CHATROOM LOVE
Chapter One
August 27, 2001
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
"Oh, come on, Rose!" Dawn cried.
"It will be fun!"
It was a warm Saturday morning in August. Rose
and Dawn were in Rose's room trying to find something to do. "You know I
don't like chatrooms," Rose DeWitt-Bukater groaned.
Dawn grinned. "Have you ever
cybered?"
"Dawn!" Rose gasped. "That's
totally gross!"
"I was only joking. Jeez, Rose, lighten
up." She sighed.
"Sorry. You know what Cal tried to do to
me," Rose mumbled, thinking back to the previous summer when her mother
introduced her Caledon Hockley at the country club. He seemed nice at first,
but he started to get violent. Luckily, her mom caught him when he tried to
have sex with her. Now there was a restraining order, and she hadn't heard from
him since.
Rose thought about it for a second. "Oh,
okay! But only for a few minutes."
"That's the spirit!" Dawn clicked on
the chatroom link under the screen name rose_bud2001.
"Are there any guys in Edmonton,
Alberta?" she typed. Almost immediately, an IM box popped up.
JD_in_AB: Asl?
"My turn to type." Rose pushed Dawn
off the chair.
rose_bud2001: 17/f/Edmonton u?
She waited for the person to reply.
JD_in_AB: 17/m/Edmonton
JD_in_AB: Cool
rose_bud2001: Yeah! LOL
JD_in_AB: You live near Old Strathcona?
rose_bud2001: Yeah I go to the SC High School
JD_in_AB: Me 2! I just moved here from the US
so I don't really know my way around
rose_bud2001: I could show you around when
school starts...
JD_in_AB: That would be great! Thanks
rose_bud2001: No prob
JD_in_AB: I have to go, my aunt has to use the
phone
rose_bud2001: All right I'll meet you in front
of the trophy case at lunch
JD_in_AB: OK seeya when school starts, bye
rose_bud2001: bye!
Rose turned off the computer, smiling.
"See! I knew you'd have fun," Dawn
said, boasting.