The twins find a victim.
It was number Four that opened the door to the constant demanding knocking. Slowly pulling open the door he peered up to the impatient woman. She was smartly dressed with the most wonderful tousled blonde hair. Four had never seen such a pretty lady before. She was a stranger but such a pretty woman with lightly sparkling lips and really long eye lashes. But why was she calling here?
He fully opened the door and stood confidently before this stranger with his arms crossed and an attempt at a scowl.
“Who are you?” blurted out the young seven year-old confused and puzzled as the woman stood there looking around beyond him.
“Who are you?“ Four repeated.
The woman dismissed the question “Is your father home ?”
“No. He’s out” Four abruptly replied.
Still looking beyond her young inquisitor “Is your mother in?”
Four started to feel she was ignoring him and this started to annoy him.
“Not in the house. She’s feeding the chickens.”
That was all he was prepared to tell her.
“May I speak to her?” This time she looked down on her young doorman and smiled, instantly disarming him with her charming smile and twinkling eyes.
Number Four unfolded his arms then tilted his head and looked at the woman taking in her every detail. He also noted how nice she smelt. It was a bit like mummy when she dressed up, a warm happy smell. So mellowing Four thought this lady was quite nice and maybe, just maybe …
“I’ll take you to her in a minute.” he said ,”I’ve just got to see my brothers.” Slamming the door hard in the woman’s face number Four,went in search of his two twin brothers. He scampered enthusiastically to the back of the house and found them just outside the back door and not far from their mother who was indeed feeding the chickens and failed to notice what any of the twins were up to.
“Here!” he said beckoning them over with a loud whisper “Come here quickly,” he continued to beckon them over. The other two twins checked their mother wasn’t watching them and huddled with their third twin near the back door. Whispering, Four divulged “There’s a woman here and I think we can capture her. She’s rather pretty”
The two other boys, also aged 7 wanted to ask questions but feeling bored with their chores around the house thought for only a few moments then grinned mischievously and nodded in agreement.
“Okay. I’m in”
“Me too”
Number Four thought for a moment .
“You get the rope ready and I’ll bring her to the tree house. “ he sniggered . “You know what to do … just like we rehearsed!”
All three went their way with the widest smiles on their faces. This was something they had tried twice before but had failed because once was with Nana Woods, who just wouldn’t play properly and the second time was with their sister Tina but father had said that he’d only be able to pay the ransom if he sold the twins TV. So they thought about it and decided their TV was more important so they let Tina go, but it had given them experience of tying up someone and getting them into the tree house.
Now they had a new victim and they were going to try it for real.