Fast asleep

It didn’t take long for Steve to find the basement door and he heaved a heavy sigh of relief when he found it.

He wished that he could get some water to splash on his face so that he could be more alert and awake, but he didn’t have the luxury of time to try and find some water.

The basement door was locked … no surprise there and he put his ear to it, trying to see if he could hear any noise from inside it, but there was total silence, just as there was silence inside the house.

He had known that the door would be locked, but that wasn't a problem for him because he had a paper clip attached to his bunch of keys, which he usually used to remove his SIM card from his phone.

All he had to do was to pick the lock as quietly as possible and hope that he would be able to do that before anyone woke up or noticed what he was doing.

He had experience in picking locks right from when he was young and ran away from home with his brother, and although he hadn't used that particular skill i