John awakens

[RING]

[RING]

[RING]

John rolled over and, grumbling loudly, attempted to answer his phone. The lack of any visual clues made locating it difficult. It's not that he was blind. It's just that he was attempting to use as few of his senses as possible as he was still 90% asleep. Opening his eyes with protest, John finally managed to find his phone. Sadly, by the time he did, it had stopped ringing. He looked at the screen and noticed the time. Checking the missed calls, he saw that he had missed a call from his ride to school. Since he really didn't feel like taking the bus, he decided to skip class today. The message had said that his ride would not be able to pick him up as they had some sort of emergency. The message did not elaborate. John rolled over onto his belly and slowly pushed himself up. He got out of bed and threw the covers over the mattress with little care for how the bed actually looked. Laziness was clearly hereditary.

He slowly walked over to his computer and powered it up. Going to his favorite site, he checked to see if the game he had been looking for was ready yet. No change. Still not ready. However, something else caught his eye. Something called M350H02ny. There was no description but it looked like some sort of adult game. He decided to download it and see what it was for himself. Clicking the download link, it said it would be ready in about an hour. Considering his connection speed, it must be one hell of a big file. The truly strange thing was the file had 0 downloads even though it had clearly been available for months. At least, the upload date was several months ago. Still, John didn't give the matter much thought as he went about waking himself up fully.

He wandered slowly down to his kitchen to make breakfast. Cereal and juice sounded really good right now. He ate his breakfast then turned on the TV to wait for the download to finish. An hour later, his computer dinged at him to let him know the file was downloaded. He walked upstairs and sat at the computer. There was still no information about the file he had downloaded. Opening the file, John scratched his head puzzled as to who or what was involved in this mystery file from some obscure place on Earth. Shrugging to himself, John started the program up. At first all he saw was a series of flashing lights. The next thing he saw was his clock saying it was three hours later. He stretched his stiff back and stood up. Sniffing the air, he detected urine and just the slightest whiff of flatulence. It was strange since he hadn't had a pet in years. He shrugged it off as being his tired mind playing tricks on him.

He stood up and walked back downstairs. On his computer, the program deleted itself and every trace of anything non-pornographic from his hard drive (other than his operating system, of course). It then sent itself to everyone in his contact list and address book. John didn't have many friends but even one friend was enough to start the spread of the virus that was the program. Downstairs, John had picked up the phone and dialed a random number. When the person answered the phone, John began to try to convince the person to come over for a visit. It was relatively easy since the number just so happened to be his girlfriends work number. She agreed to come over after work. She did ask him why he wasn't in class. John really couldn't give an answer other than he chose not to. Now, he had several hours to kill until his first target would arrive. He need to practice his infection technique. Where could he go and infect people?

The mall usually has a lot of people, but it was still fairly early in the day. There would not be many out at the mall. He could go to school and see if he could catch students getting out of class. The only problem was that his professors might see him and then he would have to explain why he was butt naked on campus instead of being in class. John had no real desire to do that. Then he thought of another place he could go; downtown to the business district. It was almost 11 AM. That would pose the same problem as the mall, though. On the other hand, it would mean he could find a large number of potential test subjects.