My Pretty Sweetheart (Arianna)

We talked from night until dawn. When early morning came, Pollard went to look for a phone from the villagers.

At about noon, he returned, forlorn and empty handed. He told us, "It seems some police officers are coming up here. You can see for yourselves."

Everyone was enthusiastic at the news, but Naomi immediately became wary. "Why the sudden visit?"

Momentarily stunned, Pollard replied, "Rumor has it that they came to look for some people, but I don't know the details. Why don't you have a look?"

They were looking for people?

We all shared a look, suddenly suspicious of this turn of events. Would they come this far to look for us?

Taking into account the many mountains we'd climbed and the many paths we'd walked the past few days, we were so far off from where we started. Weren't they wary of ringing any alarm bells if they made it too obvious that they were really trying to find us?

"What's wrong?" Pollard asked, confused, sensing how anxious we were.

any trouble for him, so

said, "Whatever it is, we still have to be careful. Worst case

agreement. It

our goodbyes to Pollard and Yannie and

we heard

do?" Rainie pulled on the hem of

said, as I glanced at Naomi, and walked out of

cramped that it was almost impossible for him to hide all of

us found out that Pollard had taken us in, they would definitely hurt both

the yard, all wearing black police uniforms with badges

Naomi's expression darkened when she saw

taken aback than anything, as he spoke with Pollard. We, however, couldn't understand

looked at us and said

that we realized that we didn't speak his language. He turned to look at another