9. Hacked

 

I shut the car door behind harshly and walked toward the front door. But I stopped there in front of the door as neither of Ty's parents had arrived back from work and I didn't have the key to the house. 

 

"Carrie..are you still mad at me?" Ty asked hopping out of the driver's seat, leaving a sigh. I didn't talk to him and pretended angry the whole ride back home. So he is a bit upset. Yeah, I want him to be upset for trusting that Jerk and choosing to believe him more than me. 

 

I crossed my arms over my chest and waited for him to come and open the door so that I can finally get inside, go to my room and hack Asher's FF. 

 

Ty came behind me and embraced me in a back hug, placing his chin on my left shoulder. "I'm sorry," he whispered. 

 

"Can you now open the door ?" I asked coldly. 

 

"Uhmm..yeah.." he nodded taking his arms from me and fumbling with the house key. He jammed it into the door and twisted it. The locks clicked and the door opened. I quickly ran in and rushed up the stairs while Ty yelled at me to wait. 

 

I barged into my room and locked the door. I threw my bag on the floor and went to my laptop. I opened it and sat down on the chair in front, waiting for it to boot. Then I heard a knock on my door. 

 

"Carrie..open the door," Ty said from the other side of the door. "I'm sorry. But please let me tell you the things. You don't know anything about Aaron." 

 

"And I don't want to know anything about him. I'm not even friends with him. I just share five classes with him. Also detention. So we just happened to talk a little," I yelled back typing the password of my laptop and unlocking it, quickly going to my files. 

 

"Oh..! okay. Five classes?? That's a lot. So you are not actually friends with him ?" Ty asked. "Anyway now open the door." 

 

"No. And I don't know what Asher told you. But I'm pretty sure he told you a lot of lies. And you believe those lies than the truths I tell you. So just leave me alone," I shouted. 

 

"Okay, c'mon..open the door. What are you doing inside there?" 

 

"I'm playing video games. Don't disturb me for ten minutes," I yelled. 

 

"Okay let's play together." 

 

"No! I'm playing alone." 

 

"Hmm..okay, do you want coffee and cake?" 

 

"No!" 

 

"Oh..C'mon.." 

 

"Just leave me alone for some time Tyler!" 

 

I heard Ty sigh and then walk away from my door. I left a sigh and went to my work. I had installed a keylogger into Asher's phone yesterday through the link I send him. Keylogger is basically a malware program designed to record everything you type on your keyboard. So I can find out his social media passwords, email passwords, credit card data, and basically everything he has on his phone. But now I'm just gonna concentrate on his FeatureFolio. I would only give him what he deserves for what he did. Not gonna hack his bank account or anything. 

 

Asher's FF account has 19.8K followers. So if he posts something, a lot of people will see it. Gosh! I can actually do a lot of harm to him if I want. Right now the evil inside me is dancing. Poor Asher! He messed up with the wrong person.  

 

I went to the keylogger and found it had tracked and recorded a lot of keystrokes from Asher's phone and send the data back to me. So I got all the passwords on his phone. Now I just need to decode them and try them one by one. I decoded the passwords and couldn't help but crack up at them. His five passwords I got were 'iamnotforgetful', ' Impossible003, ' 'eatsleepworkinfires' ' Aaronhardboy', '069690' 

 

Wait! Aaronhardboy? He meant Aaron itself, right? I guess he got so attached to Aaron by troubling him that he has even made it one of his passwords. 

 

Anyway, I quickly went to his FF, typed his username, and then started trying the passwords one by one. And it was 'Aaronhardboy’ itself his FeatureFolio password. But then that security verification via email popped on the screen. 

 

So bad. Now I need to hack his email too. I quickly went back, got his account '[e-mail]' from the keystrokes, and then tried logging in with the passwords. 'eatsleepworkinfires' was the password. I logged in within a minute and then verified the new device login, then deleted the mail. Hope Asher hasn't seen the mail yet. No way, he won't see it in such a short while. Everything's safe.  

 

So finally I logged into his FeatureFolio account! It wasn't much trouble. 

 

Asher had a lot of unread messages on his chats. But I didn't dare open any of them. I don't want him to find out someone has hacked his account. And anyway I'm not interested in reading his chats. First I need to thoroughly plan what to do to take my revenge on him and then execute it safely and delete his account. I'm not going to do anything in a hurry and mess everything up. Also, I already troubled him today. So this is not for today. Let me wait and study him a little more before deciding on his punishment. 

 

Suddenly a knock hit my door. "Carrie, I made you coffee. Open the door," Ty said in his soft yet deep voice from the other side. I smiled and shut down my computer before standing up from the chair and walking to the door. 

 

I opened the door to reveal Ty standing in front of me with his dimpled smile, carrying two cups of coffee and cupcakes on a tray. I smiled back fondly and moved away from the door to let him in. 

