Summary

A little boy hid in the living room of his North Carolina house. His mother and father were worried. They did not know where the boy could be. The father assured his wife the boy would turn up. He was sure he "wouldn't just up and leave" (4). The little boy listened to his parents, laughter "tickling [his] throat" (4). He felt bad for making them worry, but wondered why they were not more excited. They had been teaching "him to become invisible, to become 'The Unseen,'" and he had finally achieved it (5). Finally the parents began cooking all of the boy's favorite foods to entice out of hiding. Smelling the food made the boy's stomach growl. When he emerged he told his parents he had finally turned invisible. His father said that even though he knew where he was, what mattered was "that...