Two young boys sprang out from the bushes, trembling as they hugged each other, the bigger one keeping the little kid in a defensive embrace.
The older child, he’d say, would be around fourteen at most, while the other was much younger.
Both had this fierce look in their eyes, even though he could see that they were both scared of him.
“Oh, where’d you guys come from?” he frowns, seeing them all alone.
There were no other footsteps anywhere close by, which only meant that they might have been hiding there for some time since Leslee did not seem to have noticed them a while ago.
“We don’t want any trouble, sir,” the older kid says.
“What are you doing there and where are your parents?” he asks.
When he looked at their mess up hair and the new tears on their clothes, he could say tha
