A loud thud woke me up, I jolted out of bed fully alert something was wrong. I snuck out my bed sneaking over to my desk on wheels I slowly pushed it over revealing a hole in the wall. I found this hole a while ago when I woke up from sleep-walking, when we got the house the hole was there and my parents concealed it with my desk. I walked into the hole and down the rather wide path.
I walked along between the walls following the noises, fortunate for me there was another whole near where they were, not big enough for me to fit in bit big enough for me to see what was happening.
I peered through the whole hidden near our TV, two men where rummaging around our house, I heard whimpers as I scanned through the room I saw my mum tied up in the corner. I held back any sound that would come out of my mouth, what were these people doing in our home
“Alright Atachi where is it” One of the scary men said throwing a tied up body on the ground. My dad.
“I told you none of that is here!” He replied. What was he talking about? What did they want?
“Are we going to have to pay your daughter a visit” another man said, icy chills ran down my back
“No!” my dad screamed “No, there’s nothing in the house, it’s- it’s all somewhere else, I-I’ll show you!”
“Fine but if you’re lying don’t think you’ll live to regret it” the man replied picking my dad up “Take her two”
And just like that, they left me did I know I was going to see my parents again? No. Did I think I would? Yes. I quickly ran back to my room and out the whole, racing down the stairs and grabbing the phone. I called the emergency number and soon after there were police.
“Little girl?” An old man walked up to me his trench coat swaying in the wind he gestured me a hand “Will you come with me please?”
I accepted a gesture not saying a word, he led me to a big car opening the door to let me in. When I got in I noticed there was a boy a few years older than me there. I sat in silence as they tried to talk to me, I don’t know why I did mainly because I couldn’t get any words out
“Excuse me?” A police man said opening the car door, he handed the old man my drawing book “we found this in her room”
“Very impressive” the man mumbled flicking through it, he looked up at the man in front of him then down to me “Do you think you could draw what happened for us?”
I gave a simple nod and soon after I was given my pencils and was driven off to the police station. They led me over to a small table, I began to draw as the boy beside me watched slightly nibbling on his thumb. In a half hour I was finished
“That’s quite impressive” The boy said to me, I gave him a small shy smile “I’m L”
“that’s a funny name, I am Soren” I replied quietly earning a small smile for myself
“Hello Soren, I’ll go get Watari and tell him you have finished.” L said getting up from his chair, the first thing I noticed was he slouched a lot, that’s terrible for his back
“ah Soren you’ve done” Watari stated walking into the room, I handed him the picture watching his eyes widen “this is the man we’ve been searching for L”
“yes, it’s appears that’s him” L mumbled then turned to me “do you know where they went?”
“no” I answered
“that’s ok we’ll get the police to start a search” Watari said leaving the room.
I sat at the station with L for a few hours, we talked about many different things L kept trying for it to be him just questioning but I ignored most of the questions only given him simple answers. Soon my sleepiness became too much for me as I put my head down on the table and slept.
“L, we’ve found them” I heard people speak quietly in what I was convinced was a dream “There in a warehouse near the shipping docks”
“Very good, send a team to surround and catch them” the other voice replied before I fell into a heavy sleep
“Soren, Soren wake up” something shook my arm
“mm what is it? Have you found them?” I said slowly waking up. I looked up to see Watari looking down at me with sad eyes
“I’m sorry Soren” was all he had to say “they died before we found them.”
My eyes widened in shock, dead no they couldn’t it’s some sick jokes. Tears began to fall from my eyes and there was a hand on my shoulder giving a comforting squeeze but I pushed it away, I didn’t want comfort I wanted my parents. I ran out of the station in to the car park they could be waiting out here for me right?
“It’s not true!” I yelled hearing the door open, footsteps came towards me
“It is Soren, I’m sorry but” He said lifting my chin making me face him “You can come stay with us”
“I don’t want to live with you L” I said trying to be strong “I want to be with my parents”
“Soren you have a gift, where I’m from we teach kids how to use that properly, we can help you” He replied still calm
“Are there lots of kids?” I asked curious about this place
“Not yet only 4 but 5 including you” He answered “Of course you’ll be the only girl”
“What?!” I cried “no, nope, not doing it, I’m not living with 4 boys!”
“Soren” L laughed, it was the first time I had seen show an emotion “it’s not as bad as you think trust me”
I don’t know why I did it but I agreed, looking back on it now it was the best decision I ever made.
