Taylor H.'s Short Story

The Worst Day Ever

“Mom, Mom, can I go show Lindsay the tree?” Anthony shouted across the kitchen.
“OK, just watch your sister and be safe,” Mom said as Anthony and Lindsay walked out the door. The two kids went into the woods. Anthony showed Lindsay the tree.
“That’s the one,” Anthony said as he walked through a pricker bush. As he started to climb the tree, Lindsay wondered off on him. “Oh no, Mom is going to be mad at me for not watching Lindsay. Oh boy, how am I going to find her? Maybe if I call Silas, he can help me.” So as Anthony went to reach for his phone, he heard his Mom quietly in the distance.
“Anthony, Lindsay time to come home,” Mom said.
“OK,” said Anthony, “ in just a minute.” As Anthony was on his way out of the woods, he started to get very teary eyed because his sister was gone. “I am going to stay in these woods until I find my sister and if I don’t find my sister, I will stay in the woods forever and suffer the same way she.” As Anthony started to look again, his Mom called.
“Anthony,” she shouted.
“Yes, Mom,” he muttered.
“Time to come in,” Mom said.
“I can’t,” he said.
“Why?” she replied.
“I lost something and I can’t find it.”
“Do you want me to come and help you?”
“I was going to say yes but I said no” as I talked to myself. Then I said “No thank you, Mom.”
“OK,” Mom scolded. As I started to look for my sister, my friend, Silas came along and I saw him and shouted, “Silas.”
“Oh, there you are. What are you doing back here?”
“Showing my sister the tree we always climb.” As I turned around,
I covered my face.
“What’s wrong?” Silas asked in a whisper.
“I think my sister is gone.”
“How did that happen?”
“Well, I went to climb the tree and when I came back down, I looked for Lindsay but she wasn’t there and I yelled her name but she didn’t respond to me. Can you help me look for her?” Anthony said.
“Sure.”
“OK, good,” Anthony said. “I’ll go this way, you go that way.” As the boys looked for Lindsay, Anthony’s mom came in the woods. Anthony’s mom stopped them.
“Boys?” mom said.
“Yes.”
“What are you doing?” mom asked.
“Nothing,” the boys said awkwardly.
“Tell me what happened.”
“OK. Fine. I went to climb the tree and Lindsay walked away from me.”
“Oh great,” mom said.
“We are looking for her,” Anthony said.
“OK but you better find her or else,” mom said.
“OK. OK,” the boys said in a panic. As the boys went off in the woods to look for Lindsay again, they heard something. “Did you hear that?” Anthony said in a yell of joy.
“Yeah,” replied Silas.
“Do you think that is her?”
“Oh yes.”
The two boys went further into the woods. As they got closer, the noise got louder.
“Hum, hummm, hummmm”
“Lindsay?” the boys yelled.
“Yahhhhh,” Lindsay said.
“Stay there, we’re coming,” said Anthony and Silas.
“Ok,” said Lindsay.
As the boys were getting closer to Lindsay, they felt a little rumbling on the ground.
“I think it’s a rock slide. Run, get Lindsay,” said Anthony.
They started to sprint and when they got to Lindsay, they grabbed her and got out of the woods.
“I think we should leave now,” Anthony said. The three kids got home and that’s when Anthony remembered that they were having a party.
“I hope mom told everyone that Lindsay had gotten lost.”
“I think she did,” Lindsay said.
“Yah, I think everyone is going to be cheering that you are home,” said Anthony.
The kids walked in and mom and dad hugged and kissed Lindsay and then Lindsay went upstairs and took a shower and was glad to be home.