Up in her room, Melissa kept the keys of her keyboard dutifully clacking, an open door her only real contact with the outside world.  Although the headphones blocked out most of the noise of people passing by, the desk had been turned so that she could see people coming in, with the added bonus that they weren't able to see her computer screen.<br/><br/>Her current task was the Phi Beta website.  Every once in a while, there was a jerk out there who decided to put up something mean.  Today was no different:<em>"If blue-dome isn't going to learn to play an actual instrument, maybe she should shave half her head like that other freak."</em>Deleting such trash took only moments, and Mel didn't want the rest of the girls to see any of it if she could help it, especially when it was about herself.<br/><br/>Some situations didn't have any good outcome.  Whether one of her sisters read it and got angry, or reassured her that it wasn't true, or somehow ended up agreeing with the insults, it was a better course of action just to erase it and move on.<br/><br/>Once that was done, she started up Castle Brigade, a PC game dedicated to building an extravagant and beautiful castle while simultaneously keeping the monsters and barbarians from destroying it.  Melissa was pretty smart and had built the castle specifically to be easily defended, but the later levels were proving difficult as simultaneous onslaughts made it difficult for her to keep track of all the chaos.<br/><br/>Ten minutes into the level, she realized that the ticking she'd been hearing wasn't the dubstep throbbing in her headphones but was actually the picks of miners who had burst through to her dungeon.  She commanded her knights and wizard to go investigate, but they weren't able to get down there before her dragon was dead!  "ARGH!"  She clicked out to the menu and deleted her save, a decision she instantly regretted because it meant that she'd have to start all over.  Even so, the game was next to impossible to complete without your dragon.<br/><br/>She took off her headphones, put her hand over her face and gave herself a while to calm down.  This time she wanted to have a better plan from the onset before starting anew.