I was running up the stairs, as I could hear the sirens, five women were running in front of me as I held my one year old daughter to my chest, my maid ran next to me
"First room on the right ladies, quickly, the Germans are upon us" I whisper shouted, I could hear people shouting and screaming outside as we entered my bedroom, I gave my daughter, Colleen, to my maid, Sara as I took out the key from around my neck, I walked over to the huge wardrobe and opened it, I took down the painting off the back wall of the wardrobe, I had painted it to cover the secret door, I put it at the foot of the bed, and then went to search for the key cover, I removed the cover and inserted the bronze key into the small, almost invisible key hole, I slid the door open and removed the key to let it sit around my neck, "Ok ladies, come now" I motioned them as I held the door open, all the women went in then Sarah came with Colleen "here Sarah" I took the key from around my neck and put it around hers instead
"Ma'am?" She questioned
"I'm going downstairs to check for more survivors, you go down there and keep the door closed, I'll put the painting back on so no one knows you're down there" I held her shoulders as I explained, she started to cry
"Ma'am, the Germans are down there, what if, oh god what if...."
I didn't let her finish, I knew what she meant, I hugged her tight, she had been our maid since my husband and I married five years ago, she was good, an honest woman, trustworthy I pushed her gently to go down to the shelter, I allowed the door to close gently and hung the painting up again, I closed the wardrobe door and quickly but quietly left the room, I went down the stairs, I could hear voices in the kitchen, they sounded angry I knew straight away they were German I cursed myself for not going down to the shelter with the others, I turned back to go up the stairs but walked into a beefy german soldier
"Hello" he greeted in a heavy german accent he turned me around and held me by the neck, and pushed me towards the kitchen, his gun poking me on my lower back "look what I found" he exclaimed to his friends
"Well, well, well what do we have here" one other man asked,
"I saw her upstairs, in one of the rooms" I gasped inwardly, he was upstairs?, did he see the others? I hoped not
"Was she alone?" The man in charge asked
"Yes I checked, no one else is there" I closed my eyes momentarily thanking god the others were not spotted. As I opened my eyes I saw the man in front of me signal the man behind me, the man behind me kicked the back of my legs so now I was kneeling his gun came out of his holster, I closed my eyes knowing what was coming,I heard a bang, all went dark.
I breathed in taking in gulps of air, my hand shot up to my forehead I could still feel the bullet, but nothing was there, not even a dent, arms were touching me soothing my shoulders, I came back to reality, I'm Emily, I thought my eyes shot open
"What did you see?" My dad asked
"Oh god, it was the WWII, and Germans invaded, I was shot" I said it in a hurry I stood up quickly, feeling woozy but I ignored it, I went straight to the dressing table, and found the brass key, it looked older now than it did in my vision (A.N if you go to chapter 2 where she was trying to get visions, you will see I mentioned an old key, that Emily tried to get a vision from) I ran to the wardrobe and opened it
"What are you doing?" My dad asked but I didn't stop
"I know where she is" I told him as I looked for the dent I found it quickly and inserted the key dad came to me
"Oh wow" he exclaimed amazed at what he was seeing as I opened the door to reveal dark stone steps leading down to a war shelter, I tried the light switch but it didn't work, there was no light, I made sure to put the key in my jeans pocket before I took out my phone for the torch, we proceeded down the steps cautiously, there were two tables here with trays on them, there were beer bottles and plastic cups on the floor
"Hello?" I called into the darkness
"You're not real, go away" a female voice spoke from somewhere on my left, I turned the light towards the right and saw a bunk bed, the bottom bunk had a woman sat on it
"Are you Kim?" I asked
"You know I am, and you're my imagination and I said go away" she answered, a little angry
"I'm not your imagination, I'm quiet real, and we've come to help you, Andrews at work, so we can escape before he gets home"
"Andrew?, Andrews here?, you guys really are real right? I mean I heard voices but I didn't know if they were real, please tell me you're real" she nearly choked on her tears.
We explained we were real and then we introduced ourselves I didn't tell her what I saw in my visions but I did tell her I had a vision which helped me find her, she didn't seem to believe me but didn't say anything, dad and I helped her get up, then we helped her get out of the room. The door was locked from the inside and I needed the key to open it, once out she sat on the bed head in hands
"Are you ok? My dad asked her, she lifted her head with a big smile on her face, she lifted her shoulders
"If this is a dream I never want to wake up" she explained
"Ok well you need to pack and get out, before Andrew gets home" I told her looking around for a bag
"What? Why?" She asked
"You're right, let's not pack, let's just leave, we'll call the police later" I told her with a nod
"Why am I leaving?, I want to see Andrew, can you call him please?" She told us
"But didn't Andrew kidnap you?, why do you want us to call him?"
"Andrew didn't kidnap me, Emily, no-one did, I got locked in down there because I dropped the key and couldn't get out, Andrew has no idea about that place, no-one does, well except you two" she shrugged I was thinking about this, I was wrong, Andrew was innocent. She went on to explain what had happened
"I didn't want to live in this big house by myself, so I decided to sell it, I went to the estate agents and sorted things, but on the way home I decided to show the shelter to my friends, but I thought a party down there would be great, so I went to the supermarket and bought food, alcohol, water, juice, and lots of snacks, I made sandwiches and I was taking everything downstairs, the last trays were down there I just needed to ring everyone, so I took out my phone and realised I had no reception down here, I went up the stairs and fished my pocket for the key, I realised the key wasn't there, I searched everywhere but couldn't find it, I didn't know how long I'd been down there but after maybe a few days I could here voices, i shouted and banged on the door, but I guess the place is sound proof, but how did you know I was down there?"
"Well I uh, I had a vision" she looked a little sceptical so I went on to explain about the vision, not just this one but the one about her mum as well, dad had left the room during my explanation, I guessed he left to call Andrew.
After half an hour of cleaning the shelter we went into the kitchen, we talked about each other our jobs, our hobbies our families I told her how I didn't have a job and neither did dad, how we were living off surveys, and how our savings were running low, I don't know why I was telling her but I did.
The front door slammed open and I could see Andrew power walking towards the kitchen, Kim was sat with her back facing him as she drank a cup of tea she turned to see him, she stood and before she could get a word out she was engulfed into a hug by a very teary Andrew, dad and I left them to it and we sat in the living room.
It was now 12pm and we decided to drive home, hoping to get there around 6pm.