I walked ten minutes to the bus and caught it into the city. Mom didn't
know I had been
saving fifteen of my twenty dollar allowance every week for the past year, that with some
birthday money from friends, and the fifty I won in a drawing contest a few months ago, I
managed to have a little over nine hundred dollars. I also had my change jar, which had
about ten dollars in it. It only cost a dollar seventy-five to take the city bus, since I got a
transfer to go uptown to the bus depot. The woman behind the counter told me it would
cost seventy dollars to get to the border. I went into the washroom and counted out the
money, but she wouldn't sell me a ticket. You have to be sixteen to buy a ticket without
an adult. Great. I went back into the washroom to figure out what I was going to do.
Glancing in the mirror, I realized I looked too young. All I had to do was make myself
look older. There was a small mall nearby, so I went there and found a drugstore. I
figured I could spike my hair, so I found some gel to do that with. Maybe if I colored it, I
would look a bit older, too. I found some comb-in color, green. But that would only make
my hair look like an older teen's, I needed some clothes. I also realized it was getting
late; I needed to find somewhere to sleep. The mall was going to close soon, so I paid for
my stuff and left. I rode the glass elevator up a level and found a store that sold camping
supplies. I found a very small tent for a hundred dollars; I didn't want to afford a sleeping
bag, so I figured I'd figure something out. Besides, it was early summer; I figured I
should be all right for a while. Now all I had to do was find a place to pitch it. There were
no parks in this city that you could pitch a tent in. Great. I couldn't even take a bus back
home for the night, because I took the last bus coming or going from Bay- West. Finally, I
remembered a park on the west side of the city, it was mostly woods, and it's gates were
open almost all the time. I dug through my change jar for bus fare, then took another bus
west, I had to walk almost half an hour to get to the park, then I followed some of the
paths for about ten more minutes. Then I walked off the path and pitched my tent behind
some bushes.
~~
saving fifteen of my twenty dollar allowance every week for the past year, that with some
birthday money from friends, and the fifty I won in a drawing contest a few months ago, I
managed to have a little over nine hundred dollars. I also had my change jar, which had
about ten dollars in it. It only cost a dollar seventy-five to take the city bus, since I got a
transfer to go uptown to the bus depot. The woman behind the counter told me it would
cost seventy dollars to get to the border. I went into the washroom and counted out the
money, but she wouldn't sell me a ticket. You have to be sixteen to buy a ticket without
an adult. Great. I went back into the washroom to figure out what I was going to do.
Glancing in the mirror, I realized I looked too young. All I had to do was make myself
look older. There was a small mall nearby, so I went there and found a drugstore. I
figured I could spike my hair, so I found some gel to do that with. Maybe if I colored it, I
would look a bit older, too. I found some comb-in color, green. But that would only make
my hair look like an older teen's, I needed some clothes. I also realized it was getting
late; I needed to find somewhere to sleep. The mall was going to close soon, so I paid for
my stuff and left. I rode the glass elevator up a level and found a store that sold camping
supplies. I found a very small tent for a hundred dollars; I didn't want to afford a sleeping
bag, so I figured I'd figure something out. Besides, it was early summer; I figured I
should be all right for a while. Now all I had to do was find a place to pitch it. There were
no parks in this city that you could pitch a tent in. Great. I couldn't even take a bus back
home for the night, because I took the last bus coming or going from Bay- West. Finally, I
remembered a park on the west side of the city, it was mostly woods, and it's gates were
open almost all the time. I dug through my change jar for bus fare, then took another bus
west, I had to walk almost half an hour to get to the park, then I followed some of the
paths for about ten more minutes. Then I walked off the path and pitched my tent behind
some bushes.
~~