The River 2

Chapter 9

The crew with Charlie arrived and James was there.
James exclaimed: "here you are. Look!"
They all looked and the river was empty.
Amy immediately turned around and saw Charlie and asked madly: "Charlie what are you doing here?"
Charlie quickly replied: "Jake told me I could come"
Amy faced Jake with a mad expression, and then muttered: "uhh...oh god...okay you can stay" while Charlie was still confused.
Stacey suddenly looked at everyone with a worried expression: "I may have done something I shouldn't have..."
and all of them except Charlie exclaimed: "WHAT!?"

So Stacey started explaining:"I- I was so mad and I just wanted to know the truth, but I regret it now... I went to the kitchen and I told mom we all knew it was her to do all those stuff and I think I involved her to discover what is so important in that river cause I- I yelled at her and I said that if she didn't stop I would have been the bad one, but, I-I just wanted to let her stop I'm so sorry..."

James was obviously shocked but he instinctively hugged her. He understood the situation.
But Amy and Jake screamed in disbelief: "WHAT?"
Everyone could tell Amy was the most upset.

"why didn't u tell me? Why didn't u tell us before you wanted to do it?

"I'm sorry Amy I don't know"

"okay. Calm down. I need to calm down. but HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO NOT FREAK OUT. YOU'VE BEEN IMMATURE AND YOU'RE OLDER THAN ME! WHAT SHOULD WE DO NOW?? HUH?"

In all this Charlie was still confused so he stood up and asked with a high tone: "CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN ME WHAT'S GOING ON?"
James replied: "I'm sorry kid but this is actually none of your business, this is serious shit"

"BUT I WANNA BE APART OF THIS. I don't have friends please I can keep a secret. Just please!"

Amy tried to calm him down: "Charlie it's so hard to explain you would never understand!"
but Jake stood up too: "PLEASE GUYS! Let him in he's my friend!"

"what does that mean he's my friend too but he would never understand let's be real Jake"

Charlie quickly answered: "I WILL I PROMISE. JUST GIVE ME A TRY PLEASE. I wanna be someone."

Jake: "but you are don't worry...don't undervalue yourself"

Eventually James said: "OKAY OKAY ALRIGHT STOP IT LoVe biRdS. You're in Charlie. It's just for you bro."
and Stacey followed him saying: "But we gotta explain you some things. Tomorrow at Myers' house. Be ready for all kinds of shocking stuff. And if you're loyal don't tell ANYBODY. ANYBODY OKAY? Deal?"

"YES YES. DEAL. THANK YOU GUYS THANK YOU SO SO MUCH."

While Stacey and Amy thought their mom was at work, she wasn't.
She secretly created an organization to control  24/7 the river's movements underwater.
Luckily the monsters were still hidden under the big rock, they weren't hungry yet (because they had eaten all those guards), but what will happen when they'll be hungry again?