Page 121 - Demo

120 JAGGEDEDGE
rucksack and slid out her laptop computer. Just as it finished boot- ing, the phone rang.
“Hello.”
“Sienna, I might be working late today, so I need you to pick up your brothers for me please,” said Jennifer.
“Okay, Jen. No problem.”
“Is your father home yet?”
“I believe he has been here and gone—cause I see a pack-
age opened addressed to him.”
“Okay. Please do that for me, and I’ll see you later tonight. “Okay, Jen. Bye.” “Guess I’ll have to wait for later,” Sienna
said to herself.
Holding the disks in her hand, she removed her shirt, un-
zipped her secret compartment, and stashed her new software with several other CDs and floppies she kept there.
“Can’t start now,” she thought. “I’d just lose all track of time. Might as well go get the guys.”
She went into the kitchen, grabbed a banana, and picked up her rucksack heading for the door.
“I know when I get back there will be no peace until Jen gets home, but what the hay.”
She smiled thinking of how her little brothers treated her like one of the guys. Most girls probably resented that treatment from their brothers she considered it the best compliment she could receive. The three of them were really crazy about each other.
On the way to the nursery, Sienna thought of the power she would wield from producing a revolutionary program that no one had ever considered. She pulled up to the nursery convinced that she was about to leave her footprints in the future. As she walked down the hall, both of her brothers spotted her immedi- ately. Their faces lit up like candlelight in the darkness, and the race was on.
Sienna!” said Brandon, as his sister knelt on one end of the hallway waiting for the oncoming speedsters.