The Watsons comfort Lee for a bit longer, assuring him that he will be alright, then they leave him in his room as he explores more of it, re-familiarising himself with his things.

  Then he opens his computer; as the computer loads, Lee knows that it is not the top of the line, but it’s enough for him to play his games and do his homework.

  While he waits for the computer to finish loading, he starts to remember how to operate the computer; at first reactions he thinks of the computer as slow, then different memory fragments of other lives resurface and make him laugh. “This is slow? I can’t believe I used to have time to make a coffee and drink it before I could use a computer!” He thinks, imagining that the memory he has are his, as they remain a bit mixed and blurred. As he looks at the clock on the wall, he notices that it only took two minutes for the computer to be ready for usage.

  He instantly opens the school program that has all of his class work, including lessons recaps and homework, as well as messages from the teachers.

  He opens the first message. It’s from his head teacher, a simple message wishing him quick recovery, and when he gets in good health to do his homework, not to worry if he doesn’t understand, that he will receive a private lesson teaching him the basics of what was taught in the lessons.

  Lee then opens the next two messages from teachers and in a way they are identical to the first one: well wishes, and not to worry too much about understanding the homework.

  Lee then opens the homework and class lesson, and he finds himself thinking. “This is child's play, it is so easy things.” Lee then skims through the homework and laughs.

  Sue that had been concerned about Lee was passing by his room when she hears him laughing. “What do you find so funny?” She asks with a smile.

  Lee points at the screen. “This homework is so easy, it is funny.”

  Sue then approaches and reads the screen. “Are you sure, Lee? Maths is not your best topic, and this is the hardest question of your homework.”

  Lee then stops laughing as he looks at Sue. Then a quick thought comes to his mind. “Has humanity downgraded that much that a simple question can’t be solved by a five-year-old child?” He then looks at the screen and reads the question. “One hour is sixty minutes; there are four children and one computer, each child plays the same time, how much time does each child play on the computer?” he then looks at Sue.

  “Yes, and that is easy? Show me how much time they play,” she says, looking at Lee and pointing at the blank space to do the exercise.

  Lee nods. Then as he types, he explains his method. “So one hour is sixty minutes. So, if it was only two children, each play half, thirty minutes, but as it's four, each plays half of half. Half of sixty is thirty, and half of thirty is fifteen, so each child plays fifteen minutes!”

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  Sue nods with eyebrows furrowed. “Very good, but how did you count sixty in your fingers? You don’t have that many fingers.”

  Lee shakes his head, more at the thought that he’s only five. “No, but I have six.” He then shows three fingers in each hand. “the difference is a zero.”

  “That is very smart,” Sue says, then she looks at the screen. “What about this, how did you know that half of thirty is fifteen?”

  Lee looks confused, as it’s something that just came to his mind, then another thought appears. “Half of three is one plus half, one and five with a dot in the middle,” Lee says as he scribbles on his tablet. “So if I add the zero to the three makes thirty, but if I add the zero next to the five nothing changes, it is still one point five, so in my head I think, one plus one is two, two and zero is twenty, five plus five is ten, now I clean the zero again, and one plus two is three, and with the zero thirty, so I need ten and five, so I delete zero and put five.”

  Sue nods as she takes Lee’s tablet and looks at all the scribbles that more looks like a game match board game plan with all the numbers and lines. “It looks complicated, but it is easy if you think like that, you found out that taking the zero is the same as the small numbers.” Sue then sends the tablets recordings to herself and then on her phone she attaches the recording of Lee’s explanation to his homework file that only parents and teachers have access.

  Lee then looks at the other questions and attempts to do them, the only ones he struggles the most are in a subject called modern history. At the end Lee finally understands, after a web search, that humanity divided history into three segments: modern history; is the history after humanity started agreements with aliens and space travel, old history; is anything before that era, then they have galactic history; which covers main events in the galaxy, what alien race did what, what planet is under whom and why.

  After an hour of homework Kenji goes to the bottom of the stairs and calls out. “Lee! It is not good for you to stay for too long in the computer, you just got out of the hospital.”

  “Okay dad!” Lee says as he puts the computer to sleep, then he bounds down the stars and runs out the back door, passing by the living room. He informs, “I’m going to go ride on my bicycle.” As he gets to the storage garage he grabs his bicycle, in this era the bicycles are a sideways rectangular shape, and in the middle are two diagonal bars coming from the bottom corners of the rectangle and meeting each other in the middle of the top face of the rectangle, then on top where the diagonal bars meet is a seat for the bike rider, the front of the bike consists of a steering wheel like the ones of a car, but this one is fixed it doesn’t move, then at the back are two adjustable flaps to place the feet.

  As soon as Lee get on top of the bike and grips the steering wheel, a holographic display appears and lee immediately turns the bike on, using the commands on the display, then as soon as the bike lifts of the ground Lee leans in forward and places his foot on the flaps, then with the experience of the last two years, he uses his feet to rotate the flaps downwards using the tips of his feet to go faster, if he wants to slowdown he rotates the flaps backwards with the heel of his feet, then if he presses forward on the left flap more than on the right the bike turns left, if he presses the flaps in opposite directions the bike rotates on the spot.

  After remembering properly how to ride the bike he stands with his back straight as his legs are bent slightly backwards remaining on the flaps. “It really is as easy as riding a bike, you never forget.” He then leans forward and starts to ride down the road even before he grabs the steering wheel.