Philip had always been a...different child.

He sometimes stood in one place and stared at the wall for an insane amount of time.

Eliza often got worried about him and John spent hours tirelessly comforting her.

Philip hadn't learned to talk until he was 5. He didn't complain when his parents made him do chores. He just listened.

He was always listining.

One day Philip got home from school and heard his parents frantically whispering. He silently closed the door and took off his shoes. He froze when he heard Eliza say,

"Maybe we should send him to a mental hospital."

"It's to early for that." John stated.

"We should just b-" Alexander stopped talking abruptly when he saw Philip sitting there.

Eliza gasped, then said.

"We were just taking about Great Uncle Bruce!"

Philip knew very well that they did not have a great uncle who's name was Bruce. He crossed his arms and stomped up to his room. 

Later that night, he couldn't sleep. He tossed and turned but he just couldn't fall asleep. He went  downstairs to fix himself a glass of cherry juice, (because it helps you sleep better) and heard the frantic whispers again.

Philip quickly ducked behind a wall near the top of the staircase. He listened intently.

"I don't know what to do with him! He's so...so...so, stupid! He can't do anything, he just sits there!" Eliza said.

"Calm down Eliza, we both know that Philip isn't right in the brain." Alex says.

Philip could feel his hands balling up.

"Shhhhh, Eliza. We could always send him to a mental hospital." John said.

Philip could feel tears welling up in his eyes, out of all of the parents, he connected with John the most. The thing was, Philip was exactly  where he needed to be. In fact he was smarter than most of the kids in his grade, actually he was a lot smarter than them. He was in the right mind.

Now, lil Pip was just mad. He would show ALL of them. He would make them belive that he was dumb, then show them just how smart he was when he moved and became famous.

The plan was fool-proof! Just one thing. Doing this would take a LONG time. But Philip was willing to wait. (Wait for it!)