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Chapter 1
Johnny Meyers was hurrying home from school and he was going to be in trouble. He had to stay in detention after
his last 8th grade class because he had made a 'not so smart' remark to one of his teachers. He was only trying
to be funny but it had backfired. Now he wasn't going to be able to finish his chores before dinner. He also had
a note that his Mom would have to sign from the teacher who had detained him. It described his lack of proper behavior.
It had been raining all day and Johnny had also lost his new umbrella that his Mom had given him this morning.
Well he didn't really lose it. When he went to the cloak room it had been gone. Some other kid must have picked
it up while he was being detained.
Johnny lost his footing on the wet pavement and tumbled over and fell flat on his face into a small puddle. His
math homework that he had been doing while in detention fell out of one of his books and was now laying face down
on the wet sidewalk. He got to his knees and slowly picked it up. It was soaked and his numeration was now illegible.
"Oh no! 1 1/2 hours of work ruined. What else could go wrong today?"
"Here let me help you up." Johnny's eyes darted up to a tall sandy haired man with blue eyes.
"Thank you but I can manage." Johnny said as he struggled to his feet.
"What is that?" The sandy haired man said pointing to the wet document in Johnny's hand.
"It was my math homework now it is ruined."
"May I see it?" Without waiting for a response the sandy haired man took the piece of paper and gently
held it up to his face.
Seconds later he handed it back to Johnny. "Looks ok to me, but you made an error in one of your steps in
your third calculation. You subtracted instead of adding."
Johnny looked at his homework in disbelief. It was now perfectly dry and once again legible, and this man was correct
he had made an error in the third problem.
"Here." The man said. "Looks like you are in need of one of these."
He seemed to have produced a small umbrella out of thin air.
"Sorry sir but my Mom doesn't want me to accept gifts from strangers."
"Someone is only a stranger for a second, until you meet them. My name is Al by the way. You are getting soaked,
here take this before you catch a cold." Al shoved the umbrella onto Johnny's chest.
Johnny grasped hold of the small umbrella. It looked a lot like the one he had lost, not exactly, but similar.
"Well thank you…………
Al had disappeared.
"Well maybe Mom won't notice the difference" Johnny thought as he set down his books for a moment and
opened the umbrella.
"Who am I kidding Mom always notices stuff."
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