Chapter 2: Lost

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Fish were swimming in the kelp forest. Some were enjoying the sunlight on their scales, and some were swimming just to get somewhere. When Dory said, "Hello?", the fish didn't hear her. But, a wife fish heard the voice.

"Hello!" Dory yelled again.

"Did you hear that?" the wife fish asked her husband.

"Hear what?" the husband fish inquired.

"Stanley, I just heard someone say 'hello'," she replied, looking to see the fish who said that.

"Who? I didn't hear anybody say 'hello'," he remarked.

"I don't know, Stan, I just heard someone say 'hello'."

"Yeah, there's a lot of fish here. Anybody, literally anybody could've just said 'hello'."

The wife squinted her eyes to see the fish. She heard the voice again.

"Hello?" little Dory said, searching around.

"There, there! Right there!" She pointed to Dory.

"Where... where am I looking?" Stan asked.

"There!" she answered.

"Hello?" She swam closer to the tiny fry.

"Hello!" She heard the wife fish, but she didn't see her, so she looked around.

"Oh. Hello?" Stan replied.

"Oh my goodness, it's a child." She quickly swam to Dory.

"Hello! Hello!" she exclaimed.

"Hi, kid, over here," Stan said.

"Hi." She approached Dory.

"Hi, I'm Dory. Can you please help me?" she asked with that sweet little voice of hers.

"Oh, hi, Dory," she cooed. "Uh, Dory, are you lost?"

"Where are your parents?" Stan questioned.

"Um, I can't remember," she stated sadly, looking down.

"Oh," the wife said, concerned about Dory.

"We'll look around." Stan looked around, seeing fish swimming. "Uh, are any of these fish your parents?"

She spun around in a circle, looking around. Then, she saw the couple, forgetting what she was doing. "Hi, I'm Dory. Can you please help me?"

They exchanged glances. The wife spoke. "Honey, you just.. you just said that."

"I did?" she asked.

They nodded.

"I'm sorry. I suffer from short term remembry loss." She looked up at the couple sadly with innocent eyes.

"Oh, how awful. Okay, just, you wait here for one second, okay, sweetie pie?" She swam a little bit away from Dory with her husband. "Stan, Stan, Stan! What do we do? The poor thing is lost!"

"I don't know! What do you want me to do?"

"Well, we have to do something! She can't remember a thing!"

"She could come from anywhere," he said. Then, he mumbled a few words.

"Wow. You are.. you are no help today." The female swam back to Dory. "Ah, Dory, sweetie? How 'bout we-"

"Oh, she's gone," Stan said.

"Dory?" she called.

"That's not good," Stan said.

"Dory!" the female yelled.

"Dory?" Stan called.

"Dory!"

They looked for the child, but they never found her.

"I'm Dory," she said to the huge fish, "I lost my family. Can you help me?"

The fish ignored the poor fry, not giving her any help.

"I-I'm Dory. I suffer from short term remembery-" She then gasped when the sea urchins ignored her. She swam away sadly.

Dory hid under a rock. She was very scared. She sang softly to herself. "Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, just keep swimming. What do we do?" She then cried, missing her family.

Later, Dory gazed up at the stars. The stars reflected in her big, pink eyes. She really hoped to find her family someday.

She then lied down under the same rock from earlier. The child closed her eyes and went to sleep, dreaming about her parents.