Wayland Patch 12/2/11: 'We're Just Looking Forward' Say Parents of Wayland Teen Runaway. Christina Loftis remembers 12 days of a ringing telephone — Picking up the receiver and, for the first few moments, holding her breath until she knew who was on the other end. Tony Loftis remembers looking both ways — turning corners in New York City and looking in both directions down the street, hoping, pleading even, for a glimpse of his daughter. Finally, 12 days after 13-year-old Alexandra “Allie” Loftis ran away from her Wayland home on Nov. 4, police located the eighth-grader, thanks to a tip, in a home in Jersey City, N.J. “When I saw her, we didn’t say much, I just hugged her and told her I loved her,” Christina Loftis said of her first moments with her daughter after 12 days of a frantic, yet calculated, search focused on New York City. Sitting on a sofa in their living room, Tony and Christina Loftis are quiet but matter-of-fact about what has transpired for their family during the month of November. In the aftermath, according to Tony Loftis, they are working hard to move forward and discover their new “normal.”