Dance Moms - Claudia (2) Sand and Wave

Chapter 36 : Lair

Tilly, Emira and Camryn were taken above deck. Under daylight they found themselves standing on a military vessel, steering slowly along the coast, and then pulled into a large cave. Inside they saw two more identical vessels at the dock.

Under armed men they were taken into the tunnel, passing an area of workers drilling and hammering, they too were watched by guards. On their path Emira saw everyone making way for them, nodding at the man with mustache, addressing him as Hermano. Reading their gestures and from the man's walking posture, she knew he was the leader.

They were taken to a section with a line of cells, the bars were rusted, probably used by the cave's previous occupants to keep prisoners. Men shoved all three girls into one of the cells and locked the bars, closing the outer door behind them.

"What do we do now?"

"We wait."

Emira stood, looking around the room. Beyond the cells were construction materials, bags of cement and rolls of cables.

"There's a first aid box, maybe there's a scalpel." Camryn pointed.

But before they could do anything, the door swung open again, the mustache man held a satellite phone to Tilly's face.

"Call your father."

"My father?" she blinked, and got pinched by Emira. "Oh! My father! But I need my arms."

"You have your arms." the man turned the phone to Camryn, his man took out a knife and cut her hands free.

Receiving the phone, Camryn looked back at Tilly, she wasn't sure whom to call.

"Try this number, but he's probably at work." Tilly gave a number and Camryn dialed.

The man then switched on speaker, bringing the phone back to Tilly, shortly the ring tone was answered by a recording in Russian. Thinking they may not know the language, Tilly was about to launch her distress message, but soon as she opened her mouth, the man snatched it away.

"We will try again." Hermano turned with his man and shut the door again.

"Well that was quick." Emira said.

"What number did I just dial?" Camryn asked Tilly.

"JoJo's watch-me-call-my-father number."

"How did you get that number?"

"I watched her dial enough times. Why do you think it's always to voice mail?"

Camryn almost laugh if it wasn't for the situation at hand.