Never knew It was You

Prologue

Ara knew she had been reborn in a new world. She learned everything from the scratch about this world. Her previous life was pretty much comfortable but boring. She was born in a medical research facility and she stayed there till she died. She never learned anything there but relied on doing research work with her professors. And one day, she died.

She then realised that she was born again in the past when she saw the dim furnishing of her new home. She woke up and found herself in a fourteen year old body. The girl was severely malnourished and she was lying in an alley. Ara got up and saw that it was a nursing home. She investigated and found out that her family was bankrupt and no one paid for her hospitalization. Her family was gone and she was thrown away. The enemies did not know her existence. Who could have thought that the once rich, talented family had a sick child they protected with their life?

Ara wandered around the city and finally reached her family's mansion. The once happily lit place was now desolate. It was auctioned away. Ara could still see her twin playing in the garden with her. She had all the memories of the host. And she clearly felt the love this family had. But she now knew the reason her existence was kept a secret.

She went around the house and walked towards the outhouse. Her father had told to collect the documents there in case anything went wrong. Ara found a new identity with a debit card and bank information.

She took some money and applied for an orphanage. She reached the place she had searched on the internet. Ara sighed at the technology in this era. Her world had very advanced technology. The virtual assistant directly communicated with her in her mind. She missed having everything on her fingertips.

Hope Orphanage

It was sponsored by the most powerful family in the capital. It was the reason she opted here. She would be safe as long as she keeps her identity secret.

The director was a middle aged man with a kind face. Ara told him that she came from a village and lost her parents in the earthquake last month. She had nowhere to go but she could earn money herself. She only needed a place to live. The director pitied her and took her in. Ara knew that the reason was farfetched but she could compel him to not think about the reason.

Her room was a single bed one and she felt happy. She retrieved the smart phone and laptop provided by her father and started working. The first thing she did was to find an advertisement for language translator. She translated two articles online and earned some money. Then she posted tutoring lessons.

This way, she could have her cover and also start her business empire. Ara compiled a plan before she went to sleep.

The next day, Ara went to No.1 High School and registered herself with the help of the director of the orphanage. His recommendation made the entire process smooth. She then went to her classroom and sat in the very last row.

No one in the noisy classroom paid her attention. Ara took out her notebook and started working on the math problems.

"Hey, why are you doing trigonometry? Isn't that in the next semester?"

Ara looked up to see a boy taller than her leaning on her table. He had beautiful eyes which exoressed deep emotions when he spoke.

"I'm doing calculus."

"Isn't that in the last year of school?" he asked with a smile.

"I don't know."

"Why are you working on that now? Are you planning to skip grades?"

" Are you nosy?" Ara asked irritated.

"Well, it would be good if you actually skipped. People here don't learn anything."

He then jumped up and sat beside her.

"My name's Shrenik. What's yours?"

"You don't have to know."

Ara closed her book and slept on the desk. The boy then stared at her for a long time before he spoke up.

"You know, you are interesting. Your clothes are ordinary but you have a rich temperament. You study calculus for the college entrance examination but you are still in high school. You look approachable but you are completely opposite. Isn't this interesting?"

"And you look ordinary but you are obviously a rich kid, your clothes are made from the softest fabric and hand made. You know what I'm studying so you are also trying to hide your IQ in school. And also you are very annoying and nosy," Ara replied.

Shrenik laughed.

"How about we become friends and I tell you my secrets?"

"No need. I'm fine alone."

Ara never had friends and her life in this world started only a month back. Relying on other people was a novel concept to her and she didn't want to try that. She only wanted to find her family without wasting time and then think about other things. But she never would have imagined how persistent Shrenik would be when he decided on something.

That evening, Ara communicated with four people on her tutoring website and created a group with them. She then gave them instructions about creating a new translator app which could translate text, voice and written input to any language in text and audio format. Ofcourse she had checked the backgrounds of the people she recruited. Hacking wasn't a problem to her. And the people she found were still students and they had time to work for her.

The main code was written by her but she nudged the other four into writing it. She couldn't write everything herself and she needed them for that. They worked on the app for nearly a month before they released the final version Translate This. It had few downloads the first few days.

Ara wasn't worried. But it all changed when Shrenik found her using it. He then posted about it to his friends. And his friends did the work of the publicity. The app used virtual programming which was very widely used in Ara's past world. She just added a few lines of virtual programming. She didn't want to be admitted to a research institute for developing this app.