Lela

I was laying on my bed listening to the radio. A Jem song came on the radio

Something Is Missing In My Life

Oooh...
Oh no!

I feel a loss, and it's got me kinda shook
I keep on searching but it's nowhere I look

Somethin' is missin'!
Something is missing in my life (something is missing)
Won't somebody tell me where it's gone (something is missing)
Something is missing in my life
Somebody tell me where I've gone wrong
With my life

I move around, keep goin' day and night
I look for answers but they're nowhere in sight
Somethin' is missin'

On a bus or walking down the street
I feel lonely lost and incomplete

Whoa, whoa!
Somethin' is missin' in my life (Somethin' is missin')
Won't somebody tell me where it's gone (something is missing)
Somethin' is missing in my life
Somebody tell me where I've gone wrong
With my life

(Somethin' is missin' in my life) In my life
(Somethin' is missin' in my life) Somethin' is missin'
(Somethin' is missin' in my life)
Somethin' is missin'

As I listened to the song I thought about how much it fit me. I am almost fifteen and I have been in foster care since I was three, when my dad died. My mother died in childbirth. Everyday I wonder what she would have been like. At least it was only one foster home and I didn't slip through the cracks of the system, like some people I have known.

I have been feeling really weird inside lately. I can't explain it; it is like something is missing in my life. Before, when I felt this way, I though it was because my parents are dead. Now I am not so sure.

Jerrica is taking us shopping today. I know to help look after the younger ones when shopping. After all shopping with twelve girls is no piece of cake.

Ba Nee came running into my room, "Let's go. Jerrica says that she is ready to go to the mall."

I turned off my radio and went downstairs to get in the van

Later at the mall

I took Terri, Ba Nee, Marianne and JoEllen to the toy store for awhile so that they would stay out of Jerrica's way. As I was looking around the toy store, I notice something really weird out the window at the food court. I knew that I couldn't leave the girls alone, so I
ran to the window of the toy store and whatever it was that I saw was gone.

"Lela what is it?" Marianne asked me.

"Nothing, we should get back to the others." I said.

Something Is Missing In My Lifeis from Jem Unlimited Song Lyrics