“He’s probably back at the lake. Come one, let’s go get him,” said another.
The guys walked back to the lake, hoping they would find him in one piece. They found him sitting quietly next to a girl, reading. That surprised them because they couldn’t really picture him sitting still and reading at the same time. “Hey, Bone,” yelled one of them.
He looked up and saw his four friends waving at him to go over to them. He looked over to the woman he was sitting right next to, who was also looking at him. “Do you have to go?” she asked quietly.
“Yeah, I wish I didn’t have to.”
“Well, it’s about time I get going too.”
“I never did get your name,” he realized.
“It’s Wing Kay Li. I prefer if you called me Kay or Kay Kay. Come to think of it, I never got yours either.”
“Alexander James McLean, at your service. I go by AJ,” he said as he helped her up. “Can I get your number?”
“I’m sorry. I don’t have a phone.”
Thinking she had just rejected him, AJ said, “Hey, that’s cool. Maybe…”
She took one look at his face and said, “Oh, I didn’t mean to sound like I rejected you. I honestly don’t have a phone. Would you rather have my e-mail address instead?”
“Sure,” he said as he fished around his pockets for a paper and pen. He found the pen and handed her the book. “Could you write it inside the book cover?”
“No problem. There you go, I better go now. My mom will be worry about me,” she said and walked away.
“So while we left you here, you got your game going, didn’t you?” asked Brian.
“Not exactly. I didn’t really talk to her much. We mostly read most of the time.”
“EXTRA! EXTRA! AJ MCLEAN CAN READ!” Nick yelled, which earned him a punch from the offended party.
“She doesn’t seem like your type,” Kevin commented.
“I don’t have a particular type I go after,” he protested.
“Fashion model beauty, wild, high maintenance, bimbo-like loud…,” Howie rambled off.
“Okay, okay. You’re right. She’s not. She’s quiet, plain but still pleasing to the eye.”
“Not to mention, she knows how to read,” Nick said.
“Man, will you get off the literacy thing? I just met her, it’s not like I’m going to marry her.”
“You never know what’s going to happen in life,” Kevin wisely said.
Wing Kay got home without too much trouble. She plopped down on her bed with some baby carrots and started to munch on them. “Wing Kay, get down here and practice the piano,” her mother yelled from downstairs in Chinese.
“I know, I have to go on the internet,” she yelled back down. ‘We have a phone line for the internet, but not even a simple phone. Where’s the logic in this?’ she wondered. She updated her web page that were full of the stories that she had written, mostly romance. So far, her site had not exactly attracted a whole lot of people. After playing with her little Neopet, DolliLe the Shoyru, she got off and did as she was told a few hours earlier.