 

I took a coffee and cupcake from the tray and went to my bed, crawling over the soft mattress. Ty also crawled up beside me after placing the empty tray on the desk near my laptop. 

 

"Carrie, will you let me tell you why I got angry at you?" 

 

"Okay.." I nodded. 

 

"Aaron and I are enemies. I really hate him. I don't want you to be friends with him," he said. 

 

"Asher and I are enemies. I really hate him. I don't want you to be friends with him. What about that?" I asked placing the cup on the bedside table and munching on the cupcake. 

 

Ty sighed placing his cup and cake down on the table. "Okay, but it's a one-day enmity, right? You met him only yesterday." 

 

"Yeah..but he got me one-week detention," I said after swallowing the cake in my mouth. 

 

"I know," He nodded. “I believe everything you said. In fact, Asher also said the same story. He didn't tell me any lies. He admitted what he did and he is really sorry for that. He said he just did it for fun. He didn't think it would put you in this much big trouble." 

 

"Oh..really? He is sorry?" I asked. "He will be more sorry soon," I mumbled. But I'm surprised he admitted it to Ty. Maybe he figured out Ty won't trust him over me. 

 

"Yeah..he is really sorry. He actually wants to be friends with you. And he asked a lot about you." 

 

"Lot about me?? What?" 

 

"Nothing. Just about your parents, your previous high school, whether you have a boyfriend and you know stuff like that." 

 

"And you said everything?" I asked. Why the hell does this Asher need to know about me? 

 

"I only said good things about you. And Asher thinks you are really smart," Ty said. 

 

I sighed. That bitch really knows how to deal with things. "Ty, I'm so upset you took this matter so silly. Yesterday, when I told you about what he did to me, you were as angry as me. But now when you realized it's your team captain, all your anger died down. You didn't even say a word against him." 

 

"Of course, I said. I scolded him. I told him, he shouldn't have done that. And he agreed what he did was really wrong. And he apologized. So just forget it, Carrie. Asher is actually a nice guy. He has helped me a lot. It's he who helped me to become what I'm today." 

 

"Okay, how? What's the big help he did? Explain.." I said. 

 

"You know, I was not like this. I was a nerd who used to constantly get bullied. But Asher helped me change. I met Asher after I changed school in 7th grade. We shared a lot of classes, that’s how we got close...” 

 

“Wait! How come? He is now a senior right?” I asked confused. 

 

“Yeah..but we were together in 7th grade. He actually skipped 8th grade and directly went to high school. And he is the same age as us, actually one month younger than me,” he replied. 

 

So he is really smart! And that means he is younger than me since I'm two months older than Ty. And now I understood why they are so close. They might have been inseparable in 7th grade. 

 

“Asher saw me sitting alone in the canteen on my first day and he joined me for lunch," Ty continued. "We became friends and he taught me to play basketball. Then he invited me to join the team. He was the basketball captain. I joined the team and everything changed from then. No one ever bullied me again. I suddenly started being admired by others." 

 

I just nodded to Ty. Okay, Asher might have helped him but that doesn't justify all those things he did to Aaron. 

 

"You know Carrie..." Ty continued in his typical convincing tone, "Asher really supported me a lot at a time when I was emotionally and physically very weak. He totally changed me. I was so sad when he suddenly jumped to high school, skipping 8th grade. I joined Harbinger only because he was here. And he is still my best friend and he does a lot of help for me. He is a really nice guy, Carrie. It's just you guys started off on the wrong foot. But you can start again." 

 

So, the jerk really likes Ty and he will do anything for him. And Ty has real high esteem for him. It's gonna be difficult to convince him of the things. 

 

"Okay, but why were you emotionally weak at that time? And why did you change school?" I asked. 

 

"Okay, I will tell you the whole thing. Carrie, I, and Aaron were once friends. And it's the one thing I regret the most in my life. I should have never met Aaron. I shouldn't have become friends with him. But I was a baby then. And he lived there," Ty pointed over at the window. I looked over and saw the two storied house beside us. 

 

"We grew up together, played together, went to school together. So we naturally became friends. He was nice at a time. But he changed. In middle school, he bullied me a lot. He's the reason why I changed school. You know Carrie, he hurt me a lot, both emotionally and physically. I really hate him," Ty said and bit on his lips hard as if to prevent a sob from escaping his mouth. He looked really emotional as he said all that and I knew he was hurt. But I need to make him tell more and know how much he hates Aaron. 

 

"Why did he bully you?" I asked. 

 

Ty sighed and looked away. "I had a crush on him. I admit I was actually stupid at that time. I shouldn't have started crushing on him and told him that I love him. But I thought he liked me and even if he don't like me that way, we would ask me to continue to be his friend. But he just started bullying me along with his friends. I never thought he would do that to me. He called me a lot of names. He hurt me a lot. And one day he punched me a lot that I had to go to the hospital. I was seriously injured that day..." 

