Chapter 58

I have become like some sort of a mini celebrity over the past couple of days. At school, in the neighborhood and even in my own house. Everyone wants to meet the fifteen year old boy who won the Best Inventor of the Year Award. This was the first time someone from my city was winning the award which made it all the more special. The Mayor even invited me to his office to properly congratulate me and I also got to take some pictures with him.

I never knew I could become this popular, and within such a short period of time. Usually, Austin is the popular one, and even Travis who just showed up a few months ago is more popular than I am so this whole popularity thing is new to me. When I resolved to win the contest, I only wanted to win it for the prize and to showcase my talent to the world, I didn't even have popularity in mind. I never really cared about being popular, but this is nice.

Fifty percent of my prize money was put into mine and Travis' college fund account a