The Prodigy | ✔︎

45

I remembered a time when I had finally gotten comfortable with hacking. My uncle sat back and watched me hack into the surveillance footage of our street's camera. The exact same song was playing as I forced myself to do everything I could to get the coding right. I just wanted my uncle to be proud of me. Successfully, the live surveillance footage came across my screen.

"Yes! Yes! Yes!" my uncle shouted, jumping up and down. I turned to see his big smile on his face, and it put a smile onto mine.

"You are a natural!" my uncle declared while reaching out and grabbing me by the shoulders. He gently shook me back and forth as the smile on his face never faltered. I couldn't have been any older than fourteen years old, and I had just committed my first crime. However, as long as it put me one step closer to finding my mother, I didn't care.

"In no time, you'll be the best hacker this world has ever seen. Now, you need a name..." my uncle said. He looked around the room for a moment before looking back at me. His gaze only stopped when he took in the color of my red glasses. I had only gotten them a month ago. I pushed them further up my nose as I stared at my uncle in wait.

Suddenly, he snapped his fingers. "Red. You will reign as Red," he said. "This is good, good, good, good."

"Red," I repeated. Suddenly, my brows came together. "And what are you? What name do you hide behind?"

"Savior because that's what I want to be to every person who has ever gone missing and has never been found," he answered.

The song switching in Leo's car brought me out of me memories. I sighed. I missed my uncle more than anything.

"What the fuck?" Leo shouted. The car jerked quickly to the side, making my head hit the window. My brows pulled together as I hurriedly turned to him to see what was happening, but I really wish I hadn't. One large black car sped off past us after almost hitting us.

"What's that?" I asked. There was a large truck coming straight at us, similar to the other car that almost hit us.

"Okay, Reyna... listen to me. This is going to get very dirty. Dial Saint's number right the fuck now!" Leo shouted just as he did a quick u-turn in the almost empty street and began to speed down the road. I turned to see the large trucks were coming straight at us.

I began to do as Leo asked. I grabbed the burner phone Saint had given me for emergencies and just as I was about to click Saint's number, Leo's car was rammed into from behind, but it wasn't too hard to the point it caused much damage. My phone flew out of my hand and landed on the floor at my feet as my body jerked forward. If it weren't for the seat belt, I would've flown out of the car.

Leo was still driving as fast as he could. As he drove, I reached down to grab the phone and as I lifted it up, the screen was cracked and the phone wouldn't come on.

"It's broken!" I cried.

"Damn it! Okay, grab my phone. It's in my pocket," he ordered.

Before I could make a move, the car was hit again but from Leo's side. I could see the panic in Leo's face as the glass window and windshield broke. Tiny bits of glass flew all around us but especially at Leo. It almost happened in slow-motion the way the airbags went off. It burned my arm as it shot out of its confinements, doing its best to protect mr. Tears began to fall from my eyes as the car flipped over. When the vehicle landed on the hood, my window broke as well. I had to turn away to shield my face of all the broken glass.

Leo was groaning in pain. When I glimpsed at him, I could see his leg was puncturated. Something from the car went right through his leg. It looked like he was bleeding severely. I could almost see his bone.