A Rude Awakening

Beep! Beep! Beep! It was 6:30 A.M. and the Alarm was ringing really loudly

"Ah…finally, it's Saturday." Cody said as he sat on his bed stretching. He got out of his bed and as soon as he stood on the floor he started to feel something was wrong. Usually when the alarm rings, Zack throws his pillow across the room on Cody's face to stop the alarm from ringing.

Cody looked over at Zack's bed. It was neatly made. Cody was utterly shocked. He never makes his bed, he thought, let me call him.

"Zack? Mom? Where are you guys?" he asked exasperatingly. He reached for his cell phone. Instead of finding his cell phone though, he found a small piece of paper saying:

Kid,

I took your mom and your brother. If you don't want them to die,

Call this number in the next 5 hours…or else

676-498-8980

-anonymous

Cody thought for a second and then without thinking he raced downstairs.

"AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT SHOULD I DO?! WHAT SHOULD I DO?!" he squealed as he raced down the elevator.

"Cody! What's the matter?" asked Maddie.

"Mom and Zack have been kidnapped and they're going to get murdered any second!"

"Oh please, like I'd believe that."

Cody waved the note vigorously in front of Maddie's face. "Do you believe me now?" he asked, "here's proof!"

Maddie grabbed the paper from Cody and started reading it.

"Now that you mention it, it does seem a little quiet around here now that Zack's gone."

"Can you help me find them? Please? PLEASE?!?!"

"Why should I help you?"

"I'll pay you 50 bucks!"

"Where will you get 50 bucks?"

Cody looked around the lobby to see where he could get 50 bucks and then he saw London.

"London? LONDON!! Can you please give me 50 bucks?"

London was just walking toward Cody. She was opening her purse. "Ok, I was going to throw it out anyway; the person is the front is ugly. But first, tell me why you need it."

"Fine," Cody said. He was getting really annoyed right now. His brother and mom were missing and here they are talking about money????? "Zack and mom got taken by some murderer and we have to call him!" he said really fast.

"Well, how are we going to call? My phone is out of battery." Maddie asked.

"I don't know, but I think Zack accidentally lost my phone." Cody said

They both slowly turned away from each other and threw their eyes towards London who was now trimming her nails.

"What??? Why do people always look at me like that????" London asked in a scared voice.

"London we need to use your phone to call the murderer."

"Uhh…Fine." London said as she grabbed her pink sparkly IPHONE. "Filthy, poor people. They can't even get a phone," she said in a small voice so that Maddie and Cody could not hear them.

Cody's P.O.V.

Maddie and I dialed the number as fast as we could. I just hope we weren't too late before my family would die.

We dialed the number and it started ringing.

"Hello?" a deep, strange voice said.

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