Mirror, Mirror (Book 2)

Chapter 40: Honor is Just a Five Letter Word

Teresa quickly dove into the water as the camp counselor approached the trio. Amelia stood in front of Oliver protectively, while Mama Marie raised her cane as if it were a weapon.

"Easy," Jake says the trio carefully. "I'm here to help."

" 'Here to help' ?" Amelia barked, exposing her fangs to the camp counselor. "You were spying on us again, weren't you?"

Jake looked at the vampire then says in a threatening tone: "I would be very careful blurting my thoughts out loud if I were you."

Amelia crossed her arms defiantly and sneered, "you don't scare me."

The camp counselor sighed then glanced in Mama Marie's direction.

"Who are you supposed to be?" he asks in a puzzled tone.

Mama Marie lowered her stick then says coldly, "I am the one who's responsible for cooking all your meals."

"Wait," Jake began. "You're the cook?"

"No, I am Mother Nature." retorted Mama Marie sarcastically.

The camp counselor rolled his eyes at her statement then said, "listen, I understand how much you guys want to explore, but since Ms. Fern is missing-"

"Ms. Fern isn't missing," interrupted Oliver. "She's somewhere trapped in a cave."

Jake looked at the boy, who glared at him with intense green eyes.

"Ms. Fern is in a cave?" he asked. "How do you know this?"

"Huh?" thought an admonished Oliver.

Usually, in movies, the villain would be appalled when his secrets were revealed, but Jake seems shocked.

It's as if he didn't understand what Amelia was talking about. Either he is clueless, or Jake is playing the innocent schoolboy routine again.

"Don't play stupid, Jake." Amelia barked. "While the kids were busy fleeing away from that bloody hailstorm, Ms. Fern caught you trading drugs with Jonah!"

The camp counselor's blue eyes widened.

"Me?" Jake spat. "Trade drugs with an antisocial, lazy degenerate? You must be crazy!"

"But you don't deny the fact that you are somehow involved with the drugs?" Mama Marie asked angrily, taking a step forward.

"A little bird told us that she saw you were carrying shipping crates of drugs with Jonah and someone else."

In an instant, Jake's face became pale as Oliver's.

"What?" he says nervously. "Who told you?"

"Doesn't matter," Amelia snarled. "What matters is a twenty-something man is taking the advantage of a shitty camp."

"Yeah," Oliver agreed. "if the police had found out about you, they will send you to jail for second-degree kidnapping and drug extortion."

Jake swallowed a gulp. "Look, I-"

"Care to tell us why you've been dealing drugs?" Mama Marie interrupts calmly. "If not, then we will report to the police."

His strong hands slid inside his pockets, his eyes were glued to Mama Marie, but his lips wobbled like a bird in the cold.

A part of him wanted to keep his mouth shut, but the other was tired of witnessing unusual happenings in camp.

First, it was Ms. Fern's disappearance, next the red Satanic circle painting in the bathroom, and last but not least, there was an unexpected hailstorm.