Nellie’s eyelids drooped as she stared at the computer screen. She had been working all night on her biology report on cells, and it was finally completed. After a quick re-read, she printed it out and stuck it in her folder, which in turn she stuck in her backpack. She heaved a sigh… another day of school to endure. Oh well, at least she finally got the report finished.
Suddenly, her eyes snapped over to the clock on the computer. Oh no! She had to leave right now, or else she’d be late! Grabbing her backpack, she hoisted it onto her back and rushed downstairs, almost stumbling once or twice in her rush.

***

Chester sat on the floor, his back resting against the wall. He’d been sitting there for hours, staring with great concentration at the opposite wall. It was that moment when Nellie zoomed by, tying one shoe as she hopped on the other foot, a half-eaten pop-tart hanging out of her mouth. After her shoe had been successfully put on, she reached over to open the front door when she paused, realizing that she had forgotten the turn the computer off. Glancing hopelessly at the clock, she shook her head. “Chester!”
No reaction. He continued to stare at the wall, as if there were some kind of parade going on in front of him. “CHESTER!” He jumped in surprise, and then quickly turned his head around, bringing one of his clawed fingers to his lips. “Shh! This is my favorite show!” Growing impatient, Nellie continued. “Listen, I have no time for your… crazy, right now! I need you to turn off the computer upstairs. Do you understand?” He nodded vacantly, still staring at the wall. She didn’t have time to make sure he really did understand. She was out the door, in the blink of an eye.

***

When the “show” was over, Chester got up and stretched. There wasn’t really much to do around here… he couldn’t hold a video game controller; one hand was too big and the other would slice it in half. Instead, he just paced around the house, singing little repetitive songs to himself.
After a while though, this became boring even for him. He looked out the windows in disappointment. No squirrels to chase… He glanced at his scratching post. Not really enough of it left to scratch… Finally, resigning himself to boredom, he curled up on the couch to go into sleep mode.

***

About an hour later, he awoke with a start. He suddenly remembered that he was supposed to do something! But what…? He looked around frantically, hoping to find SOME sort of clue, but nothing came to him from that. He scrunched his face up in thought, rewinding his memory back through the past several hours…

*--Flashback sequence!--*

Chester was watching his favorite show, when Nellie floated by, wiggling her arms and making squeaky noises! Then she ate a cantaloupe with icing on it, and whirled around, a huge smile plastered on her face. “Hiii, CHESTER!” She said, in a Way-too-high-pitched, I’ve-been-inhaling-helium-type voice, “I’m totally going over to school now, and I’s gonna play some Kirby games all day long! Whee!” She pulled a little puffy hand puppet of herself out of her big, green, bumblebee-like backpack and made it dance around a bit. “I gonna go now, or I’ll be late for the mighty Kirby! You know what’ll make me really super-duper happy? Go play on the computer! Off must I goooo!” She chucked the puppet across the room and floated backwards out of a giant window. Chester poked the puppet. It screeched and exploded.

*--End flashback…type… thingy…--*

Chester blinked. “I GET TO PLAY ON THE COMPUTER!” He yelled happily. With that, he slunk up the stairs.

***

At school, Nellie had just turned in her report, when she remembered something. “D’oh!” she thought to herself, “what was I THINKING? Chester doesn’t know how to turn off the computer! Well, looks like I’d better go upstairs and turn it off when I get home…” She slumped forward in her seat, rested her head on the top of her desk, and continued to try to keep her mind from wandering as the robotic teacher voice droned on without a pause.

***

Chester stared at the computer screen. The screen was full of words; the report was still open on the desktop. After skimming over a few paragraphs, he crossed his arms and pouted. “This story is BORING…” He spun around in the chair for a bit, thinking. Finally his face brightened. “I know! I’ll make this story a lot better!” He studied the keyboard for a bit until the little letters on the keys came into focus, and then began to type.

***

Several hours later, Nellie trudged back into the house, exhausted from the combination of school and the lack of sleep from the previous night. She wanted to take a little nap, but first things first; the computer needed to be shut off. Tossing her backpack and empty lunchbox in the corner, she went into the computer room. She was a little surprised at the sight; Chester was slouched forward in the seat, fast asleep with one side of his face pressed against the monitor.
Nellie shook her head, pulled him back into the chair, and wheeled it away from the computer. She was about to close the typing program when she noticed that there was something different typed there. She scrolled up and tried to decipher what the jumbled, misspelled words said…

(Note: The following has been translated to the point where it’s actually somewhat readable! Hooray!)

Once upon a time there was a sad, chubby, sad little piece of cabbage named Quentin. He was all lonely and stuff cuz nobody wanted to be around him cuz he STINKED to high heaven! Whoo-ee! He did stink. Like… cabbage. ONE DAY, he was flying over to the store when he was hit by an oncoming cow. It woulda been sad, but the cow was pretty funny with all the “WOAH MAN, WHAT DID I HIT?!” Then he spun out, hit a wall and imploded. Everyone was all confused cuz cows normally don’t implode on impact of a wall. Everyone knows they spontanee… spontaneousleee…uh, they blow up! Then, some goblin magicians came and did a lil’ dance, and then pulled a rabbit out of a hat. And it somehow brought Quentin back to life. And then they granted him a giant chin with chinly magic! “Egads!” he shlooped, “the chicks will totally dig me!” He was right! He was the floopy idol of chickens everywhere! And then he flew to France to get some shiny, shiny trousers. But then he got under-arrested cuz his stinky rotty smelly-smellin’ cabbagey body killed too many people cuz it stopped them breathin’ or something. And thusly he was eaten by rabbits, giving them all very very bad breath, which they used to take over the world. Cuz they could. There was no hope for the world, for the bunnies were the mightiest of the river-dancers. And then I showed up and was all like, “Howdee-doo!” And the bunnies were all “BLARGH, we’re superior and stuff. NIBBLE THE NON-BELIEVER TO DEATH!” And then they were all GNAWING! GNAWING! It was unpleasant, I tell you. But then the leprechauns came to save the day, drop-kicking all the rabbits to the moon! And then we were going through a dark tunnel, cuz the ground shattered and stuff. And then the space-
it’s what?
But I don’t-
-and then they all-
And then I… I forgot.

The End! ^_^

***

Nellie blinked at the screen, unable to read much of what it said. (She didn’t get the readable version, like SOME PEOPLE…) She shrugged and was about to close the window, but then she paused at the ‘x’ button once more. Instead of closing it right away, she saved it first. Then she turned the computer off.