“Hey! Where are you?”
I clicked on the ceiling lights. My heart racing, I walked around the kitchen.
No sign of them. No breakfast dishes on the table or on the sink. No coffee cups. No cereal bowls.
“Mom? Dad? Did you leave?” I tried to shout, but my voice came out tiny and weak.
“That’s impossible,” I muttered to myself.
I hurried to the kitchen window and peered out. No car in the driveway.
Did they go to work? Did they just drive off?
They must have left a note, I decided. They always leave me endless notes on the refrigerator. I turned. Bumped my knee on a kitchen stool.
“Ouch!” I hopped across the kitchen on one foot.
No. No note stuck to the fridge.
“Weird.”
Rubbing my throbbing knee, I hurried upstairs to their bedroom. “Hey, are you two still asleep?”
I stepped into the room. Mom’s nightgown lay crumpled on the floor beside their unmade bed. The suitcases from their trip had been emptied and
stood open against the far wall.