a childhood memory (Thank you to google translate, apologies to those who actually speak french)
“Maman? où est mon frère?” The little brown-haired girl tugged at her mother’s dress and looked up at her with big blue eyes. She had been playing hide and seek with her brother for the last twenty minutes, but had yet to be able to find her brother and it was always best to ask mama.
“Êtes-vous jouer à cache-cache à nouveau?” Her mother asked her with an amused smile across her lips. The child only nodded and looked around the kitchen to see if she could spot her brother. He was so good at this game, it really wasn’t fair. “Raconter vous seriez tricherie, mon cher.” It would be cheating too, but it still made the little girl pout. What if she never found her brother? Would he have to hide for all eternity?
All of a sudden she flopped down on the floor and started tearing up, tugging lightly at her dress as she were overwhelmed with sadness. It would be her fault if they never saw her brother ever again.
“Frère! S'il vous plaît revenir! Frère!” At the sound of her heart-broken voice her brother came stumbling out of a closet and came running towards her with open arms and a reassuring smile on his lips.
“Soeur, sécher ces larmes! Je suis là!” He embraced her and kissed the top of her head over and over again so that she would be sure that he would never vanish like that and she hugged him back as if she would never let him go.