“Mum? Josh? Please I can’t find you. This isn’t fun anymore.” The eight year old said as she called down the hallway of her house. It was getting dark now and she hadn’t thought about turning on any lights. She had no idea how long she had been looking for them, all she knew was it had been too long.

“Mum?” She called again, this time her shouts coming out a little more frantic. The girl jumped as a bang sounded from behind at the end of the hall. “Mum, Josh am scared.” Her eyes filled with tears. She walked towards the noise, just as she passed her mother’s bedroom she was grabbed from behind, black gloved hands covering her mouth.

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I had been waiting for what seemed like forever for the sister to get board and come out from where ever she had been hiding. Why is it that the younger the kids are they always manage to find the best hiding places. Probably something to do with them being smaller.

Up to the point of me trying to find the girl, the plan had gone perfectly. I had revived the phone call that morning letting me know that today was the day. We had been planning it for months and apart of me honestly thought he was backing out. To be honest it was me who was more likely to have been backing out in the beginning, I thought his plan was mad, but the things you do to help out a friend.

“A game of hide and seek.” That’s what he had said when coming up with a way that we could get the young girl out of the house without the mother noticing. That had been a little more awkward when this afternoon had come about so I had had to improvise on that, but one dead to get the job done was still getting the job done in my book. I thought her screams towards the end would have brought the young child out, but no wherever she had been had obviously stopped her hearing what her mother had gone through. Small mercies and all that.

Then I had sat and waited, it had taken her forever to get board and come out to see why know one had found her. I did feel sorry for her, the poor girl hadn’t realised that her family had given up, it wasn’t like they had stopped looking by choice, no I had taken that right from them. I thought that my best option for finding where she was hiding was to let her come to me. So I waited, and waited, and waited l. I honestly thought the kid was never going to get board. But eventually as patience usually does, mine payed off. She came out from a small built in cupboard that must of been under the stairs and tiptoed her way up the stairs to where I had been waiting for her. Of course she was calling out for her mother and brother, I felt for, of course I did, she was just a kid and really non of this was her fault but apparently it had to be this way. I had questioned it all at first but at the end of the day I was being payed for this and payed big if it all came out right so I really couldn’t argue too much.

When the game had started, the mother had been the one to hide out upstairs in her room, it was an obvious place for her, but I had guessed she was making it easy, that or she had just wanted some time in her room to her self. The brother had been the one to count, he left the house by the back door as soon as the other two where out of site. It probably would have made things a little difficult if one of them had decided to hide in the kitchen, but to our advantage that hadn’t been the case. As soon as he met me out the back I had gained entry to the house. They wouldn’t bat an eye lid to someone roaming around the house, after all a game like hide and seek you exspect someone to be looking for you.

Josh had come to me, he had thought up the plan on taking his sister in order to get the money for ransom from his less that useless father. I had known Josh through my younger brother and hey, if he was will to pay the kind of money he said that his father had then who was I to argue. I had never planned on killing the mother though, that could be a problem or it could work in our favour with the father and let him know how serious we would be when demanding money in exchange for his daughters life. The plan now, get the girl out of the house into the car that Josh will be waiting for me in and make the call to the father. Probably best if I don’t mention the dead mother for now, I wouldn’t want to put Josh off the next part of his plan would I?