Tabitha & Cammie: To post or not to post?

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((OOC: Backdated to Saturday Afternoon due to illness and flakienss on my part.)) Tabitha and Cammie go to the public library and debate the posting of the Craig's List add. Tabitha decides not to post it, but fate has other ideas.

The spell-check said everything was correct. The text was just as she and Cammie had planned. The pictures were successfully uploaded.

But still the mouse hovered over the "Submit" button.

Finally, Tabitha pushed herself away from the terminal, hands falling to her lap. "I just can't do it," she said quietly.

"Hey, that's cool," Cammie said, spinning in circles in her chair. "It's totally your call after all. Just tryin' to help you out. Any ideas instead? I mean, you could do one of the real personals, always thought those were pretty sappy though."

Craig's List was so much more honest and a lot more fun.

Tabs sighed. "I'm not sure, maybe restarting puberty so I can learn basic human interaction the right way?" She dropped her head onto the keyboard, smashing any number of keys.

Including "Enter."

"Um...." Cammie said pointing to the screen, "You kind of just posted the add."

Tabitha's eyes shot up to the screen, only to see the library counter hit zero. The screen went blank before someone else's name popped up, indicating that it was no longer her turn at the terminal.

A high pitched noise started at the base of Tabitha's throat. "No!"

"Hey, don't worry. We can take it down," Cammie said, standing up. "I can get it from my laptop at home, if you want."

She stared at the green-haired girl, failing to comprehend. She blinked a few more times before the meaning trickled through her horror-fogged brain.

"My boobs. On the internet." She choked out in a strangled whisper.

"There are a lot of boobs on the internet. And yours are covered up," she said, walking over, "Come on, we'll go somewhere else and take it down. I don't think you'll get that many responses in twenty minutes and no one says you have to answer them anyway. So come on."

Tabs followed Cammie, still staring blankly ahead. Disbelief and mortification kept her motion stiff the whole way out.

This was so going to come back to haunt her.