A HiJack Story ~ One Sea; Two Secrets
Chapter 1 ~A young sailor's dream ~
Jack stood at the edge of the shore. The rocks making his stance uneven. The wind twists and mixes the waves as he stares over the horizon. 'I wish, I could just run away,' He thought as icy cold air nips his nose,'Get in a boat and sail every living inch of the world'. Jack sighs as he turns around, balancing himself on the rocks.
"Out and about a little early aren't we?" said a woman whom smiles as Jack walks up to her. "You can never be to early to look upon the magnificent beauty that is the Atlantic Sea, and you know that Rapunzel," Jack replied as he jumped over the last rock. Rapunzel sighed as she shook her head. A smile crept onto her face; Jack was such a kid at heart. He looked like such a strong, intelligent young man, yet he had the heart and imagination of a five year old child.
Jack had always loved the sea. He yearned to sail those raging waters. Yet, this seemed also familiar... as if, he had been this way before. Rapunzel put down her basket and held onto Jack's hands with her own. "Oh!" She cried,"Jack your hands are freezing!" Jack smiled. He loved Autumn. It was the season brother of Winter; Jack's most beloved season. He spent all day chopping wood for the Autumn and Winter fires, he forgot how wonderful it felt to be outside and just... breath... ~
Jack's POV ~ I spent many days inside that overheated lodge , my mother, sisters, my father and I call home. I spent brief minutes outside getting the wood. Taking in small sharp gasps of the blissful icy air. 'I can stay out here forever,' I thought that day before my mother called from the house to gather the logs and come inside for supper.
My youngest sister Emma, squealed with delight when my mother said that she could go outside after dinner as long as she bundled up in warmer clothes and if I went outside with her. Of course I agreed. Yet, like the minutes I spent chopping logs. The time my sister and I spent outside was short...it was fun at least towards Emma's concern... yet, it felt dull to me. It was like I needed MORE time outside. It was like the air was saying my name in short wisps ,"Jack... Jack." And every night, I leave my window open, just to hear the distant sound of the waves, crashing themselves into the grasp of the seashore rocks. This is how I was to fall asleep at night, yet every morning, my window is shut tight and I mutter a few curse words under my breath to the mythical beings hopping they could hear.
I remember the voices of the waves as they crash onto the rocks every night. "Jack," they say,"Come to us." I want to. I desperately do. I want to just jump upon those rocks, and I just wanna jump. All the way into the very presence of the sea. I want to stay there. For eternity. Yet, I know that there's no such possibility that it would ever happen. So, I ignore them for yet another night. 'Please,' I plead every night as the waves rock me to sleep, 'Please, give me a chance." I plead those damn words every night hopping something... ANYTHING... would change. Yet... nothing ever did. ~ End of POV.
