1. May 18 2013 Sarah Leung
The Future
In this world, when a baby is born the parents must come up with a
name for his or her future career. Many parents may choose doctor or lawyer
and maybe even singer. But this is a story of how a girl’s life changed when
her parents name her Future.
“What do you guys want to name her?” said Nurse, the nurse of the
hospital.
“Future,” said Lawyer and Teacher.
This was their newborn, they didn’t want to control her future, and so
they named her Future for a bright future. Little did they know this name would
change their lives and her life too.
“Future? I don’t think I have heard of that name before,” said Nurse.
Lawyer and Teacher were a hundred percent satisfied with their baby
girl’s name and were ready to go home. Future was a troublesome baby, and
when she was little, she was very demanding; she loved to argue with her
parents. But they loved her, and she would learn from her mistakes. Future
was really pretty, she had long brown hair, and big blue eyes, she was
amazing. There house was big, they were very rich, all the floors were
carpeted, and the furniture was all brand new. Future had the best of the best,
which made her very spoiled. On Future’s seventh birthday, she got mad at
her best friend Architect because she made fun of her new haircut. Future
wished in her head that Architect would get the same haircut as her, and ten
seconds later; Architect had the exact same haircut as Future. Lawyer and
Teacher were startled, they didn’t know what had happened; they assumed
that someone pulled a trick on Architect and it was just a wig. But as hard as

2. they tried, they couldn’t pull it off. They assumed the incident would have
been bad karma, so they didn’t look into it deeper.
A month later, Future got into a fight with her cousin. She argued with
her, saying that 5+6 = 12 not 11. They kept fighting until her cousin had proof
that she was right. Future got so mad that she said she wished her cousin
was back home. One minute later her cousin vanished. Future called her
parents over and told them what happened. It brought back memories of her
seventh birthday party, where she also wished for something then it
happened. They called Future’s cousin’s home and her cousin picked up.
“I can’t believe it!” said Lawyer.
His daughter actually changed what would happen in the future.
Meanwhile in a small cabin up in a hill, another person named Future was
confused; he had a weird feeling about what had happened, it felt like some
power was taken away from him.
“I need to look into this,” he said.
He started to think about some possible situations, someone could have
been named Wizard and pulled a trick on him, or... no, it’s impossible; he
knew that no one else was named Future. He checked seven years ago, all of
the records, not one was named Future. He figured that he should check
again. As he checked not one had the name Future, but when he got to the
last one, there it was; Future
He worried, it took him 10 years to control his power, and how could she
be able to do the same in such a short time when she keeps wishing for
things. A thought came to him; he could predict that she would be able to
control it, no it wouldn’t work anytime she would wish for something, and even

3. the slight anger at someone could determine a bad fate. He decided he would
go see this girl and see if he could tutor her, like his old friend did for him.
As he was arriving to her house, Future was in the middle of a temper
tantrum, she was angry because she was not allowed to eat dessert before
dinner. The other Future ran in before she could make a wish. He told her
parents who he was and what he was doing here. They were astonished, her
name was the reason every time she wished something it would come true.
They agreed to let younger Future have lessons with older Future to control
her special power.
During their lessons, the older Future was having trouble controlling the
younger one, she would argue with him until she lost her voice, she would
wish for foolish things that wouldn’t do her any good, she was impossible to
deal with. Older Future wanted to give up so badly, but he knew if he didn’t
train her, the world would be in danger. He tried to explain to her how if she
didn’t control her temper, something really bad would happen. Older Future
would try to annoy younger Future, and he trained her not to wish for
something even if she disliked the situation. They tried it several times; the old
Future almost lost his hair. But they eventually were able to control most of
her anger. The older Future was proud, he was starting to connect with her,
he knew what she was going through and it was great seeing her grow.
Six months later, there was a bomb that attacked America, nowhere
near the place where Future was, but she was enraged, who would attack
America like that. She was only 7 and didn’t know better, so she wished that
whichever place this person came from would also experience the exact same
thing as what America did. The next day her dad told her that a missile hit

4. Russia at the exact same hour as the one that hit America, it looked exactly
the same as the one that hit America and the same number of people died.
Future was scared, she hurt so many people because of a single wish, and
now there could be more consequences because of this wish. She felt that
she had so much responsibility, that her whole family would be afraid of her
because of this power. The other Future, was also frightened, he couldn’t
teach her, she was still too young, she wouldn’t be able to control this power,
maybe he could convince her parents to change her name. Doctor is a nice
name or maybe even Famous, anything but Future.
He tried everything. He told her parents all the consequences that could
have happened if she stayed Future. But they refused, they said she was a
special girl, and even though she did hurt people in Russia, it would be unfair
if she had to change her name because they didn’t trust her.
On her eighth birthday, younger Future had a visit from older Future. He
told her that if she wanted to keep her name, she had to meet him every day
to control her power. After 2 years of teaching, they helped all the people in
Russia and America after the incident and they all were either in a shelter or
had their homes repaired. She still had an occasional temper, but she learned
that it was important that she be careful.
When she grew up, she became the savior of many people who
deserved a chance to have a better opportunity than others. When the other
Future died, she took over and tried her best to change many other people’s
fate; she learned to look into what would happen in the Future so she could
stop it. She prevented a bomb that was about to hit Russia and saved over a
thousand people, stopping the bomber from launching it. Although people

5. didn’t know she did all these things they were all very grateful. Therefore she
lived a full life, she had a family and decided the best fate for them. So there it
is, the story of Future and how her life was special.