Wicked Glasses

Chapter 1

¨Hey Ty, you up for some movie tonight or something?¨

¨Nah man, got some stupid history assignement to do, see ya tomorrow though¨
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It had been at least 30 minutes and Tyler had just spent them looking at a blank paper. He thought about his mother's old stuff cause they might help inspire him a bit, something he was really in need of. She used to collect lots of old archives and he thought they might still have them in the basement. So he  went downstairs and came across his father on his way to the last floor. He had barely seen him in the past few days, it looked like he was working on some important project for the government, so he didn't want to bother him. Tyler expected his father to ignore him  but instead he got stopped with a ¨Hey son, what are you up to? Are you going to the basement? Would you mind checking if your mom's old boxes are there? I kinda need them.¨Tyler was surprised since he was going to get that exact same thing, but didn't ask why knowing his father wouldn't give him a satifying  answer. He always got the same one ¨just for some project I'm working on¨ He nodded. Ever since his mother was gone he hadn't had a very good relationship with him and tried to keep some distance. 

He finally got there, and searched through the boxes, photo albums and  old documents without finding anything interesting. He was about to give up when he stumbled across a pretty large box which contained all of his mother's old stuff. He took what he needed along with a little black velvet case who caught his attention.

Once in his room, he quickly finished his homework and went back to the intriguing little case. ¨how come i've never seen you before¨ he thought. He opened it carefully and found a very stylish pair of reading glasses. He tried them on, looked around and since they didn't seem to be graduated at all he decided to keep them just for fashion purposes.

So he put them on and went to have some dinner downstairs. He started to make
some avocado toast, his favourite, when he stumbled across, once again, his father Mark. It was the second time today he saw him at the house so he couldn't help but giving him a weird look. Noticing it, he sat down with him and put on a very fake show "Hey how you doing, son?". Then something really -and when I say really i mean REALLY- weird happened: Mark's forehead started showing some blurry images that Tyler couldn't really depict. Little by little it started to clear up and he was able to make up the scene of a man searching through what seemed to be old and dusty things. He was in shock but kept quiet "mm wow Tyler, is everything okay? It's like you just saw a ghost". The guy denied and, no longer hungry, went back to his room to rest. He quickly fell asleep and didn't wake up until several hours later.

The next morning, he stood up with a quite blurry mind, and it took him some time to remember what happened the day before. Then he reminded it all at the same time: his father's strange behaviour, the glasses... God, the glasses, he definitely needed to tell Troy, his best-friend, see if he could help him. The guy was actually a bit of a freak, and really good at hacking, so he could easily enter the Darknet.
The Darknet was, he learned it from Troy about two years ago, quite the same thing as internet, but with censured and restricted contents, like pirated movies that weren't even out yet, or information about the government secret missions or dossiers. They could probably find something about those... magic glasses, or whatever they were.
He got ready, and made it to the school faster than usual so he'd have time to talk with his friend before the ring.

"Okay, Troy, I need to tell you something. Now" he spoke when he found him near the lockers. "Wow, chill Ty, what's the matter" he answered, then chuckled.
"Well. Yesterday, I found a pair of glasses in mom's old boxes..." "Yeah. So?" "The thing is... it's like... they're weird, Troy. I'm pretty sure I saw something". At this point of the conversation, Troy looked curious about the glasses. "What. What did you see?" he asked impatiently. "Mmh, I don't know how to explain it. It's like, one second I was talking to my dad and the one after his forehead kind of went transparent, and was replaced by some blurry videos or... I don't know, it felt weird, like I was seeing through his mind, what he was thinking at this exact moment". When he stopped talking, he looked back at Troy, and could see him freaking out, it was as if his eyes would pop out of their orbit at any time. "W-what the hell man" he managed to say, then recovered "Okay, okay, we need to chill. And process the information. Chill. Process. Chill. Process. Okay got it, what can I do to help?" he asked.