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This I Believe
A few days ago I lost my phone. I have an iPhone 4 and I am always on it, night and day, so I was heartbroken to say the least. All day I was searching for my phone. I had friends calling my phone and texting my phone trying to find it all day and it wasn’t anywhere to be found. Finally on the bus ride home from school I used my friends phone to call mine to see if someone had found it or the very worst, stolen it. Dialing my number and waiting and listening to the rings before someone picked up felt like hours, but sure enough a man picked up. We talked for a while about my phone and he said that he had found it on the side of the road at my bus stop and said he would return it to me. We agreed to meet back at my bus stop at 4:30 for him to return my phone. I was so happy I almost cried.
When I got home it was almost time for me to get my phone back, but I was afraid of going to meet him all by myself. What if he was a murderer or a rapist or something like that. I also didn’t want to take my mom because I didn’t want that to happen to the both of us. Theres a police officer that lives right next door to us named Mr. Chris. As soon as I got home I ran over to their house to see if he would join me on my adventure to go get my phone back. When I rang the doorbell, his wife came to the door and told me he was asleep but she would wake him up, I felt really bad for waking a sleeping police officer but I really wanted my phone back.
Mr. Chris got up at 4:30 and walked with me to the bus stop where we waited for what seemed like hours for the man to deliver me my phone. Finally after about twenty cars passing by a blue motorcycle pulled up, the man took off his helmet, handed me my phone and explained to the dangers of leaving my phone on the side of the road. Some would say the man on the motorcycle, who was named Andre, was the hero in this story, but Mr. Chris, the police officer was my protector. If anything bad had happened, he would have fought for my life. This I believe, police are your friends.
