here is my new story this one I'm excited to start doing and i hope it will be there through the whole story and as always hope you stick around till the end. also i call this some what a step out of what i usually do because of what its based on and this one is first person again hope you enjoy it
My name is Simon King I grew up with my mother and father till they died when I was eleven, I spent a year on the streets when a business man took me in. he had a wife and a daughter they were both nice to me all of them were, the father and mother had black hair, the father said he was in his thirties, he was shorter then average and kept his head shaved but had a beard he never looked like he looked at you but through you, the mother also said she was in her thirties, she was kind she always knew when something was wrong with anyone even if she just met the person she worked as a nurse she had freckles around her nose she had grey colour eyes with straight black hair. the daughter whose name was Nell Price she was a year younger then me she looked like her mother and learned how to help injured people form her mother. The family was so pale they looked sick all the time but they always had a smile they lived by the motto of look on the bright side, me on the other hand was depressed I never looked happy, of course I got happy just never looked like it, I was almost always in a fight especially after I was taken in by the family I was grateful that they took me in I didn't get into fights to cause trouble for them, it was to protect the daughter from the bullies at first it was only one or two boys that was picking on her, and I fought them they soon stopped picking on her and started picking fights with me then they came in groups of five or more, I got stronger they never did just grown in size of the group and the person that bandaged me up wasn't Mrs. Price it was Nell, I began to become her shadow or her became mine either way me and her were together all the time. I accepted Mr. and Mrs. Price as a father and mother but I didn't feel like Nell was my sister, I felt different towards her. I was with the family for five years I got a nickname slugger when I broke someone's jaw with one hit. When Mr. Price gathered us in the kitchen and told us we were going to move to a new city Nell was worried Mrs. Price was excited, I couldn't care as long as I didn't end up by myself again. We showed up to a boat early in the morning with maybe twenty other families I was sitting by the railing, the air smelled salty, it started to get cloudy when Nell walked over to me she was still a little small for her age, she grew her hair out a bit passed her shoulders but she had it in a ponytail "Simon what do you think about going to this new city or town, or whatever we're going to?" asked Nell
"you want my true thoughts?" I asked
"yes I do."
"well the adults love the idea, you I know you don't like the idea one bit, me I don't care at lest I don't have to fight every other week or day, or whatever it is now."
"you don't have to fight them you know."
"but I kind of do."
"you don't, why do you even fight them in the first place."
"so they don't kill me."
"no I meant four years ago."
"I don't even know anymore why?"
"I was just thinking about when you joined the family."
"I don't really feel like I joined completely."
"what does that mean."
"I feel like a distant cousin or something."
"that over stayed his welcome?"
"yeah."
"so why don't you care or even come with us?"
"because someone needs to protect you."
"come on I can protect myself." Said Nell punching me in the arm not hard enough to hurt
"yeah I know just sometimes you need something more."
"yeah and some times you need a shadow right?"
"you always need a shadow, but I didn't have one till what four years ago?"
"yup and we been inseparable since I was ten."
"you were cuter then."
"what's that suppose to mean?"
"that you're not as cute as you were then."
"But I'm still cute right?"
"no comment."
"I'm still cute right?"
"still no comment, anyways why do you hate going to this new place?"
"I just didn't want to leave I thought I would have raised a family there or close by there."
"well that was a dream and this is life we don't always get what we want."
"and what do you want?"
"I want a lot."
"like what?"
"for what its worth I didn't want to go; I would have liked to stay but I'm your shadow so here I am on a boat to wherever."
"you should have told me we could have stayed ran away or something."
"you don't want to be living on the streets Nell Its not a good life."
"yeah but, I don't know."
"its better that you stick with your mom and dad then be on the streets."
"yeah what do you think its going to be like?"
"wet, cold, and cramped, also dangerous."
"why dangerous?"
"it's a city filled with all these people and its under water so there probably be gangs and places we don't want to be around and we have to worry about leaks and stuff. That's why its dangerous."
"well if that's it."
"yeah but you have me."
"and you have me." Said Nell pulling me into a hug she was shaking
"you cold Nell?" I asked
"no I'm scared."
"well I'm here for you and I always will so don't be scared." She pulled away it started raining
"Simon you want to head to mom and dad?"
"no but you should so you don't catch a cold."
"without my shadow?"
"yeah I hate boats."
"then why didn't you stay behind?"
"I hate being alone more."
"then I'll stay with you so you don't have to be alone on a boat." Said Nell that made me smile "why do you never smile?"
"I'm smiling now."
"yeah but you don't usually smile even when you find something funny, but when its just you and me you smile."
"I don't know."
"fine then don't tell me." Said Nell she started pouting I leaned on the railing and she leaned on the railing her arm was touching mine, she was shaking again I wrapped an arm around her "you don't have anything to be scared of." I said
"I'm not scared just cold now." Said Nell then I seen a light house the boat stated to slow down it docked and everyone piled out from below the deck and on to the dock me and Nell were the last people to get off my arm was still wrapped around her when we walked inside the lighthouse following the other people we were greeted by a statue of a man made of what looked like gold with a banner saying 'no gods or kings only men' there was also a plaque that had a quote form some man called Andrew Ryan, that one said 'in what country is there a place for people like me.' "so I'm guessing that he made this place?" asked Nell
"that would be my guess." I Said we walked down a pair of stairs as we walked down the stairs Nell started to shake more "how are you not cold right now?" she asked
"the cold doesn't really bother me never has." I replied the group of people on the boat were gather around a golden ball that was at least eight feet tall Mr. and Mrs. Price were standing the closest to it Mrs. Price was calling our names we walked through the crowd Mr. Price was carrying our suitcases a man was standing by the ball we walked into the opening of the ball I dropped my arm to my side "why are you all wet Nell?" asked Mrs. Price
"she was on the top deck when it was raining." I said
"you better hope you don't catch a cold missy."
"mom you don't have to worry so much about me, what about Simon." Said Nell
"he isn't the one that's shaking, and he knows that I care about him too." Mrs. Price took off her sweater and wrapped it around Nell we walked into the ball I sat on the side opposite from the others with the luggage and the operator he pulled a lever and a glass door shut on the ball and we started sinking a screen popped up and a move started playing a man sitting at a chair who looked like that statue "Hello my name is Andrew Ryan and I'm here to ask a question. Is a man entitled to the sweat on his brow?" Andrew continued talking, while I stopped listening but the screen pulled away to reveal a whole city under water the sphere moved into what I think is a dock, it went into a three metal rings along the rings in neon lights was "everything flows into Rapture" we raised up into a big docking area were a few people were standing around or they were walking slowly around to one place or another the glass door popped open Nell and Mrs. Price walked out me and Mr. Price grabbed the suitcases and walked down the platform to a desk with a woman siting there as we approached she smiled and reached for a clipboard "the Prices?" she asked in a voice that sounded too nice to me
"yes, this is my wife daughter and… Simon." Mr. Price said he hesitated on my name
"ok then." she handed Mr. Price a ticket "this is where you'll be living, I hope you enjoy living in Rapture." Mr. Price left, the rest of us followed him to a train Nell stood beside me "guess this is where we are living now." She said
"you didn't believe it till now?" I said
"kind of, but I don't even know if I want to be here the rest of my life."
"who said you had to?"
"I don't know, but I want to have a family and a big house, not some apartment under water."
"then leave once you finished school."
"will you come too?"
"I'm your shadow its my curse to follow you." I smiled
"yeah I know but you love it." Nell said the train stopped and we Followed Mr. Price off the train and into an apartment building our new home and the start of a new life maybe it will be a better life of maybe it will be worst only time will tell.