 

I moved closer to him and grabbed his hands. "Ty..I understand," he nodded to me whilst pressing his lips together. "I understand he hurt you a lot. But do you know how guilty he is about everything he did? He came to the hospital to see you, right?" 

 

"How do you know?" Ty asked jerking his hands away from my grip. 

 

"I know. But you didn't let him talk to you. And he came here to see you. You refused to see him," I said. 

 

"Yes, I refused. I hate him after that incident. I understood I was an idiot for liking a person like Aaron. I didn't know he would turn this much evil. And how do you know all this? He told you?" he asked furiously. 

 

"Yeah..he told me. He told me everything. And he said the reason why he did that. He didn't actually want to do any of that. But he was forced. And he is really sorry. He wants to apologize to you at least once," I said and reached to grab his hands. 

 

"STOP!" he scoffed making me flinch. “Enough! He is sorry? I don't want his sorry. And he was forced?? How? His friends forced him? So he would kill himself if his friends told him to do that? It's not an excuse, Caroline. He wouldn't have done that if he liked me at least a little bit and saw me as a friend. I know he never saw me as his friend," Ty cried proceeding to crawl out of my bed. 

 

"Ty, he saw you as his best friend itself. I'm not trying to defend him, but his situation was like that," I said grabbing his hands. 

 

"What situation? If I was him, I wouldn't have done this to my best friend, listening to others," Ty said yanking away my hands and climbing out of the bed. 

 

"Ty, listen, he was scared his parents would think he is gay. He was small then. He was afraid of what others would think of him..."  

 

"So he chooses to bully me? You are of course defending him. I don't want to hear anything more about him. He has manipulated you," he screamed. 

 

"He didn't manipulate me or anything. He just told me how much he was hurt when he hurt you. And how sorry he is for what he did. And how much he is suffering for his mistake. And I believe him. I know he meant everything he said. He is honestly guilty and he wants to apologize." 

 

"No! I don't believe it. Do you know what he said to Asher last year?" he asked. 

 

"What?" I asked. 

 

"He said, he wants to be friends with me since I'm no longer a faggot and since I understood what was wrong with me. Also, he told Asher that since I'm no longer that scrawny kid and now that I'm on the basketball team and all, he likes to be friends with me." 

 

"What!?" I snapped in anger. "Ty, did you hear him tell all this? Asher told you this, right?" 

 

"Yeah..and I believe Asher. He won't lie to me," he said sternly. 

 

"Ty, you don't know, Asher is a real bastard. He lied to you. Aaron.." 

 

"Stop! I know Asher. He isn't a bastard. Aaron is the bastard," Ty sneered furiously and proceeded to walk away. But I grabbed his wrist firmly. 

 

"Aaron didn't say any of that. Asher lied. He doesn't want you and Aaron to become friends again. Because he likes you." 

 

"What?" Ty turned and asked with narrowed eyes. 

 

"Yeah, that is why he is constantly telling you shit about Aaron. He is afraid you'll start liking Aaron again," I said staring into his light brown irises. 

 

"No way! Where you got that idea?" he chuckled shaking his head. 

 

"It's pretty obvious. I'm so surprised you didn't realize yet. Why he helped you in middle school? Because you caught his eyes. Why he is still helping you? He likes you." 

 

Ty was silent for a few seconds. But finally, he opened his mouth. "I hate Aaron and I'm not gonna like him again. Asher doesn't need to do any such things. If he likes me, he can come and tell me. I'll happily accept his confession. I like him too." 

 

"Ty!" I scoffed surprised. He just confessed he likes Asher. Now they just need to confess to each other and date. And that would be more than enough to break Aaron into pieces. Woah great! 

 

"So you are saying what he is doing is right? He is telling you a lot of lies about Aaron. And he is troubling Aaron a lot" 

 

"Asher hasn't told me any lies. Yeah..I admit he often tells me things about Aaron. But that's the only truth. And I love the fact that Asher puts him in his place. I in fact want Asher to trouble him even more. Good that his girlfriend left him. Everyone should leave him." 

 

"Great!" I said shaking my head. Ty hates him way more than I expected. 

 

"Yeah..great!" He repeated. "I hate him. And I don't want to talk anything more about him." 

 

"But I don't think he is that bad. So, I'm gonna continue talking to him," I said causing him to furrow his eyebrows. Looking at his clenched jaw, I could clearly understand that he was really mad and he wanted to punch my face or something. But he only said, "Okay, do anything. But let me warn you, he is a really bad guy. You'd soon realize it and then you'd regret your decision." 

 

"Alright, I'll keep it in mind. And I'm also warning you, stop trusting Asher so much. You'll later regret it."