Insane - Who Are You To Judge? (Gripping Psychological Thriller)

Chapter 38 - Avery

December 2009

"Stop it," I moaned as Julian persisted in tickling my sides. I couldn't hold back the faint giggles. "Stop!" I exclaimed with a beaming grin, grabbing his hands and pulling them all the way round my waist. Twisting my neck round to face him, I kissed him gently. "You're supposed to be teaching me how to bypass a firewall..."

He laughed into my hair. "Well, that's not as fun as other things I had in mind." He leant over the back of the chair I was sitting in and began trailing his lips down my neck.

I took a deep breath, soaking in his addictive aftershave and forced myself to push him back. "This first. Then that."

Julian rolled his eyes and let out a rather overdramatic sigh. "Fine, you downloaded the program I told you about?"

"Yep," I confirmed confidently, ready to be the perfect little student I always was in school.

"Okay," he started, taking my hand and placing it onto the keyboard. "So, first you want to drop malware into the RDP server—"

"And, how do you do that?" I interrupted, a frown painted on my face.

He sighed again and nudged me. "Well, if you give me a sec I'll tell you. God, I pity the teachers who had you for a student."

I gasped and hit him lightly. "Hey! I was amazing, thank you very much."

"I don't doubt that..." he agreed with a sideways smile, planting a kiss on my forehead. "Probably thought you were better than all of 'em."

"I didn't think I was," I mumbled, "I knew I was."

Deciding to bite his tongue, Julian pulled my hands back hovering over the keyboard. He then guided my fingers so that they pushed several different buttons. "So do that, then drop this encoded payload..." he instructed, pointing at the computer screen. "Perfect. So that creates the macrocode and the macro writes the binary."

"I feel like you're going slowly with me. I pick things up pretty quickly, don't treat me like a teenager." I tried to hide my bruised ego, but Julian saw right through it.

"Okay then, Miss Smarty-pants, I'll go fast." He said this and pushed my chair aside, leant down and began tapping on the keyboard, commentating as he did so. "So you bypass this by changing its policies, elevate to the admin privileges, type in this code and you're in."

I death-stared him. Unimpressed by his actions and attempt to challenge me – and dare I say win.

Julian, catching my stare, simply shrugged. "What? You said you wanted me to go quick, I went quick..."

I squinted my eyes even more. "You know, seeing you like this is really turning me on."

"Oh thank God," Julian abruptly replied. He threw the laptop off the desk, lifted me onto it and pressed his lips against mine.

I gave in to him. We could finish the lesson later.