ESCAPING AND SEPARATING

Summary:

Jude, Gideon and Laura found the way to escape the building after they heard a phone conversation. It's about that 3 kids would be sold to a human trafficking organization. They escaped sneakily at night, but they were still stalked by James. They hid in the bushes and waited until James left. They discuss with each other to separate, each would find different directions. Gideon wanted to accompany Laura with him, but it's very dangerous. So he gave her his necklace and gave Jude his lucky marble. They promised to meet each other in some day.

Jude's POV:

We woke up in the next morning. We did the morning hygiene and the same woman gave them breakfast: 3 loafs of bread and a bottle of milk. We ate happily and chatted about our hobbies.

I found out that Gideon likes sports, while Laura loves drawing. She even carried papers and pencils in her bag. Gideon was 10 years old, while Laura was the same age as mine. She took a pencil and a paper and started drawing me. I have to say that she is too talented, more gifted than other kids at her same age. My portrait is so realistic and sophisticating that I can't find any flaws !

She said: "Jude, it's my first present to you. Take this and keep it carefully". I looked at the picture on my hands with awe. I thanked her. After a while, a man came to our room and told " Let's go out the room for cleaner tidy the room and make the bed. Go to the living room, the boss wants to meet you, kids". Gideon and Laura screamed in happiness;while I hugged them, because finally, we could get out of the room. We headed to the living room and saw a man wearing black suit was sitting on the armchair and drinking coffee. He signaled us to sit down on 3 small chairs. He started:" Hey! I know you guys were scared at first when I took you here. But now, I want you to say sorry to you." He said and his eyes were wet with tears willing to drop. We sat silently and continued listening. " I'm too alone in this building. My wife left me with our children and I never met them again. So I only wanted to adopt someone. I couldn't because I am a mafia boss!"

"So when I saw you, I only wanted to keep you near me. I couldn't do anything, so I have to do this. I'm so sorry for that." I came near to him and said "You are very kind and good man. I think that you will find someone as your child. Laura did, too; but Gideon didn't. I saw something suspicious in his eyes. He stood up and went to the toilet. I didn't know why he behaved like this.

After an hour, we came back our room. I couldn't help but ask Gideon " Why are you indifferent to this man? He is suffering a lot". " I saw something strange in his eyes when I glared at his eyes. Something shrewd, I couldn't describe. I feel something bad when he said these things. It's not true, Jude". Laura only sat on the bed and she shrugged. I went to the bed and chatted with Laura instead. Gideon is a bit crazy. We chit-chatted when we heard someone yelling. We came to the door and overheard. The same voice I heard an hour ago. We opened the door slightly and saw him talking in the phone. It's like this:

Mr. Black suit: I said that I had 3 lovely and innocent kids. I'm sure that we can earn lots of money from this deal.

Other speaker: Ok, but you have to be careful. If Mr. "BLACK TIGER" found out your any mistakes, prepare to be beheaded.

Mr. Black suit: Don't worry. We will be rich after this deal. Only sell them for human traffickers and collect money. I ensure that our big boss will never be disappointed with me.

Other speaker: Ok, so meet at 10pm in the same location in next 2 days. See ya later.

The black suit man hung up the phone and turned around. It's lucky because we closed the door quickly, or we would be dangerous. We started arguing about these things we heard. Gideon said "No. We need to escape this night. Or they never meet our relatives". I felt so scared but still tried to listen eagerly Gideon asked Laura to take pencil and paper and they went out. I couldn't imagine that they are too smart and clever. Thanks to Gideon's good memory and Laura's drawing, we could see the exits on the map Laura sketched. First is the door in bathroom, next is the garage and the last is main entrance. We planned that we would tried to get out by the 3rd idea, but the security was very tight. So we only have 2 choices. We divided into 2 groups. I would escape by the bathroom door because it's near the garage and nobody cared about it. Gideon and Laura chose the garage direction. We planned to escape at 11pm. Gideon hid his backpack on the closet, so nobody could find it. He took out and gave me a rope. He also had a small knife and a small torch.

It was exactly 11pm. Gideon gave me a rope and I tied it on the window bar carefully. I held the rope and climbed, then I asked Laura to cut the rope for me. I sneakily went to the garage and after a short time, I saw Gideon and Laura outside the garage. How fast they were! We tried to run as fast as possible, but Laura accidentally kicked on a tin can; and it sounded a bit loudly. We had to run faster because we heard someone called us " Hey kids, stop right now. Fuck!". We ignored this voice and went on running, but we heard the footsteps approaching us. Gideon pulled me and Laura in a bush and hid them. After a while, we started mumbling and whispering. " Hey, it's very dangerous now, so we need to separate. Each of us will find different directions", Gideon said. Laura's eyes were moist and she wanted to cry, but she knew that she couldn't. Gideon held her small hands and cooed: "My sweetheart, my lovely little sister. We have to separate now. I don't want, but it's the last choice. As you know, we are stalked by mafia. I promise that I will find you soon". He said and gave her his bracelet: "It's my bracelet. Let's take this plz. If we have chance to meet again, I can recognize you. Don't forget me, darling". Gideon cried softly and hugged his sister tightly. After that, he turned to my direction and said, " Hey Jude. I know that we only knew recently, but I feel that we are very close. Plz take this lucky marble in case we can meet some day." Then, he pecked my cheek. I can't imagine he was too mature although he was 10 years old. We led each other to the main road and found the other directions.