January 2019
Los Angeles
R&L Company, My desk
That little weekend felt nice but the day that I had to go back to work after downloading all the files was stressful because I didn't know if the culprit(s) noticed that I messed with it even after taking precautions and making sure that the pen drive was track-free.
Even then, they might have out something else that I wasn't expecting.
All the way there, I was sweating from nerves of getting caught. I could only relax when I sat down at my desk and nobody came up to talk to me. Probably because I got here earlier than most people.
"Morning love"- A voice I recognize sounds.
I look up to see if he was talking to me and find Garrett staring straight into my eyes.
"Good morning"- I greet back
"What are you doing here so early?"
"Woke up early, I thought I could get some work done"- I make up an excuse (that I thought of when I was driving).
"Seriously? work oversleep?"- He questions
"Why are you asking me? Aren't you here early too?"- I deflect by asking him another question with an arched eyebrow.
"Touché, love. Touché"- He answers nodding to himself.
"Will you stop with those horrible nicknames?"- I wonder after a few seconds of silence
"Weren't girls suppose to like those?"
"I'm not like most girls"
I only realized how cliché that sounded after it came out of my mouth.
Garrett chuckles and leaves me alone to my own amends. I wanted to say a comeback but when I turned to him, he was nowhere in sight. I roll my eyes and went to work being careful if somebody was behind me, keeping me on edge since I wanted to start working on the virus and its code.
It was around 9 am when people started coming in, so I had to stop working on it.
In that hour I spent alone, I could decipher about ¼ of the code, finding that they created the malware by themselves. I know that because I had never seen it before.
They used the spaces instead of "-", used caps, for the most part, which is a very rare way of coding; that shows that they wanted to use it but unconsciously they started to use their usual way of coding, meaning that they usually use the normal way and not caps.
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January 2019
Los Angeles
R&L Company, Lunch Cafeteria
During lunch, while everybody was going to eat, I stayed behind and went back to decoding the virus, wanting to find new things and a constant behaviour. But before I could get anything done, a shadow towering over me stopped me.
"Aren't you going to eat something?"- This departments boss wonders.
"Uhm... no, I still have work to finish off and I'm not really hungry yet."- I explain quite quickly.
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