Chapter 9

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So I want to make it clear that even if from your point of view this chapter is just a useless filler, you should know that it's not^^

If I put them there it's for a reason.

I'll explain more in the author's thoughts

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Fuck! Traitors!

Turning your backs on me at the first sign of trouble?

I knew it deep down...

yeah, I always knew they were hanging out with me to be

popular too.

since that guy smashed me up yesterday they've all turned their backs on me!

I went to everyone's house, but none of them welcomed me...

I had to spend the night outside!

But one thing surprised me, this guy...

no, I wouldn't take his pity!

With one punch!

'Stop being a pussy! I'm Flash! Not Puny Parker!'

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I wandered the streets of my neighborhood, heading home reluctantly, I didn't want to spend another night on the streets of New York.

It was when I got to the front door of my house that I realized, I'm not brave, not brave enough to face him anyway...

I turned around, I'll sleep outside for the rest of the week.

damn it...

I suddenly realized that I had no money left to buy a snack, let alone a shelter...

I walked slowly not knowing where to go, and that's when I caught myself holding the paper he gave me with all my strength...

how long had I been holding it in my hand?

Shit...

everybody's gonna laugh at me.

Finally, I decided to at least go to his block and have a look, it wouldn't cost me anything...

I looked at what part of town he lived in.

Manhattan?

Shit, that's far...

checking that I had my student ID, I walked to the nearest bus stop.

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ding dong!

Both my hands were shaking with anticipation...

I rang Kent's doorbell as the name on the paper said, however, it wasn't him who came but his mother I think.

''uh... Hello, Mrs. Kent.'' I saluted respectfully...

''yes? Ah, you must be the so-called Flash? Is that it?'' She replied with a kind smile that reminded me of my mother.

''Yes, ma'am... Kent." I was surprised that he mentioned me, but it made me even more nervous I think she saw it, so she immediately asked me to come in...

''C'mon in, don't stay outside,'' she said as she led me into the luxury penthouse, her parents are filthy rich!

We walked to the living room and she gave me a plate. ''Connor's in his bedroom, here take this and eat them both... it's the last door down the hall.'' her mother gave me some cookies...

and she pointed to the hallway with her hands.

My first impression was that this guy's parents were very rich and nice, I immediately liked the atmosphere here...

Arriving at the door at the end of the corridor, I knocked. ''Come in!" he shouted from inside.

I went inside and once inside he asked. ''What's up?" as he motioned for me to sit on one of the seats in front of his expensive-looking computer.

''Not much and you,'' I replied as I squinted at the screen and placed the cakes on a corner of his desk.

''Same, so how come you showed up?'' he asked as he typed on his computer keyboard at breakneck speed, I knew it was a program code but I couldn't understand it at all it was like Chinese to me...

''I'd rather not answer...'' I said with some anger, but not at him, more at the traitors.

He shook his head. ''so you're a rich kid?'' I said again to piss him off.

He laughed at once and replied. ''No, this is all my money... the flat is a gift from me to them.''

My brain stopped working instantly!

''You're lying." That's all I could say in the face of his nerve. ''If you say so..." he replied still writing lines of code on his computer...

''What are you writing anyway?" I asked, I couldn't hold back my curiosity any longer.

"This, man... is the future.'' he proclaimed proudly but calmly. ''Yeah, that doesn't answer my question...'' I continued.

''It's an AI," he answered so calmly that it took me a few moments to realize.

''AI? AI! As in... as in Artificial Intelligence?!" I immediately shouted in surprise!

''yes the same thing, an AI.'' He stopped hitting the keys.

I was going to tell him that he was lying, but he was clearly coding something...

He didn't seem like a person to show off...

this guy, who is he exactly?

''Why aren't you writing anymore? quick finish this, I want to see it!'' I yelled again, he looked at me with a raised eyebrow and then said. ''It won't be finished for a few weeks...'' then he started writing again...

''go ahead and eat I can literally hear your... gurgle.'' I didn't wait any longer, I just ate the whole cookie.

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In the few days, I lived with the Kents, I had to get to know Connor.

I quickly realized that he's come a long way, he's had a much more complicated life than me...

he has a big heart, so much so that every time we hang out I feel like an asshole...

but he opened my eyes to a lot of things, and also this guy hides it well in public but he's a genius!

A real one!

The Tony Stark type!

I clearly feel like he's instantly succeeding at everything, he told me that it's only because of ROB that he's here... whatever that means?

from a wheelchair to his current self! ROB? Maybe I could try it too...

We played football once and luckily I'm still better at it!

He made me read some cartoon stories, which was pretty cool in itself.

He helped me with my studies and against all odds my understanding of some things started to improve even if it was very slowly, at least I got a little better...

however, the thing that surprised me the most was the fact that he actually believed in me!

He said something like, you have potential...

I didn't show it but I was touched.

nobody had believed in me before except my mother...

he said something to me that I won't soon forget. ''If you put half the effort you do into football and pissing other people off, then you'd already be a rich guy or close to it...'' I took it as a joke.

Except that...

The guy is really a millionaire!

In only 3 months after waking up?

I mean yeah you're smart... but in three months?

He didn't show me his bank account, but he created a website after he finished his AI, and the website is already working well.

These drawings...

Yeah, it's fucking cartoons, he put them up on his website!

it was only afterward that I realized that I had read stories at least 6 months ahead of the others according to him, that's ridiculous!