The Brain
by Harry Bolo
Copyright© 2025 by Harry Bolo
Fiction Story: How a 3rd unwanted child became the envy of all favourite children.
Tags: Fiction Rags To Riches Geeks Revenge
Hi, I am James Young, the family baby child and nerd. Stan was three years older than me and Sue two years older. I was the child they did not expect and throughout my life I was treated as such. Dad always favoured Stan the football star, Mum favoured Sue, the dancer and model and a beauty she was.
From the time I realised what the family dynamics were, I was given anything I wanted except love and companionship. At the age of 10, I was hit by my siblings against a tree and fainted, they just laughed. An ambulance was called and after I was discharged from the hospital, I realised something was different. If I read a book, I remembered every word, I saw maths equations and easily solved them, I was previously an avid reader, now I had a memory to recall all facts.
At home, I read all of the books available including encyclopedias, I asked for a computer and as normal I was given one, and more or less told to keep quiet. I learnt how to build, program and network them with ease. I downloaded ebooks on programming, I read about law matters, accounting, medical, engineering, both mechanical and chemical, I was a powerhouse of information. However knowing what would occur if I displayed this, I kept to myself. I always came 2nd or 3rd in tests never 1st. My father always talked about his great sporting son, my mum about her beautiful daughter the model and actress. Me I was never mentioned, so I went my own way. At the age of seventeen I passed my driving test on the first go. The others two needed three attempts. I was given my brother old car to drive. Those two had new cars when they passed.
They did not qualify for college where as I had over 21 approved scholarships available to me but my parents did not take any notice. I decided to accept the local college scholarship for business planning, computer programming and law. At the end of four years I got distinction in all categories and passed doctorates in two. During the time I was in college I developed an application in the management of Law rulings that did produce results very quickly and accurately. I used an AI interface to bring previous ruling forthwith across the entire country. I registered and patented the algorithm.
With my Law knowledge I started a company for the business of using my applications. After an introduction to three local law firms and with the information they won their cases. I was off and running. Within 24 months I had licensed my AI searches to the top 50 companies within the state. This expanded to the top ten in the country with heaps of enquiries and applications to get a licence.
During this time, well at the age of 20. I was kicked out of my home as my sister needed my room for her vast number of wardrobe dresses. With the income from my patent, I purchased a nice 8 bedroom home in a secluded area, away from neighbours on 500 acres. My parents knew nothing and did not even enquire about me.
By the time I was 23, I was a billionaire with no debts. Now I thought it was time my family found out. My brother’s football team were looking for an owner. They had come 4th in the champions league and were worth around 22 million. I purchase the team but refused to let anyone know or see me. All signing was done via proxy. My only conditions were the owners VIP room was vacant during all games with only one pass card for me, no name. I did give instructions that if the team did not get into the grand final I would sell it or close the team down. They had 24 months to make a return for me. All players contracts were tied to this condition and any sales, resignations, retirements would need me to agree, to retire, sell, transfer or renewal. If they resigned they were banned from professionally playing for ten years. As they were desperate for a buyer they agreed. I did employ a professional manager to organise but at no time did he ever see me.
My brother was livid with the new terms and conditions but the team agreed to continue playing. I was at a family birthday party when my brother broke the news. I smiled. As they were half way through the season they did improve their ability and ended up coming 3rd, again much to everyone’s surprise. Their expectation was 10 on the ladder. My sister was part of the teams cheerleading squad and they themselves were under the same conditions. They both went mad trying to find out anything about the new owner. My sister did find out somehow the owner was a dot com billionaire and unmarried. I did let that slip deliberately to tease her. My mum told her to find the person and marry him for his money even if he is ugly. I shook my head at my mothers instructions.
The start of the next season I used the ticket to enter the VIP room and watched the match. I did have a disguise on to avoid recognition. This involved a wig, thick high shoes, padding and unusual clothing. Heaps of people tried to photograph me but I installed glass that made the window dark in photographs. My exit was by a direct lift to the basement and private driveway out of the area, I did hire a limousine with dark glass. I did laugh at my siblings trying to attract my attention, together with press etc. I did not attend any further home games but I did get a lot of invitations to various events together with the usual begging letters. I did employ a professional group to deal with these items.
During the season I did have an opposition company open up and tried to take over my business. I took them straight to court for infringement of my patient. I lodged a copy of my algorithm straight away with the court under seal. A defence by me. During the first court case, they failed to produce their software however I did obtain a copy legally and pointed out 48 different lines of code that were a direct copy including my deliberate spelling mistakes. They were forced to close down and pay me two billion dollars in fines. This bankrupted the programmers together with the company directors and I collected every penny off each one. Admittedly I only got nine hundred million but it was enough to teach them and others, a lesson, not to tangle with me. I hold sway over their bankruptcy release, later they were arrested for stealing my intellectual property and given twenty years in prison. Yes I went hard on them. The companies that signed up with them never got one of my licences and all bar one ended up bankrupt.
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