Narration Essay

It was early morning , and I was driving to my vacation house . I was not really in a hurry , so I stopped at a McDonalds to grab a burger . It was a typical dingy place you often see in a quiet town , and I was the only customer . Everything was running as usual , and I was in for another 100 miles of monotonous driving through a rural countryside . And then something happened . I walked out of the joint and saw a little boy . He was about seven , and car was the only one at

7 a .m . He was thin , even skinny , and had a dreamy , absent-minded look on his face . I felt at first like leaving him alone to whatever dreams were weaving together in his mind , but then decided to find out what was going on . After all , he was just a little fellow , and it certainly was not good for him to be here together all on his own

Are you waiting for anybody ' I asked

No , he replied

Do you live here then

No , I was here with my Dad and Mom , and then they drove away

Away ? Are they coming back ' He looked amazingly quiet

They said I do not behave myself

How long have you been here then

Now the little guy looked sad . Two hours

Two hours ' I realized I had to take him to the police , to contact somebody in that little place to get the boy back to his normal comfortable life . But was it really that normal if his folks leave him on the road like that ? Or did he misinterpret their words

While we were sitting in the police office , he told me about his family His mom seemed like a good person in his words , but too intimidated by his father

She never speaks her own mind if he thinks differently ' the boy said . If she says something different , he starts yelling at her ' I did not fell a shade of bitterness in his voice . He was merely narrating a story

Does your Dad ever beat you or your sister

It is just me . He slaps me across the face sometimes . He loves her She is his daughter ' Then he gave me the first warm smile in all the time I had been speaking to him and pulled a picture out of his pocket Isn 't she cute ' The girl was sure lovely , very much like her brother , but with curly blond hair that turned her into a little princess

He always brings her presents when he comes back from his trip . She has tons of toys ' I imagined to myself the unhappy lot of a child who lives with the stepfather . He probably suffered a lot , poor little thing

Well , when the parents did come a few hours ago , they were hysterically happy to find their child there . He just ran away on his own , they said They had not the least intention of leaving him out...