Chapter 26

Aryan-

I spent the next two weeks looking for the flash drive. Every day I went home I tore up my room looking for it. Whenever Maize or Dexter asked me what I was doing, I just told them I was trying to find something for a project. Technically it wasn’t a lie.

The only one I was lying to was Kierian. After school, we hung out and worked on the project, but there wasn’t much to do until we obtained more information. Even the hacker that Sylvie reached out to couldn’t do much. His reason was that there were no traces.

Now that I remembered the flash drive, I already knew there weren’t going to be any traces. I had made sure of that. I don’t know why I hadn’t remembered it until now. Perhaps it was from the trauma that I had tried to put any memory of those days behind me.

I knew that once I found the drive, we could finally get somewhere. It wasn’t like the project wasn’t being worked on. We just had to make things up as we went along with only the limited information, I could give th