Genius Girl

Chapter -1 - The Twins

Different types of medical equipment were all over the cold room. A hospital bed next to the wall had a small girl unconsciously laying on it. An IV was pinned in her arm, supplying her enough nutrients to survive the day. Electrodes were attached on the small girl's body, checking her heartbeat and brain waves. The sound of the heart monitor, beeping casually bounced around the four walls of the secluded white room.

The room was considered to be cold for normal people, but the girl on the bed only had a hospital gown, her skin didn't show that she was bothered by the coldness of the room.

The white and thick door was pushed open by a middle-aged man in a doctor coat, a black tag was pinned on the right side of his white coat with a Dr. R, Lee name imprinted on it.

His hair was merely bald, pale face showed that he didn't have a proper sleep for days. He walked towards the unconscious girl, her medical chart and a pen were on his hand.

He stopped next to the bed, checking the result of her heartbeat.

'Normal' he murmured and then looked at the girl.

Daniella Chen – a ten-year-old kid.

His bushy eyebrows creased as he deeply stared at the girl.

He was known as Dr. Roman Lee, a neurologist. He had just finished his internship when he met another neurologist in New York, Arthur Schmidt. He heard him talking about the twins who survived with a chip in their heads. He finds it normal at first since, in the modern days, people who had been shot in the head could survive with a bullet in their skull.

After some years of working with him, he later found out the dirty secrets on how the chip was installed in the kid's brain and since then, greediness invaded his mind.

Daniella Chen and her brother Danny Chen were extraordinary, in what part, he doesn't know yet.

With years of searching and experimenting, Dr. Lee couldn't find anyone who could survive and live with a chip in their head like the Daniella and Danny.

He looked at Daniella's skull x-ray. It clearly showed that the chip was in her brain, yet it didn't cause her brain to work abnormally, it had become part of her brain.

Despite the room's cold temperature, sweat formed on his forehead.

Roman's hands stretched to open her eyes, and seeing her black iris – hiding the border of her pupil, has brought shiver on his skin.

Her eyes were like a black pit, so black that anyone's soul would want to leave their bodies by just staring at her.

Roman blinked his eyes and slowly shook his head, he took in a deep breath and picked up Daniella's petite right arm.

The girl and her twin brother Danny Chen were the same. They both have ch.i.p.s in their brain. After years of following them, Roman realized how special they were. He had planned to take them for some years now. He wants to make sure that everything is settled before taking them.

With the help of his employer, Roman was able to take the kids without a problem and even had his research financed by his boss.

He was working with different people. After he gets all the information he needed, he will go to the people who would be more beneficial to him.

The girl has been unconscious for months, and everything was normal to her. Heartbeat, brain waves and even her organs were functioning properly just like a normal person but what intrigued him the most was her eyes. Same thing with Daniella's brother, though the boy has been awake since they took them.

He couldn't find out the difference between the twins. Based on what he had observed, Danny's eyes were changing depends on the topic. He tried negotiating with him to work and cooperate but the boy was stubborn. Danny had tried escaping to look for his sister but due to tight security he couldn't, every corner has a camera, checking everyone's movement.

After some months, the only thing he finds out was that their eyes were changing their color. The boy was uncooperative while the girl was unconscious so he couldn't do anything than to wait.

He was about to turn around when the heart monitor started beating abnormally, he hastily looked at the girl and saw her slowly opening her eyes.

'Where am I?' the girl asked in a faint tone.

'Daniella? Can you hear me?' his voice stuttered, seeing her eyes gradually changing its color has made him anxious.

The girl looked at him, her eyes, which had now turned and stayed in black – stared deeply into his eyes.

Daniella stared at him, not blinking while the heart monitor showed that her heartbeat has increased abnormally.

'What have you done to my brother?' she spoke with the same level of a faint voice.

'What?' Roman asked in perplexity.

'What do you remember Daniella?'

The girl - without blinking stared at the white ceiling.

With a calm flat voice, the girl spoke, 'I remembered you. You once visited my house. My mom pleaded at you and then you went to my house and,' Daniella stopped. Her eyes, staring at the ceiling went back to look at him, her irises have become green, and it amused him to see the process.

He remembered the day he first visited the girl's house. It was eight years ago, the time he learned everything about the twins. He approached Daniella's mother and asked her to let him check on the twin but the woman rejected him, causing him to spout some threatening words.

Daniella's mother pleaded at him to keep their location and identities, he left that night without ensuring that he will not tell anyone about them but since that day, after he heard the story from Daniella's mother's lips, he became haunted into getting the twins.

'How long have I been unconscious?'

'Three months,' Roman replied, a little nervous but masking it with a serious face.

