I am asking this again with more detail.
I’m seventeen, three months to go ’till eighteen. I do not need to be questioned “Why not just wait three months?” I’ve already thought about this myself, and I have my own reasons. No I’m not an abused child. No, we aren’t poor. No, I don’t have a terrible life and no my girlfriend didn’t dump me, considering I’ve never had one. In fact, I’m an adventurous young fellow, as is my friend, we are both writers, and, by the way, unless your incapable of reading English and fail miserably at math, obtaining a GED is simple stuff. We want a right tale, and maybe, since I’m the most unmotivated useless teenager born to my parents, I’ll find some during this journey. As for supporting myself, I’m resourceful. Fifteen hundred dollars and a sleeping bag, along with my bicycle goes a long way. I’m not remaining in the States anyhow. Where am I going? Central & South America. I speak Spanish and Portuguese fluently. Yes, at seventeen, you can go into other countries alone. I have flown and entered three different countries on three different continents. Then again, I’m not going alone. I’m being accompanied by my best friend, who is eighteen, and he isn’t housing or paying for me, or aiding me, unless you consider talking to me to be aiding me. Don’t tell me he’s going to jail if we’re caught, as if you pointed something out so obvious that ruins the whole plot. We’ve thought long and hard about it.
So,
Here it is: I live in California. It isn’t really, illegal to runaway. Of course, if found by law enforcement, then law enforcement or my parents can forcibly return me home. It isn’t a Status Offense, and since I have no prior criminal record, it will be a first offense of disobedience, that would lead to charges if I was caught and attempted running away a second time.
My question is: What sort of effort will really be place forth to finding me?
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