Chapter 11
Perth, Australia
12.12 Friday
The Smith family had hardly landed in Perth when Tamsyn made up a history that gave her a reason to go to the police. Later, at the police station she immediately asked to speak with Tom's dad.
When he heard that she was the Tamsyn who had forwarded Tom's mail he immediately ran out to the waiting room to see her.
"Do you know what has happened to Tom?" was his first question.
"The only thing I know is that we helped the police to stop the woman who calls herself the black widow and that Tom sent this mail to warn me." Tamsyn's father looked at her in horror.
"Are you telling me that some wicked criminal is after you?" Tamsyn gave him a weak smile.
"I don't know, but according to Tom, she has kidnapped the others." Tamsyn's dad turned to Tom's.
"What are we doing now?"
Somewhere
Lauren went in to an Internet café dressed up with a headscarf and sunglasses which they had stolen. She sat down in front of one of the computers and wrote a new mail for Tamsyn.
Tamsyn(a).
lktoro(a).ca
Hi Tamsyn. We have escaped from the submarine. It's mainly desert around here, that's all we know, we don't know were we are, but we think that we are somewhere in Mexico.
See you later, I hope.
Lauren and the guys
Lauren came out to the others again and threw the scarf and the glasses away.
"And now?" she asked.
"I don't want to be here in this town anyway. The Black widow surely knows that we have escaped and she will look for us." Josh said.
"I think we should keep away from the bus stops too" Tom continued. "That is the first place she will seek."
Lauren watched them for a long time.
"Then it's just one thing we can do." she said, and then she began to walk.
In the desert
Some hours later they all was very tired. Even Rob, who wasn't able to walk himself. It was quite trying, to be moved from back to back all the time.
None of them had any shoes left. They had fallen of, and the children had just left them there one by one. Rob had borrowed his shoes to Lauren but they had finally ended up the same way. And suddenly Josh and Lauren had fallen to the ground in exhaustion.
"What have we done?" Josh asked right into the air. But everyone was too tired and unhappy to answer.
At the police office in Perth
At the same time in Perth, the police and Tamsyn had got very good news. They now knew that Tamsyns friends had run away from their kidnappers and after they had traced the mail they even knew where to seek. What they didn't know, on the other hand, was if they had dared to stay in the town or if they had fled out into the desert.
