Chapter 3

The door shut behind her and she quickly gather herself, and walked down the hallway ignoring what had just happened. She could hear Jackson footsteps behind her slowly and without vigor.

"Careful, do you want to alert the whole school", his voice sounded cold behind her, "you have exactly thirty five minutes left to find what ever is it you are looking for", he gloated.

Jackson has never been a fan of her from the very first day she transferred to the school, he was always looking down on her and treating her as a nobody,an orphan. He was one of the most important person of the school, as he was in charge of the digital room, the hallway monitor and his parents were one of those that funded the school. He could literally get away with anything, and that's why she needed him to get access to places student ought not to have access to.

They were at the door of the digital room, it was towards the end of the hallway, a room hidden behind the teacher's lounge and adjacent to the PTA office. The hallway was lined with lockers at both sides. At both ends were staircase leading up to the upper floor of the school, at one end of the hallway was a sharp bend to the left that housed the teacher's lounge and PTA's office, towards the end of the bend was the digital room. It's name boldly written on its door with the use of bright blue lights.

She had always wondered why the room was basically in the school, it had served no purpose for students. The door to the teacher's lounge behind them was partly shut, and she could see the inner left side of the room with her eyes. It was empty.

"It won't be empty for long, Mr Joe always comes ten minutes earlier before the remaining teachers", he said looking at her.

"Why, that guy is lazy", she whispered.

"Yeah, right. Very lazy", they both laughed.

Quickly he brought out a card from his back pocket of his pants and placed it at the metal case that had a particular red light glowing on it, which sat comfortably at the middle left corner of the door, the light went from red to green in an instant and let out a low humming sound that lasted for brief seconds, she placed her hands to the metal case hurriedly in attempt to prevent the sound from coming out.

"What you doing", he looked at her amused.

"I was trying to.....", She gestured to the door in a playing manner, "you know...".

He laughed, "sometimes, I wonder if you have the brain of an ostrich in there", his hands pointing to her heads.

She waved off his hands and looked at him with serious glare, "I don't".

"Chill....", he opened the door and went in ahead of her, and she followed behind.

The room was dark and she heard a sound by her right hand side and quickly the room was flooded with lights, she opened her mouth in awe. It was breathtaking, a very lager room with computers arrange in seven column, and ten rows. Each computer desk had the modern set of computer with beautiful keyboards, a ups, CPU and some other gadgets she didn't recognize. At the front of the room was a gigantic screen that was hanging firmly on the wall, it had no external wire connections and the screen was majestic, she turned her eyes towards the back of the room and she could see huge machines stacked on top of each other like the setting of a bookshelf, each sharing wire connections with each other.

"This must be the server", she said to herself, quickly she turned her to eyes to look at something that stood tall besides her, it was in a metal cage reaching towards the top of the room, it had...

"Hey!", his voice filled the room, "come here and get your thing done quickly. This room can't be opened for long".

Immediately she sauntered towards him and sat on the chair that was already drawn outwards, the screen in front of her was already lit up and had a big logo of the school at the middle of it with a entry field below it, which had "input password" written on it.

He bent over and tap on the keyboard that sat in front of her and the screen changed to an empty layout with the background of the school from its rear side and an icon at the top right of the screen.

"Click on it and get started", he looked at her, "I would go stand at the door and keep watch. You have ten minutes", and with that he left her and head towards the door.

She tap the icon and a new layout showed, then she navigated to the place that had Enter Student Id written on it. She typed in the id and the details of the student showed on the screen. Her eyes went quickly to his passport and her countenance fell, it wasn't him. She searched for any Joshua and didn't find any. It was heartbreaking for her, was this gonna be another dead end.

Her mind raced with thoughts, then she remembered

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"Hey, I haven't seen you before", the man spoked while facing him.

"I am a new recruit, just came here a year ago", Josh replied

"What's your name, my name is Augustine Felix", he replied.

The boss looked surprised.

"It's not my real name sir, but the identity i am recognized with", he spoke clearing the doubt.

"Oh", the boss voice sounded with relief, " I can see that Bob is still good at what he does. That's a fine identity, i remember my young days, I usually go with Jack Steve, I loved that name".

"It's a nice one boss",

"And what's your story", he asked him

"High school teenager, Malmo high, lived with dad and mom in ......."

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"...first block, Jay and Johnson Street", she read out the address written on the screen. It was a dilemma for her as on the screen was two results of Augustine Felix, each with the same house address. One had a photo on it and the other had no photo written on it.

She looked at the resumption date of the first result and it pointed to three years ago, the year her parents were murdered. The other was pointed far earlier. She snapped both results with her phone and quickly turned off the system.

Jackson had been staring at her facial expressions the whole time, as it had switched from excited, sad, disappointment and then hope. What possibly could she be doing, he thought to himself. She had told him she needed to look up something at the digital room and he saw it as an opportunity to fulfil his sexual desire he always had towards her. He never believe she would comply, that's was why when she dropped to her knees and his pants followed suit, he understood the seriousness of the issue. Whatever could make a girl loose her dignity like that must be worth dying for. What was she up to, the only information he had about her was that her parents died in a fire accident three years back and she was probably living under the system.

Should he inquire or should he not, he pondered, that's was when she showed up in his face.

"Let's go", her response was sharp.

He locked the door behind them after placing his card on the metal case as earlier, he watched as she walked quickly away from him, but his hands were already outstretched and he grabbed her by her right arm and drew her to himself.

"Mind telling me, what you went looking for".

"I gave you seven minutes in heaven, to shut your mouth up", and with that she freed herself and walked away.

I need you now, she texted Ben. She walked towards the back entrance of the school, the door wasn't locked as it led to the school field. She opened the door slowly and she could see a tall masculine figure with only shorts on tossing a soccer ball around, he was the school quarterback, a tall dark and handsome guy, with carved jaws and strong lips. The sight of him made her shudder, she quickly hid herself behind the stands where the audience sat and watched while a match was being played, and she waited patiently for Ben there. Ben came five minutes later, calling her out with his voice.

"Oh Ben, what you doing here", the tall dark boy spoke on sighting ben.

"He is with me", she stepped out from under the stands and walked quickly to Ben side, placing her hands across his and smirking mischievously.

"Are you not supposed to be in class", he asked, staring directly at Ben.

"My babe and i have some issues to iron out", he replied, tightening his grip on her.

"Whatever Bro", he stepped forward and clasp hands with Ben and continued jogging his ball.

Ben turned round to face her with an inquisitive look on his face, and she dragged him towards the other end of the field. They stood beside the goal post and she lean her back on the post and stare at him intensely.

"I have found him", she said, "I have found his address", her voice was filled with excitement.

"Oh really", he looked very surprised.

"Yeah,, I got his info from the digital room", her voice was quick and sharp.

His face took on a surprise look and then quickly turned to doubt, "how did you gain ac....",

She was already walking away, with her tightly holding on to his right hand with her left hand,

"Quickly let's go", she spoke with pace and she directed him towards the direction of his car.

"Go to wh....."

"To find him".