Rolando Hernandez

    English-5^th

    11-4-13

    Short story

  

     Once upon a time in the city of Chicago lived Omar Hernandez. Omar was a very smart kid for kid his age, in the 5 grade he would win a spelling bees and all math contest. He lived a very happy life….in school. Omar’s parents were divorced and he lived with his mom because she said she didn’t want his father to see him anymore. His mom was a woman who loved drinking. His father was an electrician and had his own company. He surely got his smart genes from his father not his mother. Anyways at home it was terrible, his mother would always yell at him and whenever he asked her for money for school she would say no, even when he needed a haircut she would say no. One day at school Mr. Robertson asked for some supplies the students would need for his class and if they didn’t get them they would fail the class. Omar didn’t seem worried because in his mind he knew that his mom wouldn’t give him the money so there was only one other choice and it wasn’t his dad. He would need to steal them! Omar was making this a habit. It was his 4^th time stealing. As he walked into Walgreens wearing his old ripped vans because he couldn’t afford any others, he was nervous. He had never been caught before but he knew that if he did nobody would care not his mom or his dad. As he walks he stares closely at all the cashiers to check if they were eyeballing him. The coast was clear… He walked around for quite a while and just stood in front of the supplies. As he bent over to reach for them, a worker asked him if he needed help. He was panicking on the inside. He quickly Replied “No….I’m fine….thanks.” As the worker left he quickly put the supplies in his pocket, he walked around for another good while to not make it suspicious but he took to long….As he’s about to walk out the door he feels a hand laid upon his shoulder. He didn’t want to turn around because he knew it was a worker. He hears a voice saying “Why Omar? Why?” As he turns around in shame he notices it’s his father. His father tells him that he didn’t recognize him with that long hair he had. Omar sheds into tears because he couldn’t stand seeing his father crying for something he had done. His father asked him why was he stealing, and Omar replied stuttering “because…..my mom…didn’t. Want...to give me. Money.” Omars father told him that he should’ve asked him for money that he would’ve gave him for his supplies. Omar explained that his mother took away all contact info from him to his father so they wouldn’t be able to communicate. His father said “You’re not going to live with your mother anymore! I’m going to open up a court case so that you can come home with me not that crazy woman!” Omars father went to pay for the supplies and they left. He took Omar back to his mother but told him not to mention a word of what they talked about. As the court date came Omar was happy and happier. On the day of the court Omar was in school but in school he got a notification that when he comes out to go directly to the main office and not anywhere else, because his father would be waiting there for him.So then Omar and his father moved far away from his mother so she wouldn’t find him ever again and Omar was so very happy with his father. The End