Down, boy!
-Fuck!
The girls looked up as a yell came out of Cora's room. One minute later, Cora herself stormed into the room, waving a bunch of papers in the air.
-My friggin' laptop crashed! she announced. And my essay is due tomorrow morning! Now what am I supposed to do???
-Aaaw, that's a bitch, Cora! said Amber sympathetically.
-Can't you borrow a computer at school? asked Tammy.
-Hullo??? said Cora. I've got 30 pages of notes to cleanwrite. That's like gonna take me all night!
-Relax, said Andie. I think I know someone who could fix that for you.
-Who? said Cora, and poured herself a cup of coffee.
-Jason's friend, Hermes, said Andie. He's a computer wiz. I can talk to Jason at lunch, if you want?
-Oh, great, said Cora sarcastically.
-Hey, be nice, or I won't ask Jason to help you, said Andie sharply.
Cora took a sip of her coffee and tried to calm down. This essay really was important, so she swallowed her bitter remarks together with the java.
-OK, she said. Sounds great. Ask' im. Thanks, Andie.
-OK, it's all taken cared of, said Andie. I talked to Jason, and he called Hermes, who's gonna be at your place at 5.30 tonight.
-I hope it won't take long, said Cora. I need time to finish the essay, and I'd rather not pull an all-nighter. -Oh, and Cora – be nice! said Andie.
Cora just gave her a sweet, innocent southern-belle-smile, which Andie didn't believe for a second.
-I knew it! Cora muttered, as she paced over the carpet in her room. That damned nigga ain't comin'!
With that, there was a knock at the door.
-About time! Cora hissed, as she went to open the door.
She stared at the man outside the door. He was tall and muscular, and his skin was as dark as he could possibly get. He had a nice face, with dark brown, piercing eyes. He wasn't too bad looking, but he sure wasn't Cora's type.
-Hi! he said, with a deep base. Name's Hermes, Jason sent me to fix your computer.
-You're late, said Cora, and turned her back at him as she walked into the room. I expected you half an hour ago.
Hermes gave the grumpy little blonde a stiff smile.
-Didn't know I was on a time schedule, he said, and walked into the room and closed the door behind him. I thought I came here to do a favour for a friend of a friend.
-I'm in a hurry to finish my essay, said Cora. I was told you'd be here at 5.30, and it's already 6.05.
-Do you want my help or not? said Hermes, and did his best to control the anger in his voice.
-Yes, said Cora, realizing that she had gone to far, but reluctant to apologize.
-Then you better behave, missy! said Hermes. Now, where's that laptop of yours?
Cora, grinding her teeth for being scolded like a child, handed him the laptop and sat down at her bed. Hermes put the laptop on her desk, sat down and opened a plastic bags he had brought with him. Cora had no idea what he was doing with the different tools he had brought along. She picked up her notes and began organizing them.
Hermes tried to focus on fixing Cora's laptop, but he was annoyed and had a hard time concentrating. Just who did she think she was, that little brat, sneering at him like he was her employee rather than someone doing her a favour!
-Jason, you owe me big time for this, Hermes thought to himself.
He caught a glance of Cora sitting on her bed, reading through her notes, by the reflection in the black screen of the laptop. She was a real looker, that was for sure, but the stuck?up expression of her face distorted the image of a true beauty. Hermes had been with enough women to prefer an entertaining personality before a hot body... like hers. Cora flipped through the papers, and Hermes realized that he hadn't been doing a thing with the computer for 3 minutes straight. He went back to the task at hand.
Half an hour later, Hermes had the laptop working again.
-Finally! said Cora. Can I work on my essay now?
-Hang on, said Hermes. I'll just need to check that the systems are working.
Cora sighed and went back to her notes. Hermes ignored her and opened different programs, giving them a routine run through to make sure that they were in order. He started Word, and pressed Ctrl O to see if the files would open properly. Out of a list, he randomly picked a file named "On the influence of Chaucer", and then froze in his chair staring at the screen. The file showed a picture of a pretty blonde girl in a plaid skirt giving a black man with rastafarian hairstyle a blowjob. Hermes scrolled down, only to find even more pictures of blonde, red? or brown?haired white girls sucking on black men's cocks, getting fucked doggystyle or having their pussies licked by black men.