Clandestine

forty five

-diane-

I don't know why I'm doing this. Maybe I was half asleep when I agreed to this. Maybe I wasn't thinking straight.

But now that I'm doing it, I think it might work out. What if I can get Julia to admit who she is? Maybe I'll trip her up and she'll make a mistake. It'll prove to me how trustable she is based on whether she admits it or not.

I say, "How are you going to get into a Assembly's computer? You know that you have to be nearby, right?"

This is a lie. You can be far away as you want with the internet. But if I can get Julia to admit that she is in her mother's house...

Julia says, "I'm stuck with my parents at this rich party at one of the Assembly's house."

"Who's"

"Marcia Quintana. She's rumored to have the most amount of power, right? I think that if we could have any luck, it would be in her computer."

"How do you know that the Assembly is even involved with this? This is with the jail, right? Why would the Assembly be involved?" The Assembly is involved because they want to hide the fact that their city jail failed and allowed one of the guards to shoot another man. Maybe they even paid that guard to shoot my father. I know this, yet I want to hear what Julia has to say.

Julia says, "They have to report the death, right? There has to be some documentation. If I could get into where the Assembly documents all the crimes, we'd be able to find it. Well, that's one of the countries most safely guarded websites, so that might be a little far fetched."

"I've already looked at that website. My father's death wasn't reported. They don't want people to know that someone died within the prison from unnatural means."

Julia is silent for a few minutes. "You hacked into where the Assembly documents all the crimes?"

"Yeah." I wonder if she realizes that I can find out all the information about her through that website. Does she know how many times her name appears on the website? Just all the times it was shown that she attended a meeting or said something, however irrelevant, such as: 'I need to use the restroom' or 'Excuse me'. Does she suspect that her identity has been breached or is she too arrogant?

She says, "Wow, that's impressive."

I have to pull the phone away from my mouth to laugh at her stupidity.

She says, "Do you think you can help me do it?"

"Do you have a computer?"

"Of course I have a computer."

"Why do you have a computer at a party? Won't that offend someone?" Can she lie her way out of this?

She says, "No one cares. I'm going to find some bathroom or little room to do this from. No one will even notice that I am gone. I need to learn more."

"Are you sure you want to do this? If you get caught, it will be jail."

"Yes, of course, I know what I'm doing. This is important to me."

"Why?" I want to know this. Is it it just a fun little game? Som entertainment? "Why do you care so much about what happened to my father?"

She snaps, "I just do, okay. I care about what happened to him and I care about what happen to you. I'm running out of time."

She pretty much just admitted that she has no reason. This must be for only entertainment.

I begin guiding through the steps of hacking her mother's computer. People don't realize how easy it is to hack their documents once they are on the internet.