Bear story

When childhood comes calling...

I miss those warm summer days, with the bright sun and blue skies. I was six years of age, free from the first year of school. Coming back to home, sitting in the corner of my room, paper and pencils were the friends I cherished most. Together we could explore the worms, the snails, the creek, or the hills could lay hidden from our greedy eyes for long. I had a little love for adventure with my own colorful world on papers. Sometimes, I tried looking at outside through the small white window and watching neighborhood children playing on the ground happily. On one of those summer days, my father came and told me that he would take me to the zoo. I had never gone to there, but I knew how the zoo is through Discovery program on television or discussions of the girls in my class. It seems there was nothing that can describe how excited I was.

My father hold my hands so tightly. I felt that my father were trying to hold my hands so as to want to protect his little daughter. That is so warm. He led me to a small booth and bought some fishes and bananas. I did not really know what he was doing, but it seems he could see my surprise in my eyes and guessed what I would ask him, and he told me that he would led me to where I would like surely. 

Standing in front of a rather big cage, I tried to spell characters on the sign beside on G-I-A-N-T P-A-N-D-A. Immediately, my father told me the bear with distinctive black patches around the eyes in the cage called Giant Panda. When my eyes was staring at the bear, my father gave me a banana and told me to feed the bear. I had a little fear and embarrassment in my mind, but I felt this is great because this is the first time I have done this. Suddenly, there was a big scream stopping my thinking. My eyes immediately followed that scream and forwards to the cage. I saw a same age boy with a scared face being in the cage, and scare from his mother.I could not say anything and my foot could not also move. Everyone standing at the area recognized there was a hole in the fence and this is the reason why that boy could be in. The keeper asked everyone to keep quiet and he started to come the cage steadily. All shouts have been stopped, but scares were conveying on their face. I stood behind my father's back with my hands holding his shirt and watching what the bear would do with that boy. The bear was coming towards to the boy, while he was crying. When the bear was one meter far away from the boy, his mother burst into tears. My eyes have not still left from the bear, and everyone were really so scary and surprise when the bear just licked on the boy's face without any hurt to him. I looked at my father. 

He smiled and said "even a bear also wants a friend and you too, my daughter". 

[ I wrote this piece for a small exercise in my Narrative class. My lecturer only gave us one sentence " Dad and Daughter go to the zoo and see a boy attacked by a bear" ,'n ask us to write a short story based on it.] =D