Around her, everything was chaos. Some girls sobbed. Some collapsed in disbelief or relief, depending on who the observer was.
Others just stood still, as if too afraid to believe any of it was real. Brainna was somewhere in between. This was especially true when the police personnel had left her be and whipped around her for the guards.
And then it hit her.
Him. The man who had been helping her…. the same one who could be considered her friend in this place: Marvin!
Brianna looked toward the dense foliage near the back of the fields, where she'd seen her friend creep away just hours ago. Her stomach twisted. For once in her life, she cared enough for someone to think of what may have happened to him.
Had they caught him?
Or worse… had he made it out only to be punished just before salvation arrived? These were two instances that Brianna, of all people, could not stomach.
