While Jade and Sarah were sound asleep a gunmetal coloured truck pulled up beside the house. Three muscular men with black rucksacks jumped quietly out the vehicle. One of the three eyed up the house and gleamed as if it was a gold mine. They seemed to have no trouble with entering the house. They were stunned to see piles of boxes. At which point, their gleaming faces dropped in astonishment. One of the three shouted,” Tom, what the hell are these doing here?” Tom’s face was alarmed and he took a deep gulp, while a drop of sweat broke down the side of his cheek. Anxiously Tom remarked, “Err boss Sir, I swear this house was neglected and not even up for sale.”
The boss’s face turned around sideways and his evil red eyes stared back at Tom as if he was a brainless twit. The boss exclaimed, “Well you swore wrong then didn’t you!” The boss put his head in his hands while Tom and his fellow worker Raul waited in patience anxiously for the next thing he was going to say. Finally after the agonising four second wait, the boss said,” Right then, we’ll have to work round her won’t we.” The two got back to work and made their way upstairs as gently as they could. Meanwhile the lashing rain was piercing like knives against the window in Jade’s bedroom. She suddenly opened her eyes and realised that it was still the middle of the night. She sighed and got off the bed and made her journey to the bathroom. She turned on the light and this felt as if it had blinded her eyes, for a second or two. The two robbers saw the light suddenly come on and they were troubled and stopped their stride up the stairs. Tom whispered,
“What shall we do?” Raul replied softly,
“Let’s go back down and tell the boss she’s awake” They made their way back downstairs and the creak in the floorboard slightly troubled Jade, but luckily for them she just ignored it and made her way back to bed.
As she walked back the sliding door of the panic room was half open, her eyes were drawn to the 24/7 surveillance and she swore to herself that she had seen something moving. Her heart was beating faster and faster and her blood rushed to her head. As she moved into the room she gasped out as she saw the three men in the empty living room. She remembered what the salesman had said to her about the panic room and that brought the smallest relief to her mind. She suddenly thought, Sarah. She darted across the third floor landing as fast as she could and this caught the robbers’ attention. They knew they had to stop her from phoning the police since there was five million dollars at stake. Inside the panic room was a hidden vault. This was hidden underneath the thin carpet layer. A few years back The Boss was put together along with a team of experts who were to build the panic room. The Boss was a security professional and he had previously worked at a Bank. He had a successful robbery and was already in the FBI’s suspect list. He thought to hide the money in the panic room and now he’s come back! . The two men ran up the first floor steps with still a while to go, whilst Jade was shaking Sarah. It was no use, Sarah was dazed, and so Jade held her hand over Sarah’s mouth and splashed Sarah’s bedside water on her face. Sarah tried to scream in shock but Jade’s hand was over her mouth.
Jade whispered as fast as she could, “There are three men in the house, run to the panic room.” Sarah was still traumatized from the water but half understood what Jade had said. Jade and Sarah ran like a bullet over the landing towards the panic room, and Sarah’s hand was being pulled and squeezed so hard she felt her veins pop out. They both saw the three men and they dived into the panic room and slammed on the shutter and the three men were seconds away from catching them. The boss kicked the steel door in terrible anger although he knew it had no effect. He knew that his whole deceiving plan was ruined now, since what they were after was in the panic room. He knelt down on the empty floor and slammed his head on the floor forcefully.
Jade and Sarah thought they were safe until they remembered that the separate telephone wire was not connected. This bought a depressed look upon both their faces, but at least they knew they were safe. Sarah’s diabetic watch had bleeped because of the sudden drop in her sugar level and unsurprisingly Jade was extremely anxious. Jade told Sarah to calm down and relax and this seemed impossible for her to do since they were being robbed!
Jade saw the intercom button and thought of something to say. She needed a swear word that she could say in front of Sarah. She pressed the button and shouted,” Get the hell out of my house!” This suddenly lifted the heads of the three. This seemed to have no effect on them so she then shouted,” What do you want?”
