“Lu!” I screamed.
“Lu!” Li screamed and looked at me. But there wasn’t a sound.
Pepper looked up at me as if to tell me that he had to do what he had to do and he bolted in the next instant. In the small park, we don’t have him on leash and he knew it. He was gone.
Chicken that I am, I felt safer with the four of us together even if I was the only adult and my companions were...
“Pepper!” we cried one by one. “Pepper! Treat! Treat!” But there was nothing, no one and eerily not a sound around.
I hurried to the end of the nothing, the end of my tunnel and screamed as loud as I could, “Li Lu!” as if...