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You dial your parents’ number at the lab, but they don’t answer. No one does. You put down the phone and tell yourself there must be a simple explanation for this. You know that your parents are involved in antimatter research, and you’ve wondered what they meant when they talked about the delicate boundaries between parallel words. It sounded as if they thought they could use antimatter to travel between parallel worlds. But when you asked questions, they had not even told the university or the government about it. Wondering if their research is connected with the strange emptiness around you, you decide to go to the lab. You get your bike and ride through the deserted streets. When you reach the lab, everything looks normal cars in the parking lot, bicycles in the rack, trees, grass. But there are no people. Go to next page 3