Word Count: 459<\/p>\n

\u201cNot now, Timmy, I\u2019m making dinner. Go ask your father.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me just sit and relax a minute, will you, son? I\u2019ve had a hard day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCome on…please? Pleasepleaseplease? You guys are always too busy to play with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

His mother hollered out from the kitchen. \u201cAll right. We\u2019ll play Hide-n-Seek. Go hide and dad and I will come find you. Won\u2019t we, Norman…\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, you go hide. Sweetheart, you count,\u201d said his dad, and set his drink down and opened the newspaper.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne. Two. Three,\u201d she counted out slowly and loud. She counted up to two hundred.<\/p>\n

\u201cDinner\u2019s ready,\u201d she told Norman. He got up and sat down at the table. \u201cHere we come, ready or not,\u201d he yelled out.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s eaten?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMac and cheese,\u201d she said with a smile.<\/p>\n

He helped her clear the table and load the dishes. They sat down to watch some TV.<\/p>\n

\u201cOops!\u201d she said, \u201cWe forgot to find Timmy.\u201d Norman went upstairs, came down, and said, \u201cI believe he\u2019s \u2018hiding\u201d in bed.\u201d They both grinned and settled back into the sofa. At bedtime, they both blew a kiss into his room.<\/p>\n

But Timmy didn\u2019t come down in the morning and they both were a bit concerned about that. \u201cDon\u2019t worry, I\u2019ll find him,\u201d she told him. \u201cCall me later from work.\u201d<\/p>\n

She spent most of the day searching. She even looked in the attic and down in that dark cellar room. When he called she told her husband that maybe he could come home early and look too.<\/p>\n

They called the police who suggested he must have gone outside and been kidnapped. After a year they gave up all hope. They missed their son terribly, felt a bit guilty too, but with time the heartache eased up and they nearly forgot him with the arrival of two more little boys.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s play Hide-n-Seek! Come find me!\u201d Charlie the older one said and the little one nodded in glee.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou go hide then,\u201d said his mother, \u201cand Daddy and Joey and I will come find you.\u201d She turned off the stove and started counting loudly to ten. Her husband folded the paper and took the little one\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n

After five minutes they started to get worried. After seven, really anxious. At nine minutes missing they started quite tearing the house apart.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know where Charlie went,\u201d announced Joey. \u201cHe\u2019s in the cupboard upstairs in the hall.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy Joey, that\u2019s cheating,\u201d his father said, but they all headed upstairs in a group.<\/p>\n

They opened the door and with a big sigh, his mom laughed and said, \u201cWe found you!\u201d<\/p>\n

And as Charlie crawled out, they looked deeper inside and though a bit of a shock, they found Timmy too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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