5 hours

It was around 5 pm and I was sitting on the bench of the southside beach of kinship clicking pictures of Tara and the things happening around , while John and Allen were pretending to watch a movie in the car  and on the other hand, Tara was playing with the beach waves as if she was the only one on that beach, waiting for the her turn  to get kidnapped. How funny! The time left for us was just 2 more hours and we were still on the first step of the plan. All of us set out to enjoy the day but now are helping a freelancer who's on his deathbed, to create evidence for a case. What an irony !!

It all  started about 10 o' clock at night when all of us decided to visit our most favourite beach house in north Kinship of Emerald.We visit there almost every month with Daisy, the shih tzu of tara and Mikey, the golden retriever of John and play beach games, swin and party. This is the only day of the month when our parents let us free and as usual Tara was the last person to show up along with her daisy in a pink scarf. Everytime we enroute to  the beach house with lots of food and games to play, all of us had a very gratifying smile as we finally got the freedom to behave like adults and no parent would appear to tell 'relax guys!!!  You   are just 15 year old and not adults!!

It was around 10 am we reached the beach house, and quickly unpacked  our goods and ran to the beach. We played volleyball while Daisy was enjoying the waves  sitting on  sweet sand  and Mike became the ball keeper for us. He always waited for us to change the direction of the ball so that he could grab the chance to fleet and get it back.  "Heyy!! Watch out Ted!!" exclaimed Tara, and I hit the ball into the bushes as Mikey awaited me to do so. "Go get the ball mikey!!" I said to energise him. He fled to the bush and started to bark on top of his volume. 

Mike was always  a friendly dog and never got aggressive until he found something suspicious. But all of us headed to him and was astonished to see a  man  lying almost dead  beside the ball. We were all star struck.  

We didn't know what to do. Just then Mike went near his ear and barked and to our surprise the man opened his eyes and tried to take a deep breath. All of us moved closer to him to  help him out of the bushes. Meanwhile, John rused  to get the car and all of us together got the man inside the car to take him to the hospital nearby. There were bruises all over his body and he was bleeding hard.

On the way to the hospital, he struggled to speak. "  Thanks for trying to help me, kids. But I don't think I can live anymore . So I want you guys to save Emerald city. I am a freelancer and I love interviewing people. But in one of my recent interviews in the south kinship,I met a few families whose daughters, aged 15 and above were kidnapped in the southside beach. Investigating further, I found that these kidnapped girls are drugged and trafficking is taking place. I found out yesterday night that within 24 hour, the kidnapped girls would be transported to another city,  tried to tell the police but no one cared for his words. So I decided to create evidence and produce it to the police and media so that  action could be taken. But before I did it thoses serpents got to know and they tried to kill me. I somehow managed to escape and fell unconscious near those bushes. Now I want you guys to create evidence and save the poor girls, since  we have got only 5 hours to save them. Please promise me that", he said in an utterly low and stammering voice. All of us promised him the same as this was a matter that needed an action against . But on our way to the hospital, a gang of few people started chasing us. We were all terrified  but with my driving and some skills of playing Police Car Chase helped us to escape and we finally admitted him in the hospital where Tara's dad was working. 

All of us had just one aim, to take down the serpents. But we were all minors with only 5 hours of time left for us to do something and without evidence we were unsure if anyone would even believe us. So we decided we needed very strong evidence which couldn't be ignored and  would send that evidence  to all the news channels at once. We quickly went back to the beach house to concoct a plan. We all had different plans but agreed on one. Tara being the most adventurous amongst all of us dressed up herself  into a fashionable dress with a spy camera in her shirt. The video recorded by that camera would be seen on all of  our mobiles.  We all left to the  southside beach which was 35 minutes away from our beach house. We got out of the car and scattered ourselves quickly without anyone noticing. Being the afternoon, the beach was almost empty. Tara went inside the beach and started playing and dancing in the waves. Allen and John sat in the distance watching the visuals in  the spy camera and I was sitting on another distant bench clicking pictures of the scenery along with the things happening around. 

After  almost 1 hour of our patience, four  people popped out of nowhere and tried to talk to tara as if they needed something.All of them looked wild with  long beard and hair holding cigars or wine bottles.  Tara knew that she was going to be kidnaped, but kept her cool. Just then, one of them moved behind tara and injected something into her hand.Moments later, she fell unconscious and they carried her to a big van. All three of us understood that it was our time to act. We quickly got into our task as planned.I followed the van in which they took tara, while Allen and John went to the nearest police station to inform them about the crime going on and the time now left was 2 hours.

The kidnappers took Tara to an isolated place in the southside, which looked like a desert. They went inside an old middle class looking house and  I was sure that it belonged only to the serpents and if any  be interrogated. So I halted  my car in the distance secretly spying on the things that were going on. There were many serpents moving in and out of the house .The camera in Tara's shirt showed the conditions inside the house and there were about 100 girls lying in a room  unconscious, highly drugged for sure. They all had bruises on their bodies and the floor was  bloody too.

 In the meanwhile John and Allen went  to the police station to produce the evidence of the crime claiming an immediate action since the visuals were unbearable burying the future of many girls and I sent the visuals to almost all the media channels I knew through mail since we had only 30 minutes left for the girls to get transported. Thankfully the police immediately got alert and arrived at the place as I directed. The police furtively surrounded themselves around  the house and attacked at once with a huge shootout and commotion. It took one hour for the police to take down the serpents and rescue 120 young girls from facing a bad fate.  

Few girls were  admitted in the hospital as they were all overdosed on drugs and Tara also got conscious after a few minutes.  We were all so happy  and proud to see tara, all of us pounced on her to hug. And on a happy note, even the freelancer whom we rescued, Mr. Hopper recovered too  and thanked all of us for helping him. The police department, media and all the people in Emerald,praised us for showing  bravery and consciousness of mind. 

All of us became heros over night, but more than being heros, we all were happy that we were the reason, all those girls of our age were able to get back to their normal lives. That night all of our families were so happy and  arranged a big feast for all of us. We  had a night party as our beach house fun was ruined, for a good reason though.  Those were the most memorable 5  hours of our lives that we can never forget.