Hacker Academy

Fuzzy Thoughts

Throughout the day around HackCity Commerical Mall, there was glowing stationary, glowing pets, heck, there was even glowing food. When evening started to dawn through the glass dome of the mall, Cyber looked at his watch and then at me.

"Are you hungry?"

"Not really," I said, looking away from him. Actually, I was hungry.

"Come." He led the way towards the elevator.

Cyber pressed the highest button, and the elevator took us up, up, and-

"How is this elevator going higher than the mall?" I said, looking out of the elevator. It stopped right on top of the mall. My legs felt weak and I didn't want to go out of the elevator. Cyber looked at me.

"You okay?"

"Do I look okay?"

He laughed and held out a hand. "You're going to love this."

When I saw the sight, I almost fainted from amazement.

At amusement parks, there are rides that you sit in which goes up and down while flying around and around. When I still had a functional family, mom and dad used to take me to those kinds of rides. I loved those.

This ride had different flashing colours, red, blue, yellow, green. The main control was at the spot dead centre of the mall. The rides extended way out of the mall. When you looked down all you could see was the darkness about to swallow you whole.

Each box ride had a dinner table and two sofa chairs. There was glass on the sides so you couldn't fall out, but with one jump you could easily fall to your death.

The stars were beautiful.

A waiter dressed in a tuxedo smiles at the two of us. "For two?"

"Yeah."

I look from Cyber to the dinner ride. "Wait, we're going on?"

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So here I am, sitting right in front of Cyber at a dinner table under the night sky.

Cyber stares, transfixed on the endless galaxy. I stare at his face, so pure and so innocent. His black hair is not hidden from his hoodie, and they drift gently in the soft wind. My gaze softens, and I wonder what could've possibly made Cyber act so cocky and unapproachable at school.

After seeing him walk me back to school, letting the old man win at the Competing Dome, and spending the entire day with me with no offensive remarks whatsoever, I realize Cyber is a really different person than who he shows himself at school. I take a swig of my wine.

His sharp eyes instantly dart to me. "You don't drink wine like that."

I raise an eyebrow at him. "Then how, Mr. Know-It-All?"

He shakes his head and raises his glass. I do the same.

"You shake it a bit. Gently- yeah, like that. Then you drink it. No, slowly."

Once I get the hang of it, he smiles, his white teeth showing. "You need some fine dining cuisine experience."

"No thanks," I laugh. "I'd get drunk."