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expected, Sunset has been online waiting for Monica to greet him.
     

CHAPTER II
     
    Georgia, USA
     
    Venus Martin, a big-bodied Latina computer science student in Atlanta, Georgia, is staying way past dismissal time in the computer lab. Both eyes on her computer screen, she is concentrating hard. "Venus, stop it!" her friend, Karen, pleaded. Being the smartest computer student in her class, Venus is now also a genius when it comes to Internet bugs, and seems to have created one that enables her to invade and open private messages. In her desire to find a message that could be a funny enough to brag about, she hacked her way into one of Sunset’s virtual messages for Monica. It happened to be his virtual album where she discovered the picture of a handsome young man in his swimwear. Venus got interested with the sender and wanted to find out more about him.
     
    Back in Monica’s home, she was fighting tooth and nail to stay awake while chatting with Sunset who was on his bed with his laptop. it being nearly three in the morning, Monica had almost fallen asleep during their chat had it not been for shocking news from Sunset. Monica’s adrenalines awakened as she read the message, "Sweetheart, I guess it's about time that we meet. I will fly there to meet you... Just say yes."
     
    Caught off guard, Monica struggled to think of a way to make herself attractive to Sunset. Even so, she was more than eager to finally meet him in person. Monica was about to send her sweetest "yes" when suddenly there occurred an electricity failure in their area which interrupted their chat.
     
    In Venus' online sleuthing, she discovered that Sunset is a 20-something Brazilian computer geek/bachelor who is financially stable and searching for love. These qualities impressed Venus and persuaded her to have him no matter what.
     
    Immediately, Venus adjusted her profile page to look more attractive, and then requested to be his online friend. Because it was natural for Sunset to be friendly and gentle with women, he immediately accepted Venus’ friend request, paving the way for Venus to make moves on him. Soon enough, Sunset was entertaining Venus as a friend while maintaining Monica as his potential date too.
     
    The communication between Venus and Sunset became more frequent than that of Sunset and Monica. Nevertheless, Sunset still kept his commitment to Monica to come to meet her in person. Soon enough, Venus detected this plan and offered herself as a part of the date.
     
    The school year was about to end, and Jasmine had no choice but to visit an Internet café in town so she could finish her project alone. After all, Monica was busy at the beauty parlour in preparation of Marco’s visit. finishing her assignments in record time, Jasmine spent the remaining minutes browsing the Internet. Her  beautiful face smiled as she stumbled upon a page featuring a handsome Brazilian man for his published achievements in the field of computer science. "Wow! Marco Rubio... Beauty and brains indeed…" she thought. That was almost one of the very rare if not the first time Jasmine was impressed with a man. But as ladylike and demure as she is, the best she could do is to secretly admire him and dream of meeting him some day.
     
    After being proclaimed the best computer science professor at his university, Marco thought that it would be a perfect time to use his vacation leave to travel to the US' east coast. A month’s preparation transpired before he could finalize his flight.
     
    Marco has advised only Monica that he would be coming on the 15 th of November, but because of Venus’ skills in investigation and interrogation on Marco’s errands, she already knew this, and insisted that she too should meet him during that vacation period, even emphasizing that she should be his first date.
     
    It was two weeks before Marco’s arrival, and both Monica and Venus are busy hitting the gym and the beauty parlour. Jasmine, on the other hand, has