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he said. ‘I’ll walk with you. You shouldn’t be out here.’
    What was it with this guy? Did he think I needed looking after or something? I was fine. I hadn’t been scared – much – until he appeared. And there was only the one path up here; it wasn’t as though I could get lost.
    I wanted to say something about that to him, but he had already brushed past me and was heading on down. He seemed in a hurry.
    ‘What were you doing up there, anyway?’ I said, when he paused to let me catch up with him.
    ‘I fancied a walk.’ I didn’t believe that. Why would anyone go for a walk up here in the dark?
    ‘Strange time of day to walk.’
    ‘You hear more at night,’ he said. ‘When you don’t have someone clumping along behind you, that is.’
    ‘Gee, thanks.’
    He set off downhill and I stuck my tongue out at his back. He did have a very quiet way of moving, but so what? We couldn’t all be perfect. And he’d been here longer, he was probably familiar with the path.
    He was just so up himself. I couldn’t wait to get back over the bridge. I’d head off to my tent without saying a word, he didn’t need to think I wanted to hang around with him.

 
     
    Chapter Six
     
     
    FINN
    It was odd finding Beck’s sister hanging about on the path. I was pretty sure this was the direction I’d seen Dex return from. What could she want half-way up the hill? No one would walk that far just for mobile reception, that was for sure.
    Maybe that innocent look was just for show. Could the girl be involved? Was that why she was here? After all, she had turned up with Beck and Dex.
    It didn’t make sense, and, actually, I didn’t know why I was even trying to work it out. Better to get back down and keep an eye on Cami. Dex wasn’t my business, but Cami was. I’d just speeded up when I heard a sound that, for a moment, I couldn’t place. I stopped suddenly and George went into my back.
    ‘Aagh! What …’
    I put an arm out to steady her, hissing, ‘Ssh.’ She was so loud.
    It took a moment to work out what the disturbance could possibly be. The sound, so familiar in a city, was weird out here. It was a police siren, or an ambulance. In fact, both. We could see them now, coming down the steep track on the opposite side of the valley, blue lights flashing.
    I began to run. Was it Beck? Had she …? Surely not. Not that again.
    I ran even faster. I was panicking. Of course it could happen again.
    The girl followed me across the wooden bridge and over the rough grass of the clearing. She stumbled a couple of times but I didn’t have time to worry about her now. An ambulance and two police cars had pulled up beside the row of campervans.
    My heart was beating like crazy, and not just from the running. Then I saw the figure laid out on the ground. It wasn’t Beck. It was a man.
    I caught hold of George’s arm before she got too close, and said, ‘We can listen from here.’
    At first I thought she was going to rush on. Really, it looked like the innocence wasn’t a cover. She had no idea!
    Then, fortunately, she seemed to realise it wasn’t a good idea to show ourselves and came to a halt. Much better just to listen.
    The long dark shape on the ground was being examined by two people in green overalls. Paramedics, presumably. The body was, unfortunately, too slim to be Dex.
    ‘Who is it?’ whispered the girl.
    ‘Not sure. Ssh.’
    I strained to hear what was being said.
    Marcus, recognisable from his long, dark hair, was speaking to the police. ‘Yeah, it looks like just an unfortunate accident. My brother, Cami here, found poor Kev lying flat out. We thought it might be the drink, you know how it is, but once I’d had a light brought round I could see it was a bit worse … Hit his head, didn’t he? Must’ve slipped and banged it on this metal bin, that’s what it looks like … No, no one saw anything ...’
    We watched as the injured man was lifted onto a stretcher. So it was the guy Kevin. I’d seen