Jeremy decides to go up to his room. Actually, he wants to go into his sister’s room and this is his chance.

The Mall isn’t so far away. They live in Manorá, an upper-class district of Asuncion. His mother and sister can walk to the Manorá Mall since it is only a few blocks away. They wouldn’t even bother to take the car.

He goes across the hall and into his sister’s bedroom. She will kill him if she finds out that he went into her room without her permission but he wants to take a look at that diary. Maybe it has a clue about the key. He wants to find the secret door that the key opens.

Jeremy looks out the window to make sure that his Mother and sister have actually left the house. He notices a car parked down the street with two men, watching. They don’t get out. They just sit in the car, waiting. Waiting for what? He can see his mother and sister walking by the car. After a moment, one of the men gets out of the passenger side door and starts to follow them down the street.

No, it isn’t a man. It’s a woman, but she has a hood over her head and is wearing a poncho and dark glasses to hide her face.

Why is she following them?

That is a mystery that Jeremy is determined to solve. He runs downstairs into the garage and jumps on his bike. And, of course, he takes his camera.

Every now and then the woman turns around as if she knows that someone is following her, but Jeremy hides behind a bush and then a parked car, and even a dumpster.

She isn’t an old lady, Jeremy thinks, but small.

The woman takes many pictures of his sister and mother. Jeremy does not understand anything, but it is an adventure. Paraguay is turning out to be quite the place. He grins to himself.

She stops and hides behind a parked car in front of the cathedral. Two men are crossing the street toward her. When some other people walk past her, she stands up and goes quickly into the church with the others.

“Where are you going?” Jeremy mutters to himself.

The two men do not seem to notice the woman but walk into the church too. Jeremy follows them. He is a little bit frightened but there are not many people inside and they are all at the front of the church with the priest. Except for the two men who are sitting on the side of the church near the back. He doesn’t see the lady anywhere. Not wanting the adventure to end, Jeremy creeps closer to the two men and then hides inside the confessional.

From there he can see and hear the two men talking. Then he hears the name “Bertoni” quite clearly. That is my name. Why are they talking about my family?

Jeremy switches on the video function of his camera and starts to record the conversation.

“I think it’s too big a risk,” says one of the men in a husky, rough voice. “We need another plan.”

“This is a personal issue that I want to take care of myself,” says the other man quietly.

“Are you sure it’s the Bertoni family you remember?” insists the other man. “If you aren’t sure, it isn’t worth the risk.”

“Yes, I’m sure. Alicia confirmed that the mother and daughter were in San Bernardino for a party. I also have confirmation that the Bertoni boy is at the school. The only one I haven’t seen yet is him.”

“You can’t afford to let this get personal. What if they find out?”

Jeremy shivers. These men are talking about him…and his family. What was happening? Suddenly, the confessional door opens. Jeremy runs past the priest, knocking him down.

“So sorry! So sorry,” he keeps on saying.

The two men see him running out of the church.

“It’s the Bertoni boy,” one of the men yells and they start to chase after him.

Jeremy realizes that his bicycle is gone but sees another blue one in front of the church, takes it, and flies down the street. The two men run to their car parked across the street from the church and follow the bike.

“Oh God, oh God, oh God,” Jeremy chants to himself. “I know I always ask you for a real adventure… but this is too real. I prefer adventure movies…. like in the cinema… or HD on Netflix.” Jeremy can’t stop talking. He is very frightened.

He does not know where he is going, but he knows that he has to hide. He climbs onto the sidewalk, dodges people with his bike, and then sees an alleyway to his right and races down it. The car is right behind him in the narrow space but Jeremy can see in the distance that the alley opens up again into the center of town. He can see the plaza ahead and the people walking by the alley entranceway.

The only problem is that there is a large, steel container right in the middle of the alley and there is no way around it. The car is right behind him and looks like it is trying to run him down. Jeremy races up the board used by the workers to dump their wheelbarrow loads into the container and sails through the air to land on the sidewalk and then crashes with his bike into a parked car.

The car siren immediately goes off but he also hears another crash behind him. He looks and sees the two men unconscious, the windshield broken, and steam coming out of the crushed front end of the car.

He approaches the car slowly, as the siren of a police car is heard in the distance and people start to gather to find out what happened and to see if the two men are alright. Jeremy takes a photo….and then another. He is limping and there is blood on his pants.

In a few minutes, the police are there and a TV channel crew is already filming. There are many people watching. A curious cameraman turns his camera toward him, but Jeremy turns around and walks quickly away. He ignores the blue bike, hoping that no one connects him to it or the two men in the car.

He squeezes his arrowhead with all his might as he walks back home. He has to find his Dad.