Chapter 1
She looked around her and saw nothing but water, just like she wanted it to be. Or so she thought, she wasn't so sure anymore. A few years ago she would have given anything to be in this situation; surrounded by nothing but water, no family to cause her pain and the space to be what and who she wanted to be. But this meant nothing now, how could it? In place of her heart there was a gaping a hole. She thought getting away from it all would do her good, focus on working for a while and try and forget about some things. That plan had failed epically. Every night she was haunted by the image of Charlie standing on the pier; every night she crawled onto the hard mattress and tried to think of happy memories but whatever she thought of she still ended up with the same image - Charlie.
Joey woke with a start, she had heard someone calling her name. She scanned the room but there was not a soul in sight and assumed she must have been dreaming. She pulled herself up and suddenly realised that her pillow was wet and assumed she must have knocked a cup of water over during the night that was standing on her bedside table. She glanced over to the table and saw that the time was only six am then she saw that her cup was still sitting on top of the table perfectly fine. Clearly it hadn't been the cause of the damp pillow. Confused, she got up stretched and walked over to the mirror. Her eyes were puffier that they usually were in the morning and it all clicked - she had been crying in her sleep.
She grabbed a few clothes from her drawer and started getting ready when she heard someone call her name again. The voice sounded so much like Charlie's that suddenly her palms were sweaty and butterflies had found their way into her stomach. For a minute she imagined Charlie standing outside her bedroom door but then reality came crashing down - she was on a boat in the middle of the ocean, there was no way Charlie could be here. She turned around examining the room, but there was no one else there except herself and the door was shut. She figured it was just her mind playing tricks on her due to the lack of sleep.
She took a deep breath and tried to forget all the Charlie related thoughts that had just invaded her mind. She grabbed her shorts put them on then grasped her t-shirt and slung it on, not caring what she looked like. She tiptoed out of her room careful not to wake anyone, grabbed her iPod from the table and went up on deck. Before she knew it she found herself lying on deck and staring out to sea listening to her iPod, it seemed it was all she did nowadays.
Half an hour had passed when suddenly she saw a shadow in front of her. She immediately got up, pulled her headphones from her ears and turned around, then became nervous at the sight of who it was.