TAKEN!

• Alana Bindokas, Grade 5
• Short Story
• 2009

TAKEN!
Are you in a place were you don’t want to be? I am. My name is Lila. I am only 7 and I have been TAKEN! Were am I you ask? Somewhere horrible. It happened all so fast. I still remember the horrible day. My mother was in the kitchen making a cake. I was upstairs watching a movie when my big brother walked In. “Lila, I am going to the skate park with my friends and mum is gone to the shops to get some eggs for the cake” he said
“ok” I said with my eyes glued to the TV.
I saw him walk out the door. I ran to the window and watched him walk away.
I WAS HOME ALONE!!!

Suddenly I heard a knock at the door.
I went down stairs hoping to find mum back from the shops. It wasn’t her.
“Hello. I am a businessman. Are your parents home?” said the stranger
Without thinking I said “no and they will not be here for a while. GOODBYE!!!” I said attempting to close the door on the stranger .But he wouldn’t let me. He forced the door open.
“Well, well, well your home alone” he cackled
I started to cry.

When I woke up I didn’t know were I was. I heard a noise. I spun round to find a man.
“Dad?” I crocked
“Well you’re awake. I have been waiting”
“I DON’T WANT TO BE HERE!!!!” I cried. He grabbed me by the arm and said all these words I didn’t understand.
“OUCH!! That hurts YOU MONSTER” I scream. With that he tossed me to the hard cold ground, walked out the door and slammed it shut. My head hurt and I felt my arm throbbing. It was then when I notest the room. It was small, with a chair and an old moldy mattress. The walls were grey and there was no window in site. I ran to the wall and kicked it hard. To my astonishment
a brick fell out. I looked through the hole it made to see another room. It was round with a glass table, a ruby red couch, a T.V, a large window with green lushes grass and a river and to my horror the man that stole me! I let out a shout. WOOPS!!! The man looked at me and ran out the door, down the hall and into the room I was in. He grabbed me by the wasted. I bit and punched him but he didn’t put me down. He put me in a seat. That instant I felt sleepy. I fell into a sweet dream. I felt a sharp pain. I heard a voice
“SLEEP WELL!!!!” it cackled. It went all dark…