Tears Of Insanity

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

     "Stop! You're going to get in trouble," Veronica whisper-yelled at me. Hacking was the easiest activities once you learned how to do so. It makes it so much easier when it is taught in school.  My current task involves such action. My fingers glided on the keys, hearing the clicking noise that they made with each stroke. Such sound worked like therapy to my ears, always soothing. 

     "How else am I supposed to find her?" I asked in a mumbling tone as I focused on the numbers that flashed on the screen. You could hear the desperation from every movement of my fingers across the keyboard. I clicked on every file, but there was nothing on Jess. Except for one file or two files that were downloaded along with everything else anyhow. It was crucial for me to have everything that anyone else could have on my sister. If they knew it, I had to know it too. Where could she be living? It was my fault for not watching her carefully enough. She was under my care and I failed as a trustworthy guardian. I should've kept my eye on her in any way possible. I could've asked where her friend lived and I should've gone to drop her off there to make sure she was safe. I needed to be more involved, not just now, but then.

     "Veronica has a point, Violet, we could all get in trouble for this," said Thomas as he was watching the door. Tom was a policeman, but he isn't important enough to get all the codes, meaning me having to hack into them. I inserted the USB drive into the tower; I downloaded everything that was on the computer. As I waited, I ran my fingers on the desk. It was made of pure wood and it was smooth enough that I could keep doing so for ages. I flipped through pages of a book that was there, Law and Order: Key to Citizenship and Peace. I rolled my eyes as I read some of the pages, but it only bored me. I simply continued to flip the pages once more as we waited for the complete download. The sound the pages made when they turned sounded like a little bird trying to fly, at least that's what Jess would always say. She would always grab those large literature books that I would never want to read. It would bother me because I knew she wasn't a careful child, yet I let her have the book anyway. I would always watch her out of the corner of my eye while I did my homework as she flipped the pages as her form of entertainment. 

     "Violet, Violet!" I shook my head, putting down the book back on the desk then looked on the screen.

100% Downloaded

     "Oh sorry," I apologized as I took out the USB drive, crouching down with Veronica and Tom, "Why are we crouching?" I messed with the apparatus in my hand as I tried to push back the idea of crushing it. I tend to break everything that is placed in my hand. The anxiety of needing to have control over something was too strong for my motor movements to control. 

     "I heard a noise, so I'm going to make sure no one is here. Stay with Veronica. I'll call you when it's clear," Tom's voice cut through my train of thought. It was his routine, his training, that was kicking in. He was to inspect any sort of odd noise. I stretched out my arm to try to pull him back by his sleeve, but Veronica restrained me from doing so. She shook her head causing me to shift my gaze to the ground. Every time someone I care about leaves a fear creeps into my mind that they won't return. She knew that. 

     "Anything on this computer?" She asked me and I shook my head in response. I've already hacked into the three main source computers and none of them had anything of importance. It's almost as if Jessica disappeared off the face of the Earth, leaving no trace of where she has gone or where she is going. I heard her sigh and the sound of her bum crashing on the floor. I knew she was frustrated and wanted nothing to do with my shenanigans, but she loved me too much to allow me to do this on my own. I ran my finger along the cracks of the wooden, cold floor. A splinter got stuck in my finger as I quietly winced. I held it together and soon shut my eyes to leave my current thoughts.