117 Chapter 117: Urgency. 

[Edward POV]

I didn't linger at the party and allowed Abby to drag me out of the Dunphy's house as I felt the urgency to use Abby's laptop to get online right now.

"Umm… Sorry." Abby said with a blush as she released my hand when we were out of the perimeter.

"Why?" I said confusedly. "Also, we need to hurry. Can we?" I said urgently.

"Umm. Okay!" Abby was perplexed, but she nodded seriously and we walked to her house at high speed. She then asked as she noticed that something was wrong, "What's going on exactly?"

"Nothing much. Just a group of egotistical people who wanted to destroy my website's firewall." I replied in a casual manner. Abby was shocked and she quickly ran in front of me, "Then we need to hurry!"

"No need to run. We still have time." I replied. She then gritted her teeth, turned back and grabbed my hand before pulling me to run together with her.

"Ugh. I hate unplanned sweating." I complained.

"Shut up! Be more concerned!" She admonished me. As we got to her house, Abby opened the door quickly and dragged me into her bedroom without even letting me greet her mother.

She gave me her laptop and sat me down on her desk before she said, "Hurry!"

"Okay." I replied and I slid my finger on the touchpad, turning the laptop on from its sleep mode. However, as I pressed the space key, the screen showed Abby's still open, for over 18 years old, something that definitely a child shouldn't see.

"AHHH!" Abby screamed in embarrassment and horror and slammed down the laptop immediately. If I didn't pull my fingers out of the way fast enough, it would've been destroyed by her barbaric action.

"Hey!"

"H-H-H-How much of that did you see?" She asked menacingly and with a stutter, her face became increasingly red as she tried to calm her emotions.

"If I say nothing, and let you close the tabs first, or maybe delete your search history, can I use it as soon as possible?" I replied with a sly smile while tapping the table with my index finger.

"Yo-You! Okay!" Abby wanted to interrogate me, however she realized that it was an inappropriate time to do so. She turned her laptop against me and pouted as she closed her tabs and also deleted her browser history in a quick manner before giving me the laptop back.

"Also, you're very brave to keep a password-less laptop in sleep mode without closing all of your tabs properly." I said as I opened up my website.

"Especially if the website is labeled College Teen got her p*ssy destroyed by a big C*ck-"

Abby cupped my mouth before I could say the entire title of the video she was watching and yelled in my ear, "FORGET THAT! FORGET THAT YOU EVER SAW THAT! ARGHHHH!"

She screamed as she ran away from the room, leaving me with her laptop to do my work. After she was gone, I muttered, "Also, even if you delete the browser history, I can still know what you had watched if I have access to your cache and cookies."

"Still, asian girls and tentacles, yoga sessions turn steamy, and even public stuff…Abby has a peculiar taste huh." I mumbled as I thought back of all the tabs she had opened before.

The one I mentioned was the least weird of all of the options, that was why I picked that to mention. Otherwise, she would've spiraled into madness from the embarrassment and the overthinking on which of her tastes that I had stumbled onto as I saw her options she chose for her "relief" in her private time.

"What happened between a man…or a woman with their laptop…is only for them and their laptop." I muttered in understanding before trying to track back the people who were trying to hack into my system.

Abby suddenly walked in, her expression kept stoic despite the redness on her cheeks, and she said, "I told my mom you're here. Will you have dinner with us?"

"So…we're going to pretend nothing happened huh?" I said jokingly.

Abby tilted her head and asked in a fake puzzled tone, "What happened? You came in, I gave you the laptop, and I went to notify my mom you're here. Did anything else happen?"

"So. Denial. Okay. Nothing happened. Also, that reminds me, I haven't had lunch yet."

Abby nodded in satisfaction before she turned concerned as she asked, "Seriously? Why haven't you?"

"Well I didn't have the time. I was supposed to eat after the interview, but we ran a bit late so I needed to rush to the party…" I replied.

"Oh. I'll ask my mom to fix something up for you. What's going on with your website?" She asked as she stood beside me, leaning her arm on my shoulder as she bent slightly to take a look.

If I wasn't focusing on the screen, I would've enjoyed the view of her breast dangling in the air, but damn those hackers. They had added to their crimes right now by preventing me from doing so.

"I don't know their aim. These fuckers are only trying to break down my defenses. I'm trying to trace back their IPs, but there are a lot of them and they have their own defenses too. There are around 50 people trying to breach my website at the same time."

"50! This is a targeted attack. Shouldn't you call the cops?" Abby asked in a horrified voice.

"I already did. But they couldn't do anything without a lead. And their cyber crimes unit is fucking trash." I replied through gritted teeth.

