The Start

Carolina is a normal teenager who has just left for college. She has good marks already. She had always been strong and intelligent at school, but also in life in general, she knows many theories from quantum physics and never had lower than ninety percent in maths. There was just one thing troubling her and making her a bit sad. She hadn't really made friends yet, but according to her family, her loneliness wouldn't last really long. They said she was sweet, very nice, a bit shy, but she had something attractive. Her mother used to tell her " You're the most beautiful 14 year old I know, honey", but when she saw Lisbeth on the first day of school, she doubted a bit that her mother was saying that to make her comfortable. Carolina didn't think she could ever be friends with Lisbeth.

" We're too different, she could not be friends with a girl like me" she said contradicting her mother's thought, as usually...

"What do you mean a girl like you?" her mother said smiling, I don't know what you're talking about sweetie.

Carolina never liked popularity and it's not today she would change this morality. She said she never liked it and that she will never do. Her old friend said the exact same thing by heart when Carolina said it back then. But those friends also said she always liked attention.

"Attention and popularity are not the same, there's a big difference!" she said when her friends were annoying her, getting in the subject too much.

But Carolina had to go to the factory near the school, to prepare her robots for the contest she would participate to in two days.

"-I can win this contest very easily. I just need to make my special robot and it's done with this contest."

Her special robot was a representation of her cat Larry. A big persian with one eye blue and green the other. But it was a very complicated robots, that's why she came to the factory. She knew she could find electric circuits or components for her robotic cat. She saw an old elevator that looked like a lift. She wasn't sure it worked, so she decided to go and verify the fuses in the control room. Everything was fine with them. But strangely, Carolina saw they had been replaced about ten years ago. She found it strange because the factory was empty since 1992, according to Google . She remembers the date, because she had to check before coming. If she met people there, it wouldn't have been the same things as picking up circuits like it's normal. She is now sure that the lift is working, so she thinks about using it and go see on the lower levels, but she's still hesitating.

"-Is that thing really solid?" she asked to herself.

Now she wasn't sure about this, but she was too curious so she tried to convince herself to go. She wasn't sure about what she would find down there. Is there really a lower level? Maybe yes maybe not, but she just couldn't help it. She was too curious.She decided to go and to, according to her, risk her life going down there.

***

"-Mike, are you ready for the plane's departure honey?

-Yes. Yes I am, mom." Mike answered after his mother asked for the sixtieth time.

Mike and Angela were moving from their hometown in England. Angela wanted to start a new life without a husband, letting all of her bad memories behind her. Mike thought of it like an excuse from his mother not to let him see how sad she was. Mike didn't want to leave their little town. He didn't want to separate with those souvenirs from his father. It just happened so fast... He was not ready for that, but his mother was, and he had to follow her. And he couldn't tell his mother about his feelings because she put too much pressure on herself with all of the moving stuff. So he had to deal with a new house, new neiborhood, new town, new country... New life.

A couple hours later, their plane landed in USA. They arrived in their new house and got prepared, Angela for work and Mike for college. Their house was a one-floored, renovated two years ago, according to his mother. College was at a walking distance, so Mike could still live with Angela as before. It was ten P.M., but Mike couldn't sleep, yet. He could just think about jet lag and this new place where they would live forever, or so.

***

In the old factory was hidden a big secret that only two collegians knew about for now two days. There was Maddison, a small girl with bleached blond hair and dark brown eyes. She was cute, but she never liked close relationships because she never thought so much about herself or boys. She was always calm and responsible. Even with those qualities, her best friend called her Madd. He was Jonathan and his nickname was just Jo. He had brown hair and eyes the same colour. Even if he was the most greedy person Madd had ever knew, she called him the stick. Once, at the factory, they took the elevator to go down. They couldn't believe what they saw down there. A supercomputer with and four scanners. They didn't know how to use them, so they didn't. Today they left their rooms later than the last time, because John, the gym teacher and supervisor of the internship. At the factory, the took the elevator and its door opened and Jo asked:

"-Who are you?

-I was going to ask the same thing, answered Carolina,

-I'm Maddison and this is Jonathan, said Madd to Carolina,

-I'm Carolina Miller.

-And what are you doing? asked Jo,

-I'm going to turn it on, confirmed Carolina,

-Oh, so you're good in informatics? asked Madd, unsure of what she meant,

-I'm not bad, let's say, she answered immediatly

They turned it on and ran to the supercomputer's desk and saw someone on the screen. As soon as she woke up, she asked:

"-Where am I? Can someone hear me?"

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