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Chapter 1
Cliche

The usual.Boy meets girl, falls in love, gets married.

This is Carl#1, I call every guy Carl since my job prohibit me from having attachments, and naming people is where it starts,

back to our story,

Carl#1, is you average guy, 5 ft. 4, brown skin, medium built, athletic type, loves pizza, doing workouts,

and playing chess...

a nerdy athlete? good background,

a bit on the good looking side, chiseled face, with a dimple on his left cheeks just above the ends of his lips, it is what makes him "cute",

so they say.

He meets Snow#1, i call every girls Snow,

So Snow, is a beautiful lady, 5 ft. 2, slendy body, really sexy and hot,

as he describes her,

I do not feel the "Hot" even if I am a male, I have no "feelings" as you say it,
job requirement,

she has wavy hair, porcellain like skin,
Her smile is something else, really unproportional to her head and face ratio but the abnormality is what makes her stand out,

it is not that big or wide but bigger than usual,

her dark brown eyes that are almost black really contrasts her bright white teeth when she smiles,
described as glowing effect and "to die for" as they say.

Carl enters KND, a non profit non government organization directed to help malnourish kids in rural areas.

Here he first meets Snow, his heartbeat raises to 101 , a possible heart attack as he stares at Snow just standing there looking at him. They stare at each other as if they have already met before. Carl's beartbeat is now at 124, not good, maybe having a stroke,

then a guy taps his back,

"Her name is Snow, go talk to her" says the other guy,

So he goes to her, as his heart rate is now down at 116,

but as he approach her, her heartbeat raises to 87,

what is going on? everyone's heartbeat is going high, is everyone having heat stroke?

raises to 92

now 95

"Hi, Carl, they said your name is Snow?" He says with confidence,

"Yes, nice to meet you, you often just approach a girl after asking around for her name?" she asked,

They both laugh and their heartbeats drop to 83 and 85 respectively.

Chapter 2
The case

"ugh....sappy shit" I do not emphatize nor have feeling but i do get bored and annoyed, like this scene.

They go on a date, accompany her home then leaves, nothing good happening so let us move a bit faster and fast forward.

Candle light dinner, fancy restaurant,

a date i guess,

Carl wearing collared shirt, red and green stripes, with a guy on a horse as a logo on the left chest part, pants is black held by his brown belt, wearing formal shoes, something good about to happen.

Snow comes back from the ladies room,

Carl stands up, moves to Snow's seat and grabs her left hand, he goes down on his left knee,

a proposal,
so they are getting married.

Fast forward,

they are getting married, they are in front of a priest, church wedding, they say "I Do",

party,

they dance,

eat cake,

boring,

fast forward.

They enter their room, room 308, he turns on the light,

"exhausting huh?" he ask as he stares at her,

"yes, but i cannot believe we are actually husband and wife now" she replied,

"i know, but you do you know what it means?" he says with a grin on his face,

"what?" with a worried face looking at him grinning and approaching her slowly, her heartbeat raises to 108 then 109 as he gets closer,

"we get to do husband and wife stuff" he smile as hemoves his eyebrows upward and down like an eyebrow flash and continues to approach her,

he grabs her waist with his left hand and pulls her towards him,

she puts both her hands to his chest,

he grabs the back of her head with right hand and pulls her face closer to him as he gently puts his lips over her,

his heartbeat raises to 111,

his right hand slowly goes down her back as he tries to find the zipper on her dress,

he finds it,

pulls it down as he released his lips from her,

pulls down her dress and kisses her collar bone,

her heartbeat raises to 120,

then 121, 122, 124, 126, 128.

this is not sex anymore,

this is fear,

why is she afraid of the guy? something is wrong.

rape?

maybe she is just not ready, 130.

alarms go off beside me,

sirens wailing,

"Possible Rape"

written in the monitor, with red background color, warning sign borders the words, "!" on the other monitors,

what the heck is going on,

this is my first encounter of this,

think,

think,

think,

what to do in this situation,

i calm myself and remember the law.

code number 0412 under rule 3003

"Possible rape,

1. stun the possible offender and call authorities to handle the situation,
2. review his life,
3. assess relationship with "possible victim",
4. judgement call."

