Hannah and Gerald
(Hansel and Gretel)
Once there was a rich electrician who had a wife and two children, Hannah and Gerald. One day he said to his wife, “How can we support children who are drug dealers? They may have made us rich when everyone else we know is poor, but I am afraid of getting in trouble with the law!”
“I’ll tell you,” answered the wife, who was not the children’s real mother but a narcotics agent on a secret mission. “We will take them on a road trip, leave them at some rest stop and go on home without them.”
“What will we do?” Gerald cried, having overheard his stepmother.
“I will think of something,” Hannah said.
At 5:30 AM, the stepmother came to wake them. “ We are going on a road trip to do some sight seeing,” she told them. “Here are some Lunchables that are to last you all day.”
All the way in the SUV, Hannah hung her arm out the window and dropped bits of her Lunchables crackers.
“Fool!” cried her brother. “I’m not sharing mine, and you heard mom, this is all we’re getting all day! Besides, the cars will just smash it up and blow it around.”
When they were long onto the extensive, twisting highway, their father said, “Now go into that rest stop and wash up and eat, while we find someone to give us directions.”
The children sat in the shade of the car, and when Gerald began to get hungry, he took out his Lunchables, and feeling sorry for Hannah, who was looking quite hungry, gave her half of his. The teens waited so long for their parents to return that they fell asleep. When they woke up, it was dark and they were alone. When the streetlamps turned on, they looked for Hannah’s path of crumbs to try to hitchhike and know how to get back to their condo, but they could not find even one. Hannah and Gerald were alone and lost with no money to speak of. They wandered for three days, selling what marijuana they had, and buying food.
They wandered until they came to a neighborhood that looked somewhat like their own and saw a house surrounded in plants of every drug imaginable cleverly disguised as flowers, but being drug dealers, they could tell the difference. They started picking leaves off of the plants and hiding them in various pockets.
“I wish we had a garden just like this one. I wonder how it ever came to be here,” Gerald said.
All of a sudden, the door opened and an old woman hobbled out. “Do not be afraid,” she said. “No harm will come to you. I don’t get many visitors now that my children have all died of overdose.” She took the children inside and made them a delicious dinner and gave them two cozy beds. Hannah and Gerald crept between the sheets and felt as if they were in heaven. The two children had not realized that the old woman was really their stepmother in disguise who had planted the drugs to lure the children to her. When she captured them, she planned to take them into custody and let them fight their own battle.
Early the next morning, the old woman grabbed Hannah and Gerald and locked them into the back of her Lincoln Navigator. She drove down to the station and called in their father, who said that he would not bail them out. The children lost their case after several appeals and were sent to Juvenile Hall, where they remain, until they are 18, when they will be released into a special program.
EPILOGUE
The electrician and his wife are still living happily with their two new children, Anna and Greg in Palm Beach. They have not heard from Hannah or Gerald in five years and they hope that it stays that way.
THE END
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