Charlotte POV
I looked around the room I would be sharing with Samantha. It was mainly pink. "we definitely have to redecorate" I told Samantha "with you their Charlotte, with you there. PINK! this room is disgusting!" "yeah Mal reacted in the same way" I turned around to see Evie standing in the doorway.
"well first things first" I walked into the middle of the room looking around "unpack?" Evie asked "no! remove the awful pictures!" I quickly went round the room taking down all the pictures of princesses, stashing them in the wardrobe.
"now we unpack" Samantha just rolled her eyes "I swear if you do this a lot i'll tie you to the bed" I just laughed opening my bag shoving all the clothes higgledy piggeldy in the wardrobe on top of the pictures and everything else in the draws. I went back to my case pulling out the last thing in the bottom. It was a small black book with the crossed bone symbol of the De Vils on the front.
I flipped it open looking at the picture on the first page, a five year old me smiled out of the picture, sitting next to a six year old Carlos pulling a silly face. i flicked through the pages. the last one of me and Carlos had been taken the day before I ran away. those smiles didn't quite reach our eyes. The next picture in the book was me, Jaz. Hector and Shadow about a year after we became the runners. for the first time since I was five the smile in the picture reached my eyes.
"what's that?" Evie asked "just a book" she leaned over my shoulder looking at the picture. "cute" I quickly shut the book shoving it in a draw. "hey I get it" Evie said
"you're not supposed to do things lake that on the isle, but this is Auradon. That sort of thing is normal" I looked at her "some secrets are best kept but others are better told" I looked down at my now empty case.
"if you had a secret but you didn't want to tell someone for fear of hurting them, but you were scared that they would be hurt even more when they eventually found out. What would you do?" I asked her she looked me in the eye
"tell them the truth. no matter how much it hurts, they will be hurt even more if they have to find it out on their own" I smiled. I knew what I had to do "thanks. where's Jaz's dorm? I need to talk to her." I pulled the book back out of the draw and followed Evie down the corridor.
Samantha POV
I cursed as Charlotte left the room. She had taken the book as well! I knew that she was talking about telling Carlos the truth but this would completely mess up our plan! I raced out of my dorm towards Morgans. we needed to start tonight!
Jaz POV
I turned around as Charlotte entered my dorm. she was holding the book. "well dinner is in half an hour you two" Mal said "strait down the corridor down the stairs and turn left" I nodded as Mal and Evie left the room. I snatched the book out of Charlotte's hands
"HEY!" she protested. I ignored her and flipped the book open grinning at the photo on the page, unknown to me, the same one Charlotte had been looking at earlier.
An eight year old Charlotte, an eleven year old Shadow, a ten year old me and an eleven year old Hector. Strange Charlotte was the youngest but she was the leader.
"hey Jaz" I felt Charlotte's hand on my shoulder "I asked Evie and she thinks I should tell him. what do you think I should do?" I looked up at Charlotte "listen to me Charlie, it is your choice whether you tell or not. I would tell him. It has been six years, this secret has been kept too long. Now I am going to keep my promise. I wont tell but you should do"
"you're right. I tell them tomorrow. I... I need time to prepair. He's going to be mad that I didn't try to contact him for six years. I don't think I can do it"
"I'll tell him if you want" I told her gently "No. Then I would seem like a coward. I need to do this myself!" I grinned "come on then lets go find the boys"
Shadow POV
I opened the door to the dorm and walked in. the walls were covered in pictures of princes. Hector just rolled his eyes and pulled them all down whilst i walked over to the tv. there were two stick thingys in front of it.
"what are these for?" I asked holding them up Carlos laughed. he looked so much like Charlotte I couldn't see how the others failed to see it. "these are for the game" He explained jumpin up on a pad thing in front of the tv and started playing the game.
"cool" Carlos jumped off and passed me the stick things. I jumped up on the pad and almost fell off trying to avoid virtual bullets.
"so" Jay started talking "the adults went to all the trouble of tracking down you and your friends for no reason." "well, first I want my watch back and second we have been sent to get the wand though we probably wont. we only accepted their offer to get the wand so we could get off the island"
"what about Morgan and Samantha?" Carlos asked "no idea. though they seam to know something we don't"
"one last question. who put up the biggest fight when you came here?" "oh that's easy! Charlotte" I grinned
"she defied everything they did to keep her in one place before finally just staying because she was bored" I laughed remembering Charlotte's constant determination to be as much of a pain as possible. "she was a constant pain and when they got really annoyed she acted all innocent. A reall genius, we would have been found years ago if not for her"
"who is she?" Carlos asked "A runner. Our leader. Our friend. Our saver. She's just Carlotte. The first time they tried to find us she showed just how far she is prepared to go for us. Just how much she is prepared to do. Trust me it's a lot"