Chapter 2:
Unexpected
Sarah rounded the corner, her heart pounding. What was Bill going to say? Why meet secretly? She admitted she liked the thought. As Sarah turned the corner she saw one thing she least expected. Faith and Bill were lying on the floor gagged and bound by the hands. Three men were standing over them, Sarah looked at them stunned. One of the men, with a scruffy unshaven beard, looked up and saw Sarah. She snapped back into focus. Run! She thought. She had to get away! She turned and sped down the hall, but before she had gone more then twenty feet the scruffy man had over taken her. He tripped Sarah, she sprawled on the floor, everything went black. When Sarah awoke she was in the back of a small tractor trailer. Bill and Faith were still incautious, she limped up and found she was bound by the hands but not gagged. Her spy reflexes snapped into place from somewhere deep inside. The rope was thin and it wasn’t too tight. She had been at the top of the class in untying herself from bonds, so she found it easy to get them off. What kind of criminals were these? Pathetic Sarah thought. She limped over to Faith and Bill, her leg hurt. They were tied with much thicker rope.“They probably ran out of good rope,” She concluded. Sarah bent over her friends, then looked them over. “There aren’t any cuts or bruises, so they were probably drugged,” She thought. There wasn’t any water so she tried shaking them, it didn’t work. Remembering from her class that if ever you get abducted that you should try to remember how you got to the place where you were held. There was a small crack in the side of the trailer, Sarah peeked outside. She tried to remember the lefts and rights they took, but it was hopeless. Then she saw a sign.“Elm st.!” Sarah exclaimed, “ I have to remember that name!”They took a left then two rights, and finally slowed almost to a stop. She heard a creak and a groan as if a large something was opening. Opening a garage door or something Sarah assumed.“Oh, I had better put the rope back on, so they don’t notice I untied myself!” She thought quickly. slipping on the rope Sarah made sure that it was loose, so she could get out again.The men opened up the back of the truck, the bright light was almost blinding. “Hey the Thomas girls awake!” One of the men sneered, they grabbed Sarah and her friends. As they walked Sarah took stock of the surroundings. They were in a large ware house, there were large machines every where, the noise was almost over whelming. Then Sarah noticed what the machines were doing, as they passed. They were making money!Counterfeiters! She thought. But what would they want with her and her friends? They passed from large room to large room all looking the same, till they turned into a fished and carpeted hallway. They were thrown into a empty room at the end of the hall. “Now you won’t be in our way!” The gruff man cackled, then slamming the door and bolting it the three men walked away chuckling.Sarah slipped off the decoy rope and untied her friends, rubbing the life back into there hands. Faith was first to become conscious, then Bill.“Bill wha-how-what happened?!” Faith cried, “ how could you do that?” “Do what?” Bill asked completely innocent. “Faith don’t get upset,” Sarah said soothingly, “ I see they left you a note too.”“They?” She asked.“ The men. I was a left a note from Bill saying to meet him in the hallway at 10:30,” Sarah explained. “ I suppose you didn’t write it, Bill, it was just a fake.”“I received a note from Ashely Key to meet her there, but at 10:00,” Faith said her voice quivering. “Here’s her note,” She held it out.“I got a note from Mr. Edmund, saying to meet him there at 10:15,” Bill explained shaking his head. He gave Sarah his note too. Sarah compared hers with the others.“ It all fits together now,” Sarah exclaimed snapping her fingers. “ Each man left a note for one of us, so no one would know it was all the same person writing. Then they timed it so that we would each go fifteen minutes before the others, so that we wouldn’t meet on the way there. And they framed it to look like some one we knew so we would come. What a bunch of bullies!” “How’d you untie us?” Bill asked, “ I mean, they tied you too, didn’t they?”“Well I was able to untie myself since the rope was pretty wimpy. I am the best in ‘escaping’ class.” Sarah laughed, “ I put the rope back on loosely so they wouldn’t tie me again, or tighter.”“ Sarah why are we here?” Faith asked, “ what do they want with us?”“I think that’s a question for Bill, since he knows the Thompson girl.” Sarah replied turning to Bill.“Bill?”“ I’m not sure why we’re here. But I know the Thompson girl, Sarah Thompson, is a professional detective, She’s my mom,” Bill explained shrugging.“ I suppose they mistook me as Sarah Thompson. I am the only Sarah in the school..... Surprisingly,” Sarah concluded. “ I think they want to get her and her friends out of the way so she won’t detect what the criminals are doing.”“Well they made a HUGE mistake,” Faith laughed.“What are they doing here?” Bill asked.“ I think they’re Counterfeiters.” Sarah said, “ I saw the money and the machines on the way here.”‘Wow Sarah, you’re really something!” Bill smiled.Sarah blushed and smiled, “I’m just trying to help....”“Well now what do we do?” Faith asked.“I don’t know.......”“Well I’m not going to just sit here and wait for those guys to make and get away with that money.” Bill grunted as he stood up and dug his pocket knife from his pocket. “I’m going to pick the lock.”The girls crowded around. After Bill Sarah tried and after Sarah Faith tried, all with out success.“If Bill cant get it I suppose no one can,” Faith sighed.“I think the utensil we’re using is to big and can’t fit all the way in,” Bill mused. “Try using my bobbie pin,” Faith unpinned part of her bun, and gave the pin to Bill. She looked very pretty, her curl dangling on the front.Bill straightened the bobbie pin, and picked and picked at the lock. Surprisingly no one came in to ask them questions (as they had expected) or passed the room, so the picking wasn’t interrupted. it was long tedious work, but Bill was at the top of his class at unlocking locks, so the girls had faith in him. Finally after what seemed like hours the girls sat up from where they had laid down on the floor, when they heard a click. Bill had unlocked the door! He opened the door quietly and waved to the girls to come. Sarah led the way, since she had seen the way they were brought in. The windows looking outside were dark, and there wasn’t any one about. They had probably all gone home. Sarah thought. They rounded bins and turns, but Sarah felt lost. She was the only one really knew the way out, but she couldn’t quite remember, her head was throbbing from the punch the men given her. There weren’t any more windows and the machines had disappeared. Were they on the right track? Sarah finally sat down behind some bins and put her face in her hands.“Oh! I don’t know where we are! I’m sorry.”Just then they heard voices. Faith and Bill ducked behind the bins with Sarah. They breathed as quietly as possible. The lights turned on and they could tell it was the men who had kidnapped them.“ There is no way the could have got out!” One of them said.“But I’m tellin’ you they got out!” Another cried.“But they aren’t any where! I’ve searched the whole place, besides that lock was way to good and expensive for them to unlock!” The third exclaimed.“Well they’re here some where! You know how good that Thompson lady is, a course she could’ve gotten out, I told you to put two locks on!”“Well lets search this last room then go searchin’ for ‘em outside.”Oh no! They would be found! Sarah’s mind raced. How were they going to escape.
My best friend Willa wrote the second chapter, I hope you like it!!
