Steve unplugged the emitter from the cord charging it which chirped in protest. He looked at his computer for some kind of docking station and quickly gave up reconnecting the complaining device to its cord. With a heavy sigh he gave up wanting nothing more than to just relax and not deal with any drama, technological or otherwise. Steve sighed heavily, and gave up. He grabbed a beer from the fridge and went to the living room turning on the game.
Steve had a rough few years, after a whirlwind romance where he suddenly found himself a single parent. His friends rarely called to hang out, not wanting to get between him and his 'son'. The rare activities he did get invited to were a friend and family midday barbecue. He would get a few drinks and a few minutes to chat with his friend but then they were off talking to a cousin or something. It definitely wasn't the same. He barely even heard about the weekends in the city and all night bar crawls but he knew they still happened.
It wasn't David's fault, Steve knew. But that didn't change the fact that Steve was no longer a bachelor, and wasn't really a family man. He was a dysfunctional mix of both and didn't know what to do about it. David isolated himself and neither of them knew how to relate to each other. His friends were just starting to settle down and had infants or toddlers... not teenagers. Steve had even tried dating apps but having a teen, he received responses from people who were done having kids. He didn't want a random hookup, he wanted a life but that seemed nearly impossible.
David came home from a bike ride commenting, "Hey I'm home." to the house. Steve cringed. David couldn't even be bothered to greet Steve to his face.
"Hey could you come here?" Steve yelled taking a deep chug from his third beer. The game wasn't going well and he wasn't getting the feeling of victory he sorely desired.
"Yes?" David asked in a measured tone Steve remembered from his own youth.
"The computer is asking for something and I'm not sure what it wants, could you take a look at it?" Steve asked trying to ignore that he was apparently a major inconvenience to David...
David grimaced, "Fiiine." he said in a short sigh turning to the computer. A moment later David had seen the emitter and plugged it into the computer and the program opened to the welcome page. "Looks like it's working now, you just needed to connect the USB cable to the PC so it could recognize the device"
"Thank you for your help David." Steve said with a quick glance from the game, barely hearing what David said.
David rolled his eyes and trudged upstairs to his room shutting the door and blocking out the world.
Steve grew more agitated as his team fell farther and farther behind. He grabbed another beer and glanced at the computer, He glanced at the game, and back at the computer... with a slight groan he realized experimenting with the computer (which he hates) will probably be less stressful than watching his team lose... and sat down.
He clicked the big obvious scan button expecting that a virus scan would begin but instead his and David's profiles appeared with extreme detail. Suddenly intrigued he clicked through the easy to understand user interface and realized what this program was promising.
He found the claims impossible to believe but equally impossible to ignore. His thoughts immediately went to fixing the biggest point of contention in his life and he quickly found a solution, not that he actually expected anything to happen mind you... that would just be impossible.