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voice. It came from outside the sack and sounded very familiar. “Just be quiet and stop fidgeting! The only way you are getting out is if your parents pay a ransom—one million dollars to be exact.” The kids were bewildered and didn’t know what to do. What was going to happen next? There was a loud thud as Aaron and Alexia fell onto the floor. They heard a door close behind them. They cautiously crawled out of the sack to find themselves in a wooden shack with boarded up windows and a chipped floor. It smelled musty and old, and seemed as if it were built a hundred years ago. Alexia whispered into her brother’s ear, “Aaron! What are we going to do? Where are we? What’s happening?” There were just so many questions he wished he had the answer to, but he ***

Her facial expressions clearly showed that she was panic-stricken and woebegone. A shiver ran down Aaron’s spine as fear engulfed his mind. He was convinced that everything that had happened so far was his fault. He started breathing uncontrollably fast. “Don’t worry,” he reassured, attempting to calm her down. He knew he didn’t sound as comforting as his mother would’ve, but he still tried. “I’m sure that we’ll find a way out of this. Just let me-” And then he was cut off. The next thing he knew, he and Alexia were inside a dusty brown sack, and they were being carried away somewhere by someone. The siblings struggled to escape. They punched and kicked, trying everything they could do to get out of this horrible mess. “Stop it,” ordered a hoarse and deep voice. Aaron was pretty sure it was a man’s

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