"Excuse me sir, have you seen my brother." – A stranger
Angels Around Us
"Excuse me sir, have you seen my brother?"
The older man was caught by surprise. He didn’t know this approaching boy who was about ten years of age, dressed in his soccer uniform.
“He’s dressed in a soccer jersey. It looks like the one I am wearing, but it has a stripe across here,”
the boy continued, while using his hands to identify where the stripe would be, had it been on the jersey he was wearing.
The man listened intently, as the distress in the boy’s face and voice were clear.
“I
was asleep in the car,” the young boy continued. “When we got here my brother woke me up and told me he was going into the store and that he’d be back soon. That was a long time ago. Will come into the store with me to look for him?”
“It’s a big store and it is very busy today,” The man replied. “It’s busier today than it was at Christmas time. If we go
in there and begin to look, he’ll likely come out of the store and we’ll miss him. If that happens he’ll be worried about where you are. I think it is best for us to wait for him by your car. Do you know where your car is”
The boy responded with a “yes” and the two of them walked to the car, which was parked not far away.
“I’m afraid,” The boy said with tears beginning to glimmer in his eyes.
“Would you like me to wait here with you until your brother comes back so you aren’t alone?” The man compassionately asked. “I remember being your age and feeling
alone.”
“Yes, I would like that,” the boy said in gratitude.
So, the two strangers stood by the gun-metal-gray van waiting together. The boy was relieved to have someone with him, but he still tipped up on his
toes with a stretched-look, anxiously seeking his brother every minute or so.
“Does your bother have a phone?” The old man asked as a way to relieve the anxious boy.
“Yes.”
“Do you know his phone number?”
“No. My mother does, but she is visiting her mother today, because tomorrow is Mother’s Day.
The man followed with, “Did you play a game today?”
“Yes,” the boy responded earnestly. “We won and I played well. “My brother is our coach.
Silence followed for another ten
or so minutes.
“I’m sorry this is taking so long,” the boy said anxiously.
“There is no place I’d rather be right now,” the man gently replied.
The boy’s face relaxed as a result.
“I’m happy to be here with you until your brother comes out,” the man assured him while both sets of eyes stayed fixed on the store’s exit.
Then, with a sudden burst of brightness gleaming from the boy’s face, words of relief resounded.
“There he is!”
Man and boy stood conjointly,
tracking the cart-pushing-twenty-year-old’s progress toward them. They stood united until the brother was fairly close.
“Thank you for waiting with me,” the boy said in gratitude, as he locked eyes with his cherub.
His eyes were communicating, “I’m glad you were here to be my guardian angel.”
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