When I Hacked the Snow Prince

4. My secret

I woke up to the sight of Ty sleeping peacefully on the other side of the bed, cuddling with his pillow. Yesterday we ended up sleeping together on his bed after watching a movie.

I tried to yank the pillow from his hands in order to wake him up but he had an iron grip around it. So I ended up kicking his butt and he instantly jumped up, groaning.

"The hell is wrong with you? Why did you kick me?" he whined and groaned rubbing his bum and falling back again, closing his eyes.

"C'mon..wake up," I scoffed. "Don't you need to go for practice?" I asked and looked at the alarm clock, only to find it's already 7:20 Am.

"I don't have morning practice today. I know when to wake up and I've set alarm. I'm not you." he said in an annoyed sleepy hoarse voice, hugging his pillow tightly.

"Oh..okay. I forgot you are the Mr goody two shoes," I blurted crawling out of his bed. I then walked out of his room and went to the nearby room or currently my room in this house.

It's actually Tessa's-Tyler's older sister- room. She moved out a year ago after her marriage. So I've been temporarily given this room.

There was still time to get ready for school. So I plopped down on my bed and rolled about, hugging my pillow. I didn't go back to sleep. But I lay there, staring at the ceiling, thinking about Aaron.

I didn't tell Ty about my conversation with Aaron yesterday. I don't know how to tell him and where to begin. He will only get angry if he knows I talked to Aaron. I can't let him know I got close to Aaron so soon. I must wait.

Also, I didn't tell Ty, the guy who got me detention is his best friend. If I tell him that, I'm sure I'll end up telling him the whole thing Aaron told me about Asher. So I just didn't take that topic out yesterday. Moreover, I was a little busy. I was trying to hack Asher Carter's Featurefolio account.

Now if you guys are wondering whether I'm a hacker, then you are right. I'm indeed a hacker.

I was so interested in technology from my early childhood. I started learning programming languages when I was in 4th grade. First, when I told my parents, I wanted to learn coding, they let me without thinking much.

After learning HTML, CSS, Python, Java, and C++ for 4 years, I eventually started learning hacking along with web designing. But in 9th grade when I hacked one of my classmate's phones and did something funny as part of a revenge mission, my parents stopped supporting my ambition to become a web designer.

They stopped giving me money altogether and told me I better concentrate on my studies. The fact that by then my grades were steadily deteriorating didn't help. No matter how much I pleaded Dad and Mom didn't bother to listen to me anymore.

But that couldn't stop me from learning. I started taking web designing and hacking classes secretly. My pocket money wasn't enough to pay the fees so I opened a secret bank account and started earning myself with my existing knowledge.

At first, I taught security and Ethical hacking to a few interested people. Then I worked as an anonymous bug bounty for some time. Soon I got offered to work with a group of professional web designers as a penetration tester and later as a back-end developer.

I ended up earning three times the money than what I needed in the first month itself which was while I was 15. And I currently have more than a dollar two lack in my account. But nobody knows. And I'm not letting anyone know anytime soon.

In the last few months, I've been very much engrossed in designing a few simple 'with coding' apps and I also attempted at making a video game. However currently, I'm not working on anything. Cause I don't want Ty or anyone else to find out my secret.

At my home, it was safer to do such work, but here Ty often comes barging into my room at really unexpected times and I can't always lock the door cause that will give him suspicion.

But I still need to spend one or two hours revising my coding lessons, once in a while. I now wake up at 4 Am for that. Thankfully Nobody has found out my secret yet. I hope Ty won't find out. He isn't going to wake up that early anyway.

But yesterday while I was hacking Asher's account, Ty suddenly came in pushing open the doors and I had to quickly shut down my laptop.

He got a bit suspicious and asked me what I was doing. I said I was playing video game. Thankfully he believed it and then we started playing video games together and ended up watching a movie.

So, I couldn't hack Asher yesterday. But I'm almost there hacking his password. I have tricked him into clicking a malicious link I send him from my fake account.

Today evening I'll definitely hack him and destroy his account which has almost 20 K followers. I need to take my revenge on him for what he did to me.

I flinched and jumped up to Ty's alarm going off loudly in his room. I crawled out of the bed and walked into the bathroom, quickly brushing my teeth. After that, I got dressed in light blue jeans and a grey t-shirt along with my usual sneakers.

Then I quickly brushed my shoulder-length black hair backward and tucked it into a ponytail before slinging my bag over my shoulders and racing downstairs for breakfast.

Ty arrived at the breakfast table just after me. Breakfast was yummy pancakes along with chocolate milkshake.

"Carrie, just come back home after class. There's no need to wait for Ty. Asher will drop him here," Ty's Mom said as we finished our breakfast.

