Terrence drummed his fingers on the table impatiently as he waited for the video to load. He was trying to watch a live broadcast of a highly anticipated soccer match on his phone. As he waited, he shook his left leg repeatedly, a sign that he was getting more restless after each second with the video not cooperating.
Well, in this case, it was not the video's fault. Terrence was blaming entirely on the bad Wi-Fi in his house. Whenever he had to complete an online assignment for his university module, the Wi-Fi was working perfectly. There were no problems at all throughout the whole time he did his assignment. However, when it came to using it for leisure, Internet connection was terribly slow that it took a whole five minutes for a webpage to fully load. Such annoying circumstances got agonizing during online chatrooms. Due to him replying to every single message five minutes later (four minutes was spent glaring at the computer screen), his chatroom friends got bored of his supposed 'lack of commitment' to the conversation even after he gave his valid reasons. They did not buy it at all.
Thirty minutes later, and still the video refused to load. Groaning, Terrence rose from his seat and walked towards his bedroom, dragging his feet all the way till he collapsed onto his comfy bed full of random objects. He never bothered to tidy his bed before sleeping so he always ended up either hitting his guitar or waking up with weird-looking tracks all over his exposed body (and he always slept half-naked).
Staring blankly at his phone, Terrence secretly wanted to chuck his phone across the room but obviously that was not a rational action. Of course, it would only serve to aggravate his mother's mood and in turn being grounded by her. He had forgotten to run some important errands his mother had personally entrusted him to do so she had been giving him the silent treatment ever since.
A loud knock on his bedroom door snapped him out of his trance. Terrence glanced at Juliette, his adorable little sister staring at him, wide-eyed.
"What's wrong?" Terrence asked, his eyebrows raised.
His sister continued staring at him, clearly stunned. "Did you know that Wi-Fi has been turned off all this time? No wonder I wasn't able to load the Cartoon Network website!"
Eyes rolling to the back of his head, Terrence groaned inwardly.
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