They looked to each other and thought of what to say. Then the boss shouted,” What we want is in that room.”
Tom said as politely as he could to the boss,” Sir do you think
they can hear you through a sound proof door?”
“I knew that,” he replied trying not to sound stupid. So the boss ripped off a piece of paper from one of the removal boxes and spelled out ‘what we want is in that room’ on it. He then went towards one of the surveillance cameras in the corner of the room and held it up facing them.
Jade and Sarah were confused and scanned around the room thoroughly and saw nothing in there of great value. Jade then shouted out through the intercom,“ There is nothing in here of value to you.” The boss was getting impatient and then wrote on another piece of paper, ‘ You don’t know anything about that room compared to us and I will wait forever until you come out’. This made Jade increasingly scared since the levels of Sarah’s diabetic watch were decreasing. In panic she rummaged through the box to find anything sugary in there that could help her but it had not been stocked up. It seemed as if Jade was completely helpless.
Jade felt a draught coming in from the brick wall, which was facing outside. She moved as close as she could towards it and she saw a small hole that was facing towards another house. In Jade’s situation this seemed like a miracle. Jade and Sarah with their last hope screamed as loud as they could, “HELP, HELP!” Their shouting seemed to be no louder than a raindrop and they were exhausted and gave up. Jade took one last rummage through the box and looked for any sign of hope. A torch rolled towards Sarah’s foot and Sarah had an idea. She went down towards the hole which was no bigger that the circumference of the torch. Sarah started to flash the torch using Morse code.
Jade was amazed and asked,” Where did you learn that?”
Sarah replied with glee on her face, “Well I suppose that scout club you forced me to go to had some use.” They both giggled together forgetting about what was happening. Meanwhile the torch was still going and the neighbours opposite their house were awoken. The man in the house walked over to his window and looked around while Sarah started clicking the torch vigorously. The man looked around half asleep and then closed the blinds. This seemed to have ended both their lives and Jade gave up all hope.
During this time the robbers had been trying to tire them out. They were walking around the house doing nothing and the boss was going mad. Almost two hours had passed and soon it would be daylight.
“Ring, ring,” the doorbell rang. Sarah was lifted from her mini sleep and the two rushed towards the surveillance. It was a policeman. The robber’s hearts had sped up and Tom’s face was dribbling with sweat. The boss said anxiously, “Right you two go upstairs and make no noise.” The boss took off his black leather gloves and his hands felt delicate and moist. He went towards the door trembling and opened the door. He saw the policeman and his face went completely pale. He tried as hard as he could to cover up the act and said in a firm voice, “What can I do for you officer?” The officer was first amazed to have someone come to the door so fast at four in the morning, and the officer replied,” We had a call from the house across from you about disturbing noises and flashing lights.” The boss was confused since he could not hear or see what Jade and Sarah had done, so he had to think of something fast and something believable. He replied, “Err, I was having a party since I moved in today, but it’s over now so I’m sorry for the inconvenience I caused.”
This seemed believable to the policeman since removal boxes were next to the door, so the policemen said, “Well ok, thank you for being honest, but in future keep it down.” The boss seemed relieved and went to slowly close the huge wooden door.
Suddenly the officer turned around and shoved his foot between the door and said, “Wait a minute, you don’t live here, I came along this morning and saw the new people, and the mother is single called Jade.” The policeman let himself in and cried out, “Hello, is anyone there, Jade?” Jade saw the officer in the house and she remembered him from the morning. She looked at the surveillance and could see that he had tied the boss up so she let herself out the room and ran quickly towards him. She was relieved and told everything to the officer. The three men were taken in for questioning and later arrested. The hidden five million dollars still remains hidden beneath the layers of carpet, waiting to be found!
Unfortunately Jade and Sarah could not keep the house after this traumatic experience and went to look for a smaller house which was simpler and suited all of their needs.
