There’s an Alien on the Internet
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Andy has never met Joey in person, even though Joey is his best friend. He met him on the Internet. At school recess he played Star Wars with Kevin and Rob; but it’s all the neat stuff he learned about the solar system from Joey that made his Star Wars games fun. Joey doesn’t go to school. He’s home-schooled. I wish Joey went to our school here in Portland—then I’d never get bored becau he’s so smart, thought Andy.
Last week Andy’s teacher, Mrs. Becker, put a big circle on the blackboard and said it was a pizza pie. “Andy,” she said, “if I were to divide the pizza, would you like one-third or one-tenth?”
Ten is the bigger number, so that’s what he picked. Kevin started waving his hand in the air, shouting that he cho one-third. Mrs. Becker drew lines on the circle, showing that his piec
e of the pie was bigger than Andy’s.
“Andy’s gonna get hungry,” Kevin tead. Sandra, the girl who sat behind Andy started to snicker. Then the whole class was laughing. I wish that the recess bell would ring, thought Andy, as he planned how he would play by himlf during recess, instead of with Kevin and Rob.
lanyiMrs. Becker’s stern voice quieted the room. “Andy, do you e how the more you divide the whole pie, the smaller the pieces become?”
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“Yes, ma’am,” Andy lied.
The recess bell didn’t ring for another half hour, and by then Mrs. Becker had assigned twenty problems in the class math book. Each problem had two fractions with an empty circle between the fractions. The students were suppod to put a sign, > greater than, or < lesr than, in each circle. Looking at all tho fractions and circles made Andy dizzy. He decided he had a fifty-fifty chance of guessing which way to point the arrows, so he guesd— wrong.
After school, when Andy got on-line with Joey, he typed: “Flunked my math quiz today. I don’t get fractions, how to tell which is bigger.” Joey typed back: “Here’s a good trick. Cross-multiply from the bottom up.” Then he went to his drawing board and showed Andy how.
“Five times two equals ten. Three times four equals twelve. Ten is smaller than twelve.” His trick made it a cinch, even for Andy. The next week, when Mrs. Becker gave a fractions test, Andy was the only kid who got 100 percent. The class didn’t think Andy was so stupid anymore, thanks to Joey.
After Joey and Andy got to be such good pals, Andy asked Joey to nd him a picture and told Joey he would nd one of his in return. Andy’s Little League team was having their picture taken in their uniforms, and Andy had pod for his with his bat over his shoulder, like he was up to the plate about to hit a home run. Andy thought, as he looked at his picture before he nt it to Joey, I look pretty cool, really athletic. Andy mailed one to Joey in Tallaha, and started waiting for his picture to arrive in the mail.
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dermabrasiondfgEach day when Andy talked on the Internet, he asked Joey if he’d received his photo yet. On the third day Joey said, “Your picture came, and it’s awesome. Thanks!”
“Great!” Andy replied. “Then I should be getting yours soon.” But Joey’s picture never came, and each time they talked, Andy told him, “Still no picture. Maybe you’d better nd another.”
It was weird. No photo and no comment from Joey. He’d just change the subject. Then one day when they were talking about Star Wars and aliens Andy asked him, “What if there really are aliens in disgui on earth? You know, like in the TV program Third Rock from the Sun or the book My Teacher’s an Alien?”dull是什么意思
It emed like a long time before the screen lit up with his reply. “Can you keep a cret?”
“I guess,” Andy answered.
“Promi? It’s really important!”
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“I’m an alien from another galaxy. That’s why I can’t nd you a photograph. My energy field can’t be caught on film.”
Andy sat there, staring at the screen. His mother was calling him to dinner, but it was Joey who signed off while he sat, staring at the computer, in a daze. Was this one of Joey’s jokes? Then why didn’t he nd a picture? Is this why he knew so much more than other kids about spaceships and outer space? Why was he so cretive?
At dinner, Dad announced, “Good news! My transfer request was approved. We’ll be moving to the home office in Denver at the end of this month. The company has found a rental home for us that’s clo to a good school for Andy and with plenty of room for Grandma to live with us.”
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Andy’s mom was happy becau her mother had been in a Denver nursing home ever since she fell and broke her hip, and she wanted to have Grandma live with them. Andy just felt mixed up.
