The Lost Letters

Here we go

11/24/2002
Now we are getting close to the end of the month and we are still here.
Yesterday I left advice for anyone who needed it, well that is if anyone finds these letters, if we get out, or if someone does not destroy them.

Anyway, we have great news! We found out what those maps were saying.
They go together we noticed that one map was torn on the side, well it matches the other one.
One said, hold the green glass to the light and the passage way will be revealed. The other said, to find the diamond which you seek, look in the oldest antique.
So Meredith and I started looking around and found a green diamond shaped glass.
We figured out where to put it. The small, old, scratched window had a piece in the middle that looked like a glass, we pushed that out and put the green piece in. There the sunlight shone through it and made a green mark on the wall.
Meredith and I started to feel the wall looking for a button or a hole or anything. We then found a crack along the wall in a door frame shape.
So, we pushed as hard as we could but it wouldn't budge. Then Meredith thought of hidden levers, like in the movies and it worked, it was a candle lamp that opened a door that lead to stairs that twisted down along a stone wall. It was dark and had a creepy feel about it, but if it lead to our freedom and family, it was worth it.

I had always wanted to go through secret passageways they seemed so cool, but only for fun. Not a life or death situation.

I can not believe we are actually going to do this. We have been waiting for something to happen and now today is the day. Maybe not the last day here, but it's a start.

We had gone down the stairs a little ways, it seems like there are a few doors projecting off to the right every few yards. They are the type of doors like the one for our room, which means no window. Luckily, the lock is on the outside. Meredith is going to go down and try to make a small hole on the first few doors so we do not walk in on someone who may harm us.

I have never been so ready for something to happen, but as I look down the dark passageway a nervous, sickening feeling comes to my gut.
I guess it is just anxiety, nothing to worry about.

Meredith got a small hole through the first door. I'm not sure what she used, but that does not matter now. She said she sees someone.
A kid, more specifically a girl from our school. Meredith says she can hear her crying.

We have to rescue them from whoever these people are. I could not imagine staying here for the rest of my life. We have to get out.

It is safe to go in.

Here we go.