The Trouble with Love by Max Hudson

Author:Max Hudson [Hudson, Max]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-10T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

As soon as they realized what they had done, the two men stopped and pulled away from one another, each too surprised to speak.

“So…” Samuel tried, but he seemed uncertain how to continue.

“Yeah,” Tony concurred. “Let’s, uh, go to the… what was it?”

“The computer repairman. That’s the one. Yes,” Samuel said, his lower lip shaking. “Let’s go do that.”

The two walked out in silence as their faces burned bright red. Neither could look the other in the eye. They made it to the parking lot and both paused.

“Should I drive?” Samuel’s voice had a rasp to it and he tried to clear his throat, but it didn’t help.

“Let’s go separately. I’ll follow you,” Tony offered. They nodded to one another and moved to their cars. They had parked on opposite ends, and Tony let out deep breath he had been holding as soon as he flopped down into his seat.

“What was that?” he asked himself. “Okay, okay. It happened. We have some chemistry. Now I need to be his friend, not his lover. Get it together.” He looked up to see Samuel’s car pull around in front of him and the two waved to each other. Samuel took the lead and Tony slowly pulled out to take up the space behind him.

Driving cleared Tony’s head. He turned the radio up and let himself sing along with a new song he liked. The two went to a small, grey strip mall that boasted several random stores, one of which was a computer repair space.

Inside, cords dangled from the ceiling, processors were placed at random on the floor, and a silent woman tapped away at a keyboard behind a counter.

“Hello?” Samuel approached the woman with raised eyebrows. “Can you help me with my computer?”

She sighed and looked up from whatever it was that had such a hold on her attention. Her tone of voice was cold and flat, a reflection of her attitude toward life in general. “What did you do?”

“Me?” Samuel stepped backward away from his accuser. “Well, I didn’t do anything. I was hacked and I need some help. I’ve never had this happen before so if you could—”

“Hand it over.” She stood with her hand out. He grumbled to himself and put it in her hand. The attendant had a name embroidered on her shirt. Angie.

Angie opened the laptop and let out a low whistle. “Yup. You’ve been hacked.”

Samuel rubbed his forehead a moment for strength. He took in a slow inhale of air. “Can you do anything?”

Angie tapped on the keyboard once more and a loud, deep tone came from the machine. Her eyebrows flew up her forehead. “Sorry. It’ll have to stay with me tonight. Was this computer connected to any kind of network? Any way the hack could have gotten into someone else’s machine?”

“Yes,” Samuel said, his face crumpling. “I work at a school and all the employees are connected.”

She gave him a slow, disappointed head shake. “You had better alert your colleagues right away. This could be very bad news.

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