Canada's Secret (the person, not the country)

"To Canada, my homeland and the land I love most."

-M.N

Canada's Secret (the person not the country)

March 15, 1943

Chapter 1: Canada's Life

My name is Canada. I know, the name but I'm used to it. Well, I'm like Canada, the country and if you want to know who named me, it was my dad. 

My dad is from the United States and people think it's very odd that he named me Canada because he's from another country but the truth is that... Let me tell you my story.

January 14, 1928

My mom and dad lived in New York City had had heard about Canada and many other Americans were moving too. I should tell you that I wasn't born in New York. Mom and Dad soon reached the immigrant boat and went to Quebec. 

Then we went to Ottawa and suddenly Dad fell in love with the city and then I was born. He named me Canada and that's how I got my name. Later we moved to British Columbia and lived in Vancouver and that's my story.

Chapter 2: Important Papers 

March 16, 1943

We are in the office of Mr. Gordon's office and he and Canada's dad are talking some important papers. 

"In the past fifteen years, you have have showed great work and respect in this building and I am about to give you these papers" said Mr. Gordon. 

Canada's dad looked at the papers with a close eye and said that the papers cannot be given in him. 

"Why?" asked Mr. Gordon. 

"These papers are the papers that show that Canada is not a war country. If these papers are destroyed, that will show that Canada can be at war" said Canada's dad, Michael.

"But I trust you to keep them safe" said Mr. Gordon. 

"OK, I will" said Michael.

"Good man."

I overheard the whole thing because I was on the roof of the building and Mr. Gordon's office is on next to the roof.  I simply opened the hatch to Mr. Gordon's office on the roof 
and now I heard the whole thing. 

Chapter 3: Planing

Now I love stealing stuff. 

Like once I stole my brother's diary and I got to hear all about his feeling for his girlfriend but this is serious. Stealing papers from Dad is hard because he puts papers is his safe, in his nine digit password desk (he puts different codes on all his drawers and changes them every day but he also spends most of his time on his office. 

But this is not his office in the building but in the house so that means that my brother can yell at me if I get into his office and I already know why he yells. He yells because he wants Dad to come and put me at trouble. 

But today when Dad was putting the papers in his desk he set up a laser field and the lasers moved around that you would never get though the field. You could get a ladder and go over the lasers but the laser field is made to go to the ceiling so that wouldn't work and pulling the plug wouldn't work too because the plug is at the other side.

There is another plan: at night, Dad turns off the laser field at night because in the morning, Mom's going to walk into the field even though Dad told her before they were going to sleep, so I think that's my plan. 

But wait! I've got a good idea: My brother loves money. I will trail money to Dad's office and my brother will never find out what room it is because he's stupid. 

Then I will throw a wad of money at the laser field and my brother will catch the wad of money (my brother is a world class money catcher). Like I said "I will throw a wad of money at the laser field", well, when he catches the money the floor is going to be wet and he will slip and fall. 

The alarm will ring and Dad will come and blame it on my brother but when my brother finds out it's me when I run to the desk, I'll give him some more money to shut him up.

Chapter 4: In Thief Mode

The plan is set and now for me to go into thief mode. If I were a spy, I would steal the Mona Lisa but that's hard to steal, since it's watched all the time. 

Now every thing is set: 20 dollars, mop and sponge and 10 dollars extra money (you never know when something is wrong).

I forgot to tell you that the desk is not coded this time, you can open it.

6:00 PM

At 6:00 PM, the trap was set. The floor was wet, the money was placed and I was hiding behind the door. 

Suddenly my brother came down the hall, his nose pointed to the wooden floor like a dog and when I threw some of the money I had left at the laser field, he slipped and he went into the laser field! The alarm rang and I rushed to the desk, got the papers, gave the rest of the money to my brother and ran before Dad came into the room.

Chapter 5: Intruders

When I was about to enter my room, some people were blocking the way to my room and this was weird.

Then they chased and I went out of the building running for my life. Soon I lost them but I was lost. I didn't know where to go. I was lost. 

The thing is, I didn't know why these people were chasing me. In Mr. Gordon's office, I only heard a part of the talk: my dad given the papers but when Dad was about to talk, I had to go because I didn't have my coat and I was freezing, so I didn't know why they were chasing me. I didn't know, I'm telling you!

I started to walk and tried to find the way back but I never been out of Vancouver before. I knew where Mr. Gordon's building was , but it's a two minute walk to the building and other than that, I've never been out of Vancouver before except when I was in Ottawa. We traveled by plane and when we came to Vancouver, we never traveled again. 

Chapter 6: Brian

It was already 11:00 PM, and I was walking though a row of apartments when suddenly I heard people talking loudly with bottles of vodka. I hate people who drink at night. 

Once night when I was five years old, I heard people with scotch and they were so drunk that they went up an elevator and smashed our door and went inside. Luckily, Mom and Dad were around because I screamed and Mom came and smacked them with Dad's baseball bat and Dad held me and started calming down. 

Now there was three guys and one was so drunk that he smashed his bottle and started laughing. Then a person my age told them to go away but instead they got bombs and threw them at the  apartment and people screamed.

The police came but we had already ran away. 

The guy who told the people to go away was named Brian and I said I was Canada. He didn't laugh about my name which is surprising because most people laugh at my name. 

He was surprised that I didn't laugh at his name too because people always laugh at his name too, so that's one thing we have in common. 

Chapter 7: On the News

Me and Brian saw the news in an electronic store and the topic on the "Vancouverer" , this TV show, was the wreck on Brian's home. 

"Live on the Vancouverer, we have the wreck of this building on Lane St." said the lady who's talking. They do a close up of the building. 

"What destroyed the building, Chip?" the lady asks. 

