Kelly picked at her breakfast, the whole table silent after the absence of Christian.
"Everyone! Today we're gonna go fishing!" Chief announced.
Kelly groaned. Fishing, mean't going down by the river. And the river brings back terrible memories.
"I think we should all put the Christian thing behind us. I bet he'll show up back in town." Mike reassured.
"Yeah, Mike's right." Maryse said. "Maybe he will show up back in town. We can't just be paranoid..."
The table agreed, setting their dishes away.
Everyone got on their shoes, walking in a line to the river. Chief handed out the rods.
"Okay, so this is how you work it." Chief said, explaining how to fish. "Anyway, after we set all of the rods, we're gonna go eat lunch, then come back and see if we caught anything."
Maryse threw in her line, sticking her rod down to the ground roughly. She walked over to Kelly.
"Want some help?" She asked.
Kelly sighed, handing her rod to Maryse. "I feel like it was my fault."
"It was not your fault!" Maryse said.
"Actually, if I hadn't told him to follow John, then he'd be here right now."
"Yeah, but it's John's fault, not yours." Maryse threw in Kelly's line, setting it into the ground. "Shall we go get lunch?"
Kelly smiled. "We shall."
The girls walked back up to the campsite, and joining some of their classmates in Summers Hall, grabbing grilled cheese and salad for lunch. They got fruit punch for a small drink.
"Alright, everybody, let's head back out and check if any of us caught fish!" Chief called, waving his arm and the students followed him out the door and down by the river.
"Hey, I actually caught something!" Kelly exclaimed, pulling hard.
"Here, let me help you," Edge said, already setting his fish in a bucket before helping Kelly pull hers out.
"Hey Maryse," Mike called, waving her over to the bush area.
Maryse dumped her fish in the bucket while holding her nose, before rushing up to Mike.
"I was thinking of coming out later tonight for a nice swim." Mike said. "Wanna come?"
Maryse shook her head. "It's not on the schedule."
"Exactly." Mike said, with a wink and smirk.
Maryse's eyes bulged, and she stepped back. "No, you can't! Not after that whole spirit of the river story, and with Christian missing!"
"Oh come on Maryse, don't tell me you believe in that stupid joke. And Christian... The story was that he ran away, and that's what I'd like to believe."
"Well it makes sense... Except the 'eats it's prey' thing... And we all know he didn't run away!"
"I know right, like what's up with that? Well both you and I are not on John's hitlist anyway. So we could totally go swimming."
"I don't know, but I still believe it if Edge says it's true. And you don't know that."
Mike sighed. "Okay, guess I'm swimming solo tonight."
Maryse opened her mouth to protest, but Chief whistled the group over, and led the way to the camp fire area. He taught the students how to put the fish on a stick to cook it.
"Okay, now you guys do your own as I set the fire." Chief said, grabbing his axe and chopping wood.
"Kelly, I think you're doing it wrong." Ashley commented beside Kelly.
Kelly rolled her eyes. "Whatever, I don't feel like eating fish."
"IS THIS NEMO?" Zack asked Kaitlyn, who put her head in her hand and rolled her eyes.
Punk laughed. "Haha! Your fish is small, just like your d-"
"No inappropriate behavior!" Chief called, setting the fire. He told the students to put their fish kebabs in front of the fire to cook.. "Someone go get a flashlight."
"I'll go get one." Randy volunteered, getting up.
"I'll come too." John said with a smirk, jumping off the bleachers and dusting off his jacket.
The two boys walked back to the campsite pushing each other and making jokes.
"He disgusts me." AJ said to Maryse.
"I just want to slap him." Ashley added.
"Well I want to kick him in the nads." Maryse said, disgust on her face as she stared at the back of John's figure.
"He makes me want to grab a gun and... And... throw it at his head so he gets a bruise!" Kelly said.
"Alright, now, eat!" Chief said in delight, taking a bite of his fish.
Everyone started to take bites of their fish. After about five minutes, John came back with a flashlight.
"Where's Randy...?" Alicia asked.
"Oh, he's not here?" John said with a fake confused look. "I lost him back at campsite, thought he might've came down here. He must've gone into Summers Hall." John shrugged, settling down and putting his kebab infront of the fire.
"Oh my god, did he-" AJ started.
"Not again!" Ashley interrupted.
"He wouldn't!" Maryse said, in denial.
"But he would..." Kelly, said, breaking into tears as she threw down the rest of her kebab and ran up to the campsite, followed by the other three girls.
"What a terrible ending to my night!" Kelly said through cries.
"Let's all just go to sleep, okay?" Maryse said.
"I agree." Ashley agreed.
"Night..." AJ said, turning off the light and jumping onto her bed.
As Maryse got into her sleeping bag and got comfortable, a terrible thought came into her mind, making her jump into a sitting position on the bed.
Mike! What if he went down to the river to actually go for that swim?
He wouldn't... Maryse tried to reassure herself.
"What's wrong Ryse?" Ashley asked, turning her flashlight on.
"Oh, nothing, just... One of those daydreams where everything is going great, but then you start to fall and your body does the whole spazzy thing..." Maryse lied.
"Ohhhh, I hate that." AJ said.
Kelly turned in her bed, groaning. The other girls got back into bed and made themselves comfortable.
He wouldn't... Maryse repeated in her head.
I know, I know, LONG overdue! But I lost soooo much inspiration. But my birthday is coming up =D (not really but still... March 26 =D) I hope it wasn't very bad, but I'd just gotten a surge of inspiration in the last 30 minutes, so idk if this chapter is all that great, but whatever, I have great plans coming up... Please keep reading, and review! And please don't be disappointed when I don't update all the time, it's hard... =/ But there is no excuse, so yeah, say PICKLE JUICE in a review if you actually read this meaningless author's note =PP