Chapter FifteenIt wasn’t until we had passed through the meadow that my nerves began to ease. The sound of running water hit my ears, and I knew that we must be close to the river.
“You have got to be kidding me!” Keeya growled as joyful voices were carried to us on the breeze.
“Looks like someone else beat us to the best spot.” Luci sighed, and she looked sympathetically at her girlfriend, “Sorry, K.”
“It doesn’t matter. We’ll go further upstream.” Zoe assured her friends, but Keeya certainly didn’t seem happy about it.
Even as we passed down a path that winded around the edge of the meadow, passing beneath a row of oak trees that lined its other side, I could see kids playing on the riverbank. A couple of boys had taken to swinging on a rope swing that was tied to one of the oak’s br
