How it started

The early morning sun flickered into the small room through the small square shaped window. The room only had enough space to fit in a single bed,a closet,and a study table.

Tap! Tap! Tap!

The sound of computer keyboard getting hit countless time filled the room as a man in white pjamas kept typing away with determination in his eyes.

"What am i missing?" The man said,taking off his small eyeglasses and rubbed his bloodshot red eyes with black bags under it. "I keep getting thesame failed result even after working overnight."

"One more time,i'll just try a new code." He said to himself,putting his glasses back on and began to type with his eyes glued on the computer screen.

The screen displayed rolls and rolls of numbers and letters,changing to a whole different numbers any time he hits the keyboard.

After typing away for minutes,The numbers and letters screen changed and was now displaying a bar with a countdown.

[5 hours for the extraction to be completed]

'Same damn result! I can't waste 5 hours of my day just to fail again' He thought after seeing the same result he has been getting for the past few months now. Anytime he felt like he was close to fulfilling his goal,the same 'Extracting process' occurs,before 'Failed to extract.'

The man stood up from his work bench and went into the narrow bathroom. Taking a quick shower and rushing out to get dressed.

Few minutes later,he was fully dressed in a blue uniform,black trousers,and a huge black boot.

'Darn it,i'm lete,again!' He thought,rushing out of the small room.

****

Edward Morgan was a 23 years old man,who grew up in nothing but poverty. A woman known as Sheila Forbes found him on the streets of Brickwoods when he was a baby,taking pity on him and adopted him into their family.

Mr Forbes didn't liked the idea of his wife bringing in another child,knowing fully well of the situation at home.

Edward was blessed with the gift of technology and would usually fix and reapir damaged electronics around the house.

Since then,Mr Forbes has been maltreating the poor boy like an animal,while he treats his two children with love and respect. He was jealous of Edward having such gifts,while his Son and daughter had nothing.

Mr Forbes enrolled Edward into a cheap boarding school outside of Brickwoods,claiming he loved Edward so much and didn't want him to be an illetrate. But the main reason to his actions was to send him out of his house for good.

The motives of Mr Forbes towards Edward didn't go unnoticed,so Edward granted him his wish and left his home without coming back.

Doing different kinds of odd jobs around Brickwoods,Edward managed to rent a one room apartment where he could call his home.

And after two years of working in different bars,malls,restaurants,and so on,he was finally able to purchase a computer to begin his hacking career.

Edward used his technological knowledge to hack people's back accounts and transfered the money to his own. The little money he got from hacking his neighbour's accounts was what brought him food and able to renew his house rent for years since he left home.

But later on,Edward came to realize that the little 5$ dollars and 20$ he got weekly wasn't enough to get him the good things he always wanted,and the good things his newly found girlfriend wanted.

So he began a quest,he chose not to hack his poor neighbour's bank account,but to hack one of the accounts of the big men in Brickwoods.

If he could hack one of the millionaire's account and he got all the money he needed,he could finally spoil his girlfriend with all the good things in the world and would show the world that he was no longer the poor bastard they once knew.

After months of trying,He couldn't succeed. The security behind those accounts were impossible to go through and made him realise that he was only being delusional and he was destined to remain a poor bastard.

****

Edward arrived at a tall building that was crowded with people going in and out from it.

"Dude,where have you been?" A bald headed boy approached Edward and inquired,he was also dressed in the same uniform. The security uniform.

"I had no.. ...money to take public transport..so i had to run all the way here..." Edward managed to reply while panting heavily.

"Don't worry,i covered up for you as usual." The bald boy said,tapping Edward's shoulder slightly before going to his duty post.

Edward straightened his uniform,before going to stand beside the entrance door.

Working as a security in a shopping mall wasn't the best experience for Edward. He often stumbled upon people he knew while growing up,all of them rich and wealthy,while he was working his arse out day and night as a common security man.

Guarding the entrance door,Edward noticed a shiny black Mercedes Benz with black tinted glass stopped infront of the mall.

'The bastard is here again' Edward quickly recognized the car and it's owner,glancing at it with envy in his eyes.

The door of the driver seat opened,and a good looking young man stepped out. Long black hair,straight jaw and jaw line,clad in a black suit and trousers with a shiny black shoes. Malcom Munrow.

The Vice Mayor's son in the town of Brickwoods.

Edward glared at him with an evious look,watching him walk over to the passenger's seat of the black benz. Opening the door,The first thing Edward saw was a female's leg on red high heel,then the lady stepped out of the car making Edward see who it was fully. His girl friend Lucy.

The same girl he has been working his arse out day in and day out just to satisfy her. Edward felt his blood boil out of rage and anger,but there was nothing he could do,who was he to compete with the mayor's son for a girl.

Lucy walked past Edward like he wasn't even there,heading into the mall with her hand wrapped around Malcom's.

Edward stood there with his fist clenched tightly and tears gathering around his eyes.

'How long would i keep getting treated like a nobody? It's not my fault that i'm poor,i'm not a lazy man,am i?'

'Maybe God is just being generous to those rich men,he never for once answered any of my prayers' Edward pondered bitterly. The fact that she treated him like he was invisible,sent a dagger to his heart

****

09:54 pm

Edward entered inside his small room exhausted and worn out from the day's work,throwing himself on the bed he attempted to sleep off the hunger he was feeling in his stomach.

Ding*

Edward heard his phone chimed from his pants pocket.

'I've closed already,why are they texting me?' Edward lamented as he slipped his hand into his pocket and brought out his phone.

Looking at the screen,his jaw dropped to the ground after reading the message.

[Transfer successful]

[Your account has been credited with 750,000,000,000,000]