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he went for a lie down. A few hours later, after lunch, he grabbed her brother and grabbed him by the face. Her mother and Abbie thought the father was attacking him so the mother stepped in and pushed him back. He stumbled forward and took a chunk out of her mum's neck. Blood spilled everywhere and Abbie and her brother ran upstairs.
    Her brother opened up the attic and told Abbie to wait for him on the roof while he pulled the ladders up. She waited and waited, and finally took a peep through her skylight into her attic and saw that her brother had disappeared. After waiting anxiously, she decided to walk across the roofs and take a look in the skylights, and that was when I had first saw her peering in, which gave me the fright of my life.
    "You're safe now," Clare spoke softly and kissed the frightened girl on her head. Clare tried to explain to Abbie what had been going on, but it didn't really matter. She had still lost her mother and father in one day.
    All of this had happened nearly an hour ago.
    "I just want to see Ben," she sniffed.
    I assumed that Ben was the older brother that had gone missing, and then Clare tried to reassure her that he should be okay. She responded, "But he doesn't know that I'm in here. If he's okay, he won't know where to find me."
    It was a good point. Then Clare looked over in my direction and I immediately began shaking my head. "I'm not going into the house."
    Clare sighed, "Just have a look and see if he's in the attic, then come back. Maybe go in and stick your head through the latch and shout on him. Maybe he's hiding somewhere."
    "Not a chance." Just thinking about it was making my frame shudder with fright.
    Then Abbie looked over with her sad, wide, pleading eyes. We sat in silence, while I was being emotionally blackmailed in my own house by the faces of two girls I had never seen before until a few hours ago.
    "Fine." Clare stood up. " I'll go."
    "No!" I snapped. "I'll go, for fuck's sake." I then placed my hand over my mouth, realising I had released a profanity in front of a minor.
    My male pride wouldn't allow me to let Clare go on her own, so I felt I had been pushed into a corner. Clare gave off a smile, a smile that looked a bit conceited. I felt that she seemed to be a woman that usually got her own way, especially with the opposite sex, which was an easy thing to do when you were an attractive female.
    "Will you need a kind of weapon?" Clare asked.
    "No," I spoke defiantly.
    "But if he's in the bedroom—"
    "I'll shout on him from the attic; he can come to me ."
    Clare threw her hands in the air and sighed, "Just do what you want."
    "What the hell do you want me to do?" I yelled, ignoring that there was a minor in the room. "Go in there, armed with nothing?"
    "I'll get some stuff. Just in case you need to go into one of the bedrooms." Clare walked over to the hatch, and with Abbie in tow, they both descended out of view into the bedroom to the first floor.
    I waited for a while until Clare returned, but with no Abbie. Clare climbed the ladders with a carrier bag full of stuff.
    "Where's the kid?" I queried.
    "She wasn't feeling well, so she's lying down. I think it's some kind of delayed shock."
    I sighed and scratched my short brown hair. "Okay. What have you got?"

Chapter Fifteen
     
    "I went in the cupboard under the stairs," Clare said.
    She plonked the carrier bag and I ruffled through the bag. I then looked back at her with confusion. "I also went into your kitchen," she added.
    "Right," I said, as I pulled out a corkscrew from the carrier bag. "And what am I supposed to do with this?"
    She shrugged her shoulders. "You could stab one of them in the eye, I suppose."
    She stood, jabbing her arm, making a stabbing motion. The next thing I pulled out of the bag was a butter knife. I looked at her blankly and she immediately blushed.
    I shook my head. "So if I come across one of these things, what do you expect me to do with this? Spread it to death?"
    "I just randomly