Changing Plan

"That's how I ended up calling Owen...I don't have anyone I can trust...not anymore" Lydia hung her head bitterly. Owen looked at Lydia sympathetically as he squeezed her shoulder gently.

"How are you sure that person isn't Marissa?" Lory asked.

"Oh, that..." she quickly wiped away the tears that were about to fall and calmed herself down. "When we were little, we had a safe code to signal each other that things were safe" A melancholic smile bloomed on her face as she recalled the past "We always used the silly code 'Apple and corn' as secret words to say that place was safe or we can trust that person, or we are okay..." a gloom overcome her, soon tears involuntarily roll on her cheeks though she quickly wiped it.