Different family

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Thinking back to what could have happened to my family, the last time I saw them was before I had left in the morning for school. My parents were getting ready for work as I ate my breakfast. The last thing I said to them was goodbye. Everything had seemed so normal, so something must have happened after they had left. I knew they had not offended anyone, so what could be the problem?

"Dinner is ready honey" my "mother" said from outside my room. I mumbled a reply to her before mustering the courage to go out for dinner.

Dinner was pretty bland, with only boiled vegetables and some scrambled eggs. It was so plain that I almost gagged at the blandness. Nonetheless, knowing I had to eat the food, I shoved morsels of food down my throat.

Worried sick and not knowing who these people were, I demanded for them to tell me where my real parents were, and who exactly they were. My "parents" stopped eating and turned towards me, glaring angrily while my siblings sat quietly, eating as if nothing had happened. Just then, my "parents" got all defensive, saying they were protecting me from the cruel society and that they were my real parents who had finally come to rescue me.