I'm Sara. Chatting online with friends is my favourite thing to do. One day, I received a message (信息) from someone named Bradley. He told me he was fourteen and lived in New York. He also said he had fewer friends because he was shy, and asked if I would like to be his secret (秘密的) friend. I agreed and thought that was cool.
Bradley and I chatted every day. I found that he was not shy, but interesting and smart—in fact, much smarter than the other fourteen-year-old boys. Bradley told me he would come to my city with his parents and that he wanted to have a secret meeting with me. After knowing that, I couldn't wait to see him at once.
I was so excited that I told Mum the good news. As soon as she heard about my secret online friend, my mum started to ask me hundreds of questions. I didn't understand why she was so worried. My mum even called the police. On that afternoon when Bradley and I were going to meet, the police came with me secretly. They found that Bradley was a middle-aged man. Bradley wasn't his real name and he planned to do something bad. I was really shocked (震惊的) at that.
This experience made me think more about what my mum usually says: Always be more careful when you go surfing online.