Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 2020complete | Page 242

At the entrance, Grandma did not need to type the password. Instead she needed only to tap her
phone on a tiny black box at a gate of a spacious hall. The lobby was clean and filled with lights. Johan went
up the lift, walked to the front of a door, and pushed it gently. It was a modern apartment with photos of
him on the wall. The sitting room was decorated with balloons. There was a huge cake in the middle of the
room. On the cake was a sign and it read: “Happy Birthday Johan!”
Johan ran and hugged his grandma tightly, saying, “Thank you! Grandma, you have already
prepared!”
“Darling, I would never forget about you,” his grandma smiled charmingly.
In the evening, Johan played with the neighboring children, and had much fun. They knew lots of
games which brought the birthday boy amazing moments.
Day after day, the little boy spent almost the whole summer break with his lovely grandma. He never
had the bad dream of the old village house again. He felt the life in Zhong Shan was even better than in
Hong Kong where there was a green spacious living environment. There was modern transport, buildings
and a community around his grandma’s home. Before his parents came back to pick him up, Grandma
brought him around Zhongshan, and he was impressed at being able to make payment for food with
Grandma’s phone and having a ride at the huge station for the hypersonic magnetic rail trail, which would
bring him around the Greater Bay Area in just twenty-eight minutes!
“Johan, here is our new home!” His parents had taken him to a brand-new house on a green field.
“Our new office will be opened in the city center. We’re moving in next week and you can study
with your new friends in the new school nearby.”
Johan was brimming with joy. He leapt up and hugged his parents tightly, and then they went into
the new house.
The little boy had never dreamed of living in his most feared place before, and now the Greater Bay
Area was a place of hope to him.
“Bye, Mum and Dad,” the cheerful boy grabbed his school bag and netbook, and left for his new
school.