[Evelyn’s POV]
‘Something is definitely wrong with Malcolm, first he speaks back to me and humiliates me in front of the whole class, then I ask him to run a simple errand for me and he declines.His whole demeanor has changed, I feel something is going on with him. Even when I threatened him by saying that I would have to report him to his father, he hardly even responded.He used to be gullible and timid, but now he answers questions in class flawlessly without even paying attention, I can understand if he’s studying a lot but that isn’t enough to give him this amount of growth.And the most surprising part of it all is was that in the pop quiz I organized, Malcolm was the only student who managed to get perfect scores.Something can’t be right, he has to be cheating or something, this amount of growth in such a short amount of time. I didn’t want to ever have to do this but I feel I have to call Mr. Shade.’These were the thoughts that passed through the head of Malcolm’s cram school tutor, Miss Evelyn Hall, as she picked up her phone and dialed the number of Malcolm’s father.She was in her early thirties but looked to be in her late forties, the stress from teaching everyday taking a huge toll on her.The phone was picked up by a lady who she knew as Mr Shades receptionist.“Hello you’ve reached the Shade corporation, how may I help you?” Said the receptionist.“I’m Miss Evelyn Hall, I’m Malcolm’s tutor, I’d like to please speak to Mr Shade”, I said.“Please hold” she said and in a few moments I heard the voice of Malcolm’s father.“Miss Evelyn, make it quick I don’t have all day” he said coldly emanating an aura similar to Malcolm after his recent change.“It’s about Malcolm sir, I fear he’s been having trouble with his conduct” I said.“Go on,” Mr. Shade simply said.****[Malcolm’s POV]As I got home from gym and self defense classes that day, I threw myself into research. Our total revenue was getting close to around $10 million and I contemplated how to make more money.I reached out to Satushi already and was expecting a response, promising him a hefty sum under the prospects of him working for me.He was yet to reply and my patience began to run things but I gave him the benefit of the doubt.I lived in America, he lived in Japan, it was even a miracle I was able to contact him in the first place as I’d only met him by chance on the social media platform, Headpage.There were many factors that could affect why he didn’t respond to me, one could be that he wasn’t active on Headpage, another could be that he was too busy with work to check his social media.If push came to shove I considered traveling to Japan to meet him personally. Thanks to Render and my memories I knew far too well how the online currency market was going to take the world by stem and I had no choice but to capitalize on it.That was my main priority, everything else came secondary, I considered other ways I could invest in the electronics industry as I’d hit a big wall there.I never realized how much capital I would need to buy shares in the Pineapple company and I weighed my options.After doing some research I found that the predominant electronic device that was being produced by Pineapple by the time was the MePod which was an mp3 player and they lacked neither the technical know-how nor the funds to branch into the world of cell phone making.With my knowledge of the future I knew that eventually Pineapple was going to resort to making phones among their many other electronic devices.My major problem was that I had no idea how to make phones. Then I had an idea, I wondered if I could ask the system to give my fragments of information from my first life.If the system could d******d the information directly to my head I would have the courage to approach Mr. Steven Johnson directly and I would propose my idea of phone making to him.Then again I could hit another wall if the system failed to give me the information, saying it was a breach of the code or something. I still had no idea what the code was and couldn’t rely on the system for information concerning it.‘I guess it’s worth a shot’, I thought and I decided to ask the system.“System”, I said.“Can you give me access to information from my first life that I didn’t have any knowledge of at the time?”“Good, d******d and transfer all knowledge of phone making from my first life to me.” I said.~DING!~*NOTICE*DOWNLOADING INFORMATION…..*D******D COMPLETE*[Yes] [No]“Yes,” I said confidently.TRANSFERRING…As the information began to flow into my head, my world became blurry and I had a splitting headache. I fell on the floor in pain and clutched my head tightly.I underestimated the sheer amount of knowledge that was required to make phones and transferring all this at once would take a huge toll on my brain.*WARNING!* *WARNING!* *WARNING!*[Yes] [No]“Yessss!!!!!!!”, I shouted, screaming in pain. And at that moment, I blacked out again.I woke up some hours later and like before the pain was gone.I realized how powerful the system could be and urged myself to be more careful in its use.Looking at the time I realized it was still evening that Sunday and I decided to grab something to eat as I was starving.As I readied myself to leave the house I got a phone call. Picking up my phone I was suddenly filled with apprehension and rage when I looked at the caller ID.It was my father. ‘What the hell does he want now?’ I thought seething with rage.I couldn’t ignore the call, I picked up the phone and answered the call.“Father?” I said coldly.“Come home son, we have things to discuss, I’ll be sending a driver to pick you up this week.” He said and hung up.I gritted my teeth in anger as I threw my phone to the ground, the angriest I’d been since my regression.Simply showing how much I hated him, how much I hated my father.I left my house that day sad and distraught. My father had sent a driver to pick me up and as I came up to my junction ,there he was, already waiting for me. I said nothing to him and waltzed into the back seat of the car after he opened the door for me.In a couple of more moments we were moving. My life hadn’t always been like this, when was it that I’d stopped being happy and hated myself, I think I was 4 years of age.My father and I loved my mother very much and she felt the same for us. She would often tell me that she loved me the most in the entire world and I would be overjoyed as a child.My mother, Mrs Gabrielle Shade, was a beautiful woman who had long brown hair and green eyes. She was of European descent, Spanish I think. I barely had any knowledge of her and could only remember what she looked like thanks to Render.She and my father met when my father was on vacation in Paris, in his mid twenties. My father inherited the Shade corporation at a very young age and had be
