Chapter 1: Time was all they needed

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It was time to move, they all run very silently and lightly, they had already gone over the rules:
1, never have lights on or have phones on when down at the lake
2, no talking until down there
3, NO JUMPING IN THE LAKE
4, absolutely no telling others what was done or seen at the lake.

Just as we were approaching the forest entrance to the lake, Lizzy runs forward tosses of her robe and Loud whispers
" omg, hurry up last one in is a peice of
shit " .
The others start to speed up, then we hear a splash, followed by a defning scream.
I break out in to a sprint, when I reach the lake Lizzy is frozen in fear she eyes wide open her skin white as a piece of paper, without hesitation I pull her out and wrap my body around her cold as ice body.
Then I see it. A dead body. Supposedly a camp student.
They all see it.
" we have to call the camp manager" wispers James
As soon as i hear James even mention the manager I just know that the worst thing we could do" no we have to call the cops" I still wide eyed at the body.
" absolutely not they will find a way to blame this all on us, we have to get on if the councillors but a chill one" shakingly says Lizzy.
I look around, i relize that i dont even know a majority of the people who came down here, i see that James is looking at the others aswell and instantly i know that were think the same thing.
We cant trust anyone.
"Ben, we need Ben he can help us hes probably the most chill councillor we can get" James saying this scares the hell out if me, were going to have to tell someone, we cant leave the dead body there so if i can get Lizzy to agree with me then we will tell Ben, we have to.
.................
Lizzy has her phone, so breaking rule number one - which could potentially get us caught coming down here- she texts Ben, god knows why she has his number but we need it so im gonna save questions for tomorrow, she opens the message box for ben and starts rapidly texting ' hey im sorry i know you dont want to talk to me right now and i know that students arnt ment to be at the lake but i need you to come to the north side if the lake its an emergency, please.'

We sit. In silence. Waiting for a reply.

'Fine.'

Thats all he said, 5 minutes go by and we start to hear something walking through the woods we all hold our breath think it might not be Ben, then we see a head stick out from behind a tree.
James screams like a girl.
Lizzy goes to cover his mouth to not get us caught anymore than we already are while I cant breath from laughing so hard my heart is trying not to explode.

As Ben walks towards us from around the tree we try to stand up straight and have serious faces but when your boy-best friend just screamed like a opera singer thats really hard to do.
"and just what do you all think you are doing down here at this time if night and without a councillor?"  Ben angrily whispers.
And its at this point when I realise i made myself one of the most hated people at camp.

I pointed at the dead body.

He sees it, he runs to get in the water but just as he reaches the edge of the water the police all turn in their torches and shouts
" stay away from the body and get out of the water"

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