Running as fast as he possibly can, Myde runs from yet another fight. Where he ends up, he doesn't know. With a whimper ready to escape, he holds it back as he flies by everyone. Unable to stand up to another bully, he ran. The city blurred past him as he fled, he didn't slow when he reached his house. He heard the crash of the shoreline in the distance and he had found where he could take refuge. Knowing that no one has came down to these parts of the beach, since a kid of six years old died here eight years ago. The horror of the death lingers in everyone's minds, yet he found peace and himself on the cliffs of the Dover Shores, he collapses and he listens to the music that the waves make. Footsteps break his concentration and causes him to see who found him. A friend from school had found him; he joins him on the cliff as Myde sits up.
"I thought I had seen you run this way." His friend stated.
Myde sighed and smiled, but said nothing.
"Who was it this time? Who were you running from now?"
Myde stood up and looked out towards the horizon
"Rayne." Myde looked down to his friend.
"The Rayne Comness?"
"The bully of the bullies...Rayne Comness."
"You got to stand up for yourself...what'd you do to him?"
"He claims that I had stolen his girl and that I took his popularity away from him."
Myde's friend laughed.
"It's true…that is what he said when I asked him, Leo."
"I talked to her before the almost fight."
"You talked to Betaleana?"
Leo looked up at Myde. "Yeah."
"What'd she say?"
"'I don't know why he wants to fight him; Myde never did anything to him. He was the one that had this coming.' She also said that she had found him with another girl. 'He should've known that I wouldn't stay with him after I had found that out.'"
"She said that?"
"Yeah."
Myde sighed and turned to look back at the horizon. "And now instead of a bad boy know it all...she's got a suffering coward."
"Myde, don't talk down about yourself, you know it's not worth it."
"But it's true. Look at me Leo…do I even look like a person who could have any potential here?"
"I see all kinds of potential, Myde; it's you that needs to release it. But the one potential I see in you right now is the kind to be brave and be who you were meant to be."
"Leo...what would you say if I told you that I am going to leave?"
"Depends on the day you leave and coming back."
"What if...I'm not coming back? What would you say to that?"
Leo looked at Myde then down at the water then back to his friend.
"Don't you dare, Myde!"
"What?"
"Myde, what are you thinking?"
"Nothing suicidal, if that's what you're asking."
Myde saw Leo release a huge sigh of relief as he took a sideway look to his friend.
"Leo, I'm asking you this, because I want to go and explore. I don't want to be coped up here on this big old piece of land. I want to be out there…in the water and explore that only exist in our textbooks. I want to be somebody not anybody. I've ran all over this spit of land, the only place I found to be myself is right here on this edge of the sea listening to the crash of the waves. There's no potential for me there...at home. I've seen what this land has to offer, but nothing is calling out to me more than the sea. You had found yourself in that boat shop...with next to no 't it be nice, if someone other than local fishermen or boatmen waiting for you to open the door and have a booming business?" Myde tore his gaze from the horizon and looked at his speechless friend. "I know this is where my life is leading me...I just know it. But I know too that I'll miss this rock and everyone I became friends with and loved. However, the sea is calling. I could hear my name being called out amongst the waves, every time I listen to them. I feel...whole…here. You always tell me to be myself and stand up for myself. This is me...the one talking to you...the one that is standing here talking. Not the one back there inland, that one is the coward. This one feels brave and feels like he could do anything he wants to right at this moment. Haven't you noticed the difference yet? When I'm inland, I feel...torn apart and broken...but here at the shores of the ocean I feel at peace and whole with myself.I feel as if I could just forget about all of my worries. Haven't you noticed this? Betaleana has...and she's willing to to let me go if needed. She sees the differences more when she and I are at the beach not in some town with only one or two friends." Myde then turned his back to his friend and noticed the sun was nearly sitting on the horizon. "Come on, it's getting late and mother will be wondering where I was all this time."
"You know, Myde, it would be nice to have more customers."
"Perhaps I could give you that, if I could place us on the maps." Myde smiled.
"And how exactly are you going to do that?"
"I don't know yet...but I will figure it out before I leave…and I haven't decided on when I'm leaving. So I have time to think about it."
"They parted ways once they reached the town. Myde had leftovers from the dinner that his mother made for them. Then he went up to his room and found Betaleana on his bed.
