There was once three neighbors, their names were Fear, Wisdom and Deception. Every day, each would wake up, and have a conversation with someone walking by, trying to get them to come inside, but each would say something different. Fear would come first, and call out, “come in here, and be safe, you have no idea what is coming ahead, you could trip and die, or break a leg.” Next came out wisdom who would say, “Come in, and eat something, and sit down for a second, that you may be prepared for the journey ahead.” Finally came out Deception, who would declare, “Enter into my house, and have riches for the rest of your life, and rule over the land, never having to return to work, and never falling ill.” Almost every body would stop, at one house or another, but only the ones who came to the house of Wisdom left truly happy.

Tyler paused when he looked at the three houses.

What should he do?

His mom had warned him that people lie, and obviously, one of them was lying, but who is it?

He glanced at the other people as they swarmed into the houses on the right and left, he gasped when he saw that they never came out happy.

He has to do something...

but what can a middle schooler do?

Maybe he should just leave it be and enter the middle house...

but that doesn't feel right. He tapped his foot as he thought.

The crowd soon got thicker, and thicker, then suddenly, Tyler was lifted up and brought into the first house with a large crowd of anxious people.

Uh Oh.

This can't end well.