1 0.5. Introductions

"Okay Sanne, so this program types everything we say?"

"Yes it does Ilva, so start talking. You know, what we practiced."

"Oh okay." *Inhales loudly* "Chapter 0.5 Introductions."

"0.5?"

"Yeah, like before the first chapter."

"Sure, whatever..."

"Hello! I am Ilva"

"We—me and Sanne—are going to write a book about what happened before and after Stu. After that, it's probably more of a diary."

"I'll introduce myself first. When I went to primary school I skipped 2nd and 6th grade. I was ten when I went to high school, where I graduated at the age of sixteen. I also met Sanne there, since she was smart enough to follow some classes from a higher grade. Immediately after I graduated, I applied to a college in Canada, since it was my dream to go there. Luckily for me, I got in and I started looking for a place to stay. I had some family living in Canada, so I figured I could stay there for the time being. After two years of college, I graduated. I didn't really know what to do, so I started looking for fun and interesting things in Canada and found out about a convention that seemed to be worth going to. The convention was from a guy named Jeroen, about animals, science and so on. It was spread over three days because he had a lot to talk about. Since I also needed a home of my own, I bought a tiny piece of Herschel Island, Yukon, and built a room in a mountain, which is now known as the basement."

"Wants to live in a house, buys an island."

"Shut up Sanne, it's still my turn! On top of that, I only bought a piece."

"At the convention, I met Sanne again. We met Jeroen, who became a good friend of ours and helped us out with animal-related problems many times. Sanne and I also started a business together to raise money and eventually we bought the whole island and expanded the house."

"Great, Ilva, not at all so long to read."

"Thanks, Sanne!"

"Okay, my turn."

"Hi, I'm Sanne."

"I skipped 5th and 7th grade from primary school and the first year of secondary school and graduated after 5 years of pre-university education. I then graduated from university after one year. When I was 16, just after university, I also heard of a convention in Canada. When I went there, I met Ilva again. We were still good friends, and after the convention, we talked to J about some stuff, and since then we stayed in contact. Ilva and I indeed started a little online shop for our inventions. I won a little bit of money at a contest and used it for goodwill and our island. We continued expanding our house; with our latest stuff it went pretty fast."

*Something squeaks in the background.*

"Ilva, can you get it?"

"Ugh, why do I have to do it? He likes you more anyways."

"Because I'm not finished yet, now go."

*Ilva walks away.*

"Okay, I'm not using this for the rest of this damn book Ilva wants, it will get into a mess when Ilva tries to talk y' know. I made this program just for the sake of this introduction. If I wouldn't disable it, she would just ramble on and on like a two-year-old. Or just keep talking about how much she loves girls, and how I'm too straight, etc. You get the point."

*Ilva yelling from another room*

"Sanne, he won't listen, can you handle it please?"

"Fine, I'll go. Try to shut down the program, we're done."

"Kay."

*Sanne walks away.*

*Ilva presses some wrong buttons.*

"How do you turn it off?"

*Squeaking stops*

*More wrong button-pushing*

*Clicks on another button*

*Finally, she found it*———