Snippet #1751001

Delen Tonkyn

Delen pulled open her ancient computer and waited for it to realize it was no longer in sleep mode. It was a pretty old laptop, she'd had it for seven years and her mom had used it for five years before that. So by modern standards it was ancient. But Del wasn't about to throw it out, she'd invested to much in it. All of her documents were on here, and over the years she'd spent a lot of money patching up it's different problems. At one point she'd spent a month or so doing an intricate painting of all sorts of plants, animals, and things found in nature on the front of the laptop. It wasn't the kind of computer one through out just to upgrade to a model that ran a little faster.

The computer let out a loud beep to tell Del that had finally turned on and Del clicked on the mail icon. After a few more minutes, in which the sound of whirring gears and the computer fan going into overload was far too audible, Delen's mail box finally opened. She scrolled through her new messages as fast as her computer would allow, deleting spam messages left and right, until finally she reached the newest e-mail from her sister. The email was entitled "DEL! R U READY FOR SCHOOL?!?" and Delen spent a few moments chuckling about her sister's obsessive Capital letter usage before opening the email up;

OMG, HI DEL!
how is ur life, cause mine is gr8! i just got 2 my new school, and its pretyt freakin awesome! My room mate's neat 2, she has like 20 pairs of high heels (which i could use some more of, if u know what i mean ;).) any how, she said she be like totally cool with me borrowing some once in awhile. I <3 THIS SCHOOL! but it does kinda suck, gram and gramp not lettin us go 2 the same school XP. I mean seriously, what is their problem with u?
On a cooler note, my b-day is comin soon! Just thought you might want to know, in case you want to get me something...
Also, i've been talking to my room mate, who asked her mom, who asked her sister, who is a psychiatrist, about how to get you to listen to me. She said I should lay down what I want you to know in a neat and consciest way. So here it is, in list form;
1. You have god awful style sense
2. you should let me tell you what to wear
3. you have long legs, skinny jeans and ankle boots are like made for u!
4. if your going to dye ur hair, at least stick to one color, like blond!

Anyhow, i g2g, class starts soon, <3 u,
YUR EPIC SISTER!

P.S, i need a new photo of u!

Del smiled, her sister simply couldn't be bothered with the rules of spelling or grammar, and when it came to capital letters it appeared to be an all or nothing situation with her. Delen didn't bother sending her a reply yet, she needed something more interesting to other than , "Hey I'm alive and at school!" Hopefully something cool would happen this year, last year nothing too terribly exciting had happened.She was pretty sure the coolest thing that had happened was the fire alarm going off in the middle of her math midterm. Something exciting was bound to happen this year, if only to compensate for the previous year's lack of news worthy events!