"Hey, Ari."  Melissa gave a wave and smile before looking back to Lee.  Her smile came back slowly but surely as Lee showed interest.  She gave a soft nod of affirmation at Lee's certainty that they would beat the record, wanting to share that confidence.  She hoped that they could beat it, though, even though it might take a few tries.  "It's downloading right now; I put it on my card.  Let me check how long it'll be."<br/><br/>With that, she made a sudden dash up the stairs, heading on into Lee's room to check the television.  It shouldn't be too much longer, since it's been a few minutes since it started...<br/><br/><strong>Progress: 2%<br/><br/>Approximate Waiting Time: 2 hours, 19 minutes</strong><br/><br/>Melissa stopped, staring at the message.  Usually the internet speed was pretty fast, but something around this area could drop it to a turtle's crawl for hours at a time.  She still hadn't figured out what, but she wanted to find out and make this not happen again.<br/><br/>That wasn't an excuse, though.  She should have thought first.  She should have at least checked on the speed before getting Lee's hopes up.  Now she'd already given out the controller and everything and it would be at least two hours before they could play.<br/><br/>Dejected, she wandered her way back to the stairs, peeking out to Lee.  "It's, umm..."  She took a deep breath.  "It's being slow.  It'll take a couple hours.  I'm sorry."<br/><br/>She went back up to her room without another word, this time closing the door behind her.  It felt so stupid to get worked up over a game, letting the excitement build so that she didn't want to wait two hours.  If anything, that's what made her feel so idiotic.  Why was it such a big deal to want to play a stupid game to her?  Why couldn't she grow up?