Hello Steemians,
I hope you all are having a great Weekend and Me too. I just embarked on a little joint venture with @sayee on story writing and telling. This is my first official collaboration and more of an experiment to see how things go. The first episode is written by @sayee
Episode1 - Life in 2150 A D - The helmet
and here is the second episode.

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She already started feeling left out. No connection to social media, or the tabloids. She noticed that the small green indicator on the Helmet is blinking. Many unread messages. But she is not ready to put is back on, Not yet. She wants to survive. It has hardly been 30 Minutes without the Helmet, she is already panicking.

She looked outside the window. The homeless family was still there and without the Helmet, she couldn't tell what happened to them. The Helmet was the most technological achievement in the human history. Anything that you do or ever did is consolidated and is available in the Blockchain, Just by seeing someones face you can see his Pre-school records, His medical records, and his credit card bills, Everything is out in open. It was a choice that 2/3rd of the world made, to get connected with the Helmet. And 1/3 choose to live the life of Nobodies. Soon they will be gone from this planet.

Helmet Inc. has given the world the worst curse ever, disguised as the greatest gift to mankind. People no longer meet and they are just a shell of technology, The intimacy is gone. The Blockchain based dating app has made everything about being human obsolete. World population has gone down, The application now decides who is the best match for you. The app enables the feature after the 3rd date where you can check out the possible offspring details. All the things that make the human vulnerable have been taken care of by this invention. If you ever did anyone wrong it will be part of your logs. Everything that you do is out in open. You can't hide anymore. You don't read or need a biography anymore. Governments are just a thing from past people are the governments now. The International boundaries have collapsed.

No more art or artist, People still do stuff that they like and people appreciate the stuff they like. But it is out in open. They no longer give compliment or congratulations but ratings. Ratings give us happiness, not the words. We have come a long way to this marvelous achievement. The global work efficiency is 95%. No fight for the natural resources. No more War. No more Racism.

Humans had done the impossible they have achieved the world peace at the cost of humanity. People no longer love, They rate others. They work because there is nothing else to do. They all are afraid to try new things because of the rating. 2/3rd of the world is living like her in a shell and remaining 1/3rd is called the TLBs (The left-behinds Humans).

The indicator was blinking, she knew it was him. Tears were rolling down her cheeks. The fear of getting disconnected from the rest of the world is too big for her and she is not ready. She does even know the name of him as if the real name matters anymore. All she knew is he is known as @thatguyfromandaman somehow he managed to hack the account of a nice guy and she fell for him. He was a wolf in the disguise of a human. Last week she realized that he is not who he is, He was someone who is part of resistance called "Nobodies" and he loves her. She wanted to report the authorities about his Identity theft But haven't done it yet. Because It was him who told her in the first place that he was the member of Nobodies.

There was a knock on the door. And it was him. Standing tall and towering over her barely 5'2" figure.

"Hey, Beautiful. What took you so long?" He asked in the soothing voice. As he takes off the helmet. "I was so nervous walking down in this disguise, I was afraid that you had reported me to authorities. But I am surprised to see my status still as Green" he smiled.

She rarely saw anyone smiling like that ever. How can he do that? The is the first time someone has ever complimented her and not judged her looks. This is the first time she felt something very different.

"I know, I am asking you to make a big life-changing decision and Its Ok, If you are afraid. I understand that. But I promise if you comply no harm will come to you. But if you don't, you will be putting years of my work and efforts in jeopardy. I have made sacrifice far too big to get here." his voice getting sad and scary "And to let you do that."

"I don't know" She replied. "I don't understand, why would you do something like this?" and she burst into tears.

She felt the jolt in her body, as his heavy arms press her against the chest. She was hearing his strong heartbeat. As he was hugging her. She understood that his words weren't hollow. As the teardrops on her Cheek, It wasn't hers.

"Everything, That you learned about me isn't true. But what I am about to tell is 100% true. You have to take my word on that as this information is not available in Helmet" his anger and pain was clear in the voice. As he pointed to the Helmet. The Nobodies never liked the Idea of the helmet. "I Love you, And I don't want to harm you. But I am walking out from here with the Keys. One way or other." The conviction is his voice was scary.

"You know you will be getting me on the Blacklisting If you do this. What am I supposed to do then" She said in low voice "Even if you get to it you won't be able to do anything"

She got up and left for the bedroom, He followed. "And If I am dying here tonight, At least, tell me what I am dying for". The fear in the voice is gone as if she has accepted the fate. She placed her palm on the scanner of the biometric safe. Which opened after IDing her.

And the display panel turned up. Welcome "Claire Kaarina L" in bold characters followed by the designation in smaller font "Chief InfoSec Officer, Helmet Inc".

[To Be Continued]

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Well stick around to find out more on what happened to Claire and the Mystery person. Thank you all for supporting me and encouraging me to write more. I also want to thank @IndiaUnited and @sayee for providing me the amazing opportunity to go crazy here on steemit. :-)

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