Bad Penny by Penny Birch

Author:Penny Birch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ebury Publishing

12

Peeping

As my modem chimed its way towards connection with the Internet, a sound from outside my window drew my attention. Looking down I saw a straggling group of students heading for the Union building. They were clearly headed for a party; all of them were in fancy dress, and it was their laughter that had caught my attention.

I turned back to my monitor as my link came up, intent on discovering whether any comments had yet been made on my latest paper. There was a team in the US whose research was on similar lines, and I was particularly pleased that I had published first and also keen to find out what they thought. My usual search engine came up on the screen and I tapped in my name and a few key words which I hoped would cut out a good proportion of the irrelevant websites which normally come up in a search.

My search produced fourteen responses, and all ten on the first page were university websites. Feeling pretty pleased with myself, I clicked on the first and was soon absorbed in the comments of a Dr Pearce from one of the smaller middle-American universities.

Some time later the janitor, Colin, poked his head around the door to say that he was locking up and that I would have to leave by the back door. I thanked him absently and went back to my reading. As his footsteps receded along the corridor I was left in near silence, the only noises the hum of my computer and the distant throb of the city traffic. A moment later, I heard the characteristic crash of the front doors being slammed shut and knew that Colin had left.

It was nearly midnight when I broke off to fetch a coffee and visit the loo. My footsteps rang loud in the empty building, the echoes twice making me turn to see if anybody was coming down the corridor behind me. Laughing at my own irrational nervousness, I pushed open the door to my room and returned to my desk. A couple of clicks returned me to my original search, from which I went on to the second page. Of the four remaining sites, two were alternative pages at universities which I had visited, one was in some language I didn’t recognise and the last appeared completely irrelevant. Feeling a touch disappointed, I moved the cursor towards the area for disconnection, only to stop as the final address caught my eye.

The site was something called ‘Peeping’, which intrigued me. I clicked on it, wondering how it had come up on my search. The screen went white, then red and some text appeared in the middle. It was headed ‘Peeping’, as the search data had told me. Below was my name and the name of the university and department, which explained why the page had come up. At the bottom was a link which said, ‘Click here to watch Penny pee, and more!’.

I moved the cursor straight to it, feeling slightly alarmed.

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