In the middle of the bushes – inbetween the teens' and ray's campsites
Kyle was searching the floor to find the picture with the torch on his phone to help him see. When suddenly there was a noise from somewhere around him and he started to shine his torch around until the light fell upon a pair of legs.
Kyle gulped as the pair of legs moved further towards him and stopped.
"Hello Kyle, long time no see. Are you going to just stand there or are you going to give uncle Derek a hug?" Derek asked Kyle with a grin on his face.
"Why the hell would I hug you after what you did to my mum?" Kyle half shouted as he asked his uncle that question.
"Because I'm your uncle silly and I haven't seen you for awhile which by the way is very upsetting as I missed you Kyle."
"Don't lie, you never missed me. Also you lost the right to call yourself my uncle over eleven years ago!"
"Now that hurts Kyle truly." Derek said to his nephew.
Kyle stopped speaking and looked around noticing that every direction was blocked by people he can only assume were his uncle's friends. He then saw an opening in the bushes that wasn't blocked, completely forgetting about the picture, Kyle makes a break for it towards the lakes.
"Was it something I said?" Derek asked his gang members as Kyle ran away.
In the middle of the bushes – on the way back to the teen's campsite
Casey and Ray were silently but quickly making their way along the footpath that lead to the place that had just housed the campsite.
Casey breaks the silence and asks Ray: "I need to know!"
Ray stopped and looked at Casey: "Know what?"
"The full story! Also why you decided to help us."
"Look no offense, I know Kyle is your brother but is not really my place to tell you why this guy is after Kyle, it's his. To answer your second question, the reason why I decided to help you is because I see a lot of myself in Kyle and I also thought it was wrong to hurt someone who is completely innocent."
"Kyle won't tell me, that's why I asked you and well thank you for helping us." Casey replied then continued walking on.
At the lake
20 minutes later…
Kyle had just arrived at the lake and made his way over to the pier.
I need to hide but where? Come on Kyle think! This guy wants to kill you like he killed your mum so hurry up and find some place to hid. Oh I know if I go in the water and swim to under the pier but with my head and body still completely covered by the water he'll not find me. After all Derek doesn't know I can swim yet which is something I can use to my advantage.
After quickly thinking of where he could hide, Kyle jumped into the lake and made his way to under the pier just as his uncle Derek and his thugs arrived.
"Everyone start searching for the brat, it's not like he could have gone far with us on his tail the whole time!" Derek shouted to his gang.
From his hiding spot Kyle was still able to here Derek shouting for him to reveal himself.
Why didn't I listen to that Ray when he said that he would find that picture and post it to me because now I'm in serious trouble with no way of escaping. He's going to realise that I might actually be in the water soon and then he'll send his thugs in here and they will see me. Then Derek will kill me!
Behind the bushes surrounding the lake
Casey and Ray had been on the path back to the campsite when they had heard people shouting for Kyle and had decided to follow them. When they realised where they were going Ray pulled Casey into some of the bushes and had motioned from him to be quiet while they watched Derek and his gang searching for Kyle.
"I can't see Kyle anywhere." Casey whispered to Ray who was still watching the scene in front of him.
"I know, neither can I." Ray replied realising it would be no good telling Casey to stay quiet as he obviously wasn't going to pay attention to the command if he didn't the first time.
"The only place I can think of where he could be hiding is the water."
"Well we better do something then because Derek is heading towards the pier."
"I know we have to but what?" Casey asked Ray.
"I think I might have idea." Ray told him.
"What is it? I'm all ears, promise."
"Well what if we lead Derek away from the lake for example I could run all the way around to the other side of the lake."
"Then what because I don't think that's really going to do much in this situation."
"Well if you had given me a chance to finish I would have said that once I'm round there I will make as much noise as possible and then run off further into the National Park and hopefully Derek will think its Kyle and will follow after me which will give you time to get Kyle and head back to the others at the car park.
"Once we get back to the car park what do you want us to do because I'm assuming Derek isn't to stupid and will figure out that it isn't Kyle he's chasing. Then he'll back in the direction of us and the car park" Casey asked Ray.
"Well do you remember passing what appeared to be an abandoned building before you eventually got here?"
"Yeah why?"
"Well head for that and I'll meet you all there when I know it's safe for me to leave. Then we can call for help or head to the nearest Police Station and I will tell them everything."
"You would really hand yourself in for technically being apart of this?"
"Yes as I hope my kids will see that I'm doing the right thing and it will hopefully teach them to learn from my mistakes."
"I didn't know you had kids so thank you for helping us and I think they will be proud of you for wanting to help us." Casey said to Ray "Anyway you better go and we will see you soon."
With a quick 'thank you' Ray headed off to distract Derek from his search for Kyle, while Casey lay in wait behind the bushes to make his move.
