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Immediately Lora stepped on the bamboo, she stumbled and fell. Austin held her.

"Lora, are you okay?"

"Aww! My leg hurts!"

She cried while Austin helped her up, by now she was already bleeding from her right foot.

"Damn! You're bleeding so much"

He helped her to sit on a log while he took a careful look at the bleeding foot. Then he pulled out his handkerchief from his hip pockets and tied it around her bruised foot.

Meanwhile, Naomi and Stan hid behind a tree far away from them, watching. Stan felt too guilty about what he had just done.

"Don't you think this was a bad idea,...