The Key

For the first time in a while I was actually looking forward to seeing my parents, since I’d spent a year in complete isolation from all humans. I knew that I couldn’t tell them what happened and I would need to make a phoney excuse about Fred and me. We figured that we could just say that Barry ran away into the woods and we couldn’t find him. But then there’s me… I’m taller, stronger and I have longer and darker hair. How could we possibly say that this was just an “abnormal growing streak?” it’s impossible, they would start asking questions and if they were really concerned, maybe some sort of blood test that would tell them how old I really was.

Mom and dad are supposed to arrive here in seven hours and thirty five minutes and we have yet to find an excuse for the vast change in my appearance. Lucy wasn’t any help at all; she just stood there amazed that I really did end up staying in a single room for one whole year just to get back at my brother.

An hour went by and Barry saw a very familiar car pull into the driveway. I didn’t remember it at first because it’s been a year since a saw any cars, other than the police car. After a while of me thinking who was in the driver’s seat. I finally remembered; it was Mr. Crane, the lawyer.

“Barry! Somebody’s here!” I yelled to Barry.

“He can’t see you” he said franticly while he pushed me out the back door.

I ran into the woods. A year ago singularity time, it would have taken me forever to run into the trees. But since I spent a year on working out, it was a piece of cake.

“Hello there Barry, where’s your brother?” he asked

“He went out for a walk” I said quickly, starting to break into a small sweat.

There wasn’t much he could say at the moment and I can give hi...

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... it was Mom’s Uncle until he died. They both thought they got rid of the key to the lock. But it turns out that they didn’t. They got mad at me for doing something so incredibly selfish and outrageous. Because Dad knew all about the Singularity, we had someone to help explain it all. She got over the fact of me being a year older quite quickly. We wouldn’t have been able to do it with out him.

We went home and I just played it cool with all my friends. Every one that I knew was confused. I ended up being a completely different person at school. No friends but Barry accepted me and introduced me too all of his friends. I loved that.

My life turned around that day. Mom and dad accepted me for who I turned out to be. Barry grew a lot the following summer, and now guess what, he’s bigger. He’s bossing me around, but as much as he yells at me, I still know he cares.