• Alex Morton. By Eli Wright
    Chapter 1
    He sat in his chair, thinking about life, his life. What would tomorrow hold for the world? Alex Morton was fourteen years old, he spent his time looking out his window, thinking about the world. No one bothered him about it because no one really cared. He had brown hair, blue eyes and A.D.H.D, which is why he didn’t have any friends. He would take medicine, but his ignorant parents wouldn’t give him any because they refused to believe that there was anything wrong with their child. He got up, and closed the window, it was almost lunchtime.
    Alex grabbed a Hot Pocket and put it in the microwave.
    “There's nothing on TV, lame” In truth, Alex didn’t go to school, too much work. No one seemed to care, and he didn’t need high school. He learned everything he needed in summer school. His parents were never really home anyway, they were both retired, and social security was paying for the house. He looked out of the window, a black car was pulling into his driveway. Alex narrowed his eyes.
    “Her again” A tall woman with short hair, a blue blouse and miniskirt business ‘suit’ and a black briefcase got out of the car. She walked over to his screen door, and didn’t bother ringing the doorbell, she knew that he knew that she was there. Alex walked over to the screen door, and looked her in the eyes.
    “Hello Mr. Morton, we meet again”
    “My good lady, let’s not chat through the screen door, please, come in” The woman entered his house. The two sat down in his living room, in chairs that faced each other.
    “You have not attended a school since we last met Mr. Morton”
    “No, I haven’t Mrs. Bloomburg, and I don’t plan to” Mrs. Bloomburg had a smile on her face, but her eyes had changed, behind that smile, there was anger.
    “You realize that you are risking going to Juvenile detention, right?”
    “Yes, I do, and if I do go to Juvy, then I’ll serve my time and continue with my life”
    “I warn you Mr. Morton, I can force you to go to school, there are ways”
    “So why haven’t you?” Mrs. Bloomburg got up, walked briskly to the door, then stopped.
    “I will be back Mr. Morton, and you will go to school! Public or street!” she turned towards Alex.
    “until next time Mr. Morton”
    “Until then Mrs. Bloomburg” she walked out the door, got into her car, and begrudgingly left his driveway.
    Chapter 2
    Alex Morton got up from his chair, walked back into the kitchen and continued his lunch. Mrs. Bloomburg was a member of the school board and since the beginning of the year, she had been sent by them over and over again to try and make him go to school. He had already been threatened by her of the increasing chances of him going to Juvy, and he was worried, but who wouldn’t be? Juvy was basically a children’s prison. But as he said, he’d serve his time and be done with it, he didn’t need school!
    Alex took a walk outside, there was a cool spring breeze blowing through. The sun was shining and everything was beautiful; the wind had blown petals off trees and millions flew past his head. The made it seem like it was raining. He looked around, his neighborhood never changed, the same old people in the same old houses, they were born in their houses, with a portable IV for their mothers, and they would die in those houses, old and decrepit. He laughed, he would probably turn out like that.
    He walked over to a park near his house,
    And sat on a swing. Listening to the wind blow, something was going to change this year, he knew it.