The Game

• Five •

I'm breathing hard running up the stairs with Zara in tow we reach the top and look at each other. We have five minutes to hide we haven't got time to panic I keep replaying what Harry has said.
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Harry grabs our hair and pulls us up to stand. We stand silently waiting for what's next. I can feel Zara starting to shake and I try my hardest to stay calm. I straighten my back and hold my head up. "Ladies I take it we've heard of Hide and Seek so I won't go into too much detail. You have five minutes to hide in this house. After that we are all going to come and find you. If you can stay hidden for twenty minutes you win. If we find you within twenty minutes then we win. Understood?" Harry states.

This seems easy enough but I know this isn't your regular game of hide and seek.

"What do we get if we win?" I shyly ask and I see the boys snigger.

"Good question firstly you won't win but if you actually do then you'll be left alone for the rest of the day and night."

"What happens if you win?" I gulp not really wanting to know the answer "then my princesses we will probably fuck you senseless" he grips on to our arms and pulls us close to him "and by the way if you think of escaping think again. I know who your families are, where they work , where your friends are right now and I won't stop until I've killed everyone of them. Got it?" He sneers.

My heart beats faster. How does he know all this? He must of got all the information from my bag with my phone. He would kill my family? Surely not? Do I chance it and make a break for it?

"I know what you're both thinking and I'll quickly answer. I know Hayley is probably having her first break in a minute from her busy office job in Chelmsford town centre" I close my eyes and think of my mum. "And as for Jim well I reckon he's making himself a nice cup of coffee as he looks over his building plans on site in London" he moves closer to Zara and I hear her whimper, that must be her dad.

"So do I make myself clear?"

We both nod at the same time.

"Good! This is going to be fun! On your marks, get set, GO!" He let's go of us and we run out the door.
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"Where we going to hide?" I look down the hallway. I'm thinking maybe we can change our hiding positions so we are harder to find. But we would have to find somewhere easily we can move from. Knowing we are being timed I'm panicking and can't think clearly.

"Fuck it let's just run to the door and leg it out, he's probably bluffing about our mum and dad" she shakes.

I don't think he is bluffing. He's obviously looked into everything to find out where our parents work. He has both our addresses from our driving licence we can't chance this. The lives of our loved ones are in our hands. We just need to make sure we win this game and any other game thrown at us.

"No we can't. We need to hide" I pull her hand and run up another set of stairs at the end of the hallway. We run past loads of doors and quickly open one and walk in. Zara steps into the middle of the room and turns around. "We can't hide in here this is one of their rooms. If they find us in here then we are asking for it" she turns around and pushes me out the room. She's got a point we don't want to hide in any of their rooms. We keep opening the doors and all the rooms up here are obviously the boys bedrooms.

"Fuck" Zara runs her hands through her hair and starts to cry. I try and comfort her but it's no use when my own tears start coming down my face.

"Come on. We are running out of time" we head back down the stairs quickly and start looking at the rooms on the same level as ours. We skip our room and open the next door and walk in. We gulp stand frozen we are faced with an empty room with chains hanging from the ceiling. What kind of fucked up shit is this? We back out of the room.