the prison gaurds daughter

chapter 3

Benny freaked. There was honestly no other way of putting it. We were locked in a room and told by the man who put us there that he would be back in a few hours. I'll spare you the gory details but let's just say right now that Benny is insanely lucky that my friend Isabel had left her inhaler at my house and I was bringing it to her today because he would have died. After I got him calmed down a little and he had stopped scratching at the door (seriously he was) I started to think about how to get out of there. Benny just kind of sat in the corner and cried a little bit. He would die before admitting it but tears were shed. Dang it who ever this guy was he knew how to keep people in. the windows were barred, the door was barricaded, there was no way we were getting out of there. I found a trapdoor but that only led to a root cellar not a way out.

"Jesus Benny pull yourself together."

"Oh yeah I don't see the problem here. I get kidnapped all the time. *Oh I'm being forced into a cabin in the middle of the wilderness at gunpoint. it must be tuesday!*" He snapped. I smothered my laughter.

"Shut up. We need a way out of here or some sort of weapons at least. We don't know what he's going to do to us."

"If anyone ever tries to hire you as a motivational speaker remind me to punch them. Crap I think he's back! Quick act like your asleep so he wont hurt us!"

Where could he possibly come up with these things? 'Alright I'm going to kill these kids... What? Their asleep? Rats I can't kill them now.' Said no murderer ever. I heard him coming down the stairs.  He was talking to someone, must have been on the phone because I only heard one pair of feet clomping across the floor.

"No I never said I want any money. Thats right I want Michael Clarkson and Andrew Rodriguez to be wrapped up in a pretty little bow and dropped off at my feet. Then their children live but if theres any funny buisness I will break every bone in their bodies. No I am not kidding I am dead serious. Thank you! Ugh you just can't get a decent cop on the line these days can you?"

So he wanted our parents, but why us? Our dads worked at the prison but they were nothing special. They had never acted out or hurt any inmates. All I knew was that we were stuck in a house with a possible murderer who had something against our families. Sounds fun right?