“C’mon! Hurry up!,” squealed Brianna to Tolu.
Tolu was frantically scrolling through the contacts in her phone, all 200 of them. Unfortunately, she couldn’t find Dawson’s phone number in her phone anywhere.
“I thought that you said he gave you his number in Calculus class on Thursday?,” inquired Brianna. “Did he really or were you just playing?”
“Arrrgh! He did, he did, Bri, but I can’t seem to find it in my phone. This is my third time going through my contacts and I still have nothing!,” a now exasperated Tolu responded.
Brianna looked around, her frizzy hair fluttering each time her head swiveled. She alternated putting weight on one foot and the other. She was antsy. And, who could blame her with all that was on the line. A night like tonight, movie debut night, was bound to be packed with other high schoolers and college students home for summer break. Brianna’s crush, Dawson, was supposed to have given them a ride there, but he was apparently lost.
It was looking like the night was going to be lost when suddenly a gleaming thought occured to Brianna- Flycell! “Tolu! Tolu! I got it! Back in the house! Follow me!,” yelled Brianna to her friend.
Without waiting to explain the abrupt change in tactics, Brianna broke into a run across her house’s front yard and exploding into the house. Tolu was running, too, but having trouble matching the pace of the excited Brianna. They continued sprinting all the way to the back of the house, where they parked themselves in Brianna’s mother’s office.
Tolu, in between pants, managed to ask, “Okay, so what are we doing here, Brianna?”
“Flycell.com. That is how we’re going to get Dawson’s number,” she said confidently. “I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before now!
“Genius! You’re right! With Flycell.com’s huge, online community of users, someone from our school who knows Dawson is bound to be logged in,” agreed Tolu. “Let’s do it.”
As the Flycell.com page loaded, two sets of eyes were drawn to the on-demand videos that had just been loaded onto the sight.
“Wow, how does Flycell always have the newest music videos?! Flycell goes hard, Tolu! They are the best website out there! I can’t wait to get these videos and ring-tones on my phone. You know that everybody at school is going to be jealous!”
Tolu rolled her eyes at her friend. “Oh, Brianna, you and I get excited over different things. While you may like the videos, I like to search all the fun, cellular games and cell wall paper that they keep constantly updating. If I’m bored anywhere, I can just whip out my cellie and play all the games that I’ve downloaded from Flycell.”
At this point Brianna only partially heard what her friend was saying; she was too engrossed in the new music video that she was watching on the Flycell website.
“What did you say, Tolu?”
“Don’t worry about it, Brianna. Just finish your video so we can go to Flycell’s online community and search for someone that will know your want-to-be boyfriend, Dawson,” said Tolu.
Still humming the song after the video finished, Brianna opened up the Flycell community page and began a search for a person from their high school. Like teens sometimes do, they went through each and every picture of people on the site, commenting and having a good time. Soon, they did find some people that went to their school online.
“Who is that!?,” asked Tolu, eyes bulging widely. “‘Bryce K.’,” said Tolu, reading the name in the profile.
“I don’t know him,” Brianna said, “but he’s online, he’s cute and he goes to our school. Let’s chat with him!”
That started the beginning of a chat that lasted well past the time that start-time of the movie they were supposed to see with Dawson. They were having such a good time talking online with Bryce that they completely forgot all about the movie!
“Oh, my goodness, Tolu! It’s 8:30! We’ve missed the movie!,” roared Brianna.
Tolu looked at her, tilted her head to one side, and said, “Bri, honetly, have we been having fun?”
Brianna shook her head up and down.
“And, didn’t Flycell lead us to Bryce, who is a whoooole lot cuter than Dawson?,” Tolu asked.
“Oh, yeah. That boy is so fine,” Bri said emphatically. She looked around the office, and said, “You know, maybe we should just skip the movbies and stay on Flycell tonight.”
This time it was Tolu’s turn to shake her head up and down. “Bri, I guess there are some things that we do agree on!”