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Silent - Trapped In The Dark
Now, Gavin
Nearly two years after the fire that killed my friends, I return to the north of England: Manchester this time. To see Lucy. But it all goes wrong. Lucy doesn't turn up for lunch in the park as we arrange and a load of weird stuff starts again.
So here I am now, locked in a damp-smelling room in the dark by a bloke I've never met before, a bloke in a baseball cap.
He enters the room with a torch and stands by my feet. 'Goodbye, Gavin.' He fiddles with a padlock.
'Hey, let me out. You've got to let me go.'
'You're staying.'
I start to beg, but the man interrupts with, 'You were warned.'
'I won't say anything to the police.'
'You won't get a chance to. Goodbye, Gavin.'
He leaves, and I hear him pulling Lucy along a corridor, ordering her to hurry up, his voice low, angry. This can't be happening.
I shout after him.
Silence.
He's gone and he's taken Lucy with.
In the distance, Philippa giggles mischievously. I feel her hand cradling my head, even though she died in the fire.
'Poor Gavin,' she whispers.
Nearly two years after the fire that killed my friends, I return to the north of England: Manchester this time. To see Lucy. But it all goes wrong. Lucy doesn't turn up for lunch in the park as we arrange and a load of weird stuff starts again.
So here I am now, locked in a damp-smelling room in the dark by a bloke I've never met before, a bloke in a baseball cap.
He enters the room with a torch and stands by my feet. 'Goodbye, Gavin.' He fiddles with a padlock.
'Hey, let me out. You've got to let me go.'
'You're staying.'
I start to beg, but the man interrupts with, 'You were warned.'
'I won't say anything to the police.'
'You won't get a chance to. Goodbye, Gavin.'
He leaves, and I hear him pulling Lucy along a corridor, ordering her to hurry up, his voice low, angry. This can't be happening.
I shout after him.
Silence.
He's gone and he's taken Lucy with.
In the distance, Philippa giggles mischievously. I feel her hand cradling my head, even though she died in the fire.
'Poor Gavin,' she whispers.
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