James was watching the text scroll, kids playing with each other, some of those kids were probably adults pretending, and then again maybe they weren't. In reality it didn't matter as when you were on the net you could be anyone you wanted to be. James just liked interacting and this was his favorite and best place to interact. Chat rooms like this teen chat were nice and relaxing places that helped him escape from the daily grind of another day at work. Another day delivering packages to people was not something that he ever looked forward to.

James was twenty-two but he looked more like he was in his late twenties and he wasn't exactly the most fit man out there. He wasn't fat but he wasn't thin either, sort of somewhere in between, it was a body type that most men seemed to acquire at some point in their lives, James had just acquired it a little earlier than most. He had dark black hair and deep dark brown eyes. His eyes had been called penetrating by his last girlfriend; James wasn't exactly sure what she had meant about that. He was average height for his age and very soft spoken. Women were a problem for him and he often was very uncertain how to respond to them, or even start a conversation with one. This was James in a nutshell though there were deeper things under the surface that he knew he had but he never actually spoke aloud about.

The chat room was nearly full with about twenty people in it and each one of them was trying to hold a conversation in the main room at this moment. Most of the "men" were asking if they could private the "women". James just watched and when his friend Anchor showed up the two of them began their usual banter about things. Anchor was fourteen and a very down to earth boy that James had found he had a lot in common with. It wasn't anything sexual but it was an understanding of one another and James really enjoyed their conversations.

He was talking in private with Anchor about one of the new video games that had just made its way out when he noticed a new chat member. James usually ignored all of the chat rooms new arrivals unless he knew them personally but something about the name caught his interest. The chat name was Soccergirl14 and James figured what the hell and clicked on the profile button to bring up the profile. He wasn't a huge fan of soccer himself but he did like the sport. Honestly he wasn't sure why he had clicked on the link just that he had felt a need to do it.

The profile came up without a picture on it and had a very sparse amount of information all it said was that she was female and for age it said: ask I might tell. She had hobbies listed of cheerleading, soccer and movies. James figured that either she was LEA or a guy faking to be a girl but doing a very horrible job about it. He decided that it had to be one of those two. Upon entering she didn't stay quiet or wait for someone to say something to her she just typed in a dark pink: Is there anyone who knows how to hook up the speakers?

James thought for a moment, perhaps this girl was real, perhaps she really did need help. He also figured that there was absolutely no way that he could get into any kind of trouble if he kept it all off of sex talk. So he typed back into the room, "I do can I PM you Soccergirl14?"

A PM screen immediately popped up on his computer from the girl and she said, "Hi!"

James smiled to himself and then typed in, "Hi nice to meet you, so what's the problem?"

She seemed to think for a while and finally this appeared, "it's these stupid speakers there are four wires and I know that two go in one place and two go in another but I don't know which goes where. I really wish my brother hadn't unhooked them!"

James chuckled to himself and typed, "well first off look on the back of the computer where the sound card is there should be a couple of out holes that are color coded, if they aren't color coded then they have a word next to them telling you what they are. Either input or output. Red and blue."

She sent over an emoticon of a little smiley face with a hand going over the top of the head to signify: whew as she worked. Then finally she typed, "Okay it has those what do I need to do?"

"The cables should be color coded as well You should only need to plug one into the blue/input slot and then plug two more into the two speakers, they all do connect to each other right?"

"Yes, but what about the fourth cable?"

"That's for a computer set up for something else don't worry about it."

"Ok!" A few minutes passed then she sent a smiley that was kissing and said, "OH Thanks I can hear now!"

James smiled to himself and said, "Sure anytime."

He thought for sure that would be the end of their 'time' together that she would go off and do what she really wanted to do. Instead she typed, "Now I can hear my music and chat at the same time." He put in a nodding smiley and she said, "So what is a phoenixhawk?"

James laughed and said, "Nothing really just a name I made up. It doesn't signify anything or anything like that."

"Oh, I like soccer pretty lame huh?"

"Nope not at all. Do you play soccer?"

"Oh yeah I'm on our team, we're number two right now, but it's a really small group of teams so I guess it doesn't count really."

"Well sure it still counts it's not easy to be almost number one."

She sent a laughing smiley and said, "Are you making fun of me?" ......(cont)