Lost N Found Final Copy

Chardae Jenkins

Lost N Found
Final Copy
She stood in the bathroom, barely tall enough to see herself in the mirror. While looking into the mirror she started to brush her long wavy hair into a ponytail. Today was the day she turned eight years old. Marissa couldn’t wait until this day and now it was finally here. She waited impatiently for the remainder of her friends and family to arrive to her house. Marissa and her mother were ready. The food was already packed as well as their belongings. When her friends and family arrived about fifteen minutes later they were all ready to go. There were about three cars filled of children, each car containing two adults. The ride there took about an hour and fifteen minutes. “We are finally here”, yelled Marissa. “I can’t wait to ride all the rides,” screamed Marissa’s best friend Tina. “Okay were going to split up” Marissa’s mom said, “six children in a group”. Once they were arranged into groups, the children were ready to have fun. They entered the amusement park nothing but smiles upon their faces. First they took a picture, and now they were ready to ride the rides. They decided to ride the wet rides first and the dry rides last, then they would play games. Once in line, they waited impatiently while the line moved extra slow due to Dorney Park being so extra crowded. Not wanting to wait Marissa took it upon herself to try and pass her way closer to the front of the line. While doing so she lost contact with her group. Marissa didn’t think much of it because she thought “ I’ll just meet them at the exit when the ride is over.” Once the ride was over she waited to see her friends and mom. A half an hour passed by and she still hadn’t seen them. Now she started to panic. “Where are they?” she cried out loud. She walked around the park for what seemed like an hour and still didn’t see anyone she came to the park with. Now she was becoming angry, scared, and frustrated, and she was only eight years old, this was becoming very scary. She thought she saw her group front of her she yelled “Mom!” the lady turned around and to her surprise it wasn’t her mother. Marissa searched everywhere the ladies bathroom, food stands and still hadn’t seen her mother. Soon she started to ask people had they seen a woman who fit her mother’s description, everyone she asked replied no. She continued to look for her mother and friends for about twenty more minutes. Finally she heard a women cry out “Marissa” and at last she was relived.