Charlotte POV
I sighed as I got ready for bed. First day and I had detention. Great! Just great! I looked up as Jaz came in "a whole week detention? seriously? on the island what you did would have got an award!" I grinned Jaz could always cheer me up. "hey Jaz can you look after this for me?" I tossed her the book "why?" "I don't trust Samantha" "fair enough" Jaz left the room as I climbed into bed. I was asleep before my head hit the pillow.
Jaz POV
I walked away from Charlotte's room, the book heavy in my hands. She trusted me. I walked into my room and shut the door collapsing on my bed, not bothering to get changed. The next thing I knew my door was slammed open and Shadow was at the door
"JAZ!" he shouted "Have you seen Charlie?" "not since last night. Why?" "she's gone!" I jumped up grabbing the book "and her dorm is a mess" "well if something did happen of course she would put up a fight which would explain the messy dorm but who would want to hurt her?" I froze "it's not about her! It's about all of us! She's the only runner with connections in both groups. Whoever did it could have gone for Carlos as well!" I raced out the room "come on! we need to find the others!"
When we got the Charlottes dorm room everyone else was there. "has anyone seen Morgan and Samantha at all?" Mal asked. Oh no! I looked at Shadow. "there's something we should tell you about Charlotte" I passed Mal the book "the full story is in there" I looked at the ground "I'm sorry Charlie, I broke my promise" I muttered "come on" I signaled Hector and Shadow and we ran before they opened the book.
Mal POV
I caught the book Jaz tossed me and watched as they ran off. "strange kids" I looked down at the book in my hands "hey Carlos isn't this your mothers symbol on the front?" he came over "yep, that's the sign of a De Vil alright" I opened the book and two little kids smiled out. On was Carlos, the other was a small girl. "that looks like Charlotte" Evie said
"but that makes no sense" I flicked through the book. The first few pages were of Carlos and Charlotte, then they changed to ones of the runners. at the back of the book there was a folded piece of paper and some writing on the back cover. "This book belongs to Charlotte... DE VIL?" I read aloud. I looked up at Carlos "you have a sister?"
"wait" Evie said "yesterday Charlotte was talking about secrets and whether or not to tell someone. Clearly this is what she meant" "but why would you not know who she is Carlos?" I heard Ben asking "six years is a long time Ben" Jay told him "so many kids on the island died before reaching their tenth birthday. It didn't help that Cruella said she was dead" "someone find Jaz. She clearly knows Charlotte the best" I heard myself saying
Jay ran off to find Jaz. I looked at Carlos, he' been silent this entire time. "what's wrong Carlos?" I asked. He looked at me
"you want to know why i didn't recognise her? why I didn't say who she was? I was told she didn't exist! That I had made her up! the one person who actually care about me left me behind! Then after six years she turns up out of the blue! And then doesn't even tell me!"
"this is exactly how Charlie thought you would react" I turned around to see Jaz "the reason she didn't say anything for six years, the reason she didn't try to find you was because she was scared of your mother. Not because she didn't love you. She missed you so much and it was only her hatred of your mother that stopped her going back. I know Charlie and she was going to tell you, but she couldn't"
I looked down at the piece of paper that had been in the back of the book. I flipped it over "hey Carlos this is for you" I handed him the paper
Carlos POV
I looked down at the paper Mal had handed me. It was a letter
Dear Carlos
If you are reading this it means something has happened to me and I couldn't tell you the truth and Jaz had to break her promise. Or Evie stole the book, one of the two. Anyway I' sorry I left you. I never should have done it and I definitely shouldn't have left without saying goodbye but I kept my promise, I came back and If I get out of this alive I'm never leaving you again. The one thing that kept me going before I met Jaz is how you would feel if I never came back. I know mother will have told you some lie about me and what's more you probably believed her but as Jaz will tell you I kept on wanting to go back but the one thing that scared me on the island was mother. Seriously that woman is creepy! Once again I'm sorry I left you.
Love you lots, your little sister
Charlie
"she really missed you" I felt Jaz's hand on my shoulder "when I first met her she introduced herself as Charlotte De Vil Daughter of Cruella De Vil and Younger Sister of Carlos De Vil. She cared a lot" "we have to find her. I'm not getting my sister back after six years to lose her after only one day"
"Shadow and Hector are searching her dorm but we know that it was Morgan and Samantha"
"how?"
"well when Shadow told me about what happened the first thing that popped into my head was that she put up a fight which would explain the messy dorm but when he asked why they went after her I realised that it wasn't personal. It was about us. The villain kids. Charlie was the best to get because she has connections and as it was Morgan and Samantha no one would notice until the morning"
"but why not me?"
"you share a dorm with Jay. He would have noticed"
"JAZ!"I jumped as a wolf cam racing towards us. Right before it crashed into me it changed into Shadow
"we... found... a... note" he gasped "in... Morgan's... Dorm... ran... all... the... way"
"where is it?"
"Hector has it"
"why didn't you bring it?"
"I can't carry it as a wolf can I?"
Jaz just sighed and ran back towards the school with shadow close behind. I raced after them.