Jane the Good Girl by Omoruyi Uwuigiaren

Jane the Good Girl by Omoruyi Uwuigiaren

                                             

Mum wants to visit the zoo with Jane and Billy. When she was set to go, she could not find her car keys. Mum looked under the chair and did not find the keys. She also checked the table, but the keys were not there.

Jane saw her Mum looking about, and then she asked, “Mum, what are you looking for?”

“I can’t find my car keys,” she told Jane sadly.

“Have you checked the room?” Jane asked her Mum and sat up.

“NO, I have not,” Mum said. “Do you think it will be there?”

“You can never tell. Let me go and see if the keys are there,” Jane told her Mum.

Jane rose from the chair and ran into the room. She looked here and there. She checked under the bed. There was nothing. She also looked at the shelf at the other side of the room. The car keys were not there too. Biting her lower lips, she slowly looked about again. “It can’t be. The keys must be in this room. My Mum was here a while ago,” she thought. “If it is not in the sitting room, then it is here.”

Then Jane looked at the bed for one last time as if something had just told her that the keys were there. She moved close to the bed. She placed her hand under the head rest and gently moved her hand here and there. One of her fingers felt something like steel. Her mind did not play tricks on her!

She raised the head rest and was glad to see the keys. She smiled at the car keys because she knew without them they won’t go to the zoo. “Mum must have left it when she came to check her face in the mirror,” she thought. Jane took the keys and ran out of the room. Mum was still looking about in the sitting room when she ran in. “Mum, I found it,” she said, smiling.

 Mum raised her head and smiled back at her. She was glad that her little girl found her missing car keys. “Thank you, my girl. Where did you find it?” she asked.

“It was under your head rest on the bed,” Jane said.

“Ah, I am getting old. I forgot that I dropped it when I went to check my face in the mirror.” She gave Jane a pat on the back and smiled, “You did well. Let us go!”

Jane, Billy and her Mum walked quietly out of the house. They got into the car and then she drove them to the zoo.

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