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“And where have you been?” she asked Marvin.
“At Stuart’s,” he said.
“Grandma and Grandpa are coming over.”
“I forgot.”
“You should have called,” said his mother. “You didn’t tell me you were going to Stuart’s house. I had no idea where you were!”
“I always go to Stuart’s. Or Nick’s,” said Marvin.
“You are supposed to call,” said his mother. “You could have been kidnapped, for all I knew!”
“Okay, okay. I’m sorry,” said Marvin.
He went upstairs to his room. “I was kidnapped, for all you know,” he muttered to himself.
He wondered if his mother would say that if she was really a kidnapper.
Probably not.
“I want you to do your homework!” his mother yelled up to him. “Before Grandma and Grandpa get here!”
“Okay, okay,” Marvin muttered.
Marvin had a pet lizard named General Jackson. General Jackson lived in a glass cage next to Marvin’s desk.
“She probably has no idea I’m Prince Robert,” Marvin told the General. “If she did, she wouldn’t yell at me. She’d serve me breakfast in bed every morning.”
General Jackson stuck out his tongue.
For homework, Marvin had to practice his handwriting. He wrote as fast as he could.
“If I was a prince,” he said, “I wouldn’t have to do homework. A servant would do it for me.”
He finished his homework, then walked downstairs. His grandparents still had not arrived.
His father was watching television in the den.
“Dad,” said Marvin. “Was I adopted?”
“What? No, of course not.”
“Would you tell me if I was?”
“Yes, but you weren’t.”
Marvin rubbed his chin. His father seemed to be telling the truth.
“What happened when I was born?” he asked.
“What?”
“Did anything unusual happen?”
His father looked away from the television. “Um, it seems there was something,” he said. “I forget what it was. But it was a false alarm. You were fine.” He turned back to the television.
“Did they take me away?” asked Marvin. “Or was I with Mom every single second?”
