“John? John Simmons?” the voice returned.
“Yep that’s me. Can you tell Mick that I’m here?”
“Come on in son” we heard the gate open further. Followed by another coughing fit.
John got up and walked through the gate with a wide grin on his face. “Mick, you old coot, you nearly shot me!”
“Eh, wouldn’t have killed ya. Can’t be too careful these days.” He grinned, still wheezing.
“Can we come in? all of us?” John gesture to the three cars behind me.
“Yeah bring your folks in, there’s only me here” Mick was racked by another coughing fit that nearly brought him to his knees.
“Mick” John was worried. He held up his old friend as Will called in the rest of our people. The car and two trucks parked just inside the gate.
Mick was sat in one of four golf carts by the first house that we could see. John handed him his water bottle.
One by one our people got out of their cars or trucks. We stood still and looked around, amazed. There seemed to be a whole town inside these walls. It was a beautiful and serene place. So quiet.
“Where’s everyone else?” John asked Mick, looking around.
“Nobody here but me. Shit hit the fan on the weekend when I was on duty” he stopped to take a deep breath.
I could hear the wheeze from where I stood. I looked pointedly at ben and he hurried towards Mick with his medical bag in hand.
Whilst he saw to Mick, John came to explain to us.
“This is a movie set, Mick there was head of security. Once this place is locked down tight its locked down. So maybe we will be safe here for a while.”
“sounds amazing”
I was excited, I couldn’t wait to have a look around. I remember there being a huge fuss about this movie to be filmed in the Welsh mountains. A huge Hollywood star was coming over and only the best security would do.
Will pulled the gate closed. I could see him huffing and puffing as he pulled the heavy gate across. Just went to show how strong Mick was.
Ben came over to talk with John to advise him on Micks health.
“Hey this is fantastic” Nia came up behind us and twirled in a circle, looking at the stunning old houses that lined the street.
“Only a few of the houses, the town hall and the Police station are real buildings. Most of the stuff inside are just props. I’ve been staying in the first house there.” Mick paused and looked towards us, taking a few deep breaths. It still sounded ragged though, and caused him to cough uncontrollably.
I looked to Ben who was still talking with John. It wasn’t looking good. There was a lot of head shaking and frowning.
“Feel…Free… to. Look…around… anything you need” he was getting worse.
“I’m going to take Mick indoors with Ben. You guys go look around. We can stay as long as we want.” John and Lewis placed their arms around Mick and took him into the house he had made his own. The rest of us broke off into small groups to look around our fake town.
I was with Nia and Will, Mr and Mrs Snow followed behind slowly. We walked from one end to the other. It was a huge place that mimicked a real town. It had a real park which now had our handful of children in. The Snow’s decided to sit on the bench and watch the children play. Revelling in their laughter. For the first time in months the children were allowed to act like children.
There was also a mini golf course. I hoped that one day soon I could get in a few rounds.
My golden find for the day was far across the set, close to the left-hand wall. Three huge trailers. The ones that the stars can rest in when they are not filming. I was so excited look inside that I grabbed Nia by the hand and practically dragged her along. Will jogged to keep up with us.
I tried the door of the first trailer but it was locked, I made a mental note to ask Mick if he had keys to it later.
The second trailer door swung right open nearly knocking me off the metal steps I used to reach it. I stuck my head in quickly then back out, I couldn’t hear anything or smell any decay. The door to the bedrooms and bathroom was closed. I stepped inside, knife ready and moved about slowly but loudly. Still nothing returned, all was quiet.
“Seems safe so far” I called out to Nia and Will who had waited outside.
“always wanted one of these” Nia entered first followed by Will.
“Then m’lady this shall be yours” I smiled and gave a small bow.
Will knocked at the bedroom door and listened. “You ready” he looked at me.
“Yep” I nodded.
He opened the door that led to the bedrooms and bathroom. All of which had their doors wide open. He went first checking out each room as I followed.
“Wow” it was amazing.
There was a double bedroom, a bunk bed room and one family sized bathroom.
“Oh my god. It’s hers!!” Nia was in the double bedroom looking inside the sliding glass doored wardrobe. She was referring to the huge Hollywood starlet that was lead in the film. Beautiful and expensive clothes and shoes filled the whole of the wardrobe space.
“Knock Knock, any one home” Adam called out sticking his head through the door.
“Come in man” I called. He had Amelia with him holding her hand.
“Me, you have to come and see this” Nia Squealed still inside the bedroom.
Amelia went into the bedroom following the sound of Nia’s silvery voice. And then ensued
