Teleporting
Roy Kim, Group 2: Fiction, The International School of Macao
aniel Smith! Congratulation, you got one hundred percent on your math test!” Mrs. Gray
announced in class. Everyone clapped for me and I was so glad to end the year on a perfect
note. “And for all of you in this class, I hope you guys have a safe and exciting summer holiday!
You are dismissed!” As soon as Mr. Gray finished talking, we all rushed out of the school like
a stampede of buffaloes. I was elated, so I ran back home merrily waving my test paper. When
I arrived home I showed it to my parents. Mom said in a satisfied tone, “Great job, Daniel! I’m so proud of you!
I’m thinking of giving you a reward for this!” “Yay! Does that mean we’ll go traveling?” I asked my mom and
dad. They nodded. Since my mom was half Chinese, we decided to go to Beijing, China.
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It took about 12 hours to fly to Beijing. After we retrieved our bags, we took a taxi to the Fortune Hotel
and settled down in our comfortable room. The following day, we took a trip to the Great Wall of China. When I
first saw the Great Wall, I was astonished with its length. Its sheer size made me feel like an insignificant ant.
While I was marveling at the view from the Great Wall, mom and dad were already far ahead, so I ran to catch
up with them. As we continued to climb, a tree drew my attention. There was a 100 dollar note caught on one of
the branches and fluttering in the wind. I thought that someone must have lost it and I tried to get it and show it
to my parents. So while my parents were admiring the gorgeous view, I stretched over the top of the wall trying
to grab the banknote, but I couldn’t reach it, so I jumped. All of a sudden, I slipped and fell. Fortunately, I was
still holding onto the edge of the Great Wall. I cried for help, and my parents ran towards me. “Oh my god!
What in the world did you?” My mom and dad panicked. My dad tried to pull me up, but I was too heavy, so I
fell. “NO!” My parents yelled. I thought my life was going to end, so I closed my eyes. I asked myself: “Why
did you do it? Why didn’t you just stay home?” When I thought of home, I suddenly smelled the scent of my
house, so I opened my eyes slowly. I could not believe it! I was home!
I didn’t know what happened, but I was home! I must have had some kind of superpower that made me able
to teleport! It was so awesome to have a superpower! I tried to go back to the Great Wall. I closed my eyes and
visualized a picture of the great wall in my mind, and then I carefully opened my eyes. BOOM! I was there
standing behind mom and dad’s back. “Mom? Dad?” I asked in a quiet voice. They slowly turned around. Mom
fell on her knees looking at me like I was a ghost; dad just stared at me and dropped his mouth wide open.
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What happened?" mom asked me, and dad started to check my body to make sure that I was okay. I explained
everything to mom, but she just looked at me unable to believe me. So I grabbed their hands and teleported all
three of us back to the hotel. Again, they were in a state of shock. “At first, I couldn’t believe it, either, but then
I knew it was true when I was able to teleport to the Great Wall again.” I explained. “Let’s talk about it when we
go back to home.” Dad said. So I held mom and dad’s hands and in no time we were at the Great Wall again.
While I was walking on the Great Wall, I thought that I should use this power to do something huge. That’s
when the trouble started. In my naïve mind, I thought that I could go into a bank’s safe and steal all the money,
so I can be very rich.
When we came back home from the travel to Beijing, I started to make plans for robbing our local bank.
My plan was to find a picture of the bank’s safe and teleport into it, then get the money and teleport back home.
So I did.
I teleported into the safe of a bank, but it was smaller than I thought, so I tried to move to get the money,
but unfortunately, the old safe made a loud squeaking sound. The guard who was standing beside it quickly
opened the safe and arrested me. I was so embarrassed that I couldn’t even think to teleport back home. The
guard placed the stun gun right on my neck and shocked me. I fell down and fainted.
When I opened my eyes, I was in jail! My mom was in front of me and a guard was standing next to her.
She shouted in a loud voice, ”Wake up, wake up!” I didn’t get what she was talking about, but something hit me
hard. I blinked, and found myself at home, on the bed. I quickly went to the bathroom to check my neck, but the
scar from the stun gun was still there. Had it been a dream…?
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