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.

didn't want to stir up any trouble for him, so

the most vigilant among us, and she didn't trust easily. After a pause, she said, "Whatever it is, we still have to be careful. Worst

everyone nodded in agreement. It was the

our decision, we said our goodbyes to Pollard and Yannie

we heard the sounds of

pulled on the hem of my clothes tightly,

I glanced at

small and cramped that it was almost impossible for him to hide all

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

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

darkened when she

he seemed more taken aback than anything, as he spoke

the police chief looked at us and said

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