John was bored. He sat at his computer with nothing to do. Most of his friends were on spring break and he couldn't join them. He tried playing
computer games but he was getting tired of the same old games. He picked up a game he hadn't installed yet. The title of the game read, "Tons
of Solitaire Fun." John was sure it was going to be boring but he installed it anyway.
After it installed, John wondered if this was the right game. In big letters across the screen it read, "Solitaire Vacations, A Different Way to
Travel" Under the lettering was a slideshow of different vacation places although some of the pictures were a little unusual. For example, there
was a photo of a clothing store in Hollywood and another photo of a classroom in Jamaica. They were all vacation cities but the photos were of
places people typically didn't visit on vacation.
There was some smaller lettering under the slideshow saying, "Take a sample vacation absolutely free. Just click." John figured it must be a
virtual vacation that would just show him more pictures but he didn't have anything else to do so he clicked it.
Everything went blank. I don't mean the computer went blank. I mean his bedroom went blank. I mean the sky went blank. I mean everything
went blank. Then a light began to glow and slowly grow. That's when John realized he was naked and floating in nothingness. Then a voice
asked, "Where do you want to go?"
John wasn't sure if he was dreaming. He thought that his friend Steve could probably figure out what was happening. He asked, "Where's Steve
Fulton?"
The voice asked, "Steve Fulton from Patterson Indiana?"
John said, "Yes." and then everything changed.
He was looking out across a computer keyboard into a hotel room. Just then Steve picked up his laptop, freaked and dropped the laptop. Then
John was looking at carpet.
Steve picked up the laptop and mumbled, "Why would John send me a naked picture of himself."
John said, "Steve it's me."
Steve asked, "Why are you naked?"
John answered, "Somehow I got sucked into the computer but it didn't bring my clothes with me. I'm not a video. It's actually me here inside
your computer."
The computer voice spoke, "Have fun as Steve's screen pet for a week. Steve, you can change your pets appearance and send him to any
computer environment you have on your computer. Play Super Mario or Warcraft with your own screen pet. Have fun."