28 Her Name 13 (1/2)
Time flew past on the shoulders of a cheetah, and Kyro stood up to go to the shower. Iris saw him looking at her, but since she was once again pretending to be asleep, he didn't touch her. Good boy!
The moment she heard the sound of water, she jumped to her feet and rushed to the mouse. The computer was still on, so that was a good start. But that was it. Everything else was one horror after another.
Moving a mouse with a paw showed up to be harder than she had expected. She couldn't just put a hand over it and move it as she wished. Her best solution was to sit down behind the mouse and try to control it with her front feet. It was extremely uncomfortable and inefficient, but she couldn't think of a better way.
The amount of time it took for her to open a private window on the browser and click on the search bar was close to forever. If not for the clock in the right corner saying that she had spent six minutes, she would have already started waiting for Kyro to step out and find her in the act.
Not yet, though. She still had time. While repeating that to herself, she ran to the keyboard and started typing. I-R-I-S. Yes, that should be it. She was almost proud at how easy it seemed, but when she raised her head, she was met with the reality of how fat-fingered she was - ieertiosssd.
'I did not type that! It's this damn keyboard! I certainly did not hold the s-key for so long!'
She smashed a lot of keys for that, then remembered her time constraint and rushed to delete everything. Try number two went a little better - ireeeios. At least she managed to get two keys right.
After a couple more tries, she managed to type in 'iris lyrics'. Her results, though, were disappointing to say the least. All the search gave her were Goo Goo Dolls song, and she already knew it had no mention of her name. That was its major flaw!
Iris was pissed, but she didn't have the time to show her emotions. If she didn't hurry up, Kyro might come out and see her using his computer. Now wouldn't that be a fun conversation…
Her movements became quicker and she scrolled down with the arrow key to the last search result on the first page. It read 'Lyrics containing the term: iris'. 'Perfect!' She almost screamed out in joy. But no, she needed to stay quiet. Her cries might attract Kyro's attention and he'll hurry out, which would be a disaster of extreme proportions. With her ability to manipulate the mouse, her 'swiftly close the page' would take around a minute.
For her, the simple act of clicking on the link took awhile. The mouse on the screen went either too far or not far enough, or to the side out of nowhere. Bringing it down was also a nuisance, since she had to move herself first.
Another forever later, she was on the page and could finally look through the songs. To her disappointment, there weren't that many of them, or at least none she knew. Most were stuff from eighties, or even fifties, almost half a century before she was born.
It didn't matter much, though. She paid a cursory glance to the lyrics, making sure it was nothing weird, and put to memory the first song that she saw. With it in mind, she painstakingly closed the private tab and maximized the normal pages. Kyro had left his browser on the news page, but it showed up to be one of the two tabs open. The other one was with youtube, some song Iris didn't know.
Elated, she moved the mouse on that tab and clicked. 'Just need to move the mouse to the video search bar and I'll be done. A minute more and it'll be over! My name, I'm coming for you!'
But as she started writing her name, her mind blanked out. She'd planned so hard how she was going to act the moment she heard her name that she hadn't paid enough attention to the stuff before it. How was she going to explain her writing down the title of the song and the group to Kyro?