Kai smirked as he watched the screen in front of him, maneuvering his way through the detailed back door of the software company. He had little over a minute to find the door before they tracked the connection back to him. If he got caught, he'd be dead.
He smirked in triumph as he located the door, 2 seconds left before he had been found and persecuted. He sighed in relief as he released the analog controller and pulled the encryption breaker from his computer, hitting the enter key to start the download process. He snarled at the computer screen as it came up with the estimated download time. 8 and a half hours was long, he'd be lucky if he got it downloaded before he had to go to school tomorrow.
Kai switched off the screens, letting his room fall into darkness, the red lines of the motion detectors, and the flashing green lights of his computers giving the room an eerie glow. Getting up he glanced at walkie talkie next to the keyboard. He'd have to contact K-Dog later, right now he needed to sleep. He climbed the ladder to his bunk bed and flopped down with little grace, pulling the blue blankets around him.
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Miriam glared at the closed doors of her older brothers bedroom. Just what the hell does he do in there anyway? He could be compared to a vampire. She shuddered at the thought of a vampire, like any fifth grader would.
'To go in, or not to go in?' she thought, glancing at the signs of 'NO UNAUTHORISED ENTRY' and 'KEEP OUT' nailed to the white double doors.
"To go in," she mumbled to herself, her hand shaking as she reached for the door handle.
Slowly she opened the door, making not a sound as she entered the darkness of her brothers room. She glanced at one of his computer screens in interest. There were lines of numbers being scrolled through. She assumed this was another one of her brothers mindless computer things that he just 'knew'. She crept closer, curious at exactly what was Kai was doing on the large monitor he had dubbed Dranzer, not noticing the motion detectors placed carefully around the room.
She gasped in shock as the program suddenly stopped downloading and the words 'SECURITY BREACHED: STOP DOWNLOAD?' flashed across the screen. Kai leapt at the little freak from his perch above the ground.
"What the hell are you doing in here? Get out! No unauthorized entry you little freak," he growled, grabbing hold of her shirt and just about lifting the 'thing' off the ground.
"MUM! AHHH! MUM!" she started screaming.
Kai let her go quickly as she ran into the arms of his step-mother.
"Kai…"
"I didn't even touch the brat," he snarled.
Miriam fake cried as she hugged her mother.
"She's your sister Kai," Helen sighed. "Your father doesn't need this stress today, he's got a big deal to close."
"Step-sister," he spat in reply.
Helen turned and left, leaving Miriam in the room while yelling out for Jake to sort out his 'troubled' son.
Miriam turned and smirked to her older brother. "Never mess with the master, Captain moron."
"Yeah well, I'm boiling Babe for dinner so deal with it," he snarled, sending Miriam into a wave of real tears as she ran out his room.
He sighed as he walked closed his door and walked into his bathroom, picking up a change of clothes as he went.
"K-Dog. Hey Tala! Rise and shine man! We have a major problem… very bad. K-Dog! Get your ass up!" he spoke into the walkie talkie, pulling on his jacket and running a hand through his dual coloured hair.
Tala groaned as his head appeared from under a thick blue blanket. He scratched around on his bedside table for the communications instrument, only briefly looking at the computer screen next to him with green letters and numbers running across it.
"What's up man?"
"The little step-sister came in and set off the security. But I'm about to go over the wall now," replied Kai, typing a quick code and hitting the enter key.
"Just don't get grounded ok? That would be really bad for business," came the muffled reply of Tala, who was now lying on his back, eyes still closed.
"Don't worry man, I won't get caught. Now get up," Kai replied.
"I'm up!" Tala lied, putting the walkie talkie under his pillow and pulling the blankets over his head once again.
Kai threw the communications device in his school bag and stepped over the red beam of the motion detector, making sure not set it off unnecessarily, his bag slung over his shoulder carelessly. He gave a silent groan as his father walked into the room, Helen following behind him.
"I'm the culprit," he began. "Guilty of all crimes, the culprit."
"Actually it's culpre, but cilprit is right."
"Oh yes… I'm being so selfish, thinking only of myself doing all this crazy stuff. But you know, for once I'm going to think about you first dad and Helen…"
"Ok… what's your offer?" his father interrupted the meaningless rant of his teenage son.
"I take the little sister to school and I'm good until you get back from Los Angeles," Kai replied.
"Deal… but you and I are going to have a long chat when I get back. If you're playing me or being sarcastic or get into anymore trouble before I get back, military school," his father glared.
Kai shifted his weight, his skateboard accidentally going through the red beam of light, making the computer beep and catch his father's attention.
"To wipe out the drive quickly…" he spoke, walking toward the computer and starting the download once more. There was only ten minutes of the download left.
Kai cringed. He was in for it now.
"What are you downloading Kai? And from whose back door?" his father hissed.
Kai didn't answer, his lips set in a tight line.
"Kai?" his father growled.
"Farcry," Kai sighed.
"Which doesn't come out until Monday right? You're pirating software that hasn't even been released yet?"
Kai didn't reply.
"Look at me Kai."
Kai didn't look up from the floor.
"Kai look at me."
Kai looked up at his father.
"We are having a major talk when I get back. And you know the first thing they do in military school Kai? They cut your hair," his father smirked as he walked out of the room, followed by Helen and eventually himself.
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