Robin hurried along the grocery store looking at all the adults. Sometimes a woman looked like his mom, but when she turned around, it wasn’t her. He couldn’t see his dad anywhere.
The corridor led to restaurants. He had never gone there before! But there were escalators. Maybe he would be able to see his parents from above. Robin pushed himself through the crowd of people going upstairs. He kept leaning to the left and right.
Suddenly he saw a bright burgundy sweater. Mom! Up there. He started pushing himself up through the people. "Excuse me. Excuse me.” Too many people. He stepped on someone’s foot.
“Watch your step!” a huge man stopped him. Robin tried to bend down but couldn’t pass.
“My mom is there,” Robin pointed up. The man looked up, and Robin took a moment to sneak around him. Why is the staircase moving so slowly?
Robin ran out of strength, he finally got out of the crowd. He ran to the corner where he saw his mother. He stopped. She wasn’t there. He ran around the next corner. She wasn’t there either. Suddenly at one counter he noticed a woman in a burgundy sweater leaning over. But it wasn’t his mom.
Robin leaned against the railing and blinked quickly so that he would not start crying. He didn’t know what part of the mall he was in. He had no money with him. Even his parents had probably no idea where he was.
“Dear Jesus, I’m lost,” Robin prayed with his lips trembling. “I prayed that you would show me the way. Please let my parents find me.”
He wiped his eyes in a hurry, because as soon as he closed them to prayer, they got wet. He looked around and looked down over the glass railing. Nobody anywhere. Still no one.
“Lord Jesus, why won’t you help me?”
“Are you Robin?”
Robin was terrified when the man grabbed his shoulder. He was wearing a black vest with the words “SECURITY” and spoke with a gruff voice. “So are you?” The man asked again. Robin nodded.
“Your parents are waiting for you at the information desk, we’ve been looking for you for fifteen minutes already,” the man said, leading Robin to the mall information desk and his parents.