I drove off in the direction of the Mall, with Jack. It wasn’t a very long drive but I wasn’t in a rush so I drove under the speed limit. We talked about my school with Jack, I was telling him about how it was. I described everything clearly for him so that he could try to picture it. He asked about my friends and I told him about Mya and Brendan. “Kid, don’t tell me that you only have two friends at school”, he said with a disapproving tone. “I do have two friends only. Some students tolerate me but some really look at me like I’m some kind of disturbing bug, although I’ve never talked to them. That’s one of the reasons why I always wear hoodies and keep my head down.” He considered that and took a moment going over what I had just said. I didn’t know what he was thinking about, it was annoying that I couldn’t read his mind. For all I knew, I don’t think he had a mind since he was just a computer. He was way better than a normal computer because he could rea

Ashton started asking questions about my family. "So you live with your dad and uncle?" he asked.Even though Jay wasn't technically my uncle, this was the best way to inrtroduce him to people around me. "Yes, I live with both.""May i ask what happened to your mom?" he inquired further.Truthfully, i hated answering those questions concerning family, but I made an exception of giving answers to him."She died while giving birth to me", i paused. "I never got to know her."He kept quiet as he felt the gravity of pain in the information I had offered him."I'm sorry", he said after a moment of silence."It's okay. It was a long time ago and it doesn't as much anymore. I have my dad who tries by all means to fill whatever void is there and I'm grateful for that."I smiled to assure him that I meant what I had just said. He let it go and smiled back at me. I then asked "What about you?"He hesitate

He was kind of whispering when he said that. I wondered what was going on but I didn’t question it immediately.“Hey, What’s up?” I asked.“So sorry for calling you so late. I just wanted to say goodnight”, he was still whispering.That made me question him about his safety.“Are you ok? Why are you whispering?”“Well, it turns out you were right when we were at the mall”, he said.“About what?”“We were being followed. They saw me with you, Kyle’s people. So now, they saw you and are probably going to try tracking you down. They bugged my phone in case I contacted you. So I went out of the house and I’m calling you with Kelsey’s phone”, he said.“So, what are you going to do? What am I supposed to do? Why would they want anything to do with me? I mean, it's not like they know anything about me.”“I don

We ate dinner quietly and had a game of checkers after that. We shared a lot of jokes and laughed a lot. I felt really light-hearted during that night and even when I retired to my room, I was feeling high spirited.When I got to my room, I thought of taking a shower before going to sleep. When I grabbed pyjamas from the closet, I heard a thought that was calling out for me from outside.Lina, are you there? I recognised it as Ashton’s.I was amazed that I took a second frozen in my position and then went straight to my window. I yanked it out of the way. I looked out of it and thought back.Yeah, I’m here. Where are you?I just got to your house and I can see you now. I’m coming in right now so close that window, he thought.I did as he said and went back to my bed. I put the pyjamas on the pillow and sat on the edge of the bed.He gilt-ed into my room and I wasn’t amazed that much t

The two people that my dad brought in with him seemed a bit shaken. I read from the female’s mind that my dad had told them about Ashton being bionic. The woman had the same hair colour as Ashton but that’s the only similarity I saw between them. I looked at the male companion that was close to her, and I felt like I was looking at Ashton’s older image. He looked exactly like him, except for the hair colour. He had the same eye colour as the boy from the picture on the website. He had that same bone structure as his son. Now I took the saying literally, Like father like son.“Hey honey”, my dad said when he reached to embrace me.“Hi dad.”The two people stood a foot away from me and smiled in greeting.“Mr and Mrs McKenzie, this is Lina my daughter. She’s the one who made the call”, he introduced.“Hello Lina. That was a brave thing you did to call us. Most people wouldn’t do