Abby noticed that I was becoming increasingly mad, therefore she offered, "Do you want me to use my mom's laptop to back you up-"

"No offense Abby, but that will just slow me down. Can you call Abraham for me?"

Abby pouted but she used my phone that I had unlocked and called my nerdy friend without going through other stuff quickly as it was an urgent matter right now. The call was picked up in a matter of milliseconds as the line connected and Abby placed the phone down next to the laptop with the loudspeaker on.

"Hey Ed the Bard. Nice party, and legendary pokemon training moment-"

"You're at the party? No. This isn't the time. Are you home yet?" I asked urgently.

"Yeah I had just turned on my PC. Why?" Abraham asked seriously as he noticed my tone. "Abra-Kadabra, do you want your fruit loops now?" Suddenly a shrill woman's voice sounded from the other side of the phone.

"Not NOW MOM I'M ON THE PHONE!" Abraham shouted back.

"Pff- Abra-Kadabra. Imma use that. My website is under attack. Can I use your PC?"

"What the- I can help you defend it! What do you want me to do?" Abraham asked urgently.

"Give me…Access…to your…PC!" I said intermittently as I focused most of my attention on the screen right now.

"Oh. Got it." Abraham realized that he couldn't help me with his skill, but at the very least, he was a part of the PC master race and has his own high spec PC build and his very own server – albeit a small one.

"Thanks Abrakadabra. I hope you'll evolve into an Alakazam soon."

I gave him a link that would allow me to control his PC remotely, and he gave me the control without thinking much. Although I could've hacked into his PC on my own, it would take me some time that I didn't really have right now.

"Shut up! It's Abra. Then, Kadabra. Only after that will it evolve into Alakazam!" Abraham corrected me. My speed increased up to 3 times after I took control of Abraham's computer. Abby and Abraham could see what I was typing, but they couldn't really follow what was written as my typing speed was too much for them.

"Huh? FBI website? Why did you reach the FBI website?" Abby asked as she saw the bureau's website popped up in a small tab on the screen.

"I didn't open their website." I said with a sigh. "I traced it back to their website." I continued. Abby and Abraham were both terrified, and I stopped pressing the buttons on the keyboard as the feeling of tiredness washed over me.

I leaned back on the chair, my right hand went to my lip as I was missing a cigarette right now, but I realized I wasn't smoking so I put it back down.

After a slight pause, I muttered. "Now…why the fuck is the FBI trying to break into my defense?"

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[General POV]

-FBI field base, California-

"How in the HELL, is it that 50 of the alleged top FBI CYBER AGENTS!!! Focused on hacking!! Can't break into…a firewall created…by a 15 YEAR OLD KID!" The heart-broken Wayne yelled towards the agents who he had collected as they had failed in their efforts to secretly break into the website and plant a few monitoring programs inside the international forums Ed had created to sniff out potential threats to the country.

The reason Wayne could've taken command for 50 agents was because it was a special collaboration case between the FBI and the CIA, and it was actually a normal operation inside the country as they had planted the monitoring programs into a few websites, but none of them was detected by the websites owners.

However, Ed's defense program had become a nightmare for the FBI agents all across the country as they couldn't even break into The Pritchet's closet website, the Whitebeard Travel website, nor the Entertain website that they were currently attacking right now.

Suddenly, an agent stood up from his chair and shouted, "I'm IN!!!!!"

All of the attention turned towards him, and Wayne desperately ran through the crowd of agents gathering around the agent who succeeded to ask, "Seriously? You got in?!"

"Y-Yeah. I suddenly got in." The Indian agent, Jaganesh, said with his forehead sweating and his hands shivering from the adrenaline.

"So. What are you waiting for!? Check it now!!!" Wayne ordered relentlessly and he looked over the agent's shoulder as they went through the website's codes.

"Huh? It's just a normal website? IMPOSSIBLE! Check it out! Thoroughly!" Wayne yelled in anxiousness as he would be in trouble if that was really true.

They had spent countless hours monitoring the family, even flew to Cuba to conduct an operation there, they had spent millions from the Bureau's already tight budget in conducting the whole operation, and Wayne even convinced the head of his team to allow him to collaborate with the CIA on this particular hacking operation.

Isaac, the nerdy FBI agent who teamed up with Wayne before held his shoulder and said, "Give up. Your hunch was wrong. They are just…a normal company!"

"NO! No "NORMAL" company needs such a high-level defense for their systems!" Wayne tried to protest, but the evidence was against him. No matter how deep they dug into the system, everything was just a normal website system, and definitely not a front for a drug trade or human trafficking business.

"I'm sure he just encrypted the data! P-Put on the decryption program and start analyzing!" Wayne said.

"Wayne. Stop. The company has already reported the incident to the cops. We can't go on much further without getting suspicions." Isaac said.

"Jaga. Stop and get out before it gets traced back to us." Isaac saw that someone was trying to trace them back, therefore he knew he had to shut the whole thing down.

He thought that the Cyber Crimes Unit was the one who was doing that, and he ordered a few agents to go down to the police station to get the cops there to cooperate with them in hiding the evidence. After all, they didn't do anything to the website, so they could resolve the whole thing easily.

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[Edward POV]

"Are you sure about letting them into your system like that?" Abby asked concernedly.

"Yup. Some people are so paranoid that they won't stop until they know exactly what was going on behind the curtain." I replied as I leaned back on the chair and finally stopped what I was doing.

The visible tracing that the FBI captured was also part of my plans for them to get out of the system quickly. After all, I didn't want them to linger inside my house.

Although I could fry all of their data and shut down their whole base if I wanted, why would I antagonize the veteran organization of the country just for a momentary feeling of superiority that would just overblown my ego and make me more careless in my future actions?

"Damn dude. If it was me, I would burn down their whole base for sure." Abraham said in an impressed manner.

"That's why it's hard for you to evolve. Anyway, thanks for your help. I will exit the remote control function now. When you get a suspicious link from email or illegal websites later, please don't press it."

"I'm not dumb! I just gave you access cause you needed it-"

I cut the call before he could finish his rant.

"Well that made my mood a bit better." I said before I stood up from the chair and walked to Abby's bed before slumping my whole body on top of it. Abby yelled from the desk, "HEY! Don't sleep there!"

"Let me rest a bit. Or…are you feeling embarrassed because you did something on the bed while watching the screen last night?" I asked jokingly. Abby blushed hard and shouted, "SHUT UP! Now get out of my room! I want to change my clothes!"

I turned sideways toward her and leaned my head on my palm as I teasingly said, "So what? Just change it? It's not like I haven't seen it before."

Abby scoffed and said mockingly, "That's different. We were dating then. I don't want to change my clothes right in front of my ex."

"I don't care. I'm too tired. I'm not moving." I said with my eyes glued towards her. She blushed and she grabbed a stuffed turtle nearby and threw it towards me. "Jerk!"

"Hey. These things are already endangered. Don't throw them like that." I teased as I caught the toy midair before it hit me. "Besides, why do you want to change now? I wanna enjoy seeing you like this for a while longer."

Abby gritted her teeth in embarrassment and retorted, "I wouldn't wear this kind of clothes in a million years! I only did this 'cause you won the bet!" She stood up and walked towards me before grabbing my arms and wanted to throw me out of her room. Although, I did notice that she was doing it more because she wanted me out of her bed rather than she wanted to change her clothes.

I laughed at her and pulled her abruptly, making her fall at my side. Her skirt was lifted up a bit, showing her fleshy white thigh.

"Oof- What was that for?" Abby asked angrily.

"I don't know. Let me rest a bit, you animal." I said jokingly as I looked into her eyes. She finally calmed down and asked carefully, "Are you really tired?"

"Tired as hell. Mentally and Physically." I replied. "Although, if I fall asleep, I could be woken up by a kiss from a charming Gothic Princess."

That earned me a pinch on the waist. "Oww," I exclaimed while laughing together with Abby.

We played for a bit, tickling and pinching each other before she suddenly looked into my eyes and said, "You know. I…I thought about Roy's invitation to prom."

"Hmm…"

"Well… Do you have anything to say about that?" Abby asked as I wasn't saying anything.

"I don't know. Do you WANT to go there with him?" I asked.

"Well it's either that or I don't go." Abby said with a cute pout as she pulled her face away from mine. I laughed and pulled her chin back towards me, startling her a bit, and making her breathe quite heavily.

I said calmly but the mood had become weird as Abby was staring at my lips, and I hers. "That would be a waste…you not going, I mean…You need to enjoy prom…after all, you only get the chance to go there…once…or 7 times…"

"7?" Abby asked in confusion.

"Not important." I replied. She thought about it and asked, hiding her disappointment, "So… you say I should go with Roy?"

"I didn't say that." I replied.

She huffed angrily and said, "Then what? Go there alone!? You know how humiliating that is?! Abby the weirdo, going to prom alone!"

"I didn't say that either."

She pushed my body angrily, almost making me fall out of her bed.

"THEN WHAT! STOP JERKING ME AROUND!" She yelled.

I laughed and then fell silent for a while. I did realize that she wanted to go there with me, I wasn't that dumb. However, I was concerned that something would come up at Prom's night, and I had to choose between work and getting to the event.

"Well. Don't go with anyone…yet." I said.

"Huh?" Abby was confused.

"Like I said, don't go with anyone yet. Wait for a bit…Maybe until Wednesday."

"HUUUUH????"

"Can you do that?" I asked in a serious manner. Abby pouted and thought for a while before saying, "Okay. Sure. I'll wait. But if that 'someone' is being a jerk and makes me wait 3 days for nothing, I will kick him in the nuts."

"Ouch. Okay. That 'someone' will make sure not to get kicked in the nuts. He would want to leave behind his progeny to the world someday."

Abby was finally satisfied and she sat up from the bed. I got back to my sideway-head-on-palm position and asked, "By the way. When's your mom coming with the food? I'm starving."

Abby then realized that she hadn't got the chance to tell her mom about that even though it had been an hour since I started the whole hacking war thing, and started sweating nervously.

"Ummmm."

"If you say that you forget to tell her, I will eat you. One way or another, I will be putting my tongue on something."

Abby blushed hard and she pulled down her skirts quickly before giving me a glare and said, "I will go and make you a sandwich. PB&J is okay?"

"Sure."

5 minutes later, Abby returned to the room with a PB&J sandwich in one hand, and…Haley on the other?

"What are you doing here?" I asked Haley in confusion. She was glaring at me as she found me lying down on Abby's bed before she said angrily, "I heard about the incident and was coming here to comfort you, but it seems that you're already feeling comfortable here huh."

"Well yeah. Lying down on another person's bed is one of the few pleasures in the world that someone could acquire."

"Huh?" x2. Both girls were confused by my remarks and they turned to look at one another. Haley went to sit on my left side while Abby sat on my right side.

"You know, people are tweeting about what you did at the party. There's even a video about the raccoon thing." Haley said.

Abby nodded and said, "Yeah. It's a pretty great party."

Both of them turned towards me, expecting that I would say the same thing, but I just shrugged and said, "Eh. It's fine."

"What? Do you not think it's a great party?" Haley asked in confusion and surprise.

"It's okay. But to be honest, my review was lowered mainly because a few people were not honest while we were playing the game."

"What game? Who did it?" Haley asked in confusion once again.

Abby thought about it for a while before she realized something and glared at me angrily after. She turned towards Haley and said, "Don't respond to him. He's just leading us on to make us kiss one another."

"Wait. The 'Truth or Dare' game?!" Haley finally remembered that my dare was interrupted by the fans barging into the game and she glared at me angrily. "You still hung up about that?"

"Who wouldn't I? I think I speak for all men at the party, when I say we were all feeling incredibly disappointed that we couldn't see that happen." I said jokingly.

Haley and Abby turned towards one another, and they were communicating with their eyes as to whether or not they were going to do it.

"Okay fine!" Abby suddenly said and pushed me flat on the bed while I was still holding the sandwich in my hand. Haley giggled and she inches closer towards Abby, while Abby did the same thing. Abby placed one hand on Haley's shoulder, and Haley placed her hand on Abby's back.

"Are we seriously doing this?" Abby asked.

"I got a feeling that if we don't, he won't shut up about it…ever…" Haley replied.

"That's accurate." I replied while taking a bite of my sandwich and enjoying the view in front of me. The girls were only separated by my body, and they sat on their knees on the bed facing each other.

Then, Haley moved first and gave Abby a peck on the lips. Both of them blushed and they turned towards me. "Satisfied?"

"Nah. That ain't a true kiss. I wanna see the tongue dance. Again." I replied jokingly.

"Enough!" Abby was embarrassed and she hit my legs angrily.

"Well then. I guess you didn't like Haley enough to kiss her properly. That's okay, everyone has their own taste." I said in a casual manner.

Haley was saddened and she turned toward Abby before asking, "Is that true?"

"What- NO! Don't get tricked by him!" Abby replied angrily but as she saw Haley's sad face, she hesitated and said, "Well…I like you, and I don't mind kissing you-"

"So. What are you waiting for?" I instigated.

"Shut up!" Abby admonished me. I laughed and waited for them to continue. Haley gazed into Abby's lip and she slowly moved her face towards her friend's. Abby gulped her saliva and prayed to god that she wouldn't awaken anything as she closed her eyes and did the same thing.

Then, they kissed each other slowly, before Haley opened her mouth first and then put her tongue into Abby's mouth. Abby reciprocated her action and their tongue was intertwined a few times as they made out with one another before separating, all while I was taking a bite of my sandwich.

"Nice." I muttered in awe as I thoroughly enjoyed my time as the lone audience there.