One day Cousin is working at his desk with his boxes and glasses when grandpa comes in "oh hello Amelia, ah Andi mail came for you."
Without looking up "just leave it on the desk"
Gramps drops the mail "you look tired"
"It's not easy keeping people away from Amelia" cousin yawns
Gramps smirks a little "maybe you should use some of her adam to get some plasmids"
Cousin has his angry face on when he turns to gramps "don't even joke about that Gramps!"
"Ok ok I was just kidding sheesh" he walks out
"Cousin why did you yell at gramps" I ask
He turns back to his work "I don't like adam"
"Why?" it didn't make sense adam was so tasty.
Without looking he points a screw driver at me "two reasons one it would hurt you to get it. And two my parents were killed because a surface junkey was trying to get his 'fix'. It doesn't matter the name I hate drugs"
I'm a little hurt "but I take adam"
"Your different, bad men put the slug in you and it makes adam, which makes more bad men"
"So I am a monster?" adam makes bad men
Cousin sighs "do you purposely put the slug in you?"
"No"
"Do you give it to people so they go crazy?"
"No"
"Then it wasn't your choice and you're not a monster" I smile a little "now can you bring that mail over and read it to me" I bring them over and look at the scribbles on it "well?" cousin looks at me and I feel my face going hot, I don't know what he wants me to do. Then he slaps himself in the head "oh right little girl can't read yet, maybe even if you weren't a little sister"
Oh so I wasn't just dumb "come here Amelia pull up a stool you might like this" I bring a stool and sit next to cousin "do you know what I work on every day?" I shake my head and he smiles "gramps and I call them memory boxes. We make them using these crystals that grandpa has the blueprints for. They store light and memory here In these glasses" he hands me one of the glass pieces "they store light and can play it back with both color and audio. These things are going to replace radio, T.V. and audio dairies."
"How does it work?" I ask
He shrugs "that goes into very confusing quantum physics, most people say it's crazy but what do you expect from the Lutece family" I look at him funny "oh yeah I never told you our last name is Lutece"
"I have a last name?" people have more than one name?
"Well Amelia technically your last name is Bradley, beside the Lutece name hasn't had respect for over 60 years after great great grandpa Robert went crazy"
"Crazy?" I repeat
"Yeah something about him having a sister trough a tear. Ever since then we have been known as crazy scientist, but grandpa and I might be able to fix that with these memory boxes."
Now this was exciting "how did you make them?"
Cousin smiles "well Gramps had the idea then something weird happed two red headed twins gave him the last piece of the puzzle then disappeared, something about a gift for their alternates, whatever that means."
Cousin was really excited about this and that made me happy, he got up and went to the closet "here I have a gift for you" he pulled out one of the boxes that I now knew as a memory box. "this one I made special to teach kids" he fiddles with the buttons and a little see through version of him pops out "hello children Andi your personal tutor here, today I'll be teaching you the alphabet, and the best part it's in song ahem A…B…C…D"
Amazing "wow it's you"
Cousin chuckles "we call this the hologram. Originally we were going to have famous people teach, but we didn't have the money, so gramps had me do it. They didn't sell well though since I'm just a fifteen year old kid. 'Sigh' doesn't matter if I'm smarter than half of this city" I look at him funny "oh I might be older then you but I'm still a kid, here I'll show you how to work it"
Cousin shows me what buttons to push. He said that using the lessons he made I could learn how to read, write, sing, identify plants, animals, how to fight (save that one for when your older), history science, everything he said. And I wanted to learn everything.