"Hello. I am a fourteen year old boy living in the town known as Nersia Pinta. It is the worst city on earth. Every night a family is burned alive by criminals that live in the city and the senate allows it. The senate pulls one person away each month never to be seen again and there is always gun shots and fighting. Are house is in the mountains of the city. No one knows its there, so no one can do anything to us. My school is five miles away and we have to walk. I live with my Mom who never tells me her name, Joldaa my brother and Sisura my sister. We walk together everyday. If you found this letter then please help our family." I overlook my letter. Perfect, I thought. I looked over at the one clock we had in the house. 7:10.
"Time to go!" I yell as I walked down the stairs only to see Sisura and Joldaa waiting for me. I sighed. We said goodbye to Mom and left. We started running to school as rain started to fall. Four miles down, one to go. We kept running to school only to get there being an hour and forty-five minutes late. That set a record for being early to school. I walked into my classroom. No one there. I sent Joldaa and Sisura to there classrooms and went to the science room. I was so early, that they were just getting done with science. As everyone left, the science teacher, Mr. Becker, pulled me aside.
"Why are you being late every single day?" He said. I sniggered as I replied. "Well, to start this off our family don't have a car, so we have to walk to school. Second of all its five miles to walk." He let me go and I went back to our regular classroom. I basically only have three friends in the school. One of them is a ninth grader named Jech, then theres Bilde who is in eleventh and Lese who is in tenth.
Today was Tuesday and there was a lock in on Thursday. Our teacher made the announcement to the class.
"Class can I have your attention. On Thursday there will be a lock in for 8th grade and up. Anyone who would like to go must sign up on the sign up paper in the hallway next to the water fountain. You have to bring your own sleeping bag and stuff to entertain you, because they will only be serving supper and breakfast. Please bring the proper stuff needed for that date. There is no extras." After She made the announcement she went back to math. I leaned over and asked the guy next to me if he wanted to go. All I got for a reply was "not if your going." I didn't know people hated me that much.