Yesterday when we came back from school, she was home. She had come back early from the cafe with chocolate cakes for both of us. Ty told her, I was waiting for him, watching his basketball practice. We aren't letting her know about my detention.

"I really like watching them practice. I'll come back with Ty. And there's nothing for me to do after coming back early," I replied.

"Oh, then do as you wish," Aunt nodded smiling. "Have a nice day you too."

I was relieved. She didn't get any suspicions yet. But I don't know whether I'll be able to survive the whole week without them finding out.

We said our goodbyes to Ty's parents and rushed out, hopping into the car. In fifteen minutes, we reached school and parted ways for our respective classes.

I had English for the first hour. When I reached the class, Rhett had already reserved a seat for me, almost in the middle. I went and sat with him. Aaron walked in just before the bell rang and he strolled to the back, again ignoring me just like yesterday.

After lunch, I went to the library. I had to collect my library cards from the librarian. That hour, I had chemistry and I didn't know where to find the class. I asked a girl I met in the library for direction but I didn't really understand what she said. When I reached the main hallway, I saw Aaron leisurely walking down the corridor. I quickly rushed up to him.

"Hey, where's Mr Henry's chemistry class?" I asked him, taking him by surprise.

"Oh hey! wait, you've chemistry this hour?"

"Yeah.." I nodded.

"Me too," he said excitedly.

"Woah! Then this is the 4th class we are sharing together." I chuckled.

"Guess this will be the last. I don't share more than four subjects with anyone," he said.

"How many subjects do you share with Ty?"

"Three. Maths, Biology, and Physics," he said.

So I can't watch the two in Biology and Physics class.

"What's your elective subject?" I asked.

"Computer science. What's your's?"

"That breaks the record. I also took computer science," I smiled turning my face to him.

"Oh..really ?" he laughed. But then suddenly a frown took over his features and soon he was glaring hard at someone who was probably standing in front of us.

I turned to see none else than Asher. He was standing at just an inch's distance from us, crossing his arms over his chest. My face also took an annoyed expression. He is the last person I wish to see. Why the hell is he now blocking us in the hallway?

"So Aaron, you got a new girl friend, huh?" The blondie asked in a tone I really didn't like.

"What you want?" Aaron snarled at him.

Ignoring him, the jerk turned his attention to me. "How was detention?" He asked me with a stupid smirk on his face.

"Very nice. Thank you so much. Now if you could move.." I said and started to walk away. But then he again stopped me.

"You are Ty's sister, hmm?"

So he found out? How?

"Anyway you aren't his real sister. So it's okay."

"Excuse me, what is okay?" I scowled at him.

"What happened yesterday. And you deserved it for what you did."

This jerk! What does he think of himself? Can I just kill him?

"Remember playing with the buzzer?" He then asked.

"What?" I frowned at him. What is he talking about?

"Nothing. Do you know who he is?" he then asked, pointing at Aaron who was glaring at him.

"Yeah, I know. He is Aaron Miller," I crossed my arms across my chest.

"Yeah, that's right. But do you know he is your brother's enemy?"

"Yes, so what?" I said blankly.

"So what?" He chuckled looking at me. I literally want to punch this evil creature.

"So you knew everything. And you still decided to become friends with him, huh? You don't care about Ty's feelings?"He was getting on my nerves. I didn't know what to say anymore. I was literally burning in anger.

"What are you trying to do? Get lost dude!" Aaron scoffed at him before grabbing my hands. "Ann, come, we are getting late to class," Then he literally started dragging me away from the Asher devil.

"Aaron! I want to kill that asshole!" I nearly yelled trying to yank my hands out of Aaron's grip.

"Calm down. Or he'll get you into more trouble. He won't consider you are Ty's cousin," Aaron whispered. I sighed in frustration and yanked my hands free.

"Hey Aaron!" Some guy called from behind. Aaron turned around while I continued walking forward in annoyance.

"Where are you going? Mr. Henry said to come to the chemistry lab today," I heard the guy say and so I stopped.

"Oh we have lab today? Great!", Aaron hummed before turning to me.

"C'mon Caroline, chemistry lab is that way," I sighed and walked back to him. "Caroline, this is Archer, my friend. He is also on the soccer team," Aaron introduced the guy to me.

"Oh.." I hummed.

"And Archer this is.."

"I know, Caroline. You joined here yesterday, right?" the guy asked me before Aaron could introduce me to him.

"Yeah..how did you know?" I asked.

"I'm with you in History," he replied. Great! So he was there when I got called to the principal's office. I sighed and looked away.

