The Girl Hunter
a short fiction by Khmerbird

Part One

She wouldn’t get wound if she followed me…

We were three: Collie, Sophie and I. It was in the evening, we were walking along the river side before the shooting started. Sophie walked in front of us. She kept a distance because she didn’t want to disturb us I guess.

We heard the gun shooting…

It was just about 50 meters from us. I saw down the street there were few men running. There were two civilians carrying the AK-47 and they were surrendered by Police Militaries (PM). I read few articles from the newspapers said that the AK-47 bandits were taking a lot of actions right now. It came to my mind without any doubt that there were the AK-47 bandits.

Sophie already crossed the road. Collie and I, we just arrived behind a big tree. I laid her down. I thought we could be safe behind the big tree. The gun shooting still continued… I started to think about moving down to the river bank because soon or later they will arrive at our point. They were running toward us… I am not The Jason Bourne, even I have watched the entire Bourne trilogy, I am not that smart but by instinct I thought if we move to hide down the river bank, it would be safer. I shouted to Collie “Go!!!”

Collie didn’t come with me. She crossed the road. She went with her friend. When I moved down the river bank, I saw few civilians carrying the small guns I guess they would be the secret agents. They saw me and they made the sign at me to tell me that would be OK. They were coming closer to me… I just laid down. But when I started to look up … shit!!! A Police Military were pointing a gun at me. He was about to shoot… He was in the position to shoot. I started to close my eyes. I thought I was going to die. Then I heard a man shouted “No…No…No”. It was a voice from one of the secret agent. His face looks familiar to me but I couldn’t recognize, at that moment, who he was.

When we move back to the street, I couldn’t find Collie and Sophie. They just disappeared to nowhere. The AK-47 bandits were killed. They were shot by the Police Militaries. It was the good news to everybody.

Few days later, I read on the blog, Collie was shot on that day. She was in the hospital.

To be continued…