Chapter 4: The Secret Club

Chapter 4: The Secret Club

The next day Jennifer got dropped off at school, and she met up with her friends by the school's entrance. After greeting each other they walked into the school "Hey Jenny I heard that yesterday you spent a lot of time with some kid." One of her friends asked her " Yeah I heard about that as well, what happened?" Another one of her friends asked her.

"It wasn't anything like what you guys are imagining. I just met the kid, he was interested so we just had a conversation." Jennifer explained to them. Just as they were going towards their class building Jennifer saw Samuel with some of his friends. The moment she saw him, he noticed her as well. With a bright smile on his face, Samuel approached her while waving at her. " Hey magic eyes what's up how are you?". Samuel greeted her.

"Magic eyes?" all of Jennifer's friends questioned her at the same time. Her face flushed in embarrassment. She saw Samuel open his mouth once again, fearing what he might say to further embarrass her. She ran up to him and closed his mouth. " Good morning to you as well, now before you say anything else my name is Jennifer, Jennifer Myers got it," she said quietly.

Samuel nodded his head, she released him allowing the boy to speak again. " Nice to see you Jennifer, I'm Samuel." Finally getting to know his name made Jennifer feel a lot better. Suddenly her friends appeared from behind her. They all stared a Samuel and his friends. " so he is the kid?" said one of the girls behind Jennifer. "He looks average" stated another one.

Samuel unbothered by them decided to introduce himself to them. "Hello Jennifer's friends I'm Samuel nice to meet you all. What are your names?" they all looked at him weirdly. "Sorry we don't talk with kids. Come on Jennifer let's go" said one of the girls as they began walking away. " See you at martial arts club," Jennifer said as she followed her friends.

"See you later magic eyes," Samuel said. Jennifer felt tempted to just turn around and punch him. But she decided to keep moving forward she was getting late for her class.

"wow dude you are friends with her" Said Blessed one of Samuel's friends. They were friends with each other in their previous school so they naturally ended up hanging out. " yeah we met yesterday" Samuel replied like it was nothing. " Bro you have to tell me your secrets. Older girls won't even look at me" said Billy. All the boys turned towards him, Billy was the shortest of them all. That made him look even younger than he was. Blessed placed his hand on Billy's shoulder and sighed "I don't think any amount of advice will help you there bro. Maybe after a few years come back and ask us that question again."

"Pfft!" Samuel tried holding his back laughter. Billy felt attacked and said "You know what I don't need I guys. Mark my words by the time we leave this school I will have had more girlfriends than both of you combined." The others ignored his Words not knowing how true those words would become.

Life went on for Samuel and his friends. The martial arts club became a sort of hell for Samuel. Due to his unwillingness to stop calling Jennifer magic eyes, she ended up taking him as her sparing partner every day to… educate him when it comes to respecting his elders. But Samuel knew how to take a punch and was particularly think-skinned. Jennifer would always make sure to never take it too far but she still hurt him. They still got closer as the day went on. Samuel always the brave one even began spending time with her at lunchtime. After multiple failed attempts and some bribery using snacks. Samuel was able to get close to Jennifer's friend group.

But as one would expect Samuel throughout all this time has always wanted to share the fantastic stories he saw in the data chips with his friends. But Jack wouldn't allow him to. It took a while, like a very long while. However, Samuel was able to come up with a plan that would allow him to share some of the contents from the data chips. With the guarantee that his friends wouldn't talk about it to others whether intentionally or unintentionally.

…

Inside the Wild family house, the father-son pair can be seen working on something together. Jack's Karna was summoned and was fully active. During the past 6 months, Samuel had learned a thing or two about computers from his father. Using some of that knowledge and some other knowledge about hypnosis on the internet. The two were able to create an AI that allowed them to share the stories from the data chips with others. This shared data would only be viewable once and it would self-delete itself without a trace. But the best feature the AI had was that it would occupy any device that the data was shared. So that once a person looks at whatever is on it they would be hypnotized.

"I can't believe this actually works," Jack said in complete shock. Although he was responsible for 100% of the creation of this AI Samuel was the one that came up with the idea and that taught him a new way to use his Karna. All Karna users instinctually know how to use their abilities. So to find himself using his Karna in a way that he never thought of before was exciting. The hypothesis works by affecting the person through their eyes. Once a person opens the shared data, it would first open up with an animated display. A flash of colors and patterns in a specific way would make a person's mind easy to influence.

Then as they watch, read or just look at the shared data for exactly 60 seconds they would be fully hypnotized. "But this is dangerous Samuel I'm not sure if it's tight to use this hypothesis on people," Jack said " Come on Dad we have done the simulations. And we have even live-tested it on Miss Anderson's cats. We even tested it on some gangsters downtown. They were fine for the whole week. And we easily removed the hypnosis once we were done." Samuel said.

Jack knew his son was right. It's just the thought of such power, the power to manipulate a person's mind without them knowing anything about it scared Jack. "the best part is that the hypnosis we will use will only ever activate if they try to talk about the shared data to someone they're not supposed to.

When they try to talk about it or even search for it online or write about it, they will simply forget it. We aren't hurting them in any way" Samuel said. Jack sighed and allowed Samuel to share with his friends.

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The following day, Samuel had gathered his friends. This included Blessed, Billy, Jennifer and her best friend Tina. " so you guys have been asking me about where I get all these crazy ideas I always talk about. Well, I'm going to share with you guys some stuff." Samuel said.

"What kind of stuff are we talking about," Tina asked. " it's nothing crazy, just some movies and anime from the era before the Federation," Samuel responded. "So you're sending us old people movies?" Billy said. "It's not that simple. Before I give anything to any of you guys. You have to promise to never talk about what you find out to anyone who's not a part of this group."

Samuel said seriously.

They all looked at Samuel with confusion. His tone suggested that what he was about to give them was dangerous. " Why are you being so weird? Whatever you are about to give us isn't anything illegal, right?" Jennifer asked. " Well, it's not that it's illegal… it's more like these things are stuff that the federation doesn't want us to know about, " Samuel said.

"So you are trying to tell us that these movies you have watched are somehow so important that the federation doesn't want us to know about them?" Blessed asked in confusion. " I know it sounds crazy. It's ultimately up to you guys. Because if you choose to watch them, there's no going back. So who's in?" Samuel said again with full seriousness.

"I'm in," they all said one by one. With their confirmation, Samuel sent them some data into their wristwatch. As soon as they received it Billy chuckled and said "All this talk about secrets and stuff we shouldn't tell others. Why are we doing this? We are behaving like some secret society or club "

Samuel smiled and replied "That's exactly what we are" Just like that a secret club was born within High Cliffs High School. The group of friends lived their lives day to day while indulging in their secretive consumption of old-era media.

It all started with only their small group but soon it spread. With more members joining. By the end of the year, the club had grown from 5 people to 20. Each friend had more friends so it just naturally grew. But it grew in silence never letting anyone outside their circle catch wind of them. Before anyone released it, it was time for Jennifer and Tina to awaken their Karna.