Sierra Doup: A Short Story

Sierra Doup

My life is very rough, our life is very rough. I am Mirriam, and my daughter has not returned for a long while. My daughters name is Itibisam, and she has gone missing. I ponder at home in the dark, wondering when she would arrive. she is not often late to return to home. At first I believed that maybe she had just been late. Then hours passed, and I sit, thinking of all the things that might have happened. She knows better, though. I look at Suleiman, Itibisams father, and wonder if he is worried about her as well. I go to Itibisams room to check Itibisams journal to see if she had written anything to me before school, nothing is there. I close the book and shove it back from where it came. I sit on the chair in her room …show more content…
My daughter, in tears, runs to me, tells me everything that happened. She tells me why she had taken the other school bus instead of her own, but I am still angry at her for it. I raise my hand to smack her upside the head but quickly lower it while she tells me what had happened. The anger that fueled me now turns into more worry. I ask her if she was hurt, if she was kidnapped or if she was held captive somewhere. She tells me that soldiers had pulled the buss she was on over. That they took everyone except the bus driver from the bus to be held captive for those days she had gone missing. she tells me about a soldier that had hit a kid, a teenage boy in fact, because he had started laughing while they inspected everybody. She tells me about how they barely had water and were fed food pellets for those days. Then she tells me how happy she is to finally get to return home. I pull her into an embracing hug and tell her about how worried i was, everything I went through while worrying about the safety of my daughter. Then its as if everything goes right back to normal, we are together once again as a family, eat dinner and go to sleep. After dinner we all talk more about how we felt and about more that had happened. The next day me and my daughter spend together, trying to repair all of the flaws we once had in our