Multitasking as usual Ava thought and smiled suddenly thinking of an idea She tilted her MyPad to catch some of the sunlight that streamed in through the window When she caught a good angle she directed the beam of light onto the side of Marco’s head He squinted and then turned catching the glare full blast Nice Marco said Now you’re trying to blind me That’s just perfect Ava Thanks I just wanted to show you this little beauty Ava said Oooh nice Marco said still blinking as he rolled toward her a few inches It was then that Grady Hopkins came through the door He flopped down in his seat next to Travis Jacobson and unzipped his backpack 10
Grady Marco said you need to see this thing Did you finally get that goofy little robot to do a backflip Grady asked coming over Yeah probably around the time you’ll learn how to fix your table cell alignment Marco teased Ava smirked She knew Grady struggled with aligning the text on his website to make it look right Grady was still new at coding You wouldn’t believe the games I’ve already got on this thing Ava said holding up her MyPad Whoa Grady said his hands already reaching for Ava’s hard-earned tablet The new MyPad Micro 2 That just came out Last week Ava finished while quickly pulling the MyPad out of Grady’s reach Look 11
but don’t touch I don’t need your grubby hands smearing it up Whatever Grady said That thing is pretty sweet though You already get Doom Street 5 12
Ava pushed the home button until it chimed Let’s play Doom Street 5 she commanded A cool male voice responded Okay Ava Doom Street 5 it is That of course was the exact moment that Mrs Donovan came into the room Let’s save Doom Street 5 for another time shall we Codeheads Mrs Donovan suggested taking her seat at the big desk in the corner Ava groaned and swiped the app closed She set her MyPad on the edge of the table While Marco was tinkering with commands for his micro-bot and Grady was struggling with a simple webpage she was in the midst of designing her own video game Even though it was only the middle of fall Ava hoped to release and play her own game on her MyPad before the school year was up But she still had a lot of work to do 13
