Teen Killers Club by Lily Sparks

Author:Lily Sparks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CROOKED LANE BOOKS

Chapter Fourteen

On the Water

The blood seeps through our blankets and streams between the gaps in the plank floor, dripping into the crawlspace under the cabin. We stand around the body after Kate and Dave leave, staring.

“‘Clean up this mess!’” Troy mocks, punching Dave’s slight Midwestern accent. “I guess that’s his new catchphrase now, since he can never use that stupid call and response again after Signal DESTROYED IT!”

Everyone laughs and I look around, confused. “What?”

“Earlier, when you told Dave you were learning not to end up like him. It was great.”

“Great?! It was freaking legendary.” Kurt holds up a hand until I high-five him.

“Jada did say he looked like his brain was constipated,” I say, and Jada smiles as everyone bursts out laughing again.

“Okay. Let’s start carving this big boy up!” Troy crouches down beside the body, and I have to grab onto a bunk to steady myself.

“No.” Kurt shakes his head, passing a hand over his face. “We can’t.”

“Why not?”

“We don’t have a tarp or anything sharp enough to cut bone.”

“Yeah, he’s too big to chop. I say we wrap him up.” Erik nods at the corner of one of the sleeping bags. “Roll him, tape him, weigh him down, throw him in the water.”

“After what happened to my mannequin?” I point out. “You really think that’s wise?”

“You threw a plastic mannequin into ten feet of water, Signal. I’m talking about rowing this meaty beast half a mile out and dropping him in the middle of the lake and letting the Circle of Life handle the rest.”

“Yeah.” Nobody nods slowly. “That’s our best bet. With the storm passing through it’s too wet for anything else.”

My stomach flips over at the thought of what “anything else” could mean.

“I can’t handle this,” I mutter.

“Surprise, surprise,” Erik says under his breath, but waves me toward the bathroom. “Could you go find some mops and a bucket for the blood? I think there should be some in the main cabin kitchen.”

I almost run out of the room while the rest close in. I hear a giggling Jada say something about how his hands are so floppy before I have to stop, throw on the faucet in the bathroom sink, and retch over the last toilet stall. The handfuls of trail mix I had for dinner come back up, and once I stop gagging I quickly brush my teeth, then run out into the rain, toward the main cabin.

I land on the front porch, teeth chattering, and as I open the door, muffled voices echo down the hall, from the nurse’s office where Dennis and I were the other day.

“We can’t tell HQ who it was,” Kate insists.

“They’ll figure it out. If we don’t volunteer the information, we look complicit.”

“If we tell HQ they’ll send the campers out early. You want to risk that?”

“If we hide this, we are complicit.”

“We both know if the Director sends the kids out now, we could lose them all.”

A tense throb of silence, as though Dave knows she’s right.

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