Danny slid down the wall.
"I think we're being kidnapped." Jessica squeaked. Danny and I looked at each other.
"Well you don't say Jessica. And there was me thinking we were going for a lovely drive through the country lanes! Silly me!" I rolled my eyes. Not very quick on the uptake, is Jessica. The van suddenly swerved round a sharp corner. We were thrown to one side of the van. Just as we were picking ourselves up, the van swerved in the opposite direction and we were all thrown to the other side.
"Oh I've had ENOUGH of this!" Danny shouted, standing up by the doors with his hands on his hips. The van suddenly went from 30 mph to 0. Danny was launched backwards. The hatch opened once again. The lady's face appeared once again.
"Look, I'm gonna ask you nicely one more time. Could you keep the noise down please? Now I don't wanna have to ask you again, O.K? YOU don't want me to have to ask you again. Understood?" Jessica and I nodded obediently. She closed the hatch. We stuck our tongues out at it.

"Come see this you two!" whispered Danny. We crawled across to the doors where he was kneeling. The door had opened a tiny crack where Danny had crashed into it earlier. He had his eye pressed right up to it.
"I can see lots of green… And lots of cars… Well, I'm assuming they're cars… I think we're on a motorway…" He kept on going like this, telling us everything he saw. After about twenty minutes of this, he suddenly sat up. "We're turning off! Hang on; I might be able to read the sign… M - E! The first two letters are M - E! Where do we know that is about twenty-five minutes from school that starts with M - E?"

I thought he was joking. Then I realised that he wasn't. He really couldn't think of anywhere about twenty-five minutes from school that started with M - E. Jessica and I looked at each other and rolled our eyes.
"Meadowhall!" we chorused. "Wow, what a place to be taken to after being kidnapped!" I grinned. We were being taken to Meadowhall Shopping Centre! Wow! At least, so I thought…
"Look there's that big bridge!" said Danny. I joined him at the crack in the door. We turned left at the fork, just like we should. But then instead of carrying straight on, we slowed down.
"Hey, what's going on? Are we there already?" asked Jessica, pushing me out of the way to look.

Kidnap!

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