Jake turned to look at Izzy, his hand rised gently to take off the device covering the natural structure of his vision, his face lacked all positive emotion and he almost felt the need to stand up and leave that house, the house that attacked his heart so ferociously. Jake's hand froze when the fingers were tenderly caressing the black structure of the plastic, and his jaw fell as his whole body froze and all neuronal reactions controling his muscles faltered and blocked, electrick shocks jolting through his mind in confusion and surprise. Izzy was before him, and he was smiling, but he only knew that because he understood programing. Izzy's structure was completely formed by digits, some of which he had never heard of, the cuantical process of 0 and 1 alternating with a collection of characters and the other eight numbers. The digits fell in a cascade of bright green, as every pulse, every action taken processed in front of his eyes. Behind Izzy the rest of the world was formed by these same structure of digits, of quantic data and program software and drivers.
"then suddenly the world flashed in digital data in front of my eyes, and I understood that Matrix had a very complicated programation, it's necessary for it to make us believe this is real, that's not something you can do with actual computers. That's why it took nearly three minutes to analize the complete structure of the constantly varying items surounding us!" Izzy concluded in his explanation, finishing his speech with a rise of hands, slightly matter of factly.
Jake was unable to articulate any word, his voice faltered him as a knot seemed to cross his throat, and the skin that formed his vocal chords seemed to fall and stick to the muscle at his faringe. Now he knew the truth, and that was the Matrix.
"why are you digital? Why…why am I igital? Are we computer programes?" Jake inquired in a high pitched squeak, his voice recovering with a negatively slow speed. He observed his hand to the focus of the glasses, at first it had been perfectly normal, however it inmediatly fussed into a serie of digits, the same as the enviroment surounding him. Jake was alarmed now, he had found out what he wanted and now he doubted this had been such a good idea at all.
"we are not software, if we were we would have been programed, therefor would be concious about ourselves. This is not the case, I think we are just a mind contained in a digital representation of our actual bodies" explained Izzy raising his eyes to the purely white ceiling, a thoughtful expression crossing his face, "I ignore the location of our phisical bodies, presumably outside Matrix, but I have never been there, so I cant know!" finished the programer calmly.
Jake gulped, he had just thought of making the same question, his tounge had rolled acomodation to beging his speech and his throat had humidified to allow the air flow softly across his faringe. It had almost been as if Izzy had read his mind, however it was very obvious this was the question to be asked upon completing a speech with certain explanations, leaving the question hanging in front of the confused mind.
"what are they talking about so interestedly?" inquired Kari with passive curiosity, understanding computers enough to know how to turn it on and off, and type.
"Izzy has been five years working on a proyect he called Proyect Matrix, which consited on working on a real virtual reality, a place that could be mistaken for the real world, however the proyect seemed destined to fail as little progress was made in five years, however it seems that Izzy has found out something that made the proyect advance rapidly!" explained Yoley with boredom, tired about the constant ongoing of the scientifical research and experiment in the past five years.
"very interesting indeed!" commented the young woman with little enthusiasm, Izzy's completely preposterous theories about alternate realities, and the incredibly complicated and incoherent language he usuall implied in his speech was not something of the utmost interest to Kari.
"anyways, tell me a bit about yourself, where have you been all this years?" inquired Yoley, chaging topic with egagerated ease and eagerness.
"well, I left and used all my saving to travel away from town, I went to Kioto, and once I was there, the little I had left was used to rent a house. It was hard to find a job but I finally managed, a little job at a pizza. I kept studying and now here I am, a diplomat!" explained Kari excitedly, smiling brightly at the thought of her triumph in life.
"but why did you leave? We could have helped you had you stayed here, in Odaiba!" asked the older woman in a way that was a scold, yet getting closer to a frustrated moan of misunderstanding.
"after he left me I was broken" Kari started casting a shady glance, nearly despective at the distracted boy wearing the sunglasses and gaping at the vision of a world completely digitalized, "I couldn't hold it any more so I left. It helped me a lot since it made me reconsider my posibilities, but I have to admit I became more frigid, colder and more ferocious and cautious at the world. I just thought it was time to return to my town, that's why I'm here!" Kari explained, her clenched fists and white nuckles, as well as the hard muscles emphasizing the tension of her brief comments about her life.
"I see, and what about that little girl? Are you married?" inquired Yoley with a mischievous grin on her lips, a teenage excitement pouring from all around her like a waterfall.
"er…not exactly, you see, no man our age would want to date a woman with a child! And I didn't really have much time to begin a new relationship with anyone!" explained Kari in a timid voice, her cheeks flushing with a shameful blush, a tint of pinkish that spread across her cheeks like the legs of an enormous spider, through the inflating vessels, blooming with blood.
