NOTE: Even though this is in English, let's pretend that everyone is speaking Portuguese, ok?
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Ursula lay in her bed watching the patterns dance across the walls and ceiling from the nightlight that sat on the night stand. Her dad was in his room and her nanny, Kiya, was in the twin bed next to her own. Lala lay just under the cover nestled against her, making Ursula warm.
She looked over at Kiya and then quietly got out of the bed. Without turning on any lights, she headed for the kitchen to get herself a juice box. Lala jumped up on the counter and sat there, licking her paws and watching Ursula's every move. Ursula smiled at the way the moonlight reflected off her shiny new key that she had proudly hung around Lala's neck with a ribbon earlier that day.
Ursula heard the locks in the front door tumbling and grinding. She tipped into her father's room and he was in bed, sleeping. Her little heart started to pound and she started to run back to her room when she saw two shadows moving into her home and across the living room.
She sat on the floor and pulled her knees to her chest trying to make herself as small as possible and hopefully the intruders would not see her. Maybe if she was very quiet. She watched as the two figures spoke in hushed tones as Ursula hid.
"You go stay here, and watch. If anyone else comes, kill them," the first one said and pulled out a gun. He put something on the end of it and then cocked it.
"Right, no witnesses," the second voice said and pulled out his own gun, then snapping a magazine into place.
"We were paid to do a job, and we will do it right. No evidence, no witnesses."
"You just keep it clean on your end, I can handle things here."
Ursula tried to hold her breath; she thought she was breathing so loud that they might hear her. She watched as the first man went into her bedroom. She heard Kiya start to speak, a panicked voice that called to her, but only for a second. The next thing she heard was something like a zapping noise then the first figure went into her father's room.
There was no noise from her father that she could hear, only the Zapping noises.
"There is someone else here," the first voice said, "The other bed in the room with that chick was messed up. Find them." The men started searching every room in the penthouse and when they were both gone from the living room, Ursula thought she could sneak out. She picked up Lala and then started to tiptoe across the living room when she heard a gun being cocked very close to her. She stopped in her tracks. She was so scared and she knew the man wanted to kill her.
Ursula turned around and found herself looking down the barrel of a shiny silver gun that was pointed right at her face. She was too frightened to move, her heart seemed to want to beat right out of her chest. Lala only hissed and Ursula held her tighter.
The man lowered his gun and grabbed Ursula by the arm, leading her to the door.
"Run." Was all he said to her as he let her go and went back into the penthouse.
Ursula pulled the ribbon with the key on it from around Lala's neck and then ran for her life down the long corridor with the giant white cat right behind her. She put the key into the locks on Zach's door down the hall from the penthouse that she called home.
She finally got the door open and she closed it tightly and locked it. She was afraid to just go sit on the couch. She didn't know what to do. She ran to Zach's room and he was not there. She ran to the spare room and Edie wasn't there either. She ran back to Zach's room and she needed to hide. She needed to hide so that the shadows would not get her. There were boxes and suitcases on the bed and on the floor. On the bed, there was one suitcase that was open and she got in it and pulled Lala into it with her, closing the automatically locking lid behind her.
She was safe now. The shadows would not find her. They would not kill her. She would tell Zach when he came home later.
Only Zach never came.
He and Edie had boarded the flight to Panama leaving instructions with a moving company toretrieve his belongings the next morning, sending them to Pine Valley.