As we pulled up to the giant gates of the Shade mansion, I was once again taken aback by the large structure that was my home.‘To think that I would return here’ I thought. The large castle that was the Shade mansion could never get old to me. It was gently nestled atop a lush hillside and one would have to drive up to reach the large castle like gates.On the interior, it had exactly 50 parking spaces and the environment was lined with various exotic flowers that were tended to everyday by the best gardeners.The entire area contained 3 buildings with 3 floors each and 2 basements. With the central building being stationed at the middle of the three.The building on the right was set out for guests, parties, and official purposes and the one on the left were the workers quarters.It was truly a sight to behold and a sense of nostalgia hit me as we pulled up to the front of the central house.I got down from the car as the driver opened the door for me. My father had been informed of
I was in a hospital bed staring at my mother. I could gradually see life fading from her eyes.“Somebody! Help! Please anybody!” I screamed but no one came. She looked me in my eyes and told me, “Malcolm, I’ll always love you” she said and let go of my hand.“No!” I screamed and then suddenly the ground opened up and I fell through a bottomless hole. I kept falling and screaming for a short while and I hit the floor pretty hard.I lay on the floor and tried using my hands to clean my face and saw blood!. I screamed in fear as I turned to my right and saw a hooded figure approach me.“No! Stay back!” I screamed as I tried to scramble away from the person but as I crawled he grabbed me by my ankle and pulled me back to him.He removed his hood and displayed his face before getting up and pulling out a gun, a large grin on his face. As he pulled the trigger I screamed in fear and woke up in my room.‘I was just dreaming’ I thought as I sat up in my bed. I picked my phone up and checked t
I got home that day and felt a sense of peace, I was finally free from the shackles of the Shade family to some extent and I cherished my new found solitude.A week has passed before I went back home and I spent that week following my normal routine, except for the fact that I’d been tutoring Ariel.We’d made arrangements on that weekend after my father called asking me to come home and for the past week I’d been tutoring her.Exams were fast approaching and I saw her making a lot of progress.We would meet at my place everyday after school and study for about two hours before she would head home.My apartment was closer to school and she always had a driver take her home anyway so it was convenient for both of us.She wasn’t complaining anyway. One day after we’d finished studying we had a deep conversation about our plans for after school.It went thus.****We’d just finished studying that day.I let out a huge yawn as Ariel packed her bags. I had no reason to study, I already knew
A couple of days later, I was fast approaching my exams. I did most of my things the same except that me and Ariel had been having overnight sessions where she would sleep over and go home the next morning.I also slowly grew my wealth as I continued to earn from stocks. Satushi had finally responded to me, and I proposed the idea of him working for me to him. At first he was skeptical and in disbelief but when I asked to meet up with him he knew I was serious.He explained how that wouldn’t be possible as he was very broke and that he didn’t have the funds to transport himself from Japan to America.I spoke to him for some more days and when I finally gained his trust, he finally agreed. I offered to pay for his flight and accommodation when he got here and he happily accepted.He didn’t have a job, his family lived in a village away from the city he lived in, he had no girlfriend or special ties with anyone and when I offered him a hefty sum he complied.And so this was where I curr
A couple of days has passed since I met Satushi and I put my business life on hold to focus on something else. That something else was my education.Our exams were fast approaching, Ariel was way behind in studies and we thought about what we could to help her catch up.She was far behind in the curriculum at all we did at cram school were revision questions so we both reasoned how we could help her get prepared in time.After contemplating for a long we both came to an agreement and we decided that she would be taking overnight classes at my place.I was perfectly fine without studying, i already used Render a long time ago to accurately write out the exam questions and I’d studied them very well.I considered giving them to Ariel but I figured she would feel much better if she actually got her admission on her own.And besides, I remember vividly that in my past life she had one of the top scores in the entrance exams so I wasn’t bothered by her too much, she was making decent progr
[Ariel’s POV]It’d been a while since I’d been this happy about spending time with someone. Malcolm and I had become so much closer since that day.I was right, he’d definitely changed, but I never took the time to find out why he’d changed or what changed him and now that he finally opened up to me, I couldn’t have been happier.I was happy because he saw me as someone he could express himself with, I was happy because he felt vulnerable with me, I was happy because he finally opened up to me.Our exams were fast and at first I was very worried about what I would do, but with Malcolm’s guidance and tutelage, I started to feel confident in myself.We were practically living together now, I had to spend the night at his place most times as we would be up studying till late at night.Most times after school I’d cook, and he said he enjoyed my cooking a lot. Sometimes he tried to help with cooking and most times he would end up making a mess and we would both laugh it off.We didn’t speak
[Malcolm’s POV]As I sat there in the room and awaiting the call, I conjured possible scenarios in my head as to who could’ve wanted me kidnapped and why they would want to kidnap me.I picked up my phone and dialed Logan’s number. It rung a short while before he picked.“Hello, Logan. I have something I neee to ask you” I said.“Give me a second to leave my work area” he said and he excused himself and went to the restroom.“I wasn’t expecting a call from you but you sound like it’s serious, what’s wrong?” He said.“It’s nothing” I didn’t want to get anyone involved in this and I trusted him so I knew it couldn’t have been him. “I was wondering if you’d revealed my identity to anyone?” I asked.“Of course not, why would I? What happened to make you ask me that?” He asked, he sensed something was up and was trying to get to the bottom of it.I wondered if I should tell him, but I quickly changed my mind, this was something I had to do on my own.“I was just curious, I’ll be in touch”