The Runaway Boy By: Ethan

“The equivalent to N=3,532.”

“You are correct!”

“Yes!” said Ms. Washington.

Just a second my name is sticky Washington my mom is Ms Washington and my dads name is Mr. Washington. I just won the 2010 world math championship and I won $1,000,000. My mom only cares about money not me.

The plane ride was long and dreary. When I got back to the house I went up to my room to do my homework. After I finished my homework I showed it to my mom.

“Sticky! Why did you get this question wrong!” she said.
“Sorry” I mumbled in a sarcastic tone. Maybe I should just leave this dump.
“What are you calling this a dump and if you leave this place how will you get me and your dad get rich.”

“That’s it!” I said “I am leaving this place!” I quickly grabbed my stuff and left. I was actually hiding in the shed and I snacked on stuff that they stored there. The next day I heard them say “lets give up we can find another smart boy.” I never thought they would say that so I started tearing up.

I found the nearest train and I hid in the boxcar. In the boxcar my eyes felt heavy to the rhythm of the clikety clack of the wheels turning on the track. After the ride I was as skinny as a rail but I dragged on. When I saw a hot dog vender it felt as if a wave washed all over me I was drooling all over the hot dogs and the vender got really mad that I was ruining them.

Later I went to a park and I found a bench to sleep on. Right when I was about to fall asleep I felt something hit me I looked around and all I found was an old newspaper. When I looked at it I saw a head line it said ARE YOU A KID WHO IS LOOKING FOR A ADVENTURE I looked at the location where you take some tests and I knew it was really close. In the morning I hurried over to the house and I found the rooms where you take the tests and the other kids trying out were there too. After the test the person that was like a teacher said…

“The only one that passed the test is Sticky Washington!”

I was grinning from ear to ear. The teacher said I could go to the court yard but nowhere else.

When I got into the courtyard I could hear the birds chirping the air was crispy and there were little piles of snow left over from the big thaw. When I was just about to go in I saw a girl going in too. Right when I was about to say hi she said I know all of the answers and I can tell you them. I just shrugged and turned her down. When I got in the test room I looked at the questions and I knew I should have cheated. I pretty much guessed on all of the questions but at the end of the test the teacher said

“The only kid to pass is sticky Washington!”

After every kid left the teacher led me to a maze. When I got in the maze I found a door to another room. I hurried into it and it looked like the last room and when I went into another room it looked the same so I kept doing that until I found a stair case. I hurried up it and at the top I saw a biff guy and he led me to a room and I gasped. The other kids who passed were in there but it was filled with books I mean filled. Right then a guy came in and said

“Congratulations on passing all of the tests.”

At the last meal of the day the guy said we are going on a mission to the island of the institute. We all asked why and after dinner he brought us up to a room and told us to listen to the T.V. we all gasped we asked

“What was that?”

He said it was the institute. The next day I heard the growl of an engine and the crunch of tires. I looked out the window and I thought that was my moms car and when she got out I felt really happy. And right when I got down there I rememberd that my parents don’t care about me. And right when I was about to go back up stairs my parents grabbed me. And the guy and my parents started arguing and then my parents brought me home. The drive home was long and dreary and when I got there they pushed me up against a wall and asked me why I ran away I answered…

“I left because you only cared about money not me.”

Then they got so mad and they sent me to my room and start cracking the books.




PROLAUGE

Now that I am older I still wonder what the kids did at the institute. After I left the house my parents thought they had all of the money in the world but they wasted it on different stuff.

Now I am a math teacher at Harvard and I am finally happy.