Beware of the House (The unedited version)

Chapter 15 - Money! Money! Money!

We didn't hang around for long after they slammed the door in our face. We just grabbed our stuff and walked out, ready to go to the police station to destroy all knowledge known about the house, metaphorically speaking of cause. With us we brought; a spell book on hypnotism in case Taka's plan didn't work and she needed a different method on hypnotising all the police officers, or if she forgets how to use hypnotism, in other words, if anything goes wrong, some food and water and a handful of the old English pounds. All the stuff we brought managed to fit in our 2 backpacks we found in the cupboard in Taka's room.

As we walked along to where we knew the police station was, we got a bunch of weird stares and we could hear whispers saying stuff like 'Is that them?' 'Oh My God look!' and my favourite, 'Look mamma! There're princesses over there!!'

Once we finally arrived at the police station, we walked in and had a good look at the place, you know, to figure out about how many police officers there are and how hard it will be for Taka to find the main computer. The waiting room was pretty small, it had a big desk with glass and stuff to protect the staff members taking up most of one wall with a door at the end which I assume leads to the rest of the police station, no public allowed, and on the opposing wall there were about 6 plastic chairs lined up. The third wall had the glass entry door and a couple of windows. The remaining wall had a huge cork board hanging on it with lots of poasters. A few of the posters were your regular adds and stuff, a couple of them were wanted poster which I didn't pay much attention to but the rest of the cork board was covered in posters of lost children and teens.

I scanned the wall and surprisingly saw some people I recognised. An old one had a big picture of who I guessed to be the human version of Serenah, she looked so normal and innocent compared to what she looks like now. In the picture she had white skin instead of red, long, light-brown hair and huge brown eyes. I could still see it was her though.

I nudged Taka, "Hey, Taka, do you recognise that girl?" I pointed to who I thought was Serenah. Taka looked at it for a second, shrugged and continued reading a poster on why you shouldn't smoke; a habit of hers since her parents started smoking so she can try to convince them to stop.

"No, do you?" She asked, not looking away from the poster.

"Does it not look like Serenah?" I asked her. She stopped reading and looked at the poster for real this time and studied the teen girl for a bit when realisation lit up her eyes.

"Yes, yes that's defiantly Serenah," Taka nodded and looked at the date the poster said she had been missing since, "2001? Gee she has been living in that house for years!"

"Do you have a problem mam?" We looked over to the counter and saw that it was the man with the brown hair who had said it. I looked at the name tag, it said he's name was 'Mary McKeen'. Isn't 'Mary' a girl's name? He looked at the cork board behind us, then at us, then back to the cork board. He did this a few times then just shook his head. "Hey, Mini Castle is just down the road, I can give you directions if you like? Is it your first day?"

I tried making an excuse as to why we are supposed to be here; "Ummm, we-"

"Might have gotten a bit lost," Taka butted in, nudging me. We'll have to come back later I guess.

"Umm, yeh, we got a bit lost but we should be fine now thanks," I'm a horrible liar. Taka nudged me towards the glass door and we both walked out, but before I walked out the door, a poster on the wall caught my eye. We have to go home, human home.

We walked towards where 'Tiny Castle' is to avoid suspicion and saw there was a bank next door. I wonder how I never noticed it before...

"Hey, Taka," I said pointing to the bank.