“So what’s your name?” I said softly trying not to scare her remembering how scared I was when I got taken.
“I- Im Daisy” She stuttered. She looked at me with no expression and her brown hair fell perfectly on each side of her light rosy cheeks.
“Daisy… I’m Laura” I looked into her hazel eyes as she smiled faintly. I shook my hand over at Jesy ushering her over as she approached us slowly.
“Daisy…” I started “H-how did you get taken…” I started. She looked at me with a painful glance like she was hurting inside.
“I-“She cut herself off like she couldn’t come to say it but then she managed.
“I was walking home… f-from school, Only a few yards away from my house and I saw a van pull up next to me, My mum came out of the house to call me inside because she noticed it too…” She coughed and kept back the tears.
“They grabbed me… I could see my mum in the corner of my eye screaming and shouting my name while tears ran down her face fast. It-It all happened so slowly. I lost feeling of my legs and couldn’t move. I was terrified. My mum started running up to the van and I was just arms reach from her grasp… But I was thrown in and they drove away… I even saw my mum out of the back window. She was crying, Red faced and trying to keep up with me. I just sat there watching her…Watching her suffer but I couldn’t do anything about it… Nothing. I remember her gesturing “I love you” through her tears as I was taken…I-“She stopped and a tear rolled down her face.
I sat next to her holding her in my arms as she cried. It’s the worst feeling when someone is hurt and you can’t make it better or erase what happened because… well you can’t. Even Jesy looked heartbroken at the thought of what had happened to this poor girl. She was older than us… Only by a bit but I felt so sorry for her. It made me think of what my mum would be doing… probably exactly the same as Daisy right now.. And the fact I couldn’t go and wipe her tears made me feel horrible.
“W-what about you” She cleared her throat from crying.
“We… we got taken together” I said looking at Jess as she covered her face into her jumper.
“We were shopping… four of us, Me, Jesy and our other two friends Miah and Vicky. They… they are really good friends of ours, But they are gone now…” A tear streaked down my face as I continued “We were just looking at clothes and then we were grabbed by two of them… they made a run for it with us and Vicky and Miah stood there sobbing as we told them… We would be back…we wouldn’t be long…I’m not giving that promise up.” I stopped and looked down at the floor as silence filled the room.
“We won’t be here long” Jesy smiled slightly. I knew she was lying though. She was just reassuring us. The kind of “We won’t be here long” your mum would say when you went shopping when you actually end up there for ages. Even though I knew she wasn’t right I wanted to believe it. I wanted this entire nightmare to just disappear and for Dan and Phil to be okay and for us all to go back to reality. I wanted to hear my maths teacher go on and on about equations. I didn’t care at this moment. I just wanted it to fade. Be not even a distant memory. But it was reality... And there was no way of me getting out of this so called nightmare. It was stuck with me.
Suddenly we heard people creaking up the staircase and swinging the door wide open after turning a key. There were two boys who looked about our age and the other two that brought us here.
“This is Marco and James. They will be supervising you while you are sent to school. I have made sure that they are in every class with you girls and that they will be with you all day, every day. There is no way of you telling anybody or escaping so don’t try.” He finished as we all froze looking at his evil emotion. He threw three school uniforms onto the floor and told us we would be going to school tomorrow. I looked the boys up and down. They were both around the same age (The same as us) and looked rarely the same too; in fact they could probably pass as twins I thought. They both had blonde swept hair and baggy clothes with trainers.
They all left the room as we were left in darkness. I sat against the wall thinking about everything I had probably missed and how I had missed hanging out with my friends and laughing at all our stupid jokes. I was so angry and upset but I had no tears to cry, so I sat. Emotionless. I couldn’t do anything to help and there wasn’t really anything to talk about at this exact moment in time. So we all just sat, thinking I suppose. I looked down at my blue dress trying to brush off all the dust. I came across my silver charm necklace on my neck. I trailed my finger along all of the chain until I reached the heart at the bottom. I opened the locket to see a picture of my sister. Her face brought back the memories off her saying and doing all of her silly little things that made me laugh and so… well I practically laughed under my breath at the thought of her. She was my world. She was the one who was always asking me to play Barbie’s with her and brush her hair and reading her bedtime stories. She made me realise I had to get through this not only for myself but for her…
