Triangles of Applesauce Logic

In Johnathon Alcor's (up to now) uneventful life, something has just gone askew. His father happens to go on a business trip while his mother is sick with a presumed cold. He and his sister are running out of gruel. And that's just the beginning. Really. I'm not going to lie about something I wrote, because in fiction you can lie all you want.