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Tiny Georgia and her sister had finished their soup and sandwich and had been sitting around the table waiting for her mother for a long time. She finally sighed and pushed her chair back by herself as she felt she and her sister had been left alone in the house. She took her bowl and spoon and dumped them into the sink and then returned to her sister, took her bowl and
spoon and dumped them in the sink as well. Holding Lainey's hand, the two beautiful brunette pixies went looking for their mother. They knew they weren't supposed to go in their father's study, but there she was. She was sitting on the floor in a frazzled fit against the wall. Her usual perfect coif of hair was in a state of disarray as if she'd been rubbing it consistently. Her eyes were unnerved and signs of tears appeared on her face as she doubted the world around her. She looked as if she was losing it.
"Mommy," Georgia brushed a curl out of her face. "Can we go play?"
"What?" Ally looked up and wiped a tear from her eye. "Oh, um, uh, yeah." She watched her two babies go play as she continued sitting on the floor. There was no trace of her loving husband in the entire house. He had to be somewhere.
"Okay," Ally sat weeping in the fetal position. "Let's look at this logically. He could not have left the study by getting around me, his car is still here... his duffle bag is upstairs...I sure as heck didn't hallucinate him !" She looked around hysterically as she crawled around his desk. The computer was still on as she stood up hunched over it. She was at wits end as she started to go once more around the house. She barely stepped from the study as the typing started again. She swung around in shock.
"Root beer's just fine." William was typing away.
"What? How? You..." Ally was about to lose it! "Where have you been for the last hour!"
"What?" William looked up as confused as any other person zapped through space by Sabrina and erased of his memory of the missing time. "Right here typing... where have you been looking?"
"No!" Ally marched up to him shaking her finger. "You vanished on me for over an hour! I searched the entire house looking for you and you were no where in sight...and..." She began blubbering as she wondered if her hallucinations were worse than ever. She was so hoping they had gone away forever when she had married and moved to Collinsport.
"Ally..." William stood and held her close to pull her head close to his heart. "Baby... I'm not sure what's going on. Maybe you're…… distracted and working yourself to death. I'm sure there's a logical explanation." He lifted her head up and kissed her. "Honey, just go take a nap. If you rest, I'll take you out for dinner tonight. Just the two of us… alone."
"We haven't done that in a while…" She wiped her tears away as she looked into his big brown eyes.
"Go rest." He kissed her again. She wandered out to the stairs mumbling silently to herself as he sat down at his computer and took a bite from his sandwich. He started typing a little as he noticed the clock on his screen. It was an hour later! How did he loose an entire hour? If he had been somewhere else, why did he not recall it? Did something or someone erase his memories?
"That can't be right." He wondered if he missed Daylight Savings or something. He started wondering if he had missed setting it back during the time change then reached for his soup.
"It's cold!" He told himself. He started wondering if he really had lost an hour or if his wife's hallucination was real! Maybe he should be taking a nap with her!