Once upon a time, there was a girl named Lily. She had travelled
abroad and was now returning to Nepal. Since she hadn’t been to
Nepal for a very long time, her family and her friends had planned
to surprise her with the activities that the adventurous girl, Lily,
liked to do. Her family thought that Lily and her friends -Erica and
Mandy could go camping and have fun while doing other activities
like boating, fishing, playing games, and more. When Lily reached
her house in Nepal, all her relatives and close friends surprised her
with a cake, sweets, and take-outs. She had a very good time but
was extremely jet-lagged.
Once she felt invigorated after taking
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Art & Story by: Srija Khanal
Grade-VII Mechi
a good rest, she set off on the road the next day with her friends.
When they needed to hike for a while to reach the camping spot,
they noticed that a few men were following them and the girls
were very scared. Soon enough, the men caught up with the girls
and three of the men started a conversation and were very kind
to them. When Lily, Erica, and Mandy started trusting the men, even
though they knew that they shouldn’t talk to strangers, the three
men, also kidnappers, blindfolded them and pushed them inside a
truck. After a long drive, the kidnappers took them inside a house
and locked them in a room.
The girls tried to reach out for help and tried calling their
parents but there was no service, so unfortunately, their phones
were of no help. The locked room was an escape room and if they
weren’t able to escape in an hour, they would be trapped inside
forever. This information was written on the table. Since the girls
were very intelligent, they luckily found clue after clue. Soon, they
found the final clue, which led them to a puzzle that had to be
solved to escape the room. They heard the kidnappers run up the
stairs and they then managed to get out of the room and the
house as well.
They tiptoed their way out and attempted to get service
on their phones. Erica was very fortunate to have found the service
and they called the police in a hushed voice. The three kidnappers
got arrested and the police dropped them off at their houses, but
before they got out of their car, the police gave them a piece of
very valuable advice that could save somebody else’s life, and that
lesson was to not follow a stranger or talk to a stranger because a
stranger could put one in a danger.