“Speaker speaker!” Legolas whispered in fear, forgetting that she has not answered the phone yet. She put the handphone in speaker mode and placed it on the table. All fell silent.
“Nisa, I know that’s you. And I’m sure you have put your handphone on speaker. Listen up all of you. You’re lucky I have not decided to come back to kill you. You must be having a lot of fun with Mr. Philip. (They looked at each other, wondering how he knew). Where is your beloved friends Faeez and Shafiq?” he asked. Baihakki was about to reply when Vikram stopped him. He signaled the rest to be silent and signaled Nisa to reply. Legolas gave a hint by putting his hand on his forehead. “He’sss…ssick” Nisa stammered, nodding her head at Legolas. “Hmph…don’t try to fool me Nisa. U have put your handphone in speaker mode. Well, whatever. Being caring friends of them, you must have tried to call their handphone and home? Shafiq’s…I believe...” Ghazali sniggered.
“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH THEM!!!?” Firduas shouted, unable to bear it any longer. Nadera burst into tears. Vikram put his hand around Nadera, calming her down. Zahira and Deborah sat closer together, controlling their fears. Baihakki and Legolas sat next to Zahira and Nisa respectively. “Woah…chill man. Go grab some ice-cream to cool yourself down. I can wait” Ghazali said, laughing. At the background, they were also able to hear Senthil laughing. Deborah grabbed Firdaus and squeezed his hand to calm him down. Legolas suddenly got an idea. He grabbed the phone and pressed the record button. “What is it Firdaus? No reply? You’ve got to thank yourself. If you had died that day, they would not be suffering right now. But you escaped! And you took my Debbie with you! I knew I had to run before the police catch me. While they were too busy finding us and you guys enjoying your holidays, I sneaked into their houses and grabbed them. Too bad, their parents were too persuasive. So I grabbed them too. I was the one who asked Shafiq to sms in that manner…idiotic *******. Managed to sms without us knowing…HEY!”
There was suddenly a lot of commotion. There was the screaming of a lady, a very loud ‘thud’ sound, Senthil screaming and then one final ‘thud!’. All went silent. “You idiot! What the hell were you doing! They almost got away!” Ghazali screamed. In The background, Senthil’s apologetic voice emerged, “I’m sorry. It’s just that girl. She kept winking at me and…distracting me…” he replied…giving a small smile. “Urrgh! Right, all of you! Listen up! I don’t care what you do. Ensure the police or anyone does not know about this. And I want Deborah by the end of this week. I don’t care if it’s school time. Any of these and other funny tricks up your sleeves, and you would see two families’ photos in the newspaper with the title ‘Dead’!”
Toot…toot…The phone was hung up. “Did it get recorded?” Firdaus asked. Nisa checked her phone and said, “Ya…but you heard him. If we tell anyone…” “Come on! We can’t get scared of that! How would he find out anyway?” Firdaus said. “He managed to find out that we are in trouble with Mr. Philip” Nadera replied. “And he knew we are together now…” “Oh my gosh! He has someone to follow the police and us!” Deborah cried out. They started glancing around to see anyone behaving suspiciously. They sat there, unable to say anything else. What are they suppose to do? They dare not got to Mr. Philip. They can’t give Deborah to him either. It would also be difficult to bring Deborah there with a plan to nab them. No police. So how to catch them red-handed? Bring Deborah there and then put up a fight? “It’s 8 of us and only 2 of them…we could hide weapons in our shirts or something…” Vikram suggested. “Vik, this is not the movies. This is real. You don’t even know if it’s only 2 of them in the Desert. How can 2 of them alone kidnap 2 families? They must have some back-up…just like how they have people to spy on us and the police…” Legolas replied intelligently. “Man…what are we going to do? By this week? We can’t skip school! What do we tell our parents and teachers?”…”That’s it Zahira! Teachers! Our parents!” Deborah pointed out excitedly. “No way…they are sure not going to believe us. Even if they did, they are sure to report it to the police. And if it’s true that there’s someone spying on us, they can easily know who we go talk to. Haha…but still, you think our parents and teachers would actually come along and fight with us? Haha…I can imagine the scene…” “Nad…stop joking. This is Deborah’s life!” Firdaus said.
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