CHAPTER ONE.

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Arc was on his way to school and like every average teenager, he hated school. He hated the whole concept of school. Having to attend boring classes then getting shouted at by teachers and after all that, there are still the bullies who refuse to stop hating you.

He reluctantly walked across the street thinking about how terrible today was going to be.
His brilliant blue eyes were suddenly filled with tears. He quickly wiped it off to avoid been seen by anyone of his classmates.

Arc stood beside the school gate. He didn't want to go on into the place he considered prison so he leaned on the fence and thought of how he was going to ditch school without anyone knowing.

He closed his eyes and scanned the school entrance. A few students had come to school today. He scanned the inside of the school building with his X-ray vision. Few students were in the hallway and even fewer students were in classrooms.

He created the school's timetable in his mind noticing he only has 9 classes to deal with today and out of those 9 classes only 4 teachers were present.
Arc smiled. He smiled because he could somehow hack the school's system and create a parent-teacher meeting to somehow shorten the period of time he'll spend at school.

He did as planned. He sat down on the bench which was kept in front of the school's  gate before he brought out his computer.
He hacked into the school's system knowing fully well he could get in huge trouble if caught. When he got in, he logged into the school's calendar moved the PTA meeting from February 15th to...

"Arc"? A voice asked.
Arc looked up and saw a woman with short blonde hair who looked exactly like his biology teacher.
  Arc quickly shut his laptop down.
She raised an eyebrow up definitely suspecting something.
   "May I ask what you're doing outside"? When asked with her right hand on her hip.
"Nothing", Arc lied as he stood up, "sorry for any inconvenience I might have caused, I guess I have to go now. Goodbye, see you during third period."
"But..." She tired to say as Arc ran outside the school building.
She took a deep breath and walked away.
  
Arc sat outside of his class door and switched on his lap. He downloaded the school's calendar and noticed that he moved the PTA meeting from 15th of February to 8th of January which was tomorrow.

 
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"Have you found him yet?" Laurette le Blanc asked her workers as she leaned on his chair and stared at the computer screen in front of her.
  "No, Mrs Laurette but we've almost got him.
Now I can say that he is in New York". The worker whose name was Alisson had told her.
   She banged her small hand on his chair which was about three times then dug her hand into her white wavy hair scattering the bun it was perfectly shaped into.
   "For the past 5 years," she screamed not only at Alisson but at every one in the office which was made up for about 300 people serving the same purpose. "5 years I say. How is it possible to disappear into thin air? If no one finds him before the day runs out then you are all fired! C'est compri?"
   She threw a pile of A4 paper on the floor then stormed off.

"If they say I'm getting wicked then I don't blame them." Laurette said as she walked into her office.
She sat on the red sofa which Sha had specially imported from France. Red was her favorite colour especially when it came from her birth country.
    "What happened this time?" Dr Collins asked her.
  Dr Collins was the manager of her company. The company she had built from scratch. She hired him to manage Binary.
   "I gave them all a simple job to do... Find Dr Lcyod. Is that too hard? I should have gotten the job done myself!"
Dr Collins slowly nodded his head knowing fully well that any statement he made could easily be back fired by her after all she was extremely smart graduating with a first class degree from Havard at the age of 10years.
     Laurette was very poor as a child. Her father was a drunkard while her mother died when she was born so she never knew her mom well and when she tried to ask her father, it was pointless for he was so drunk he forgot all about his own wife.
    She knew how it felt to be poor.
Not having a roof above her head or having no food to eat. She knew how it to not go to school. To search the public bin hoping to find some money at least a dollar. She clearly remembered how she had her first bath at five years, she had danced naked on the streets as it rained then facing skin rashes the next day.
When she was fifteen she created Binary LTD. At first, she didn't have enough money to manage it but after some years of doing other jobs and getting some free money she could finally manage Binary.
She recently created B.R.I.A.N Child which could predict the world's problems and find new ways to create solutions to solve them but the CPU, which was the Brain of the project was stolen by her trusted worker. One she considered a brother. Dr Lcyod.
     Her goal now was to find him and and retrieve the CPU. The Brain child was complete. All she needed was it's brain. The CPU.
She hired 300 workers to find Dr Lcyod's where about but no one could and without that confirmation, how was she going to find the CPU.
   She couldn't create another CPU because she destroyed the plan immediately the CPU was created so it would not get into the hands of any evil person.
   She had no idea why Dr Lcyod had stolen the CPU but she suggested it was because he wanted it for himself. He wanted to be the next big thing. He wanted to be above her while swimming in his wealth.
Laurette sighed. Everything was over. Brain child was over. She leaned on the sofa. For the first time, Laurette le Blanc was clueless.

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