had been cornered. By him.
The most terrifying JMD in Techno’s life. The little devil on his shoulder from years upon years ago. And now, he stood in front of him, a black laptop at his feet.
“You’re a computer geek, right? I mean, you look like one.”
Techno stared, shock in his gaze. “I… Uh… N-no, sir!” he stammered.
The other dragon scowled. “Did I hear no? Don’t tell me you can’t! What, with those looks and that name, you’re just built for the job,” he spat.
Techno looked away, desperately trying to come up with a clever excuse to get out of this mess. “I can’t do it in such short time!”
“What do you mean? You haven’t-” the other dragon, Joe, narrowed his eyes. “Stop giving me this! You’re gonna fix it and you have a week. If you don’t, so help me…”
Techno gulped. “O-okay, sir,” he whispered, gingerly picking up the laptop, he scooted past Joe and made a run for it.
As soon as he reached his home, he slammed the door and locked it behind him. Entering his home office, he slammed Joe’s computer to the desk and flopped down, relaxing in the comfort of the plain navy walls. For an hour, he stared blankly at a little black smudge on the wall, mind completely blank.
Five minutes pass five in the evening, he rose to his feet and walked outside to his backyard. Instantly, a bombardment of sweet smells greeted him. Honeysuckle, clematis, jasmine, evening primrose, butterfly bush, and underlying it all, the rich aroma of dirt. The sun glimmered just above the horizon, annoyingly hitting Techno right in the eye. Ducking his head, he hurried down the granite-stone path into his little patch of grass. Earthy smelling and shaded by silver maples, the clump of wild grass gave comfort. The air perfumed by jasmine and honeysuckle, the grass kept cool my the maples, who gently revealed their silver back in the soft breeze.
Taking a long, deep breath, Techno closed his eyes and flopped down here to, for now he need some time with thoughts.
This is what I love… Not computers. Technology hates me. Plants don’t, he thought absently. Joe is such an idiot… I can’t even fix it…
*Joe is a JMD I made up. Any reference to a real JMD with said name is purely coincidence. I mean not to offend people, as Joe is purely there for the antagonist part of my story.
I am done. c: