Out of System

The room is neat and clean. Every thing is well organised. The plants inside the room looks fresh. The bed sheet is plain. She was studying. After that she organised her books and cleansed the table with a wet cloth. The fresh air enters the room.

Hearing a small knock she looked at the door. It was opened by her mother.

"Sam? Oh you are awake?", said her mother.

" Yes I woke up 2 hours ago and I was...",She couldn't finish her speech.

"Studying right? Ok study more you gotta make yourself better.", Said mother.

"But maa I am hungry..", she said in a low tone.

" what?", her mother asked her because Her voice was really low.

"Nothing", she replied.

mother left the room. Sam let out an uneasy breath that was gathering in her chest. She has only one fear. That is to do something that makes others upset about it. Going to school on time, sitting on time to study, eating on time. Do what is necessary. Finally, when she gets some time, she takes care of the plants on her balcony and inside her room. She doesn't talk much. Speak only when necessary. Actually she has nothing to say.

These plants are a very important part of her life. She had to struggle a lot to get anything from her childhood. But these plants, she only watered, occasionally gave a little fertilizer, loosened the soil and very little labor was required to grow these plants. She gets a lot with this little effort. Fresh leaves and beautiful flowers!

A lot can be obtained with little effort from these plants alone. Yet she sometimes hopes that something will come in her life where she will work a little, but get a lot. In her childhood she heard it from her grandmother that grandmother's parents managed to marry each other with great difficulty.

In those days, you could not find a life partner with such AI as now. One had to find a life partner with difficulty. And lived very happily with that spouse. That era is no more. Sam does not have to struggle to find a life partner. Any day suddenly a notice may come to her. AI can tell her that her life partner has been found. Then with very little effort she will find her life partner and live happily in peace.

She is 19 already. She will be notified any day. Few months after her birth she was notified with a possible partner. His name was "Jeo Benoy". Will he be her real partner? who knows. She doesn't really care.

Benoy laid down on his bed. After 3 days, he is finally back to his town and home. No one noticed except his mother. When they came back mother acted like she is angry but both Benoy and Benoei knows that their mother likes when they want to use their brain instead of fully depending on AI.

After washing himself Benoy decided to call his friend Afrodina.

" Dude seriously? I was just about to sleep",Afrodina said with a very tired voice.

"Wake up! I wanna tell you something crazy!", said Benoy.

" Everything you do is crazy", Afrodina said.

"Ugh no! So I collected information about stars!", Benoy said hopping that Afrodina will be happy.

" so?"

"What do you mean by so? your gonna be our future telescope engineer! "

"Who said that?"

"Huh? I mean you are studying-"

"Shut up!"

Benoy softened his voice before saying, "it's so hard to accept it right?I bet you will smile in a pretty way if you could do what you wanted to do".

"are you asking me if I can accepted or not? it's never a question. It was never a question. I just have to do it", said Afrodina.

Sometimes when he listen to this girl girl, he get goosebumps. Hearing her, it seems that everyone is locked in a cage. The whole world is a suffocating place. But there are so many big empty spaces all over this world.

few days ago, this girl was a smiling, bright, cheerful girl. She made everyone in the class laugh and got along very easily. Afrodina's dream since childhood is to become the biggest businesswoman in her town. Everyone around her knew it. But not a single person in this city is a telescope engineer. For this reason, AI made her choose to study engineering.

She doesn't smile like before.She used to be a person with whom one could open their heart.Now if anyone tries to talk to her, she gets annoyed.

"why are you talking like this?just try to find the solution...", Benoy tried to break the sudden silence.

"This is normal. Now if I want to do anything beyond that it will be unusual.Do you know that I am the worst girl in the world? I want to mess up everything around me one day. How fun! Well what if I suddenly disappear? No more telescope engineers will be available from our city. Then maybe AI will make someone else a telescope engineer. What if that other person disappeared like me? Ai will try to teach someone again! what if that person wants to disappeared to? HAHAHA oneday everyone in this city will disappear! including you.",

She kept laughing. Benoy hates this type of laughter. This girl was like an open book. You could tell by the look on her face what she was thinking. Now even if you listen to her all day, you can't understand what she is thinking.

The call was cut off. Benoy sighed. Afrodina is not a close friend but a good friend. Benoy met her in early highschool year. She was very friendly so the whole school became her friend easily. Everyone is comfortable around her. This recent change makes things so hard for Benoy to accept.

Sometimes he has a kind of feeling. which he cannot explain. The feeling is hidden in him. Very uncomfortable. He always feels like someone is watching him. Keeping track of his work. This "somebody" is not the Creator. An intelligence made by big people. If the creation of human can manage the whole world, then power of that human is very high! With these human, the impossible can be made possible. Humans have an unimaginable potential. But if these people are not given the opportunity to develop on their own, how will that unimaginable possibility be possible?