I think I already got a bad reputation in this school. Maybe by now, everyone heard about the new girl who managed to get detention on the first day itself. Yeah, a lot of people were giving me wild stares in the corridors and in the English class. I just didn't mind them.

Anyway, Archer didn't ask me anything about yesterday's incident as the three of us together walked in direction of the chemistry lab. Probably he understood I'm not in a good mood. He was conversing with Aaron, something about soccer and I didn't care to listen. I was thinking about what to do to that Asher. I think I shouldn't just destroy his FF account. I must do something more before deleting it. Ahh..but I want to do something right now!

"Aaron! Let's get some sulphuric acid from the lab and pour it on that b***h's face," Suddenly I scoffed, causing Archer to look at me with an open mouth.

Aaron chuckled nervously. "Don't mind her. She's just blabbering," he then squeezed my hands indicating me to shut up.

Within a minute we reached the chemistry lab. Mr. Henry and a lot of students were already inside. I guess we are the last to arrive. Archer asked permission and the three of us walked inside after Mr. Henry motioned us to come in. We took position in the front of the long marble desk as it was really crowded towards the back.

"Kids, listen carefully, today we will be doing salt analysis," Mr. Henry said. "But Before that let's recollect the sodium compounds we studied in the last class. First, we have sodium phosphate." He said pointing at a watch glass containing a white crystalline powder. A guy who was standing near him touched the sugary powder and raised it to his nose. "Hello it isn't sugar. Have it and you can suffer from diarrhea." Mr Henry said turning to him. The whole lab burst out laughing at that.

'Diarrhoea?? Nice.' I said in mind and smirked looking at the powder. Mr. Henry continued his lecture and finally, he started showing us the steps in the salt analysis. Then something odd happened. Aaron borrowed a pen and paper from a girl near us and started scribbling down the steps. I thought he was like me. But now why is he suddenly acting like a nerd?

Once Mr. Henry was done, he asked us to pair up and do the experiment. Two girls immediately rushed to Aaron and started bickering with each other.

"Hey! One of you be my pair," I said to the girls as I didn't find a pair yet. But the girls continued their argument, ignoring me. And Aaron already started doing the experiment without minding them.

I looked around to see if I could get someone to become my partner. Only then I noticed Mia and Brent standing at the back, looking at me with scrunched eyebrows. s**t! They are going to go tell Ty that I came to the lab with Aaron and I'm now close with him. Anyway Asher will do the task before them.

I sighed and turned around looking whether there is someone standing alone. But everyone had paired except the two girls beside me, who were still quarreling. I didn't really know how to do this analysis and I badly needed a pair.

At last Mr. Henry came to us and shouted at the girls to shut up. He paired them both into a team and asked me to join Aaron. I was more than glad as Aaron seemed to know how to do this.

"You've quite a lot of girls behind you," I said to Aaron and he sighed. "You better date one of them on a long term basis if you want to get rid of a lot of them."

He clicked his tongue on his cheek and went to take a beaker. I guess he didn't like what I just said.

"Seriously, there isn't any point in waiting for Ty anymore," I continued. "You might had a chance if you hadn't dated several girls and did stuff like kissing in the janitor's closet," I don't know why I said that. Maybe I wanted to see that pained expression on his face. I was still mad at him for what he did to Ty.

Aaron didn't say anything. He did the whole procedure alone and successfully finished the salt analysis. The whole time I just simply stood there and watched him. He looked upset and pissed but also hot at the same time. I chuckled inwardly looking at him. At last, he called Mr. Henry over and told him our salt. We both got 5 marks for today's lab performance.

"Good. Keep it up. You guys can leave now," Mr. Henry told us. We were one of the first teams to complete the analysis.

Aaron proceeded to leave, folding the paper he had written the notes in. "Hey! Give me that paper," I said to him.

"Why?" he aaked.

"Give it. I want it," I said sternly. He frowned. "C'mon, I'll give it to you later." Finally, he handed the paper to me and briskly walked out of the lab with a frustrated look on his face. I just chuckled to myself and unfolded the paper.

I grabbed the watch glass in which sodium Phosphate was kept. I quickly dropped the powder into the paper and folded it without anyone noticing. Then I quickly walked out, placing it in my jeans pocket.

As I reached the main hallway I saw Aaron standing in front of the notice board, the place he dragged me to yesterday. He was probably looking at the picture of the basketball team. I walked to him silently. And then I was really surprised to see him brushing away the tears in his eyes.

"Oh it was you?" he looked up and chuckled on seeing me, avoiding eye contact. At that moment I felt sorry. Maybe I really hurt him. I didn't think he was this sensitive.

"Are you alright?" I asked.

"Yeah, I'm good. Er..I need to go somewhere," he said and ran away before I could say anything more.