1 SYSTEM AWAKENING (1/2)

Sam Petit is a french young man living with his little sister. A few years ago his parents had died and he took care of his sister by himself. Now he was in university and studied hard to give his little sister a comfortable life.

Today started like all the other days, Sam woke up and started making breakfast for two. He then went and gently called his little sister to wake her up.

Her name was Emma and she was a very cute little girl who had around 7 years old, when she opened her misty eyes and looked at her brother she said

« Big brother please let me sleep a little bit more. »

She pulled the blanket over her head and proceeded to ignore him and keep sleeping.

A crafty glint flashed through Sam's eyes as he slowly pulled up the bottom side of the blanket without her noticing and started to tickle her cute and small feet. She didn't expect this and started to yell and laugh at the same time.

”Em' you'll be late for school if you don't hurry up” Sam was laughing as he let her go.

After a few minutes they were both around the table eating while watching TV, the show was a cartoon for kids and Em was so absorbed into it that she didn't even start eating her breakfast. Exasperated Sam turned off the TV which resulted in a glare from Em, Sam could only wryly smile at her and show her the time it was.

When they were both done preparing they took the subway to Em's school which was a bit far away from home,Sam had a driving license but didn't have the money to buy a car. It would be way more comfortable and practical than the subway to own his own car. He dropped his little sister and went away after making sure she went inside.

He took the subway alone this time while listening to his favorite music on his phone, it was also an old phone that had been released at least 5 years ago, it was now obsolete but he had no choice as his financial situation didn't allow him to own anything better. After staying in the subway for a long half an hour he went out of it and headed toward his university, lots of students were heading in the same direction as him. Most of them were well off or at least doing better than him as he was the only one dressed in clothes with fading colors as he wore them for too long.

He could dress better of course but when he got even a bit of money he would use it to make his little sister happy, he took her to amusement parks, bought her clothes, toys, food... whatever she asked she had it because she was his only family left.

Back to the present, Sam got into his classroom which was full of students, the teacher was on the podium speaking into a microphone so that everybody could hear the lesson, it was a class about psychology and Sam didn't have any interest in it but had to do something to end up with a good job and let Em live a good and comfortable life.

In the front rows of the amphitheater was seated a couple, a very beautiful girl with long brown hair and shining green eyes with a sturdy and intimidating guy. Sam saw that the guy was looking at him with a mocking gaze and diverted his gaze, the girl was his ex-girlfriend. They had grown up together and went to the same schools all the way from primary school.

Her name was Sophia, she had dropped him after high school and started to date that guy, he was called Eric and was the son of a very rich family, he dressed with the best clothes, drove the best cars and dated the best girls. Sam has very soon gotten over her but her boyfriend still held a grudge against his girlfriend's ex boyfriend so he always found ways to annoy Sam or to give him a hard time.

After the class was over Eric and Sophia passed by Sam, the later didn't even look at him and passed by as if he didn't exist but the former gave a hard hit on Sam's chair which made him fall onto the ground, people around him looked at him mockingly and some started to laugh, only a few had looks of disgust as they watched Eric getting away. This was a common occurrence, Sam had tried to fight back but had gotten his a** beaten by the black belt taekwondo Eric so he gave up trying to fight back head on and had planned to take his revenge using his brain but it will have to wait as he couldn't think of a plan cruel enough.

Sam got out of the classroom and found Eric and his two followers waiting in front of the door, Sophia wasn't there anymore. Eric only gave a slight head movement and one of his followers said mockingly