A New Beginning • Emmerdale

Chapter 21: 40 Hours Remaining

THIRD PERSON POV

Kennedy awoke at 5am that morning, hearing her phone on the bedside table rapidly buzzing. As she opened her eyes she saw Joe fast asleep next to her, frowning she wondered who would be blowing her phone up this early. She looks at the screen seeing around 7 messages from Ross saying things such as 'come over please' 'Kennedy come to mine' all like that. She got out of bed, rubbing her eyes still feeling half asleep and creeped around the room getting dressed as quietly as she could in an attempt to  not wake Joe.

Leaving the home, Kennedy locked the door behind her getting into her car. Thoughts rushing through her head, maybe Ross wanted to apologise, but why at 5am?

KENNEDY'S POV

As I pull up not far from Ross's I walk the last 5 minutes and when I reach the front of his house, it looks weirdly dark inside. Before I got a chance to know I got pulled inside by a firm grip.

"Ross what the hell?" I whisper-yelled at him strongly pulling my arm out of his grasp. Out of the corner of my eyes i see the living room lamp turn on, my eyes widen as I look at the two older, slightly dodgy, looking men sat on the sofa. I look at Ross in confusion he just looks down.

"Grab her" I hear the guy say in a thick Scottish accent as the bald man walks over grabbing me, pushing me down onto one of the single sofa chairs as the other guy sits Ross in the same chair opposite me. They both place zip ties around our wrists and ankles.

"Is someone going to tell me what the hell is going on?" I say in a tough voice, when deep down I was scared.

"Well little lass. Someone killed Simon" the smaller guy placed both his hands on the arms of the chair as he leaned in close to my face.

"And you think I did it?"

"I think he did it. Or knows who did" he points to Ross, he pulls his phone out of his pocket holding it for us to see. "You have 48 hours to tell me what really happened to Simon. Or I may just have to kill one of you, or..." he drags on, holding up a pre school letter. Both mine and Ross's eyes go wide as the bald guy places a camera on the table so they'd be able to watch us. They both left the house locking the door.

"Can't we just scream" I shrug.

"Not unless you want them to kill you" Ross shrugged back "we need to keep quiet and think of what we are going to say to him"

"We are going to tell him you killed Simon" I said like that was the obvious answer.

"No. No we aren't he'll kill me" Ross states. I look at him dumbfounded.

"And if we don't tell him, he'll kill both of us, and or Moses" I say to him "we need to be smarter than him" I shrug again.

JOE'S POV

I was pacing back and forth for a good half and hour, my phone in my hand. I woke up this morning seeing Kennedy was gone. I wasn't worried, thinking she had gone to see Debbie, or had gone for a run, I only became worried when she wasn't answering her phone, and everyone saying they hadn't seen her.

KENNEDY'S POV

"Kennedy, we have 44 hours left. And we still haven't got a plan or anything" I nodded at him.

"I'm not as dumb as I look" I say randomly, he looks at me in confusion.

"Joe's going to know I'm missing, I've parked my car up the street, and put my phone in the grass outside your door" I say "he will most likely call the police and they can track my phone. Hopefully he'll do it soon before this time is up" he smiled at me

"Well I must sa- wait why did you do that?" He asked.

"Not going to lie, I thought you may kill me or something" I said quietly. He nodded looking down.

"I'm sorry about that by the way, I just didn't want anything to get to Connor."

"Mate, it was all over the news, he was going to find out?" I said. Wriggling my wrists around attempting to loosen the ties.

40 hours remaining

Connor returned with his mate, we still didn't say anything. I had the tall guys hands holding my head as he made me watch Connor beat Ross.