Chapter 47: Parental Discipline

"Hello? Lisa? I'm here." I hear Charles's voice outside the dorm room.

"I'll get it!" I stand up and open the door to see Charles carrying a very extravagant fruit basket. It contained fruits like strawberry, kiwi, grape, apples, banana that were skewered into a barbeque stick. The basket itself is decorated with ribbons and fabric. Whatever this was is very expensive...

"Oh, what's that for?" I ask him as he hands it to me. "A sign of gratitude for letting me into your home. My parents always bring gifts whenever we enter somebody else's home."

"Oh right..." I giggled a little before placing the fruit basket into the table.

"Whoa, what's that? Is this person trying to court you?" I hear my uncle standing behind me which made my eyes wide open turning to him.

"No. Uncle. He is just a friend. His family is very different and they always bring gifts when they come to someone else's home like the buffet he took the house back then and now it's a fruit basket." I tell him.

"Alright, then Lisa. You don't need to hide secrets from me. If you like this guy then you can tell me anything." He winked at me.

"Oh, mister. It's not really anything like that. We don't have that kind of relationship we are just friends." Charles explains laughing.

"Ya friends with benefits..." I hear Rose snickering the middle.

"Shut up. No one likes you fatty." I say to Rose.

"By the way is this the guy you said that was going to join us fishing?" Uncle George asks me looking at Charles.

I looked at Charles more closely. He looked very dapper, a very extravagant suit like he was going to a fancy ball.

"Don't you have casual clothes to wear Charles?" I ask him.

"Oh. One moment, I'll ask my butler to fetch me some clothes, You don't mind me using your bathroom to change right?" He asked me.

"Sure," I answer. "Yiee Lisa just wants to see Charles naked." I hear Rose whispering behind my ear."

I flick Rose's nose. "Ow! That's means, Lisa!" She muttered staying away from me.

I see Charles bringing his "casual clothes" which were very extravagant as well... I guess this guy doesn't really know what casual means. He walks to me and asks again for the bathroom. I nodded and let him use the bathroom.

"Now really, who is this guy? This guy is really not your boyfriend or your suitor or anything?" Uncle George nudged me.

"No uncle. We are just friends also Charles is really like royalty and really rich so that's why he acts like that. Also, why did you even assume we were dating or anything." I squint my eyes.

"Because my baby girl is a beautiful girl. Pretty sure you have a line of men wanting to date you." He strokes my ego hugging me.

"Ya right..." I shove him away from me.

"Alright, I am done changing. By the way mister. Please bring all the equipment and gear to the car outside. My butler will assist you on where to put it."

"Alright then." My uncle took everything we needed fishing rods, baits, and other junk and went out to put it on the car.

"So I heard this was your first time fishing right Charles?" I ask him.

"Yes, indeed. My parents were often very protective of me and my sister that's why we never really got to experience a lot of things." He laughed.

"Oh, I guess that's the disadvantage of being in a very rich family. You get restricted to do things and junk right?" Rose joins in.

"I guess so. I'm fine with how things are going." He giggled.

Huh? I look to see at Charles's neck at the back there is some kind of circular mark. "Charles, what's that circular thing in your neck? Is that a birthmark or something?"

"Oh, this?" He touched in the spot I was referring to. "This is from using the B.A.M it's a circular thing that you put in your neck."

"B.A.M? I've never heard of anything like that?" Rose says curiously.

"I'm actually not sure. It hurts a little but I don't really remember anything from it. Maybe Matthew knows something about it because I heard the one that developed that technology is Matthew's parents." He says.

"Wait? Matthew's parents develop inventions and stuff?" I asked him.

"Pona Technology is a company made by Matthew's parents, I've talked to him during our escapade in the K-Pop convention and he told me a lot of plans for the company." Charles smiled.

Something popped inside my head... when I went to Charles's house to play card games. I heard crying inside a room that Charles forbade us to enter... could that be the sister?

"So how's your sister? Where is she anyway?" I ask him.

"My sister is at home. She's not really allowed to go out." He tells us.

"Why is that exactly?" Rose asks him.

"She hasn't really learned how to act properly outside that's why she is still being taught still inside the house. We have teachers coming in to teach us etiquette and such." He smiled. "Don't these teachers go to your home and teach you manners and such?"

"I mean we are taught manners in Grade 1, we didn't really need a private teacher to teach us," Rose replied.

"Excuse me, guys. I'll be back." I go to the bathroom. Now I'm a little curious about what this B.A.M, Charles is talking about... some kind of thing that you attach in the back of your neck... what could that possibly be?

I dial in Matthew's number. I cross my fingers I hope he answers. "Hello?" I hear his voice.

"Hi, um sorry Matthew for disturbing you but where are you exactly?" I ask him trying to see if he's busy and I ain't disturbing him.

"Oh just sitting around here at home. Trying to work on a few inventions, that's all." He replied in a sluggish voice.

"Do you know anything about B.A.M, something that you put on the back of your neck or something. I heard about it from Charles." I asked him.

"Hm... Well from what I remember B.A.M stands for Behavior Adjusting Microchip. It's an invention that my parents made to help the rehabilitation of criminals to adjust their behaviors to the desired behavior in the chip." He says to me.

Wait... a behavior adjusting microchip? Why would Charles be attached to that?

"Oh I see.. so basically it changes the behavior of whoever you put it on?" I ask him for reassurance.

"Yes, it's used on very dangerous and evil people. It forces them to change their personality to the desired trait in the microchip. The person will not have a choice to obey. It's a good invention in rehabilitation by the way from what I heard it's an emotionally and mentally painful if the person tries to resist the change." He says to me.

"What if someone used it to.. maybe discipline their kid... by putting it in?" I ask him unsure and vaguely.

"Heck no! That device is only supposed to be used on the most corrupt people. If the child is that bad then you can but it's very rare. It's more of a way to rehabilitate so yeah... also why are you asking me about this?" He passes the court to me.

"Oh.. just wondering... I just heard it from Charles that's all. Anyways goodbye! I'll go now." I hang up the phone.

I sigh... so you mean... wait... I'm really just confused... I heard a little girl saying help me please at Charles's house... could it be that they are trying to discipline their kid with the behavior adjusting microchip?

"Hey! Lisa? Are taking a number two down there? Why are you taking too long?" I hear Rose knocking on the door.

I sigh and opened the door. "No. I was just dozing a little that's all."

"Wait a minute... I am detecting something trying to steal my man..." Rose's eyes widen and start running outside...

"Wait!? what?" Charles and I both look in confusion.

Does she have some kind of telekinesis power or something?

We both walk out of the room to see Rose's furious and angry, gritting her teeth as we saw three sorority girls around my uncle George.

"Oh, my.. thank you so much, George. We are very thankful... it's just that carrying these boxes to the sorority house is very tiring and the frat dudes were all busy drinking and wouldn't bother helping us." One of the sorority girls clings into his arms.

I see Rose's face turn tomato red with envy and anger. She's about to kill them... I can feel it.

"Of course I'll help you. You remind me so much of my niece." My uncle George giggled.

Rose chewed her own arm. "WHO ARE THESE HOES TRYING TO STEAL AWAY MY MAN. I SHOULD HAVE LEFT MY SCENT ON HIM SO ANY BITCHES WHO GOES TO HIM GOES AWAY FOR GOOD."

"Uh..you are not some animal also my uncle is not yours," I say to Rose.

"WAIT! Now that I remember... That's that Mika and Camille whores!" Rose's eyes light up.

What? Wait? Mika? From the K-Pop Convention???