-By Hansini, Grade 6C

It was a regular day at the Dhawen family’s house. They lived at the edge of a forest near a lake. The lake was quite shallow at the beginning and got deeper and deeper. Radek, the family’s robot was supervising Sunil, making sure that he wouldn’t wade in too deep.
“Sunil! That’s the boundary. Don’t you dare cross it!’’ yelled Radek, his eyes focused on Sunil.

‘’ It’s all right! I’m grown up now! I don’t need a stupid robot to control everything I do!’’ snapped Sunil. He really wished this tiresome robot were never in his life, monitoring everything he did, and fussing over him as if he was still a baby.
‘’That is it Sunil. You are crossing the line,’’ growled Radek. ’I must call your parents if you behave indecisively and continue to be insolent.’’
‘’Oh really?” scoffed Sunil. “ I’ll call them first.’’
He double tapped a minuscule, square device on his shoulder, which had intricate lines etched on it. It glowed, and a hologram of his mom appeared on it.
“Mom! Radek’s being annoying!” said Sunil.
“Sweetie, Radek does everything for your best, and, you have to listen to him,” his mom said, looking tired as if they had been through this a couple of times.
“Fine! You might have mom and dad fooled but I saw you going into your bedroom hastily, without even finishing dinner! You keep disappearing into your room, you are always on the phone, arguing with someone. You think I don’t notice all this? Well, I know you are up to something and I’ll see that you are chucked out of this house as soon as possible!” Sunil glared at Radek before he slammed the door shut and went into his house.
“So, he knows. I must be more careful now,” said Radek softly, his face grim and looking determined.
‘Well, if he thinks I am not going to do anything about this, he is wrong. Let me go into his room’, thought Sunil smiling shrewdly.
He quickly went into Radek’s room and ordered the door to get closed and bolted. The chip heard it and it automatically closed.
He ruffled through Radek’s desk and at the bottom, he saw something totally different from the rest of Radek’s possessions: A note.
‘Meet me. 11 pm. Today. Usual place.’
Sunil gasped and then smirked slyly. ‘He thinks I don’t know about this. He’d better start packing his bag because I’ll follow him and catch him red-handed today’, though Sunil.
At 10:55 pm, Sunil crept out of his room, dressed in all black. After a minute or so, Radek appeared out of his room, glancing around nervously. Radek quietly opened the door and slid outside.
Sunil followed Radek deeper and deeper into the woods. Now, second thoughts arose in Sunil’s head. ‘What if I get found? What if I won’t be able to find my way out?’ Sunil shook these thoughts away and looked at Radek. His hand was twitching, as it always did when he was anxious. Radek turned around a tree and the rustling of dry leaves ceased. Silence swallowed Radek. Sunil stood there, petrified, his heart pounding harder and harder.
“So, ready to disclose the information?” said a hoarse, mean voice.
“No! No! No! “yelled Radek. “They are my family! I just can’t!” his voice choked with emotion.
“Then you know the consequences,” reprimanded the voice.
Sunil shuffled on his feet. This was too much for him. Realization dawned on him… he couldn’t believe that he hated Radek for all these years when Radek was willing to give his life for his family.
The man’s eyes shone with hatred. He smiled cruelly, looking at Radek with vengeance.
“RUN!” screamed Radek.
Radek and Sunil ran for their lives. “Run f-faster, he won’t be able to reach us if we get into radius of 50 meters close to our house. As they ran, Sunil fell over a wild branch and grazed his knee. Radek lifted him up and they sprinted. Sunil looked back and saw the man’s hand stretching out. Any moment now, he would have grabbed him a shriek rung in the still night. Sunil looked back and saw the man sprawled on the floor.
“B-But why did this happen,” panted Sunil. As they went back into the house Radek looked at him and said, “Not now, later”.
After their adventure, Sunil trusted Radek with all his life.

The end