This story had some nice tension build-up around the central conflict. Well done! :-) Your piece would, however, have benefited from an edit using Grammarly or Google Docs as there were several instances of missing punctuation, random capitalisation mid-sentence, and some strange word choices/spelling issues such as "likely" instead of "lightly" and "we" instead of "with". These are the kind of things that disrupt the flow for readers. Your curation would have been higher if you had taken the time to proofread your work and to edit out the errors and improve the quality of your publication.