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Mitchell and Anne Marie:
The Computer Geek and the Teacher
(A chapter from "Helping Out")
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The Computer Geek and the Teacher
(A chapter from "Helping Out")
(Link back to where this 1x1 began)
Explanation: This is an ongoing interaction between two characters from the roleplay, "Helping Out". We are writing this here because it is easier to both write and read outside of the main IC thread. This first post is a word for word copy of the post in the main IC thread that lead to this 1x1.)
Roxanne's Cafe, Toland
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Mitchell Walters entered Roxanne's with a skip and a jump in his step, calling to the girl behind the counter, "Betty! My usual, if you don't mind."
She laughed at him, saying, "What is this, a bar?"
Mitch, as everyone called him, had been a regular at Roxanne's for years, but not in the way most regulars were thought of.
His life wasn't exactly what he'd thought it was going to be when he was younger. He'd been somewhat of a geek all the way through school, learning about both computer hardware and software. He'd had ambitions of going to MIT, getting his degrees, going to work for a big software corporation, and ultimately developing something on his own that would turn him into an instant billionaire when he sold it to Microsoft or Apple or one of those big companies.
Things hadn't turned out that way. MIT hadn't happened. University anywhere hadn't happened. He'd started at TCCC, but it had closed down. Getting to the Carlton Creek or Magnus campuses hadn't been an option either as transportation had been an issue.
Mitch's father had died when he was little. His mother had slowly been overwhelmed by addiction to whatever was available. She was now doing 5-7 for vehicular manslaughter after a DUI accident left a 9 year old dead on the streets of Capital City.
He'd been working a variety of jobs while living in a room above a friend's garage. He didn't have much, but he wasn't living on the streets eating out of garbage cans, either. He came to Roxanne's most evenings, did a couple of chores for Dick, helped Betty clean up, and went away with a take-out dinner that the two of them put together for him. Sometimes it was stuff that Dick needed to cook before it went bad. Sometimes it was pickup orders that had been forgotten. But sometimes Dick made him something special, something he ordered then and there.
Then, Monday, Dick handed Mitch an envelope, saying, "This was left for you. Don't know who it came from."
That was a lie, of course. Toland's recently arrived benefactor had heard that Mitch wanted to be a computer consultant. he wanted to help people with anything and everything computer or internet related. He had the experience and knowledge to do it. He simply hadn't had the opportunity to do it. Until Dick had handed him an envelope with $5,000 in it.
"What ... the ... fu-u-u-uck, Dick?" Mitch had exclaimed.
"That's for hardware, software, advertising, training," the cafe owner said. "Whatever you need. The only stipulation, as it was explained to me, is that you help people in Toland who need help. Honestly, I think that's about anyone with a computer these days, isn't? I mean, things change so fast."
That had happened on Monday. And every day since, when he came in for his dinner, Mitch caught Dick up on what he'd done so far. (Mitch didn't believe that some anonymous stranger had left the money. He believed that the money had come from Dick himself."
Mitch came in and headed for the janitor's closet to get the broom and mop. But he slowed as he passed by an incredible creature sitting alone in a booth. He wasn't the ogling type, but this woman was incredible. He didn't recognize her right away, but after a few steps his brain started spinning with memories. He stopped and turned to stare at her -- at her face which seemed somehow familiar and at her boosted tits which most certainly did not.
Then, suddenly and shockingly, it came to him. Stepping back the woman's way, he asked with a shocked tone, "Miss Peterson...!!"
Her reaction verified her identity, leading him to go on gushing, "My God! What? I mean. What happened to you?"
He couldn't help but let his gaze shift between her face and breasts. "I mean, wow! You look great!"
He could see that she didn't recognize him. The last time she'd seen him had to have been 2018 when he was a Sophomore at Toland High. Mitch had been heavier then by 30 pounds and had still growing into his current height. He'd been wearing thick glasses and sporting a face full of pimples and a bad haircut courtesy of his drug-addicted mother.
Since then, he'd really come into his current look. He was 5'10" tall now and a fit 185 pounds. His glasses had been replaced by contacts, his face had cleared, and his hairstylist-neighbor had begun trading him periodic hair care for mowing her lawn and teaching her kids how to play educational video games that were a few years ahead of their current learning level.
He smiled wide as he took another step forward, saying with joy, "It's Mitch. Mitchell Walters."
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