opening the vault.

Ace's point of view.

"Yes, my daughters are truly ready. Their mother, Milan, had always said they were. Not until now did I realize how true that is".

That was my father's comment after we pulled off the mission without losing anyone.

We showed how skillful we were against highly trained people. We were taking over every aspect from one enemy to another.

Now we have the diamond, but we don't have it yet. The vault holding the diamond is about the size of a briefcase, but if the right code was not inserted, it could explode.

We never did anything like make an attempt to open the vault that day that we came back. We waited until the second day.

Before we went to sleep that night, my father came to speak with me personally, though it was in front of others.

He reminded me of how I have been computing since I was young. He told me that I had developed hacking abilities on my own. He gave me the lift-up speech that could help me in opening the vault.

"Ace, you texted me to come and pick you up at school. You used your school computer system to hack into your class teacher's mobile to do so". He said.

He reminded me of what I was doing at age seven. I seriously don't remember that.

The whole family wanted me to say a word, they wanted me to at least say I can do it, or I can't do it. Instead, I went to sleep.

When we were planning for this mission, all our strategies were fine for me. My father told us to call the attention of all security members to a spot before we commenced putting them down. 

That was nothing. The only thing that baffled me there was that Mince was getting shot by her own sister, Helen.

We all had our part to play, and she was getting shot. She wore the first bullet-proof vest, not satisfied, she wore another one on it, making it double. We were all laughing at her.

After the mission, we were all good except for Vesta, who had a bruise on her head.

When we woke this morning, mother quickly prepared breakfast. As we were eating, I became a celebrity. All eyes were on me.

They had all finished their meal, and were waiting for me to finish mine and try hacking the vault.

I trusted myself, but they all doubted me except my father. They thought I was delaying because it would be hard for me to open that vault.

I didn't learn hacking anywhere, except the decoding stuff at school. Maybe that was the reason it was hard for them to trust.

Actually, the code is not just for anyone to decode. It was well protected so it wouldn't be hacked, but not to me.

All the family members were waiting, but I didn't care. I made them wait for it.

I observed Oscar, she would soon shout at me if I delayed a bit more.

And just like it was in my thoughts, she spoke up.

"The only thing that is stopping me from hitting you right now is that you always eat slowly, and that is the only aspect I hate about you". She said.

She was angry and frustrated. She said, had it been I lived at the orphanage, I would have known how to eat fast. Because anyone that finishes his or her food first joins others that are yet to finish theirs at the Orphanage she was.

After all these years, I finally know the main reason she eats so fast. I was thinking it's because she resembles father, because father eats fast too.

But Oscar is the fastest eater of the family.

She was speaking so fast, and you can tell she was really frustrated. She spoke of how the nuns would discipline anyone that didn't want to agree to the rule when mother tried to calm her down.

I noticed Mince's eyes moving around my body in an unpleasant way.

I asked her why she was looking at me that way. She was initially going to shout at me, but she swallowed it and urged me to be fast.

She started speaking about diamonds that gave me more time for my meal. 

She said she had been hearing of diamonds, but never for once set an eye on them. She said the only obstacle between her and seeing a diamond now is my slow eating habit. 

She finished that sentence with her eyes descending on me.

My eyes were wide open in frustration and I sighed in disappointment.

She said right into my eyes that whenever I am done eating, I should just be able to hack the vault so she could see the beauty of the shining stones.

She had gotten really sick of waiting, but I don't care. They were willing to help me push the food down my throat.

"No matter how small the meal is, it always takes her a damn lot of time before she finishes it. Just don't need anything from her when she's eating, she will surely delay". Swiss said.

That shows how long they were waiting for me to get the vault open. I understand, we went through a lot, and it's not now that we should fail.

"Right from the entrance of the mansion where I was standing, I found myself on the ground, and I could feel blood coming out of my head. I couldn't touch, I couldn't rub, I just had to pretend dead". Said by Vesta, who was wearing bandages on her head.

I looked behind me to face her and I said not you again. She looked straight into my eyes, and asked me not to fail in opening that vault.

I went to sleep the night before, and I slept before any of them. In the middle of the night, I took the vault and a laptop to the sitting room.

I went through some files I had saved on my laptop and I hacked the vault. It was easy for me to open it.

After I hacked it, I reset the password from a six-digit to a five-alphabet code. And I locked it with V. E. S. T. A. 

I did that to sympathize with Vesta. She was the only one that got injured on the mission.

After what Vesta said, I swiftly finished my meal.

I was going to take my plates to the kitchen, but my sisters were on me to help me with the plates. Mince had brought the vault to my front in the blink of an eye.

The whole family were all surrounding me except for Vesta, who was injured.

I called Vesta to insert her name. They were surprised and were confused.

I asked her to go ahead, and when she typed her name in the vault, it didn't open.

I apologized to them, and asked her to insert the name again in block letters, and the vault opened.