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Chapter One: Where is Everybody?
Wilbur felt the soft, warm bed underneath him- the most wonderful feeling to have in the morning. Slowly, his eyes opened with his vision blurring slightly. Though he could not see properly, he could tell something was different about his room. There was no sunshine filtering through his bedroom window. The only source of light came through the open door at the foot of his bed.
He bolted up, and discovered that there was no window at all in the room. In fact, the room he was in was not the same bedroom as the one he had been living in for his entire life. This room was much smaller, about the size of a walk-in closet. His bed was pushed up against the corner of a windowless wall, and his large desk stood a foot away from the bed, along the same wall as the bed's headboard.
The items littering around the room were indeed his belongings, so he concluded that this was his bedroom. However, it still did not explain how he became to be in this foreign room.
"Mom!" he shouted. His mother came into view through the doorframe with a white, plastic laundry basket in her arms.
"Oh, good. You're up. I've got some clean clothes for you." He stared at her with wide eyes. His mother, Franny looked just the same as he ever did- young and beautiful at the age of forty. Still, something was not right.
"Hey, where is everybody?" Wilbur asked. Franny frowned a bit, and her eyebrows etched with concern.
"Baby, what do you mean?"
"I mean, where's Aunt Billie, and Uncle Gaston, and Dad, and all of them?" She shook her head slightly, and placed the laundry basket at the foot of his bed. Sitting down on the edge of the bed, the dark-haired woman put a hand on her son's forehead.
"Are you feeling alright?"
Unsure, the boy answered, "Uh, I'm fine…" He felt her brush some hair out of his face with her slender fingers. "But…" Why was she asking him if he was feeling okay? "Where are they?"
"Where's who?"
"Dad! And the rest of the Robinson family?" Franny shook her head again.
"Wilbur…" she said in a soft, sad voice.
"What? What is it? Did something happen? Something bad?"
"Wilbur…" she repeated in the same soft, sad voice. "You haven't seen your father in almost thirteen years."
End of Chapter One
31 August 2007