The speaker, a college student, describes a series of events that began when she received a challenging math problem from her calculus professor. She was unable to solve it, even after working all day and night, and began to feel a sense of frustration and despair. Her seven-year-old adoptive sister, who was struggling with basic English, had secretly solved the problem.
The sister, who was originally adopted from another country a year ago, had been hiding her intelligence and was unable to communicate effectively. The speaker felt guilty and confused about her situation, as she was unable to take credit for the solution to the math problem. She asked her professor to verify the solution, but he was so excited that he immediately called her parents, who were also excited and proud of her.
The speaker felt guilty about not revealing her sister's intelligence and started arguing with her about it. The sister finally confessed that she was a scientist in her home country and had been framed for murder, which is why she was on the run. The sister promised not to attract any attention to the speaker again.
The speaker's world was turned upside down when she discovered that her sister was actually an adult and not a child. She found out that the foreign student who had asked her on a date was actually a suspect in her sister's case. The student was arrested and disappeared, and the speaker has been unable to sleep since. She feels responsible for the situation and is asking for any information about her sister or the student.
1. The speaker is a college student currently enrolled in a challenging calculus class.
2. The professor assigned a complex math problem that no one had been able to solve before, stating that even Einstein couldn't solve it.
3. The speaker worked all day and night to solve the problem, but ended up crying in frustration.
4. The speaker's adoptive sister solved the problem in a matter of seconds, shocking the speaker.
5. The speaker's family adopted a seven-year-old sister from another country a year ago.
6. The speaker's parents had given up on teaching the sister things they thought she couldn't learn.
7. The speaker had been teaching the sister to write in English, as she is mute and can't talk.
8. The sister solved the complex math problem, which shocked the speaker.
9. The speaker initially lied about solving the problem herself, but later confessed to the professor.
10. The professor was excited when he found out who solved the problem and praised the speaker for her intelligence.
11. The speaker's parents were glowing when they found out about the math problem, but the speaker felt guilty and confused.
12. The speaker's sister was able to solve complex math problems but couldn't spell out the alphabet.
13. The sister wrote a paycheck in front of the speaker, which was in a strange language.
14. The sister whispered in the speaker's ear that she didn't know how to solve the math problem.
15. The speaker's professor told everyone about the math problem and praised the speaker for her intelligence.
16. The speaker started to be recognized and sought for help on assignments at university.
17. The speaker's professor asked her to solve a complicated equation in front of the class, and she failed.
18. The speaker's professor and students started laughing when she wrote the wrong thing on the board.
19. The speaker's teacher threw her sandwich at her in the classroom, and other students followed suit.
20. The speaker met a foreign exchange student who defended her and asked to meet her in his dorm room.
21. The speaker went to the foreign exchange student's dorm room, but he looked stressed out and hadn't left his computer since their conversation.
22. The foreign exchange student asked the speaker to meet him at his dorm room, and she agreed.
23. The foreign exchange student showed the speaker a photo of her sister in a business suit, who was wanted in his home country for a murder.
24. The foreign exchange student told the speaker that her sister was an adult and a very smart adult.
25. The foreign exchange student told the speaker to let him meet her sister in person to prove to him that he was wrong about her.
26. The foreign exchange student told the speaker to keep absolute secrecy and gave her a red envelope with instructions.
27. The speaker's parents were arrested by men in official uniforms who demanded that they hand over her sister.
28. The speaker's sister was dragged away as her parents called the cops.
29. The speaker went to the foreign exchange student's dorm room and found it open and looked like it had been broken into.
30. The speaker found a red envelope under the foreign exchange student's bed, which contained a message from him.
31. The speaker's sister and the foreign exchange student disappeared, and no one knows what happened to them.