Tania is missing!

Post date: Oct 2, 2014 11:01:48 AM

Last year Tania and her parents had gone on a vacation. It was a long journey back from a foreign country and they had to stop at two airports. But to add to that there was a problem with one of the air crafts and they had to make an unscheduled stop as well.

Mama, papa and Tania were all very tired. The airline had arranged for them to stay in a hotel till the problems were fixed. Tania and her parents made their way to the hotel room. Jet lagged and very sleepy they fell asleep as soon as they got to the comfortable beds in the hotel room. They couldn't even summon the energy to change out of their travel clothes.

Within minutes the whole family was fast asleep. Mama and papa took the big king sized bed and Tania had plopped herself on to the separate twin bed in the room. The trio slept soundly.

After a couple of hours mama woke up for a drink of water. She was still quite groggy but one glance at Tania's bed told her that Tania was not there. She was puzzled. Where could Tania be? She checked to see if Tania had snuggled up to papa. She sometimes did that if she had a bad dream. But no, papa was sleeping soundly and there was no Tania. She looked on the armchair, and checked the bathroom. Nope. No Tania there either.

Was Tania hiding? Did she think this was a good time to play games? Strange child. Mama looked in the closet and did not find Tania there. She dismissed the idea. It would be too silly to play hide and seek with sleeping parents. Tania had no idea when they would wake up. She could be hiding for hours.

Mama was getting worried but she tried to calm herself down and think. May be Tania got hungry and went out to see if she could get something to eat. Mama called the restaurant but no little girl had been there by herself.

Now mama was getting panicky and she woke up papa. Papa still lying down heard the whole story. He was worried too. Groggily papa was about to get up when he noticed something under Tania's bed. He looked carefully and he saw Tania lying there fast asleep.

He burst out laughing. Mama looked at him questioningly. Still laughing helplessly he pointed under Tania's bed. Mama too burst out laughing when she realised what had happened. Tania had fallen off the bed, but she was sleeping so soundly that even the fall, although on the soft carpeted surface, had not woken her up. She just rolled under the bed and continued to sleep soundly. Mama and papa just let her be there till she woke up an hour later.