"Koi's here too. Do you want us all to meet up?"
"Yeah, yeah. The ones we've found all came back to the cliff. Come meet us here, we need to figure out a plan."
I looked toward the dense trees. Domino wouldn’t be able to walk back. She'd run over a mile just to get here.
"Can't we meet back at camp?"
"Bro, I've got a fucking dead body here!" Each word was enunciated and bellowed into the phone. "I can't just leave this shit lying around. Get my sister back, and if you see any of the others that were here, tell them to come back or they're fired." He hung up.
I let out a dry chuckle. Fired? I think losing their shitty summer job was the least of their worries right now with a killer on the loose. Although, it may have been one of them.
I went back into the showers and found Koi and Domino in an intimate embrace. I stepped back through the door. Jealousy flared in my chest, and I turned completely away and shut the door loudly, to make it known I was out here, waiting. I dug into my pockets for my cigarettes, lighting up and taking a drag. All of this felt so new and confusing and... painful.
My gut had been telling me something was wrong back at the cliff. Everyone was far too excited about Domino going down the zipline. I pulled Domino from her spot in line, because of it. Chitra had been too obsessed with the order of people going down, and now we all knew why. But she didn't have the strength to stab anyone that deep. She'd been working with someone, but who?
Koi and Domino came out after I took another drag. Georgie flew to his owner’s side and Domino squealed with relief.
“Oh my god, you found Georgie!”
I nodded to them but couldn't look either of them in the eye. I know we'd agreed on sharing her, and she seemed to enjoy what we'd just done in the showers, but seeing it in the light? That was a bit harder. It'd be one thing if she was like all the other chicks around Camp Frisky. Hot, horny, without a single thought in their head. The girls we slept with before were discarded the moment we blew our loads into our condoms. We didn't catch feelings because those girls didn't have anything much to offer in return. We were just another cheap thrill to ride at Risky Rush Park.
But not Domino.
No, she was better than all of us. Johnny Blue and the others on her list were proof.
"Where are we going?" Koi asked.
"We gotta go back to the cliff. Mattias is gathering everyone up."
"Did they find the killer?" Domino asked; eyes wide with fear.
"He didn't say. Can you walk, or do you need to be carried?" While the cigarette had tapered some of my jealousy, a small bit still lingered.
"I can walk." Her voice was small as she shrunk into herself.
"I've got you." Koi bent down and urged her to climb onto his back. I glared at them and stomped toward the trees, Georgie following me.
"Come on," I snapped and stormed inside, the trees enveloping me.
I used my phone's flashlight to lead the way back to the cliff. Trees had been spray-painted last year to help guide us to and from, and we followed those. I didn't say a word to the happy couple behind me and made it to the cliff almost five full minutes before them.
Mattias stood near the picnic table, chain-smoking, while Mitchell rocked back and forth on the seat. Marisol had beencrying at one point but now was staring blankly off into the night. Blane, Andrew, and Grace had been found, but Beth and Chitra were still MIA. Fabian joined us shortly after we arrived.
"We can't let this get out, man." Mattias's eyes were wild as he tugged on his hair and smoked. "They'll want to shut down the camp. This is a fucking PR nightmare."
Fabian went straight to Ruth's body that was still lying in the same spot. His hands were buried deep in his pockets, and he hadn't said a word.
"Did anyone find the chainsaw guy?" Mitchell yelped. He was the most inconsolable out of everyone.
"Not yet. I think he ran away. I saw him. He's a huge motherfucker, but something got his attention and he turned the chainsaw off and walked away," Blane told us.
"Just... walked away?" Mattias asked, incredulously. "What the fuck is going on?"
"Someone was out to kill Domino." Fabian turned suddenly and came to our circle. "Obviously. As they knew we were here, it's probably not safe for her to just return to camp."
Marisol suddenly came to, bolting up from her seat. "And where do you plan on putting her?"
"She can come back home," Fabian shouted back at her. "We have security and cameras and?—"
