Taken
It was a saturday morning in Elmtree house and all the kids where at the breakfast table having their breakfast when Mike walked in and announced that Gina wanted to talk to them all in the front room.
"Are we in trouble?" Toby asked "because we haven't done any thing wrong."
"No one is in trouble, she just wants to tell you something very important" Mike replied. So, all the kids went to sit in the front room where Gina was stood in front of them all. Tracy and Mike were also in the room.
"Now, I have something very shocking to tell you all and you must listen this is very important" Gina announced "apparently, the police have recived word that there's a child smuggling gang operating in the area and they have taken at least twenty kids in the past two weeks and they've been smuggling them out of the country to sell on black markets in foreign countries." There was a deafening silence in the room as the kids didn't know what to say.
"Now, I suggest that neither of you go out on your own, don't talk to strangers and to make sure you're all safe, Mike is going to start taking you all to school in the mini-van" Gina continued.
"Who do they sell them to?" Carmen asked.
"Rich families, childless couples, perverts" Liam said.
"What if they come after one of us?" Toby asked.
"Well, if anyone wnats to go out anywhere, I'm suggesting that a member of staff should go with you" Gina pointed out "we don't want any of you becoming victims."
"Has there been any news on it recently?" Johnny asked "we should watch the news and see." He put the on the Television and the news came on.
"Good morning and welcome to the BBC news, in the past two weeks, in the uk, children have been taken by a mysterious child smuggling gang and are being smuggled out of the country to be sold in countries such as Africa, Morocco, Spain and China. The gang are still at large and it might not be too long until another child becomes a victim. If you see anybody acting suspicious or know anything on the gang or any of the missing children then please call the number shown at the bottom of the screen. Let's help put a stop to these child smugglers and bring these kids back home to their families" the woman on the news said.
"That is just awful" Sapphire pointed out "snatching kids and selling them for money."
"Yeah, I've heard that they sometimes take kids as young as two years old" Liam said. Gina then advised them all to be very careful and not to trust any strangers that they come across. For all they knew, they could be a member of the child smuggling gang.
On Monday, Mike had announced that he was going to take them all to school in the mini-van.
"I don't need driving to school" Elektra said who was in a strop "I'm not a kid."
"I'm sorry, but I'm not taking any risks" Mike told her sternly.
"Pfft, as if these so called Child smugglers are going to get me, they only take little kids, not fourteen year olds" Elektra pointed out.
"They can take girls your age too" Mike told her "they might use you as a slave or something to help prepare the younger kids for selling."
"Fine" Elektra said "I'll get in the stupid mini-van then." Mike then took the kids to school in the mini-van. he dropped the older kids off first then went to drop off the younger kids. After he had dropped off the younger kids, he didn't notice that a suspicious looking man was taking photos of Tee with a mobile phone. The strange man then got into a black transit van and drove to an old abandoned building where he got out of the transit vat, headed up two flights of stairs and went into a room where various other men where waiting. One man, who looked to be the leader stood up and walked over to the man who had just entered.
"Did you find someone?" the leader asked.
"Yes sir" the man who had just entered taking out his phone and showing them the photos "a girl who appears to be aged from eight to ten years old."
"Good work, there is a rich family in China who are very interesting in buying an English girl of that age group to use as a slave. Do you have any idea where this girl resides?" the Leader asked.
"I think she lives in a care home called Elm tree house" the man said "she was dropped off at school in a mini-van which had the words Elm tree house painted at the side." The leader nodded as he looked at the photos.
"You will go to that care home tonight and take the girl, I suspect that she will not be missed if she has no family and lives in a care home." That evening, the man who was called Melvin prepared to snatch Tee from the dumping ground.
"Now, you will wait outside, wait until everyone has gone to bed then you will sneak in and snatch the girl and bring her back here. We then leave for the airport first thing in the morning to China and then we will sell her to the family who want a nine year old English girl" the leader explained.
Back at the Dumping ground, the kids where all in the front room, in the Pyjamas. Tee was playing on the computer with Carmen and Lily, totally unaware that she was about to become the new victim of the child smuggling gang.
"Right everybody, it's time for bed" Gina told them "you all have to go to school in the morning." Tee,Lily and Carmen finished off their game before going upstairs to bed. Tee looked out of her bedroom window to see a supicous looking man hanging around outside the dumping ground next to a black transit van. The man looked at her and Tee quickly ducked down, thinking that he might have been a child smuggler.
"Don't be silly Tee" she muttered to herself "it's probably someone who's waiting for a mate." She shrugged it off and climbed into bed. A couple of hours later, Tee heard a glass smashing from downstairs. Scared, she climbed out of bed, put on her slippers,crept to her bedroom door and crept onto the landing and into Johnny's room which was next to hers. She found her brother fast asleep so she walked over to him and gently shook him awake.
"Johnny" she whispered. The older boy sat up and rubbed his eyes.
"Tee, it's one in the morning, what's wrong, did you have a nightmare?" he asked her.
"No, I heard something smash downstairs and I was wondering if you want to come and check it out" she told him.
"Ok" Johnny agreed "but you're getting Mike up if there's a burgular." The two siblings then descended onto the landing and down the stairs where they found a kitchen window had ben smashed.
"Looks like burgulars alright" Johnny said "you get Mike up while I call the police." Tee nodded but before she could move, a dark figure snuck up behind Johnny and hit him over the head with a baseball bat.
"Johnny" Tee screamed as he brother fell Unconcious to the ground, head bleeding. The figure then walked over to Tee and placed a white cloth over her mouth. She could taste something funny on the cloth and then started to become dizzy. She could feel herself being lifted off the ground with the cloth still over her mouth before her whole world became darkness.