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    The Millionaires Club
    The Millionaires Club
    The Millionaires Club
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    The Millionaires Club

    By Mike Wallick

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    The Millionaires Club is formed by this entrepreneurial group of kids who decide to become millionaires before they graduate high school. Their clubhouse is located in a hidden room inside a large greenhouse in a small town in Montana. Their meetings consist of deciding which idea to pursue next followed up by some intense rubber band gun hide and seek play. From creating an incredible float to enter in the parade to hunting for lost gold treasure every page is fun to read as we ride along with them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Wallick
    Release dateSep 17, 2014
    ISBN9781310184840
    The Millionaires Club
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    Mike Wallick

    I live in Minneapolis and work as a restaurant consultant. I also love to create stories and spent many happy nights telling original stories to my 3 young children. After they grew up, I challenged myself to FINISH one of the many books I start that was based on a clubhouse gang of kids that had some really cool adventures and lots of fun! My reward is hearing that someone enjoyed reading it. So please, let me know! mike1wallick@gmail.com

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      The Millionaires Club - Mike Wallick

      The Millionaires Club

      By Mike Wallick

      Copyright 2014 by Mike Wallick

      Published at Smashwords

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please download an additional copy for each recipient. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      About the Author

      Mike Wallick lives with his family in a suburb of Minneapolis. He is the author of several books relating to small business marketing. The Millionaires Club is his first effort into fictional writing and has been a personal challenge for him to finish. He chose to offer it for no charge and would instead ask that if you enjoyed it, send him a message telling him so. His e-mail address is mike1wallick@gmail.com. He would love to hear from you. Let him know what you thought of this story.

      Chapter One: The Game of Living

      There were usually 6 of us that went over to the greenhouse after school. I loved it there. It was one of those places that seem to never end, there’s always another room or chamber at the end of the one that you’re in. The fact that it was almost all made of ghostly translucent green glass and smelled really cool also helped. You couldn’t find a better place to play rubber band guns. And that’s just what we did.

      Earl was the one who showed me how to make one. It was one of the first times that I was ever there. We were just hanging around and trying to decide what do when Earl asked if I wanted to shoot rubber bands. Of course, the answer to that question would always be yes.

      Earl Tetree’s dad owned the greenhouse. It was really cool that he let us play in there. They were pretty glad that Earl had friends since Earl was kind of unique in a lot of ways. He was really into a lot of scientific things -- he was really smart, but never did well in school. He was constantly getting into trouble in class, usually for being disruptive or not paying attention. He said that his mom told him it’s because he’s bored and not challenged. I don’t know what to think.

      My name is Steve. I’m in the same grade as Earl, 8th. We go to Miles City Junior High School and its okay, I guess. My family doesn’t own anything nearly as cool as a greenhouse. My dad’s a chiropractor and has an office uptown in an old stone building called the Masonic Temple. We live in a small town in Montana called Miles City. It’s pretty boring even though when someone comes in from out east we can always convince them that we still have gunfights on the street at sundown and have skirmishes all the time with the Native Americans.

      That simple day with Earl and shooting rubber bands turned into something big and that’s what this book is all about. It started with the two of us and a couple of rubber band guns, which were nothing more than a couple of pieces of wood nailed together with a notch cut into the front and a clothespin nailed to the top to hold the rubber band until you are ready to fire it.

      Earl built his and then helped me build mine. One of the non-glass rooms in the greenhouse was an incredible work room with tons of tools and scraps lying around. As I said, it was a great place. We finished making my gun and then we decided to play a game of hide and seek but instead of just spotting the other person you had to shoot them and then you would win. It was a blast. I got home really late that day and had to do the dishes since I had forgotten to call. Funny thing about that, parents always say we need to call and tell them we’re going to be late, but if we do they tell us to come right home, so experience teaches us to just not call and take care of the dishes. It’s a fair trade-off.

      Of course as fun as that could be, there was only one thing that would make it better, and that’s more players. The next day at school we asked Cora Hopwood to join. Cora was in our grade and was really cool. She was funny, smart, and she could hit a baseball further than anyone else, boys included. I knew she loved to play almost any game and rubber band hide and seek should work.

      Sure, she said. Sounds like fun.

      Next we found James Hillside. James was big, really big, but not at all fat, and not at all athletic. But he was smarter than Cora and he had the biggest vocabulary in the state. He knew words that hadn’t yet made it into the dictionary. I think he once told me that he personally made up 17 new words himself that eventually found their way into the dictionary. He was an encyclopedia of knowledge and he would be really fun to have as an engineer to work on souping up the guns we were using now. James said he was sure it would be a great time.

      This should provide a more than sufficient procedure to gaining an adequate level of mirth and fulfillment. I accept your proposal, he said, in his Hillside way.

      We had four people and could have stopped there with two teams of two people each, but Cora suggested asking Amie to play.

      She’s fun, she’s smart, she’ll definitely want to play, and I want there to be another girl in the game. She said.

      No one could argue with that, so Cora asked Amie. Amie said Sure! I’d love to.

      No one would be upset over Amie joining us; everybody liked her. She was the daughter of a minister who presided over the Assembly of God church, which was a super cool old church that we were all thinking would be a really cool place to explore and play in someday.

      But we were stuck with an odd number again. We really needed to find one more person. I thought about it for awhile and suggested asking Peter to join. Peter’s family owned the Hilltop Grill, which was positively the coolest place to eat in Miles City. It was located on top of the Airport Hill, which was the hill that rose over the northern part of town and had -- you guessed it -- the airport on top. The Hilltop Grill had the best pizza for miles around, but even better was the huge game room filled with the latest and most fun video and pinball games of all time. Everyone loved the Hilltop Grill.

      There was a long and low MMmmmMMMM… of agreement from everyone. Peter would be a welcome addition to our group.

      That’s how it all started. Six of us, all innocently playing an afternoon game of hide and seek rubber band guns in the greenhouse. It could have ended there happily, but it doesn’t. It is just the beginning.

      We used to play several games. We’d change up the rules, switch teams, sometimes use flags, and sometimes use flashlights in the dark. It was super fun. We started a practice where after the last game we’d all meet in the tool room and discuss that day’s games. We’d laugh at the funniest goofs and praise the best strategies. Sometimes we’d discuss other things as well. That’s where the Millionaires Club was born.

      I don’t remember who first brought it up, but ask any 8th grader anywhere if he or she has plenty of spending money and the answer will always be No! We were squarely in that grouping. We didn’t have jobs. We were technically too young to work in a regular job yet. What little money we did have was usually gleaned from our parents through a meager allowance or by performing erratic extra jobs for some cash. Not enough, though. Not ever.

      I think it was Amie who first thought up that name. We were sitting around discussing that day’s game when someone said that it would be nice if we could use some night vision scopes when we were playing one of our lights-out rounds.

      That is highly unlikely for us at this stage of our lives He said. We’d have to be some kind of a High Class Club to warrant that kind of expenditure.

      Yeah everyone assented.

      Yeah! Earl agreed excitedly. We sure would. And, why not?

      Why not what? I asked.

      Why not be a High Class Club? he asked. And then why not actually be rich?

      What are you talking about? Cora asked. "How could any of

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