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CHAPTER 1
Today is Saturday; there is nothing fun for me to do.
Father is watching football on the television, and Mother is busy too. Who will play with me?
I know what I can do! I will go to my room and call my friends to see who wants to come over and play with me.
I have called all my friends, but no one is home. I'll just play all alone in my room. I don't need anybody to have fun.
This is no fun; I am still bored. I am tired of playing with the same toys and games I have played with one hundred times before. Maybe I should just run away.
It's time to leave this place. No one wants to play with me anyway, so they don't care about me. What should I take? I will take some toys, and I'll take some video games, but I'm not taking any books. Who likes to read anyway?
Goodbye, Mother; I am running away. Goodbye, Father; you will never see me again. Mother just says, "Be safe, dear." And Father tells me to hurry up — I am in front of the TV, blocking the game.
I storm out the door. I will never come back to this house ever again. I will go somewhere far, far away, where I can have fun all day long.
Okay, now I'm free; I can do anything that I want to do. I must go fast so no one will try to stop me. Fun awaits me.
(Continues…)
Excerpted from "The Day I Ran Away"
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Copyright © 2017 Randolph Cuthbert.
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