"We think that the building was destroyed by grenades" Chip answers. 

We get out of the store before Brian cries and I wouldn't blame him: that TV show could destroy peoples' lives. 

We walk for a bit and then Brian sits down while I steal some breakfast. The only thing I  could get was a loaf of french bread but it's enough for the two of us. 

Chapter 8: Knowing More

After breakfast we walk some more, the sun shining on us, the gentle wind in the air, everything calm and nothing bad around. 

I forgot that I have the papers rolled up in my sweater and I don't tell Brian. I shouldn't ruin Brian's mood with me telling about the papers. Right now, he's happy and let's not do anything to break it.

After the walk, we eat lunch (what I stole from Starbucks) , and I go and talk to him about him so I know more about him. He starts to talk and he doesn't ask anything: he just talks. 

"I was born in Abbotsford" said Brian. "I moved to Vancouver when I was four and we loved it here and never moved again."

Well so much for that but that may be useful at some point. I wish I got some more useful information from Brian but we shouldn't toy with other peoples' heads. 

Chapter 9: Another Chase

It's night now and we better get to sleep: sleeping in our sweaters but Brian doesn't have a sweater because of... So he gets inside a teenager-sided backpack I stole and pokes a big hole in the bag so he could survive and gets his head in the hole and that's how he sleeps. It's amazing. 

The next morning I steal some breakfast and we sit down. Brian doesn't talk much but time to time, he will talk. 

It already 11:30, so I steal some lunch. It's like thing all day long but it's nice to be with Brian because it feels like you're seeing something new. For my whole life, I've only seen the same thing but with Brian, it's different. It's a whole new world for my thinking but to others, they don't care: they let time pass but I make time last to the fullest.

We eat our lunch quietly. I sense something's wrong. Somebody's watching us!

I tell Brian we should go. Brian finished his lunch quickly (because he had one bite of his sandwich left). 

I was half right: people were watching us but I thought it was one person. These people were the same guys that chased me!

We run for lives! They chase us rapidly but I run and tell Brian where to go as though I know Vancouver like the back of my hand. 

We lost them in Pandora's, a diamond store. We were in the store for three seconds but we got booted out of the store because we were loitering. 

Luckily, the guys left and for now we're safe and I think Brian wants the whole truth about the guys chasing us. 

Chapter 10: Canada's Secret is Revealed!

When we walk, Brian asks why these men were chasing us. I don't said anything at first but then I tell him the whole thing. 

First I showed him the papers. He reads them and has a look of surprise on his face. I tell him I don't know why he has a look of surprise on his face. 

"These papers are from the Canadian Government!" shouts Brian. "The papers prove that Canada doesn't want to at war!"

"I didn't know that, I swear!" I beg. 

"Where did you find these?" Brian demanded. 

"In my dad's office at my house!" I scream. 

"How did you know about these papers?" Brain commands. 

Before I can answer, I shove Brian to the ground, take the papers and run away from Brian. 

Suddenly, I stop running. I now live in a guilty conscience when I have these papers but instead of destroying the papers, I find Brian. 

Suddenly, somebody grabs me. It's the same guys that chased us! The guy gets the papers from me and tells the others to go. I know who they are.  

Chapter 11: Teaming Up

A few minutes later, Brian found me and I told him the whole story. Me and Brian thought about what we can do when suddenly I had an idea: There was a number on the guy who caught my jacket. It was F-1174. F-1174 is a place that going Vancouver to Quebec City and he's going to have to another place taking him to where he was before. 

That fight is at 5:00 and it's already 2:45. We have an two hours and fifteen minutes to get to the airport and return the papers to Dad. 

Suddenly, a bus came to a bus pass near us and we rushed to the bus as fast as we could but one problem: we had no money. 

When we reached the bus, I said that we had no money but Brian got a card out of his hair and gave to the bus driver. Brian added in that I was to go to.

The bus driver let us in and we drove along in the bus. 

I sat beside an old man who was 70 but I didn't mind. Brian had to sit beside a woman who was 30 and she would never stop talking. That annoyed Brian so I said to the bus driver that Brian was autistic and the bus driver told Brian to move to my seat and me to Brian's.  

It was 3:45 when we arrived to the airport and we first came to the computers where the  flights were. Flight 1174 was at Gate 68. 

Gate 68 was near the souvenir shop which was at the end of the airport. At the end, it's always busy and with people talking with their friends or screaming children running and their parents chasing them. 

It took us fifteen minutes to get to Gate 68 with these problems but the most important thing is that we reached Gate 68!

Suddenly, I was crushed down by one of bad men but thanks to Brian, he punched him off and the people watching gasped. 

Another man tried to punch Brian but he ducked and I punched him to return the favor. Brian thanked me. 

I was scanning the scene for the papers and I suddenly found them. It was the guy who stole the papers from me and right now he was going to me!

I dodged him and punched him in the face. He went down and I got the papers! 

I told Brian and we went out of the airport as fast as we could and I told him where I live and he told me where to go. 

It was 5:00 when we reached my apartment. I thanked him for all the help he did and thanked me for saving him at his mom's home. 

Then we did the weirdest thing I had done before and for Brian too: we kissed and nobody saw!

I went back to my apartment room and I gave Dad the papers. He hugged me because I found the papers and because I was home. 

Chapter 11: Friends

Brian is now at my school! 

He told me that he got nice foster parents and he lives beside in the building next door so we can see each other. 

We go in the same classes and I had that there is a rumor about me and Brian falling in love but I told Brian to forget the rumors. 

After school, we hang out with each other at Stanley Park and play with each other and sometimes we help each other with homework. 

It's not true about the rumors but we're friends, that's all and we'll be friends forever, no matter what.