Ana sat on Jason's bed with Vivian. Jason tries to make his worry not obvious so does Ana but they both know it's early. They never come towards the middle of the month. Jason isn't sure what to do, Vivian can't see his family like this but he has to know what's going on.
Jason leans against his bedroom door, making sure it's locked and tries to talk to Vivian.
"Yeah.. so how are you liking the games?" Jason asks, he can just barely make out some of the voices beyond the door. His brother is negotiating with someone. Something has changed.
Vivian is visbily concerned, it's obvious they are hiding something and she will figure it out, but not now. "They are fun. It's been fun. I suck but I'm glad I get a chance to play."
Jason smiles slightly, he's happy she's enjoyed her time but his smile fades when he catches some words behind the door. ".. end up like your parents."
"I'm glad. What's your favorite so far?" Jason holds back the pain in his chest to continue the charade.
Vivian thinks for a moment. She can see the worry in his eyes. "Probably plumbing man." She stops for a second and finally asks. "What is going on right now? I feel like I deserve to know."
Ana's heart stops and she looks at Jason. Jason shakes his head. Ana begins to speak, letting Vivian know what's really going on. No charades, no hiding and Jason feels a rush of shame. He wishes he could dissappear and this day could start over cause maybe then he could have avoided this. Jason just hates that they came early.
"Our parent's owed some bad people money. Now that they are gone it falls onto Kyle. We go away when he talks to them." Ana goes back to quietly playing with her phone, trying to ignore the feelings budding in her chest. The feeling that this is all her fault sits beneath the surface. \Vivian looks at both of them not sure what to say.
'What can she say?' Jason thinks.
"It's nothing serious they are just early is all." Jason tries to reaasure Vivian within the silence she creates.
Knock knock
Jason jumps from the door and twists forward. Both Ana and Vivian grab his arm.
"Ya'll can come out now." Kyle says with a hearty laugh, as if Jason couldn't hear some of the conversation.
Jason slowly opens the door and conveniently Kyle is holding piping hot pizza in his hands.
"Guess what? Pizza is here." Kyle sets it down as everyone walks out, unsure if this was some trap. Vivian especially looks around to make sure know one was hiding around the corner. The air in the apartment was chilling. Jason looks to Vivian unsure what to say.
Kyle sensing the tension shouts, "Let's eat!" He quickly passes out pizza. Kyle sits down Ana's at the table so she can crutch over to the couch and sit down. Jason and Vivian awkardly thank him and sit down.
The silence hurts and Kyle shifts in his seat. Jason grabs the TV remote and puts something on, anything. He turns to Vivian and whispers to her.
"I'm sorry about all this. I promise I can answer any of your questions. You deserve that." Jason is always serious but this held a weight that even Vivian could see after only knowing him for a week.
Vivian smiles and knocks him in the shoulder. "Good cause I got plenty 007."
Her smile broke through the chill. Her grace and humor warms up the room and the night comes to a close.
Jason walks her to the door after the pizza and a show and says goodbye.
He promises her again that he will tell her more. After the weekend. They exchange numbers and he will tell her more.
I can't believe they showed up. They never come this early. I need to find out why, this hacking skill needs to come quicker. I need to look at more youtube videos. Maybe a course or something. Use the python coding and make something. Anything to boost this skill. The weekend is long. Time to hole up.
Jason checks in on Ana to see if she is okay. She's young but strong. A liftime of illness forces you to fight and that's all she does. She might be weak but not weakhearted.
"Hey.. I know we weren't expecting that. Are you okay?" Jason asks. Kyle looks over slightly ashamed.
"Of course. They are just thugs. They aren't going to do anything. Just take our money." Ana says matter of factly.
Kyle jolts up before he sits back down deciding against saying anything.
"They aren't. This isn't forever. We will be okay." Jason says before saying goodnight to both of them. He can hear Kyle begin to talk to Ana as he gets ready for bed. He hopes that he can make her feel safe.
Jason sits at his desk and pulls out his old laptop. It takes forever to load but when it does he can work through it.
He quickly searches through youtube and finds some playlists on direction to use python for beginners and hacking tools and where to start.
He downloads TOR browser and begins setting up his computer to start programming. He knows he will need a better system soon but for now it will do.
'System Open'
'Allocate 24 hours'
[2x experience for research]
[Idle System: Lvl 2] [Exp:6.3/25]->[Exp:8.3/25]
[24:00:00-24:00:00]->[00:00:00-24:00:00]
[24:00:00-24:00:00]->[00:00:00-24:00:00]
[Slot 1: ] [General Programming: Lvl 0][24/25]->[11.5/25]
[Slot 2: ] [Information Security: Lvl 0][24/25]->[11.5/25]
[Skills: Speed Reading Lvl: 2 ; Improved Memorization Lvl: 2 ; Gaming Lvl: 1; IT expertise lvl 0; Python programming language lvl 0; General Programming Lvl: 1; Information Security Lvl:1]