Evidence Discovered

“Heh, looks like I was right,” Brent said. I was scared for a second that they saw us, but Carrie was still watching them intently, so I figured it couldn’t be that.

“A single sandal doesn’t prove anything,” Beth responded, sounding a little agitated. I looked down, and saw that I had apparently lost my left sandal when Carrie jerked me over.

“Oops,” Carrie said, though I wondered if it had been on purpose.

“You know what this means right?” Brent asked.

“It doesn’t mean anything,” Beth responded.

“It means,” Brent said, ignoring Beth, “that those two are somewhere around here. They probably hear us. Might even be making them more excited to do it with us so close by.”

Carrie looked at me with a knowing smile.

“Sh-shut up,” I said. Unfortunately I said it just a bit too loudly.

“You hear that?” Beth asked. Carrie pulled back behind the tree, pressing fully against me, her chest pressed into mine. “I think it came from over there.”

“Ha, I knew it!” Brent exclaimed. “Hey, are you two fuc- OWWWW!”

“You are completely insufferable,” Beth said. She then switched to a much friendlier tone than she’d had so far. “We already heard you. You aren’t in trouble or anything, we just need all the campers present to make sure everyone arrived safely. So come on out so we can get to having a great summer.”

My heart felt like it was gonna beat out of my chest. It felt like Carrie’s was beating faster too. I looked up into her eyes, and found that she was smiling. I guess her blood was pumping out of something other than fear.

“Come on you two, if I have to come in there I’m gonna have to give you both a write up. Let’s not start off on the wrong foot,” Beth said. She sounded genuine, and I felt a little bad that we were waisting their time by making them look for us.