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I felt her hand rubbing my back. It helped me remain relatively collected.
“That day I saved you in Afghanistan…”
She moved her hand away.
“Yeah?”
“It wasn’t just me who saved you.”
I frowned as the truth got ready to surface.
“What do you mean?”
“There was this old Afghan guy who helped me.”
“Go on.”
“He hid me and you while the Taliban searched for us. If it wasn’t for him, neither of us would have walked out that day. I didn’t tell you because I really wanted to impress you… to fuck you.”
I stared into her eyes, searching for forgiveness.
“Yeah, I could tell you had one thing on your mind, but I’m an adult. I made a decision, the right one. I think I know the old man you’re talking about. Before they dragged me away, he offered to help, but I didn’t trust him.”
“I should have gotten his name.”
“You and me both,” she said then sighed. “Let’s get back to work. Who knows how much time we have”
Over the next two hours, she questioned me about the smuggling operation, including a
ll the people I knew were involved. She got into the zone afterwards, typing away on her laptop.
I went into her bedroom to lie down and rest my eyes. Minutes later, I was fast asleep.
THIRTY-SEVEN
Jade
With the story posted online at DC News Heroes, the only website that was willing to work with me, I crawled into bed, exhausted. I fell asleep the moment I closed my eyes.
Suddenly my phone rang, waking me up. Confused, I reached for my phone and answered.
“Hello,” a heavily accented male voice said.
“Hello? Who is this?”
I sat up, rubbing my eyes with the back of my left hand while I held my phone in the other.
“This is Abdul-lateef,” he said cheerily.
“Who? How did you get this number?”
“Please go slower. One question at a time.”
“Who are you?”
I stood up and walked over to my laptop on the small desk in my bedroom. Cooper continued snoring from the bed, oblivious to the world.
“You refused my water and did not trust me in Samangan.”
