I watch the horror staged in front of me...I never knew it would be like this...especially not to him...it was joke...right?...did I kill him?...i thought it would be fun to muck around...what have I done?
Gordon's POV
Everyone develops a habit; either stress,work or general related, but mine involves by brothers. Growing up on a remote island in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean; surrounded by rugged mountains, beautiful oceans and the best jungle you could have as a backyard, that's my life in a nutshell. I'm only 20 and I act like a 16 year old. Supringisngly, my youngest brother is 16 and he's more mature than me. Let me tell you a summary of my life. There are 5 of us, we live with our Grandma and a couple family friends; one an engineer and the other our housekeepers daughter. My father is Jeff Tracy, ex-astronaut and billionaire, but you won't see much of him around. He died when I was 18; plane crash. He bought the island and founded an organisation which helps people globally with issues in a matter of minutes; International Rescue. 5 amazing veichles; a space station operated by my brother John (geek), a mini submarine controlled by yours truly, a space rocket driven by my youngest brother, Alan (pest), a heavy lifting and demolition veichle, controlled by my brother Virgil (idiot) and a fast, supersonic jet, flown by the Mother Hen of my brothers; Scott.
Even though we have the organisation and act super serious, we still know how to have fun. John comes down from time to time, but he's usually up in space manning the station. It's summer, so Christmas time is near! John comes down for 1 month and spends 4 months in space, but for Christmas he spends 2 months with us. As I grow older, as well as my brothers, I've grown a passion for the sea. Anything water related, I'm fascinated. Im like my brother John except he has a fascination for SPACE! Although we get into fights, we are the closest to each other (sorry Alan!). I'm going off topic; on Tracy Island (our home) it's summer and Christmas is 2 days away and summer time = water; water fights, pool parties and beach days! I've doing this thing lately where I grab or push my brothers in the pool, everyone is getting sick of it, yet I never did it to Johnnie. I'll surprise him, when he comes down. I can't wait, it'll be awesome to have everyone here for Christmas, especially Lady Penelope, -sighs with happiness- oh and...uh..Parker. Everyone says I have a crush on her, which I don't, because, well...pfft...she's a friend of mine, even though I feel a different way with her. I don't know, it's just something about her...she's perfect. Did I just say that out loud? Don't tell my brothers, please!
I see Alan in the distance, right next to the pool. I always did this to him, I don't know why, maybe because he's not Scott or Virg? I don't know. I sneak up behind him, his hair creamy yellow, whistling in the evening breeze, he stares towards the ocean and watches the sunset. I run up behind him and push him forcefully into the 2 metre deep pool. His body falls forward, his arms flailing everywhere, he looked exactly like a hummingbird and created an eruption of water to shoot out.
"GORDON!" Before he could give me eye contact, I bolted off into the jungle, only to see my other 2 brothers come out as they heard the cry for help. Mother Hen Scott knelt by the pool, followed by Virgil and tried to lift Alan out of the pool, but I couldn't resist the opportunity. I ran up behind the lot of the them and pushed all of them into the pool, but I was dragged down too, apparently someone grabbed my arm. Virgil had landed to top of me, the guys heavy, trust me, therefore I had to kick him. I resurface to find 3 of my brothers, treading water, looking at me with deadly looks. I look at them with innocence and a pleading look of forgiveness.
"Very funny, Gordon" I look to my 'leader' who had his serious face on and giving me a lecture of water safety, but, hello, I'm an aquanaut of one of the biggest rescue organisations. If I can save people from drowning in an underwater lab, I think I can save people from a slip on the pool slide. "But you'll have to stop one day, it may seem funny at first, but one of us could get hurt, badly and you'd be the one in trouble."
"Come on, Scott, I just push people in the pool, besides we have a medic on standby..." Virgil looks at me with his 'are you kidding me?' face "...mostly and a trained aquanaut. What could go wrong?"
"Let's get out of here, I'm starting to freeze" I see Alan start to shiver and realise it's night, and so push him out of the pool. We walk back in to find Grandma standing there, very unhappy. We looked at each other and realised...we forgot to dry off...
"How many times do I have to tell you boys, don't walk right into the house without drying off, I just cleaned the place" No one wanted to see the wrath of Grandma, especially not Scott. Even though she's the head of the household and our Grandma, she can get really attached to us. Even when we were really sick, we love her but, she can be annoying.
"It's Gordon's fault!" I turn to see my brothers point their fingers at me and place me in the spotlight.
"Go have a shower and go to bed, its late" she points upstairs and we look at the clock and it's only 7:35pm. But never argue with Grandma, otherwise you'll have to do manual labour otherwise clean up the entire house and do everyone's requests. We just walk upstairs and go to our individual rooms before Alan screams out;
"2 DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS!"
We all love Christmas, especially Alan. Just don't mess with him on the day, and it's perfect, meaning no jokes or pranks on him. We just went in our rooms, and we all went in the shower. Scott usually takes the longest, but today I just have a weird feeling, as if something bad's gonna happen, is it what Scott said earlier? Could I hurt someone? If I could, then who? The water from the shower head hits my head, as I look down and think for a bit. I do most of my thinking in water, it's what I do best. I changed into my shorts, jumped into bed and I stared into the ceiling. I was just about to go to sleep, when I heard the familiar sounds of a space elevator landing; John's home. I run out my room to see, well the rest of brothers outside in the hall. I ran down the stairs but my brothers, didn't do the same?