Jake's attention, which had been placed on the world of reality revealed by Izzy, was called intensely upon perceiving the last set of words, the last sentence, the fragment of speech that seemed about to terminate the woman's conversation. He stood up rapidly and threw the glasses aside, retreating them from his eyes to focus his gaze on the tangible structure of the phisical appereance which belonged to a complicated sequence of data. His eyes focused on the woman, something close to anger glinted in the misterious and fantastic depths. Jake stumbled lightly, feeling dizzy at the abrupt change of vision, his sight still unfocused and blurry, yet he ignored that fact as more important matters crossed his mind.
Yoley, whose mouth hanged open, not as much as shock but due to the approaching words that still rested in her throat, chocking her curiosity, stared at the man. A wise decition it was to close her lips and leave the former couple to discuss this serious matter themselves.
"wait a minute, if you didn't have any relationship with anyone and Chiyo is going to be five in June…" he started making quick calculus in his mind, a frown crossed his fine features, "it means you were pregnant before you left!" gasped Jake pointing at the woman with an accusing finger, his eyes flashing with understanding and a proffound anger.
"Jake, shut up!" snapped Kari standing up deffensively, her fists clenching, muscles tensing to much it made her whole body shake with fury.
"why didn't you tell me you were pregnant?" yelled the man never removing a shaking finger, which kept pointing in the direction of the female diplomat.
Izzy and Yoley stared at each other, their mouths shut yet their simpatheic and understanding eyes revealed all they had to say. They stood up silently and walked off torwards the door, this was not something that concerned them therefore they had no need to watch the scene of such an overly serious and important matter.
"why? Because you left me! I was not going to tell you I was pregnant to make you feel the need of being with me, to force you to stay with me just because we had a child in common!" hissed Kari in a threatening, snake like way.
"I had the right to know! She's my daughter!" snapped Jake in a matter of factly way, relaxing slightly and now feeling ashamed of his action torwards the young woman, of his heartless decition.
"no she's not!" Kari growled now resembling the calm fury of a threatening wolf, her head lowering and her eyes shading, yet piercing at the man with the sulfurous gaze of a preybird.
Jake, shocked at the new Kari, recoiled not expecting her to attack so furiously, tensing his muscles as if he was waiting to see her pounce on him to bite his throat off.
"Chiyo stopped being your daughter when you chose your studies over our relation. I was not asking for more, just dating occasionaly, two hours a week, that was all I wanted. But no! you were too selfish and self centered, and egocentric to realize that some very important things take little effort to maintain" explained the woman never moving from her spot, never recoiling nor giving any sing of sadness, fatigue or fear, her features completely shaded and obscured, cold like the same ice.
"I…I didn't finish it!" Jake said in a shaky, trembling voice, his features had relaxed yet now the flash in his eyes was close to nostalgic, warm and calid yet with that same humid glint of deception and regret.
"what?" inquired Kari in a calmer, disbelieving voice, standing straight and relaxing slightly, yet always alert like a wild wolf.
"after I left you I was so guilty I returned looking for you, but you were gone. I didn't know what to do, it had been my fault after all and I wanted to call you to tell you I was sorry, very sorry. My mind was so focused in my guilt and regret that I stopped studying, and failed. Not only that year, but the next ones too!" Jake started explaining but across Kari's face a glimpse of triumph seeme to float lazily, "then I gave up, I couldn't concentrate on my studies and started working, but Izzy, man he's one in a million, he offered to teach me Programing, and a couple of years after he offered me a position as a programer in his company, and that's where I ended, no title, no studies, the black sheep of my family…and I lost the most precious thing I ever had!" finished the young programer, shaking his head in a sad way.
Kari's features softened upon observing the young man, across this years her thoughts had focused on him, she still loved him, however the flame had been nearly extinguished. The flame was starting to grow once again and it's passionate fury was melting the coat of ice that engulfed the girl's heart, she could not let that happen, five years of mental training could not collapse because an old boyfriend appeared in her life.
"mommy?" squealed a little voice behind the fighting couple.
They both turned around in time to see the innocent, young figure of their daughter, standing with glinting eyes by the door frame, a curious gaze implanted in her features.
"yes honey?" inquired Kari with a renewed warmth in her voice upon the vision of her most precious thing, the only and greatest love in her life.
"is Jake my daddy?" inquired little Chiyo taking both of them by surprise, enver expecting that question coming from the inmaculate innocence of a little child.
To Be Continued…
AN: Almost finished, I hope you are enjoying it, perhaps not more than two more chapters to finish it, arent you curious at the thought of how it will end? Please leave a review and tell me what you think, you can also leave ideas.