Where is he?

by Siriusly Duckling

A 'Looking for Alibrandi' narrative I wrote for my english assignment, fill a gap or silence from the book. Please enjoy. Disclamer: All characters are Melina Marchetta's.

Everyone's looking, whether they be European or Australian. I can't believe Robbie's gone missing! He's such a sweet little boy, Katia and Patrizia would be devastated if we never found him.

"Roberto!" I called out in a thick Australian accent, even though I was trying to sound as Italian as possible, for Robert's sake.

As I came to a creek, I saw something in the water, at first it just looked like an oddly shaped rock, but as I got closer,

"NOOOOOOO!!" I pulled him out and tried everything I could think of to resuscitate him, but nothing would work.

As I walked back to the shack Katia calls a home, I was thinking about things I probably shouldn't in the current situation, things such as how much I loved Katia and how she would never love me. All she saw me as was the man who helped her in the post office all those years ago when she got that fateful letter from Patrizia. After that, I started to think about Francesco.

"Francesco is a bad man, he doesn't treat Katia like she deserves. I think he's hiding something from Katia, and I'm going to find out even if it's the last thing I do, and I hate to think it but I'd do it even if Katia hated me for it, it's the least I can do." I thought to myself as I walked.

While I was walking, I encountered obstacles such as sticks, trees and the ferocious Australian snakes of the wilderness.

As I got closer, I discovered how heavy a little boy really is, especially to a man who hadn't eaten anything since the boy went missing.

With tears streaming silently down my face, I walked into Katia's 'Front Yard' and placed Roberto gently into Patrizia's arms. Not one person had uttered a word since I had been there, everyone's eyes were either on Roberto or me, and I had a feeling everyone blamed me for everything, Roberto going missing, not being able to find him all day and lastly, for him dying.

AN: I wrote this for a school English assignment, the task was to choose a silence in the book and write it from a characters POV, as some may be able to tell, this is when Marcus found Roberto.