He just sits there on the couch, Hanako resting her head on his shoulder. Eventually, her breathing gets softer and Sam assumes that she has fallen asleep.
Relieved, he jacks into cold sim and plays some video games.
The next morning, the two wake up on the couch, Hanako's head still resting on Sam's shoulder. His shirt is mildly damp from her drooling.
Hanako, waking up next to Sam after having broken up with him, blushes a deeper shade of crimson than Sam has ever seen before. Even when Auntie Muku was trying to get the two of them to agree to get married. Sam doesn't really understand why Hanako seems so frazzled, and tries smiling at her. It seems to have little effect, but eventually Hanako calms down and the two of them leave the cabin, separately.
Back at the community center, Sam has a chance to get Eula onto the workshop table and install a mod that he found during his searching: gecko grips. He works for just over two hours, but finally thinks that he has them properly installed. To test them out, he writes a note to each of his companions asking for their help to get the rest of his stuff from his apartment.
A few days later, Sam and whoever wants to come help/guard him head to his apartment. WuJen, Sun, and Ichigo offer to come into the apartment with him and help move things. Chougou keeps watch through a few drones, and sends his van along to bring stuff back.
Emiko offers to keep a lookout three blocks west. In case anyone comes from that direction.
Sam's apartment is completely trashed. But, there wasn't that much there in the first place. His only furniture is a mattress on the floor in a corner, which Sun easily brings out to the van. Sam packs up his shop, and brings it out to the van as well. Aside from that, there is just his shotgun and some assorted clothes.
The extraction of Sam's things takes about 20 minutes, all told, and goes off without a hitch.
On the way back to the community center, Ichigo hands Sam a platinum credstick and asks if Sam can crack it.
Sam, looking at the credstick, sees that it is platinum.
"This is a very high security credstick," he tells Ichigo. "I can probably crack it. But it will not be easy. It is going to be at least a full two days of work."
He takes the credstick from Ichigo, and tells him that he will give it his best shot.
Back at the community center, suddenly all of the lights and appliances start to go haywire. Eula climbs onto the ceiling and just drops down onto the floor, then repeats. Unfortunately, Kitaro is right in the middle of one of his sparsely attended classes. Now that one person has been inconvenienced. Sam realizes right away what is happening, and he jacks into cold sim to chase away the meddling icons and set all of the stuff in the community center back to normal.
>>>>>>Sorry. That was just Core-1. He hacks all of my things from time to time.
Sam spends the next day watching TV and playing video games in his room. Ichigo knocks on his door to ask if he wants some dinner.
"I do not have time for dinner," Sam responds. "I am too busy trying to crack this credstick for you."
Instead, Sam has Eula make and bring him a sandwich, and continues his marathon video game session.
The next day, though, Sam figures he should probably get to work on the credstick.
It really is a very high security credstick, and Sam has his work cut out for him.
He spends two hours working, and he feels like he's made a lot of progress. He knows that the coding he is doing is really top notch. But, the credstick seems just as locked as ever.
Another two hours of intensive coding, and Sam is starting to get frustrated. He's doing some of his best work, but the thing is still locked. At this point, though, he thinks he's almost got it.
But, out of the corner of his eye, he notices an ad for a new hour long pilot of a sitcom! So, he pulls that up.
It's not very funny. But, he will watch it again next week.
In the meantime, he gets back to work on the credtstick. He felt like he should have been done with this by now He puts in two more hours of hard work, and finally feels like he's just about got it.
A half hour later, and he unlocks the credstick, gaining full access to the 150,000 nuyen contained inside.
He considers transferring 10,000 into his account, and telling the others that it turned out to only contain 140,000. Or that 10,000 got corrupted. But, he decides not to steal from his friends.
The next day he finds Ichigo and gives the credstick back.
For the rest of the week, Sam continues researching how to get that upgraded pilot for Eula. He thinks that he'll be able to get it, but he will need help from some of his friends. So, good thing he didn't just steal from them. Hopefully, they'll all come away from this job with something to show for it.