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Authors: Georgia le Carre
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‘I’m so glad you’ve come, Dahlia,’ she whispers into my hair. Her voice trembles with anguish.
‘They’ll find her, Mom. I know they will.’
‘Do you really think so?’ she asks earnestly.
‘Of course they will,’ I say firmly.
She nods eagerly.
We hang on to each other like the survivors of a war and walk to the truck. Suzie, our pit bull is in the back. She jumps out and goes crazy, launching herself at me as she whimpers and yelps with joy.
‘She knows something has happened to Daisy. She’s been acting strange for the last three days,’ my mom says.
‘Of course she hasn’t, Mom. She’s just picking up your fear,’ I say while Suzie licks the hell out of my face.
I take the keys from my mother and get into the driver’s seat. We don’t speak in the car. I can see Suzie in the side mirrors holding her gorgeous diamond shaped head against the wind. Her top lip is pushed right back and all her sharp teeth are exposed. I feel a tug of sadness at the sight. It feels very strange to be back home with my mom and Suzie and no Daisy.
Just as I pull into our driveway a text message comes through for me. I park the car and look at it. I have to look again. I lift my head and look at my mother.
‘Oh, Mom,’ I cry.
‘What is it?’ my mother asks in a panicked voice. ‘What is it?’
I can’t talk. I just start sobbing uncontrollably. All that emotion and fear I had stored ever since I heard that Daisy might be missing gushed out of me.
I hold the phone out to her. She snatches it from me and looks at the screen.
It is just two words.
Found her.
My mom looks at me, her eyes wide and shining with crazy hope. ‘Is this what I think it is?’
I nod, tears streaming down my eyes.
Suzie is whimpering and scratching pitifully at the grill because she thinks something horrible has happened to us. I get out of the car, let her out and hold her tight.
‘Daisy’s coming back, Suzie,’ I say again and again, sobbing hard into her silky fur.
It seems like an eternity passes before Daisy is back home. The reunion is odd. My mother and I cry buckets of tears and young Daisy comforts us as if we are the ones who have been through an abduction ordeal. Later we sit on the porch just staring at her. She gazes back serenely, one hand absently stroking Suzie’s head.
‘So you never saw the men who took you?’
‘Never. Like I said we were walking back from the restaurant to the little hotel when a dusty white van pulled up, two men got out, grabbed us, and bundled us into the van. There were four of them, but they wore Disney character masks. They immediately blindfolded, gagged and tied us up.’
‘Didn’t you and Marie struggle?’
‘No. One of the men had a gun which he pointed at Marie’s head. We were so shocked and they were extremely efficient and professional. All the while they never spoke a word, and when we arrived at that house they kept their interaction with us at an absolute minimum. We knew there were girls in the other rooms because we heard them crying in the night. Once we tried to talk to them, but the men banged on the wall and we shut up and so did the girls.’
‘Did they ever … hurt you?’ my mom asks cautiously.
Daisy shakes her head so vigorously her brown curls bounce about like something in a shampoo advert. ‘No, never. In fact, they treated us quite well considering. We had food to eat, bottled water to drink, and when it was really hot they switched on some kind of fan that blew air through slats at the top of the walls.’
‘So how were you rescued?’ I ask.
‘Well, one day the men started scurrying around and talking urgently in whispers. Then they came in, blindfolded us, tied our hands, and put us into a van. Then they drove us to the edge of a little aboriginal town, dropped us off at the side of the road and drove off in a rush. We could see a town not far off so we just walked to it.’
‘Were you very scared?’ I ask.
She
‘I’m so glad you’ve come, Dahlia,’ she whispers into my hair. Her voice trembles with anguish.
‘They’ll find her, Mom. I know they will.’
‘Do you really think so?’ she asks earnestly.
‘Of course they will,’ I say firmly.
She nods eagerly.
We hang on to each other like the survivors of a war and walk to the truck. Suzie, our pit bull is in the back. She jumps out and goes crazy, launching herself at me as she whimpers and yelps with joy.
‘She knows something has happened to Daisy. She’s been acting strange for the last three days,’ my mom says.
‘Of course she hasn’t, Mom. She’s just picking up your fear,’ I say while Suzie licks the hell out of my face.
I take the keys from my mother and get into the driver’s seat. We don’t speak in the car. I can see Suzie in the side mirrors holding her gorgeous diamond shaped head against the wind. Her top lip is pushed right back and all her sharp teeth are exposed. I feel a tug of sadness at the sight. It feels very strange to be back home with my mom and Suzie and no Daisy.
Just as I pull into our driveway a text message comes through for me. I park the car and look at it. I have to look again. I lift my head and look at my mother.
‘Oh, Mom,’ I cry.
‘What is it?’ my mother asks in a panicked voice. ‘What is it?’
I can’t talk. I just start sobbing uncontrollably. All that emotion and fear I had stored ever since I heard that Daisy might be missing gushed out of me.
I hold the phone out to her. She snatches it from me and looks at the screen.
It is just two words.
Found her.
My mom looks at me, her eyes wide and shining with crazy hope. ‘Is this what I think it is?’
I nod, tears streaming down my eyes.
Suzie is whimpering and scratching pitifully at the grill because she thinks something horrible has happened to us. I get out of the car, let her out and hold her tight.
‘Daisy’s coming back, Suzie,’ I say again and again, sobbing hard into her silky fur.
It seems like an eternity passes before Daisy is back home. The reunion is odd. My mother and I cry buckets of tears and young Daisy comforts us as if we are the ones who have been through an abduction ordeal. Later we sit on the porch just staring at her. She gazes back serenely, one hand absently stroking Suzie’s head.
‘So you never saw the men who took you?’
‘Never. Like I said we were walking back from the restaurant to the little hotel when a dusty white van pulled up, two men got out, grabbed us, and bundled us into the van. There were four of them, but they wore Disney character masks. They immediately blindfolded, gagged and tied us up.’
‘Didn’t you and Marie struggle?’
‘No. One of the men had a gun which he pointed at Marie’s head. We were so shocked and they were extremely efficient and professional. All the while they never spoke a word, and when we arrived at that house they kept their interaction with us at an absolute minimum. We knew there were girls in the other rooms because we heard them crying in the night. Once we tried to talk to them, but the men banged on the wall and we shut up and so did the girls.’
‘Did they ever … hurt you?’ my mom asks cautiously.
Daisy shakes her head so vigorously her brown curls bounce about like something in a shampoo advert. ‘No, never. In fact, they treated us quite well considering. We had food to eat, bottled water to drink, and when it was really hot they switched on some kind of fan that blew air through slats at the top of the walls.’
‘So how were you rescued?’ I ask.
‘Well, one day the men started scurrying around and talking urgently in whispers. Then they came in, blindfolded us, tied our hands, and put us into a van. Then they drove us to the edge of a little aboriginal town, dropped us off at the side of the road and drove off in a rush. We could see a town not far off so we just walked to it.’
‘Were you very scared?’ I ask.
She
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