Summer camp

8 - secrets, lies and death

EMMA'S POV
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It's currently 5:30 am and here I am sitting on the couch alone in the dark.

Everyone else is asleep. I had to sneak down the stairs through the kitchen and into the living room.

While I was in the kitchen I made myself a cup of coffee and sat down there to let myself drown in my thoughts.

I missed them. My parents. It's weird because they're dead but something tells me they're out there hiding. From me. I did something the night before they went out into that car.

I ran away. Well as much as you could run away when you're 4!And they were looking for me when the car slid on the road and crashed.

I blame myself for everything... I always have. I let the tears out and my body shakes with each sob. At one point in crying so hard I have to shove a pillow in my face just to keep quiet.

Suddenly warm arms pull me into their lap. I know who it is... his touch is just so familiar.

I keep crying silently my rattling body calms down enough to let out a small hiccup.

I sit there trying to get the thought  out of my head.

He turns me around so that I'm facing him. And with his strong fingers he wipes away my tears and pulls me up against him.

I let his warmth hold me there and then. But suddenly I have another question for him.

"What are we?..." I ask my voice cracking.

"I don't know Princess..." he tells me. "Whatever you decide."

I look up at him and that's all I need to know what I want.

"We're a secret..." I whisper my head resting on his shoulder.

I can feel his heartbeat quicken and his breath hitch.

He pulls me back to look at me.
"I know this might be wrong to ask but why were you crying Princess?" He asks me with genuine concern.

I look at his kind green eyes.

"I was thinking about my parents... and how they died.." I reply and start crying again.

"Don't cry, please I never know what to do!" He says. Suddenly his face lights up and his cups my face giving me the faintest whisper of a kiss.

"Better?" He asks with a small smile.

"Yeah..." I reply. "Coffee?" I ask holding out the hot mug to him.
He accepts the cup and lays back wrapping an arm around me and letting me rest my head on his broad shoulder.

He sips on his coffee and drawn tiny circles on my bare thighs with his fingers.

Suddenly we hear a loud bang like noise come from outside. He pulls me up into an embrace as everyone else wakes up because of the noise.

The monitors slowly and cautiously open the front door.

I gasp and bury my face into KY's sweater. Outside on the road there's a person with blood spurting out of his stomach.

I feel faint and my legs start to buckle... I feel myself falling but KY lifts me up and I wrap my legs around his waist.

"Of my god..." I saw feeling sick and turning to look back at the dead person.

KY let's me go and pushes through the monitors and gets closer to the body. They try to stop him and so do I.

"KY no please come back!" I shout at him as he leans over the corpse.

He runs back and informs the monitors.

"He was shot, probably money that he owed the killer." They nod and thank him before he comes back to me.

"Don't ever do that again!" I say punching his stomach. I realize too late that they're rock hard.

"Shit..." I scream rubbing my knuckles.

"You deserved that!" He snaps back.

Suddenly Bianca comes out of nowhere and hugs me as if I hadn't been here the whole time.

"Thank god you're ok!" She says giving KY the stink eye.

I give him a small nod before waking off with Bianca.

"This is a very unexpected scene but we would like to ask you all to stay calm and not panic! Tyler call the police and ask them to hurry!" Alice talk calmly but look terrified.

Jace walks over with KY and Tyler behind him.

"The police will be here in 5-8 minutes" he calls to Alice.

That's the last thing I heard before my world went black.

KY'S POV
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"The police will be here in 5-8 minutes" Tyler tells Alice and I notice her talking with Erin in very hushed voices but the urgency showing in their face.

I walk towards them but I'm stop by a loud high pitch scream that I know belongs to Bianca.

I turn around to see her bawling her eyes out and holding a limp Emma.

My heart stops and I rush over trying not to let the fear of losing her show.

"She must have fainted because of the circumstances!" Erin says and tries to pick her up but I pull her out of his grasp and put her on the couch myself.

Everyone else heads back to the main hall leaving us alone.

"ky... ky?..." I turn to see her trying to sit up. I let her back down and she starts to tremble.

"Are you ok?" I ask her quietly.

"Is he still here?" She asks me and the fear is clear in her eyes.

"Who?" I ask very confused.

"The guy with the gun... the killer... with the deal..." she replies.

"What deal?" She looks at me as if I should know.

"The deal about having two options... death or keeping a secret from someone..."

"Do you remember who the secret was meant to be kept from?" She hesitated a moment before answering again.

"The guy who was making the deal, his name was Max--" I froze. That's my dad's name.

"Do you remember his last name!" I ask her.

"Yes... Max Patterson and he was keeping the secret from you..."