In the night, Tom was sitting against the wall in a mood, crying on the floor whilst Jack was walking back and forth trying to come up with a plan.

Jack circled around the room where there was a window that was open. So he put his head out of the window and checked to see if anyone could help them get out the attic but it was too far for anyone to hear them. Jack looked for a loose floorboard but he couldn’t find one either. 

With every minute passing by, Tom was on the floor crying and Jack said, “Why aren’t you helping me instead of sitting on the floor? You could be helping right now but no, you’re just on the floor crying.”

Even though he heard Tom, he just kept sitting on the floor with a gloomy face. In the end it was only Jack and the trap door in the attic because Tom was on the floor.

Angrilly, Jack took out his anger and shouted at Tom, “I can’t do this by myself so maybe you can actually help me.”

“It isn’t any good. We’re trapped here forever. We’re never ever going to get out of the attic. Are you dumb?” 

“But you haven’t tried yet so maybe you could help!” shouted Jack, standing with disappointed eyes and hands by his waist.

Just as Jack and Tom were about to close their eyes, they heard a loud thump on the ground. They slowly got up and looked out of the window. Looking back at them they saw Trage’s long snake body. Excitedly, Trage hissed, “Come on, I’m coming to help and you need to give me some wind ups!”

As soon as Trage was full of energy and laughter, he opened his tiny mouth and dropped an old, rusty key into Jack’s hand and Trage whispered, “It’s time to get out of here.” 

Jack opened the trap door with the key. Jack put his head through the trap door and looked left and right and then said to Tom, “The cost is clear, let’s get out of here!”

Jack and Tom carefully got down and slowly walked down the stairs. They looked around and sawn the uncle eating and drinking in the living room. The living room was on the right so they went to the left where the back door was, so they sneakily and quietly crawled to the back door and then they opened the back door slowly and carefully crawled out and went to the side of the house. They kept on clawing until they were sure the uncle could not see them. They ran as quickly as they could and Trage slithered across the ground beside them.