Reading Test

 

Kidnapped by my lover

Dawn
I came running out of the house, tears in my eyes and closely followed by Dusk, my twin brother. He didn’t care to close the door behind him. Good, someone might see the chains and bloodstains on the walls. After running for a good ten minutes, I walked into the local McDonalds, passing a boy, around 18 years old, with his hood up. Apparently he was on his phone. I ordered a skinny latte, and waited. Walking into the fresh air with a coffee in my hands, I sighed happily, it felt so good to be away from my parents and their cruel ways. I heard someone close behind me, very close. Grabbing Dusks arm, a cloth was placed over my mouth, I saw a gun pointing at Dusk before I passed out.

Jamal
Opening the car boot I see Dawn and Dusk talking through the black divider, separating them. “Up and Out” I command them; they hurriedly jump out of the boot and stand, shakily in front of me. I start walking towards the ‘house’, which is actually just a stable painted khaki. While we walk I hear Dawn and Dusk chatting to Conrad and Stephen, good now they know each other. As Dawn rounds the corner and sees our 4 horses, she runs forward and starts patting them. “Make yourself comfortable” I tell her and Dusk, although I don’t trust him one bit.

Dusk
Finally, they’re asleep. I creep out past them and into the forest towards Spike’s mansion. Using my phone’s tracking device, I find where we are and how I can get to his hidden home.


Through the widening crack of the door, I see Strike’s familiar tail and clawed feet, his pale face, his fangs, pointed teeth and his red eyes. “Mornin’” he hisses. “I have news friend,” I say “they currently hold my sister and I hostage” ”does she know of your alliance with me?” I leave after an hour of talking with Spike.

Dawn
Jamal left to the shops a while ago, to get some disguises apparently, I have been sitting with the horses ever since. Jamal is so nice, like I know he kidnapped me and all but he is actually really caring and loveable, to me anyway, not to Dusk, although who would be nice to a lunatic like him anyway?

Stephen
After dying my hair a reddish purple colour, I walk down to my favourite little spot, by the waterfall rock pools. A small amount of sun gets into this spot and heats the water. Perfect for a swim. I sit down on the rock but scream as I am pushed onto my back, I see Spike on top of me, smirking as he sinks his fangs into my neck.


We hear a scream, Stephen. “Follow me” I command. When we see his body, I hear someone sob quietly behind me. “We need to call 000.” “But!” “No Conrad, it doesn’t matter if we are caught, if they can save him, it will be worth going to prison.”

Jamal
In the police van I overhear “yeah he’s gone, looks like he was stabbed twice in the neck” silent tears run down my face, quickly rubbed away by the back of my palm.

Dawn
In the interrogation rooms, we plead innocence, however after we all left the room, one of us is taken to a cell in handcuffs, Dusk, “what did you do?” I whisper shocked. The policeman approaches me and tells me “we will do whatever we can to catch the true culprit, however, Dusk will be staying here, you are free to go”

Jamal and I have been married for 4 years and have two kids, Levana has just started preschool, Demitri is now three years old. My brother, Dusk was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for drug trafficking and conspiracy to murder, after his sentence was announced, Jamal told me that he knew my parents were assaulting me and my brother, and offered me to stay with him, and Conrad who is now the godfather of my two beautiful children. Both my parents were arrested for assault after they adopted two more children, God knows what happened to them but it must have been awful. Spike was caught, however escaped almost immediately after being put in the cells. The police force is still trying to understand his fangs and paleness of Spike, let alone his tail; I still don’t understand why Dusk was in league with such a disgusting creature.
 

 

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