Hacking the Brain

(I'm new to this, so if it's a little bad or has mistakes, sorry.)

I woke up to my mother saying, "Eric Boil, get up, I'm going to be heading to the grocery and you need to help your sister with her homework, and your friend is in the living room."

I got up and said as I started to get dressed for the day, "Alright, I'll be down in a minute." I quickly threw pants on and headed downstairs to see Grace and Ivy sitting at the table. Grace is a senior in the high school down the street, she kinda looks like a younger version of mom. She has her mixture of red and brown hair, her piercing icy blue eyes, but she had some of dad's face, where I got mom's face and my dad's black hair and his amber eyes. Today, she has her hair in a ponytail that goes to her mid-back, a plain red shirt, and blue pants.

Grace looked at me and said as she got up and ran up to me, "Good morning, I'm guessing you heard that you need to help with my homework and knowing you, you're going down into the basement to get working on that project of yours. By the way, have you heard from dad yet?"

I shook my head and said, "No, and you need to stop asking. It's been a year." Mom and dad got divorced years ago when Grace was young. I don't know of what exactly since I was out of state for the year, and I couldn't ask mom since she always tells me to drop the subject whenever I bring him up.

Then I felt a hand land on my shoulder. I looked to see Ivy standing behind me. She had short red hair and light gray eyes. She smiled and said, "Go easy on her, he only contacted you. Let's go downstairs and see if it's ready, and I'll help Grace with her homework.

I nodded and headed downstairs with them following me. When I got down there. I went over to the machine and checked to see if they were still connected to the solar panels outside. Grace said as she sat down at the desk, "You haven't told me what the machine is and mom would only say it's something your brother would do."

I smiled, that's something Lisa would say. I said as I checked the power, "It's supposed to help people get over traumatizing, stressful, or embarrassing stuff, feel different about something, or have them see something in a different perspective."

Ivy turned to me and said, "So, do you have plans on who's going to test it?"

I was about to say something, then I heard mom's car pull up into the driveway.