The Missing Girl
Once there was a small happy family. The mother and father had five daughters and they were very content. This family lived in a log cabin high up on the mountain and they did not see many people.
The family was very content, until the youngest of the girls went to draw water from the stream near their home.
The young girl went down a small path boarded with pine to get to the stream. It was a sunny spring day and the birds were singing gleeful songs as if they knew what would happen next.
The young girl sang to herself as she dipped her pail into the ice cold water of the spring, but hearing a noise her song stopped and she straitened up.
Standing before her was the most handsome young man she had ever seen. They got to know each other and met each other once a week at night for conversations.
The girl tossed and turned on the nights that she was not to meet her young man. When she did go to meet him, she would slip out of her room and returned very early in the morning.
One night she slipped out of her room and never returned. Two weeks later the girl and her young man were married in a far away city.
The girl was happy for months and months and three years. She had two sons and a daughter. She told her children stories of herself as a small girl and of the parents that she loved so much.
Meanwhile, The girl's mother, father and family searched and searched for her for two years. Her father gave up in despair of ever finding her and tried to show her mother that they would never find her. But her mother stood tall and sent messengers near and far to trace her. One day a breathless rider rode into the yard of the girl's mother and told her that her daughter was married and living in a far away city. The girl's mother and father prepared to leave with their remaining daughters to visit.
It was afternoon and the girl was telling her two sons and daughter a story of there grand parents, when she heard a noise and went to the window. She gave a cry of joy when she saw her parents and sisters riding into the yard. She and her children ran outside to greet them.
The girl's husband came out to see what all the commotion was a bout and when he saw his wife reunited with her family he demanded that a week long party be had.
The girl's children passed this story onto their children who in turn passed it onto their children and so on. The girl and her family have long been dead, but their story is as alive as can be.
By- Tara Nicole Walker