The Secret

Thunder – Henry Zhang

Jaden Colson

I have always heard talk about the popular heirloom that has been passed down in my family. But I have never seen it in my life. All of my Aunts and Uncles and even some of my older cousins have. My cousin Z said that it glowed like a cartoon with the blade Excalibur; my uncle Don said that it was something that the government has been looking for for many years but has never found. This had me thinking the whole family was the most wanted in the world, which made me think . . . WHY DO WE HAVE THIS THING? But something told me he was just joking because after I asked my other cousin Laila, she said it was the most beautiful thing she had ever smelt, like combining every sweet thing and turning it into a perfume. But then my aunt Tammy said when she touched it was a combination of soft like jello but hard like a diamond. I questioned if this was the longest prank of all time, starting from when I could actually understand words as a little kid to a teen obsessed with a goofy object that’s not even real. Then I look at my journal (I started it when I was 10) with all of my ideas of what it is: a BEN 10 watch, a fountain of youth, a dragon, the pills from the Matrix, a Unicorn, a couch or some special shirt. I don’t know. I just don’t understand the hype of  something I’ve never seen.