'Can I go home now?'

Roman's face wrinkled in perplexity, wondering why the girl was not asking why she was here or why did he take her.

'I will let you go but I need to check your brain. You have a chip and I want to help you that is if you will cooperate,' thinking that Daniella was just a kid he can manipulate, Roman's lips curved a smile.

'What do you need me to do?'

'I know that having the chip in your head causes some side effect. Aside from your eyes changing their colors, what are the other things your body could do?' he asked while sitting on the chair next to the bed.

Daniella became silent, drowning him with her stares.

'Could you please take me to my brother?' there was a note of pleading strained in her voice.

'I will. So, your brother has told me about his capabilities, so tell, what can you Daniella?' he was leaning closer to her, checking for her reaction.

'You are lying,'

'What?'

'My brother didn't tell you anything. So please take me to him. We are just normal kids, we didn't even know that we have a chip in our head,' Roman doesn't know whether she's telling the truth or not, her innocent expression tells him that she's telling the truth, but the years of following them said something different.

He had someone to tail Daniella's family, and he found out that they had visited the hospital numerous times to check the ch.i.p.s in their heads. So it's either, the girl is lying, or the man he hired had given him the wrong information.

'How can you say that he didn't tell me anything? You were unconscious,' he dubiously asked.

The girl became silent once again, and this time, she turned her head to look at her slightly raised arm.

'People are pathetic,' Daniella said in a calm voice.

'What?'

'They struggle so hard to live but in the end, they will just die. You are a good example Dr, Lee,'

After Daniella gave a light smirk to Dr lee, she continued.

'You are working so hard to get information about us. Even if I tell you my capabilities, I doubt your brain could process it. Do you know that human tends to be obsessed with something they couldn't have and right now Dr. Lee, you are acting like one.' Daniella scoffed mockingly.

While Roman was confused by her sentence.

Her tone was not like the pleading and innocent one she had earlier, instead, she was speaking with a cold voice like a matured person.

'Are you saying I am obsessed?' he gave her a lopsided grin.

'Aren't you? You are so eager to know my capabilities and yet, you don't even know what to do if I tell you my secrets,' her sharp eyes were like a pair of eagle eyes belittling her prey.

'Try me!' he confidently replied.

'I can teleport.'

He was stunned by her reply, trying to check her face whether she meant it or not, Roman narrowed his eyes.

He was about to speak when the girl suddenly laugh. Her petite shoulder shook with amus.e.m.e.nt and this has made Roman furious.

He gripped her shoulder, he could almost feel her bones, she had lost weight after months of being unconscious.

'Are you making fun of me?' he Infuriatedly yelled at her, pinning her deeply on the bed.

'I can tell you everything but who would believe you? If I tell you that I can read mind or teleport, do you think anyone would believe you?' The girl continuously laughed at him.

'You brat! If you don't tell me the truth, I am going to add some sesame extract to your brother's IV, and I know that you two have an allergy. I have seen your medical chart and I know with a right amount, it could kill him ,' he maniacally laugh, red nerves showed in his eyes due to lack of sleep, right now, in the eyes of a ten year old girl, he looks like a monster that could devour a kid.

And seems like he had frightened the girl, Daniella shook her body to let go from his gripped but, her small body doesn't have a chance with his force. He had taken a lot of pills to stay awake, so right now, the drugs were controlling his body.

Daniella's head slight rose to reach for his arm before he could dodge it, the girl's teeth were already bitting his skin.

Roman groaned in pain, she was like a Rottweiler, not letting his arm go despite pushing her.

Suddenly, he felt pain in his stomach, when he lowered his sight, he found the IV needle on the girl's arm earlier injected in his stomach. He pulled it out and before he could compose his body, the girl stabs his neck with the pen she took from his coat's pocket.

The pain has caused him to take a few steps back, enough for the girl to jump out of the bed and ran towards the door.

The stab was not deep, but enough for him to bleed.

'You brat! Come back here!' he shouted at her.

Before Daniella could reach the door, it has been opened by the other doctors. Immediately, two doctors held each of her arms while the third doctor injected her with anesthesia.

In just a second, Daniella's body slumped like a withered vegetable. One of the doctors carried her back to the bed while the other went to check on Dr. Lee.

'What happened here? Did you find out anything?' one of the doctor - helping him stop the bleeding asked with curiosity.

Roman looked at him, he decided to keep what he had learned.

'No, nothing,' he past by him and walked out of the room.

His mind was convinced that the girl must have a capability to read a person's mind, or else how would she know that Danny didn't tell him anything.

He has one question in his mind, how could she read his mind, when all she had done was to look into his eyes.