In the beginning, before there was anything, there was nothing.
No one can really say for how long this vacuum persisted -- since time is a function of perspective, and the Nothing was all alone -- but, eventually, God created everything else. Thus, as a consequence of diversity, the Nothing was cast aside.
At first, it was relegated to the study of mathematics; but the Nothing proved inhospitable to being measured, and quantified. Next, it was consigned to philosophy; but the Nothing resented human politicking --being asked, as it was, to accommodate the concept of Heaven and Hell. Back when there'd been no mention of time, there'd been no moral platitudes, either, and the Nothing had preferred it that way. So, when it thought nobody was looking ... it vanished.
As soon as its absence had been felt, people started to panic: was the Nothing really gone, they asked themselves, or was it just hiding? Was it lurking in the shadows -- or maybe waiting in their kitchens when they got home from a movie! If it crept up from behind them, would the Nothing make a sound? Could they inhale it, by accident? What could they do? Where could they hide?
The simple truth was: the Nothing wasn't present in the atmosphere that they breathed; and it certainly wasn't stalking anybody from the parking lot. Many people -- smart and capable people -- elected to see chaos and ruination everywhere. But the Nothing was only ever a story they'd told themselves ...