After a little under an hour of crying, I finally got up and slowely
walked down the stairs. I felt like having a nice hot chocolate.
I shouted to Lana upstairs "Do you want a hot chocolate?"
I could hear her feet running down the stairs. As she jumped the last
step
she said " yeah, ok. If your ofering."
as I was about to get the milk out of the fridge, the power went out. It was around 11 o clock at night so it was pitch dark. Lana found a torch in one of the draws.
" what was that?" she said.
I walked to the door and slowely opened it. Every light on the street had gone out. Something must of happened at the power plant. Some kids had come outside to see what was going on aswell.
And then a flash of light came from the right side of the
street. As it came closer I could make a figure of it. It looked like
a car, but no one in perdido beach had a car like that. Then it
clicked. That was one of the cars that the coates kids drove. I was
frozen. Lana realised what it was aslwell and pulled me inside.
"Astrid we need to leave." we ran to the back door.
" Lana, we can't leave. Pete will scream and give us away. We need to hide."
" then where do we hide." I thought about it for a second .
" there is a little room under the stairs. We didn't notice it was there for weeks."
" then go in and I'll go get Pete." I ran upstairs towards Petes room.
He was sitting on the floor playing with his gameboy.
"Pete we're going to play hide and seek, so we need to be really quite hide from some boys. So what ever you do, don't make a noise." he looked over at
me and gave me a little nod. Usually he would have been much more
difficult to convince. I picked him up and I ran down the stairs to
Lana. As I was about to get into the little room I'd relised that
petes gameboy was still upstairs.
" Pete, can you just stay here with lana for a minute." Lana quickly replied
"what r u doing?"
" I'm just gonna get Petes gameboy, he'll make a big fuss over it soon." I ran back up stairs and grabed the gameboy and once more I ran down the
stairs. I heard the door open. I dropped the gameboy.
"Lana close the door." she did as I told. I froze as three large boys walked in. One held a gun and the other two held baseball bats. " who are you?" I finally said. They walked over to me. "we are no one you'll need to remember. I reconised one of them from the big fight.
" then why I are you in my house.
"Caine sent us to... Let's just say he wants more
people on his side." I walked back slowely.
"look we don't want to hurt you so if you could make this easier for us and for you could come with us without any hassle." i was about to run out the back door but I then remembered that Pete and Lana were listening. I didn't want Pete to get upset so I came closer to them and said
" alright but if you touch me I swear you'll be sorry." as I walked out the door I looked back and saw Lana and Pete looking at me. I smiled as though I were telling them it was going to be ok and to not worry. But then i
wAS in a van towards my doom.