Escape from Neverland

In times stricken with war and grief, a child lives in poverty. His parents, who are only concerned with their own survival, much like the ruler of this time, cast him out to live in the streets without food, shelter, or protection. His only chance of survival lies in the kindness of complete strangers who occasionally toss him loose change. It is in this way that he meets what may be his demise.
One day a man dressed in golden robes and expensive jewelery encounters the poor boy begging for the first meal he would have eaten in a weeks time.
"This is no way for a child to live," exclaims the man, "My name is Michael, and you are coming home with me."
The boy, reluctant to agree, decides any place must be better than where he is now. He follows the man home and is amazed at the site before him. Michael's house is like a fantasy land decorated with color and toys strewn about. He feels like a lost boy finally arriving at Neverland where he can be that kid he's always longed to be. "Yes that's it! I am a lost boy, and Michael is my Peter Pan!" he thinks to himself as he races to the nearest toy chest. "Come my child. We can play later. Now you must have food and drink," Michael urges him.
He escorts the boy to the kitchen where plates of deserts and goblets filled with the finest drinks already await him. He gobbles up seven slices of apple pie when suddenly he begins to feel drowsy. His vision blurs, but all he can think of is how wonderful this place is. He must never leave. Is there even anywhere to go? THe outside world seems like a haze to him. THis is his kingdom, and he is prince.
"Foolish boy," Michael laughs, "Were you never taught not to take candy from strangers? I have sprinkled leaves of the lotus plant on all of your food. Now you are my slave, and I am master." Michael cackles loudly, but the boy hears none of this. He is too consumed by his thoughts of this place and his neverending hunger for food.
Seven years of this pass, and the boy, now fattened by his constant hunger, continues to be Michael's slave, but deep within his mind he still has a slight sense of reality. Somewhere between Michael's late-night games and his overeating, something just isn't right. Over the next seven years, this feeling grows until the boys immune system finally overcomes the lotus flower. He knows he must escape, but he is unsure how. His weight is too much for him to run away; besides, Michael is always somewhere nearby. Instead he must use his wit to outsmart the villain.
Just as a plan develops, Michael walks in and presents the boy with a tray of assorted cakes. THe timing couldn't have been more perfect. The boy shoves a chocolate cake into Michael's mouth and wobbles out of the house as fast as he can. Michael. too overcome with a new hunger, eats himself into a stupor while the boy happily escapes and finds his way to his selfish parents.
As he approaches the old, abandoned house he discovers his parents died on a plane in a terrorist attack three years earlier, but before their death, they had made millions of dollars in stock which in their will they left to their forgotten son. The boy used his money wisely donating half to local charities and paying for a personal trainer to help him receive a slim figure. Not a day goes by that the rich and now handsome young man doesn't thank God for helping him escape Neverland, and Martha Stewart for giving his parent such wonderful investment ideas. He soon marries a beautiful woman and lives happily ever after.
THE END