Personal Narrative: Why Is He Sleeping There?

One afternoon while Akitani and Jack were walking home from school, they noticed this time, their short cut through the woods was not the nice calm walk they had grown accustomed to. They suddenly heard a noise coming from a corner. Next, with their own eyes, they saw a man that was lying on the side of the path they always took.
Akitani: Why is he sleeping there?
Jack: I don’t know, just ignore him. As they approached the man sleeping, they notice that there was no movement. The body is still like a fallen tree and as calm as the rest of the woods. Yet, it looks like a misplaced object among an organized environment.
Akitani: Wait, he isn’t moving at all. Jack: What do you mean?
Akitani: When people sleep, their stomach moves up and
The children then, take a stick from the bush nearby. They begin, to poke at the man as if he was a possum lying in the backyard. There is no response. They do this for a minute or so and realize that the man could be dead. They panic and run away. They arrive home and move swiftly to their bedroom. Nobody mentions what was just witnessed. The two are scare to say anything to their parents because they were previously warned to not take the shortcut while walking home.
Akitani: We have to tell Mom and Dad.
Jack: No, we aren’t allowed to walk there, remember?
Akitani: But the man, was…
Jack: Someone else will find him.
Akitani: But…
Jack: Don’t say anything.
Later that night after dinner the family is watching the news together, a report of a missing man accompanied by his pictured is shown on the screen. Resulting in the kids seeing a picture of the man they had seen in the woods. John, a twenty-five-year-old man has been missing for a few days and his family is trying to find him. Akitani lets out a small scream, their parents ask if everything is ok. “he is fine” Jack replies. Jack looks to Akitani and signals for him to go to their
At this point, tears are flowing down Akitani’s face. He is in shock. Jack reassures him that everything will be ok and they go to sleep. The next day after school, the children walk home and do not take their usual route. Later that night, the same news report appears on TV again. This time Akitani yells out “IT’S THE MAN FROM THE WOODS”
Mom: What did you say?
Akitani is in full blown tears now. There is a waterfall coming from his eyes. His nose drips and words have to drag themselves out of his mouth as they are drowning in the flowing stream of tears.
Akitani: That’s the man we saw in the woods.
Dad (turning to Jack): didn’t we tell you not to walk through the woods
Jack: But we…
Mom: We have to call the