So here's a little about me.
I'm from a town so small, it's not even on Google Maps. Seriously—zoom in far enough and all you'll see is a blur of trees and gravel roads. Population? Maybe a couple hundred if you count the dogs. We've got one gas station, a school that feels more like a prison, and enough gossip to power the grid if we ever ran out of diesel.
Growing up, I was that kid. Top of the class, always had my homework in early, teachers loved me. But smart doesn't get you much out here. It just makes you bored faster.
And bored is dangerous.
I figured if I was already ahead in school, maybe I could try something… harder. I started dabbling in coding. Nothing serious at first—just poking around on old forums, downloading shady zip files, watching YouTube tutorials with pixelated screen recordings and robot voices.
Then I found hacking.
At first, it was small stuff. School servers, bypassing admin passwords, changing my attendance from "absent" to "present." But I got good—fast. Like really good. While most kids were learning long division, I was brute-forcing routers and spoofing IPs from the school library.
But here's the thing about getting better: your ego grows, and your caution shrinks.
So one night—just to see if I could—I tried something big. I hacked the Bank of Montreal.
Yeah. At age twelve.
And I got caught. Immediately.
Not by the feds. Not by some movie-style SWAT team kicking down the door. No, I got caught by my mom.
She was always quiet, always tired from working two jobs just to keep us above water. But when she found out what I did—when the letters came, when the bank traced the IP back to our house—she didn't scream. She didn't cry.
She took the fall.
The court didn't believe a twelve-year-old could pull off a breach like that. So they charged her with financial fraud. She was facing five to ten years, and no one—no one—was coming to save her.
That was the day I learned three things:
1:Genius means nothing if you're sloppy.
2:The system isn't made to protect people like us.
3:I owed my mom everything.
And now? I'm back. Older. Smarter. Hidden.
But I'm not just here to play games anymore.I'm here to break them