Hoo's {beginning}

I was abondoned, so I thought at an early age of 11 years old.  I
saw my parents, I was looking directly at them when they just vanished
right before my eyes, as if they never really existed.  My mother was
telling me that they had to leave and not come back because something
that had to do with my fathers job.  I don't remember exactly what she
said I didn't  think much of it, I figured it was another one of their
little out of town trips.....untill two minutes later.  They were
gone.  Directly after, some type of of goverment officials just walked
into the house, and asked me a bunch of questions that I couldn't
understand at the time about my parents.  I figured they were hired
help and were taking me to one of my folks many babysitters to look
after me.........but they left after the questions........and left me
standing there.  I stood in that one spot waiting for my parents to
return or some type of answer of what was going on for a day and a half
and I didn't move.

I took care of my self for the next two months without talking to
anybody, I knew how to use an atm card so I knew how to get what ever I
needed.  I tried to figure out what had happened going over and over in
my head the events that took place and I came to the conclusion that I
was sleep, and this is the world behind the dreams.

One day i got a call from a man with a very funny name called,
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova, a man with a very deep italian accent.  He
told me that he had a message from my parents. And I met him the next
day......

{The next day}



I couldn't wait.  I was told to wait at one of the subway
terminals closest to my house downtown at noon.  I had spent the
last week not sleep, so for a change of pace and for the special
occasion I decided to actually rest.  Before I laid down I even
pressed my clothes, washed my hair and, atleast tried to shine up my
dress shoes like I had seen my father do, or saw my mother do for my
father multiple times before.



I felt a calm that I hadn't felt in awhile.  I knew that my father
had come back for me and that he would explain the wonderous trick of
how he and my mother had suddenly disappeared right before my very
eyes.  It was a feeling as if I was to become a man tomorrow, that
this dream that I lived in would finally fade away and I would awake to
where I felt normal and not as if I was in some type of unescapable
cage.



I arrived at the terminal at 10:30, after spending the whole morning
cleaning up a couple of months worth of mess that I had left laying all
around the house.  I wanted to give my parents the welcome home
that they deserved.  I wonder if they realized how much they were
actually missed, How I always missed them when they would have to go on
they're little trips, when they would leave me here with Miss Cooper
the lady from up stairs or on the other side of town with the Shodan
family?  In those times I would sit with other families and
observe what normal family life was like.  I was never envious
though, for as happy as they seemed they still seemed fake, they spent
everday around each other yet it seemed that they were all just as
distant from one other as me as my parents were.