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.

stir up any trouble for

careful. Worst case scenario, we can still keep going. We could still meet people from town who can help. We could go to the border embassy

agreement. It was

decision, we said our goodbyes to Pollard

we could leave, however, we heard the sounds of

should we do?" Rainie pulled on the hem of my clothes

a look first!" I said, as I glanced at Naomi,

cramped that it was almost impossible for him to hide all

Pollard had taken us in, they would definitely hurt both Pollard and

out and saw several dark-skinned men standing in the yard, all wearing black police uniforms with

Naomi's expression darkened when she saw the

soon as the policeman saw us, however, he seemed more taken aback

they finished, the police chief looked at us and said something. We could not answer; we just

his language. He