After a heavy snooze on my couch, I finally decide to get off and get something to eat. To my dismay, when I opened the fridge there was bologna but no bread, taco meatll but no taco and chips but no dip. I sigh grabbing my wallet heading to the bathroom to do a quick wash up before heading to the store.
I hated going outside and tried to avoid it at any possible interval.
I step outside turning to lock my door and head to the nearest grocery store. I step into one of those small generic ones when I notice on the bulletin board, my face with the words in big red letters missing. It had the date that labeled me five and the last person I seen with was with my father, who described in this transcript to be my private piano teacher. I grab the paper off the wall reading my name. Albina Jack five year old female with green eyes and blonde hair.
I took a picture and sent it to my best friend Rachel. Then I immediately called her.
"Not busy right Ilsa."
"I'm missing!" I interrupt her telling her to read the manuscript I just sent her. "That little girl is me and the man that I thought was my father, is my piano teacher."
"What is this a joke?"
"Please tell me it is one. This has to be a joke."
"Where are you?"
"I'm at the grocery store. I saw my face hanging with a group of people labeled Have You Seen Me?"
My soft cries alarmed customers and workers there who began to stare at me. This is a small town and everyone knew everybody or so we thought.
I hear Rachel's voice on the side of the line talking but they fall upon deaf ears as I put all my attention to the little girl on the paper.
I mean the me when I'm older is a little off. I'm not chubby because I'm all bones.
"Ilsa!" I heard my voice called as one of the workers approached me to look at the paper I had in my hands. He holds it up to my face and gaps at the resemblance.
"Dante!" I cry holding him close to me.
Who am I and why did this man decide to tear me away from my family.
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Aim to Engage --2019 Collection of Short Stories
Short StoryLife is filled with ups and downs and sorrows, from bullies to dead lovers, from heartbreak and an attempt to recover, capture the moment of different lives of a collection of short stories.
