Chapter One
A young man sat on the dock looking out at the water. His light blue eyes scanned the deep blue ocean and the many ships and boats in the harbor. About five men on a small boat drove by. There loud voices echoing throughout the harbor. Mathew Hooper paid them no mind. They were just stupid men who had a death wish. He was a scientist not a saint. A sudden loud crash brought him out of his daydream. The men in the boat had just crashed into the pier. Nothing more. (They better get out of the water, the shark…) Damn. He was still thinking about that day. But who could forget? It had only been 2 weeks ago for godsake! Hooper put his head in his hands and sighed. "Will I ever get over that?" He took a deep breath and looked back out towards the water. Many questions ran through his mind. Why was he still in the town? Shouldn't he go back to the city and write about what had happened and his new discoveries? He didn't have any answers at the moment to any of them. All he knew was that it had been 2 weeks. It has already been 2 weeks and he still wakes up at night in a cold sweat. A passing ship made him quickly turn his head. It reminded him of the one they were on. Before everything happened. Tears threatened to come but he quickly hid them by laying his head once again in his hands.
Chief Martin Brody was still trying to debate whether to go over to the young man or not. Being comforting was not something that he was good at. Hell, he had trouble comforting his own kids. He cares a lot for the young man and felt bad for him. But even thou their friendship had grown over the past weeks, he still couldn't go up to him and ask him if he wanted to talk about the incident. In a way, he was glad that Hooper didn't want to talk about it. The thought of having to relive it was almost too much. He just couldn't imagine what the kid was going through if he felt his terrible. After all, he was the one in the water. Brody watched as Hooper rested his head in his hands. Something strange came over the older male as his feet moved on their own towards the small male. Only when he was inches away from his friend, did Hooper finally notice someone standing behind him. Hooper tilted his head up to see his friend half smiling down at him. To most people, you would think that he was smirking, but Hooper learned that that was just him smiling. "Hey Chief. You want to sit down?" Brody said nothing as he bent down to sit next to the lonely young man. "Great view, huh kid? Yeah, it's very... um peaceful." Brody noticed that Hooper's eyes were locked on something in particular. Turning his head to see where he was looking, left him feeling embarrassed for the new town that he lived in. The six men who crashed their boat was know fighting in the water screaming at one another that it was the other persons fault for causing them to crash. Brody quickly turned away to stare out at the calm ocean. "Damn idiots! I don't know why I had to move to this town." Still staring at the fighting men in the water, Hooper spoke in a serious voice to Brody. "Maybe you wanted to be the only smart person in an area?" Brody turned towards him and gave him a large smile. "You know, that maybe it." This got the two of them truly laughing for the first time in 2 weeks.