LOST

The air has and ere tint to it as we all sulked hoping that she would come hobbling out of the bushes. Sitting on the couch resting my eyes and body before I go out and look again, for I have been looking all night. My sister at the table book in hand, my brother playing with his bey blades but sighing every now and then. My mind wandering off into the distants, I snap awake not letting myself fall asleep. To keep it that way I announce that I am going outside again to look again, while outside I notice a familiar car driving up the street toward my house. My phone dings informing me that I have a text message, my mom telling me that Sasha (good friend/previous owner) was coming with her dog Dexi the only dog Reece will follow anywhere to help find our missing puppy. I holler to my brother to help look with Sasha and I while my sister Kelsey finishes her home work. Sasha Keegan and I head into the forest ignoring the, calling and whistling. With disappointed frown and freezing fingers and toes we start back to meet my mom who had just arrived to help look by driving around the neighborhood and asking people if they had seen Reece. Warming up and making posters and delicious hot chocolate and tea, Sasha leaves to go to work but promises that she will be back at 2:30. I continue to go outside for shorter periods of time but nothing just as the 1 million before. Back on the couch I feel like disappointment shot my confidence with a shotgun, Sasha returns with Dexi and her other dog Shady, my mom at work and my brother leaving to go to Reno with my dad were not much use in the search anymore, now only Sasha, Kelsey, and I are looking we Sasha and I head back to the woods and Kelsey heads off to hang up posters. Dexi, Shady and my other dog Alyce helping we venture farther and farther in. Alyce not the keenest on Reece could really careless if she didn't come home, dragging me down I let her of the leash she gives me a "finally!" look and runs home with her tail waving a smirk at me as she trots away. I was just about to head off in the other direction when Sasha yells "ELLIE, I FOUND HER!!!!" so relived I sprint over, untangle her connected leash she darted off with in the first place, (because it was caught on a fallen tree) and rub her shaking body. Heading back, when we were no farther than 15 feet away, we cross paths with a steaming pile of fresh bear poo (ewww) I didn't notice it at first but Sasha whispers, "Ellie, look it's... it's bear !#?$!" knowing that Sasha would not be scared of bear but that she would be worried that the dogs would have gone after it and not come back. So we hurry along trying to find the trail again when we eventually do we are poo free.We slow down but hurry home , I call my mom to tell her the news she breathes a happy relived "YAY!", then I try to contact my sister but she did not answer the phone, I try again no answer, after a couple min I call again NOTHING!!! so I leave a message. When finally we are step upon the driveway I call one more time she picks up the phone,and says "Yeah" I reply with "WE FOUND HER!!!" she says "really!?!" "Oh thank god!" . I make a few more calls, and turn to Sasha and thank her again and again she says "Sure thing honey." in her usual sweet tough voice, "Now let's dry off These wet dirty dogs." . Grabbing the oldest/dedicated dog towel I dry the ecstatic pouches.