AN: Sorry it has taken me so long to update, I wasn't sure my writing was good enough. But anyway here's chapter 2.
Meanwhile downstairs the door goes again, Ben and Karen begin fighting over who should answer it, resulting in Ben trudging through the hallway to the door. He almost pulls it off its hinges as he yanks it open, showing a group of boys around Jake's age. There are two surly boys heading the group of six. "Hello there," Ben chirps, "Whaddya want? You're not our usual visitors at this, usually its Auntie Angela, or a cold caller, and we send Karen out to them, so who are you?" A boy with short blonde hair speaks for the group, "We're mates of Jakes, from uni, is he?" He asks, trying poke his head around Ben to see inside the house. "Yeah, he's in his room, I don't suppose he'll mind if you come in, can't let you up to his room though, he doesn't like that, but you can wait with me and Karen, we're watching Embarrassing Bodies, do you like Embarrassing Bodies?" He asks, turning and entering the house, the group of boys following suit, unbeknownst to Ben, the last boy locks the front door behind them.
When they enter the front room Karen is not amused when all six boys block her view of the television. "Um, I'm watching that, you have to move." She says, rather rudely. When the boys refuse to move, Ben immediately senses something is wrong with the situation, when he's forced on to the couch beside his sister, he realises something is definitely wrong. "Cal your brother down." The blonde boy from earlier demand of him. Ben has decided he is the somewhat spokesperson of the group. "Why? What's my brother done to you? I thought you were his friends?" Ben questions. A boy at the far back groans, "Don't you ever stop talking?" He asks while drawing the curtains. "Call. Your. Brother. Down." The blonde boy repeats slowly with venom laced in his voice. Karen looks at her older brother, fear evident in her eyes, Ben doesn't want to see his sister frightened so he calls for Jake.