I press the stun button just right next to a button that says "paralyze left foot"

Carl's eyes roll back as his body shivers as he falls on Snow,

She pushes him on the side as he falls from the bed,

I reach out my hand to a cellular phone and press 1,

phone rings on the other side,

a woman picks up,

"how may i help you?"

"this is a judge, code Kevin"

"yes sir, how can i be of service?"

"possible rape at a hotel..."

Chapter 3
Explanation

I continue to monitor Snow using her point of view mode, she watches as Carl is lying down,

someone knocks on the door,

she stands up, grabs a robe and opens the door,

two men stands there,

I call them agents K and J, like that famous movie,

they dress the same, they look the same,

they explain to her that a possible rape may have been triggered on the a Judge's Surveillance Anti Any Grievances or Offenses or SAntiAGO system.

SAntiAGO system of 2000 was passed to law after the world has had enough of all the murders, racism, rape, and brutality happening everywhere.

People agreed to sacrifice their freedom for security, it has been long debated if it would be worth and after what has happened for the past decade, people has agreed to live in a peaceful society than in fear.

This is when SAntiAGO system was created, a chip is implanted on a new born to check his health and to ensure his well being and also to keep track of him as he grows older, this records and transmit what he sees and experience to a hard drive where it is stored and archived for future viewing in case he ever commits any felony or if simply he is recognized and the world wants to see how he grew up to be a great person.

The system had its flaws in the beginning as the Judges were people who cannot make decisions on the situations where there were people still killed because a judge refused to stop the perpetrator or recognizes the person and does not want to do anything.

This is where we come in, we are the new age of Judges, no attachments, no empathy, just logic and analysis, we are humans but raised outside of society, raised to be judges, raised to be unbiased,

I am just one of many judges.

The computer programs decide the possible risk on a person by monitoring their heart rates and body conditions aand temperatures,

the implanted chips monitor your body, imagine it as a free doctors check up everyday at 7am when you wake up, all you have to do is stand on the mirror to see your vitals checked, you will be notified if you lack on any vitamins, if your sugar is too high, cholesterol or blood pressure,

you will be informed,

then a judge will call you and send you prescriptions.

Life has become safer...well except for this story.

Chpater 4
To be continued


Now it is time to review their case,

excited as this is my first case,

I thought the world is already safe,

it has been 5 yeara since SAntiAGO system was made,

it is now 2005 and there has not been any case for over 3 years now,

Back to the case,

what did i miss?

I may have missed something before the insident,

the boring parts,

this is not an ordinary case,

they married each other but why did she show signs of fear?

why did the system recognized this scenario as possible rape?

they looked happy,

something does not add up

rewind,

rewind further,

rewind.

I see Carl giving a check to an older man,

rewind a bit more,

"5,000,000.00" is written on the check,

"interesting" i said to myself, like a little boy trying to solve a mystery and starting to find hints,

"I want her,

how much would you want to give her to me?" Carl says to the older man,

"5 million,

she is my eldest and i would be happy if she marries to a rich family" the old man replied,

"deal!" Carl exclaimed, pushes the chair down as he gets to his feet to stand and hastily approach the old man to reach out his hand with a smime on his face,

the old man sighs and moves his head from left to right as if giving the no gesture but eventually riases himself slowly as if to avoid injuries, possibly from old age, his bines has become frail which now is causing him to move slowly, when he finally gets to his ceet he raises his hand to shake Carl's hand,

he has this look of dissatisfied,

who is this old man? and who did he just sell? illegal prositution?

I hover the mouse of the computer over his face and create a box that covers the old man's face,

ctrl+c to copy and open another tab,

paste his picture on the search

and search who he is,

apparently he is Snow's father, born July 4th of 1945, 60 years old now, hunched posture caused by years of farming and hard labor, drooping eyes caused by sleepless night, skin sagging probable weight loss, his profile says he is a farmer and a construction worker from 15 years old and has not retired yet.

so it is a forced fixed marriage.

So it was forced,

so it is rape after all...

well i cannot decide it yet....

I shall wait until I hear his side of the story.

...patience is...

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