"Bro, come out.", Benoei said while knocking the door.

Benoy went out of his room.

"what now?"

"wanna go to the Ray concert?"

"Ray concert?when is that happening?"

"Tomorrow, hurry up and make your decision we got a buy the tickets too!",

"of course let's go! Ray's songs are always awesome!"

Ray is a famous singer. His concert is always sold out! A young 20 years old guy whose partner is still pending. This makes girls go crazy. His songs are most about self improvement that is why many young boys like him as their Idol.

Next day the Jeo siblings went to the concert. getting a ticket just before the concert it's not something which is possible at Ray's concert but somehow Benoei managed it.

As expected the concert was overly crowded. It was 4 pm. According to the AI predict it will be a windy day. Nice and cool. A perfect weather for a concert. The cheers got louder as Ray stepped on the stage. A soft melody filled the arena as he started to sing. Everyone smiled at his voice. His voice is neither high pitched nor low pitched. It's the perfect voice for someone to sing. when he sings happy song everyone becomes happy. When he sings sad song everyone becomes sad.

Welcoming smile, bright Eyes, perfect clothes. These are the qualities every single celebrities have. It's a common for celebrities to look perfect but he is all about his voice. After 4-5 songs he stopped and smiled at the crowd.

"Thank you so much for cheering me up. Sometimes when I look at you guys I feel like It's all worth it.", said Ray.

It's so common for celebrities to appreciate their fans. They like to sugar coat their speech.

"the empty hole in my heart fills with your support! So I can forget my sorrows for a while", said Ray.

Listening to this Benoy frowned and looked at him. He thought, can a young boy so handsome and so successful like him have trouble? These celebrities all want a little extra attention.Well it's very common nowadays.

"Today is a happy day. That's why I want to do something I am not supposed to do, Haha,remember a few months ago one of my songs got banned? ", Ray asked.

" YES", the crowd loudly replied.

"I admit that the melody was very different, it's neither happy neither sad, I just wanted to try something new. None of you are used to with that kind of song. But if you listen to songs from 200-300 years ago, you will find songs like this.", he stopped and laughed. Then continue to say,"nowadays when people hear those songs they will think it's so baddated and kind of cringe. The AI entertainment centre told me to take down that song. So today I am gonna sing a banned song."

everyone started to laugh. Benoy hears the boy next to him saying, "it was probably a very bad song! how horrible a song can be so that the AI has to remove it! I have never heard anyone banning a song, this is going to be hilarious!"

"Bro! can you believe this? singing a banned song is morally wrong. he is starting to attract me! ", Benoei said with excitement.

"What? every girls are attracted to him.", Benoy said

"No I just liked his songs, but today he is so attractive!", Benoei laughed.

" Hahaha I knew it you have a thing for criminals, sadly criminals are not selected as spouse", Benoy laughed.

"How is he a criminal? Did he kill,steal,betray? No." Benoei tried to defend Ray.

Before Benoy could say anything the melody started. Ray was right the music was different. Neither happy nor sad. But it sounds interesting and exciting.

"don't wait for any special miracle

our rough path is right in front of us

it might be an unknown future where we lose ourself

please let us protect us with unconditional struggle

The thing that your heart craves without yourself knowing

please let us protect that with unconditional struggle

there is that human being who fears of being controlled by them

we want to believe there is no hell wrost then this

such a disgrace to the most powerful creature"

The song suddenly stopped. Ray's microphone was turned off. But Ray did not stop singing. Even though no one could hear his voice he was singing with passion as if he is desperate.

The arena went silent for a moment. Ray's microphone was turned on again.

"Haha look they stopped me again!isn't that hilarious?". Said Ray.

The boy next to Benoy said, "yes it was"

"if it was really hilarious then why are you not laughing?", Benoy asked the boy beside him.

the boy thought for a moment and said "it's neither sad nor happy nor giving us any information or waking up any awareness,do you have any answer to what kind of song was that? "

This time Benoy went silent. He felt Benoei clinged onto his hand.

"So cool!", she whispered." That guy is no joke!"

Benoy was thinking what kind of song that was and the best answer he could come up with was "warning"

"He gave us warning. Benoei! We are not the only one!",Said Benoy."I am starting to believe in "meant to be" phrase. Can you see his smile Benoei? it looks exactly like Nelsi's."

Benoei listens to her brother and said, "what is it bro? Do we really have the power to do something totally out of the system?"

"I don't have the answer, but if, by doing something out of the system can make people happy then isn't it worth it?", said Benoy

"we will get to know if it's worth it or not by trying it out", Benoei smirked.

To be continued...