I was swimming. I felt so alive and calm and water was just perfect. Everywhere I looked, I saw different types of fish and the like.
Something tapped me. I turned around, I felt a huge smile come onto my face. Not something, someone. I would've fainted if I was on land or something.
But this person in front of me was my everything. I loved them so much.
"Hey Carlos."
I couldn't speak
"It's time to wake up."
"Come on Carlos, you have to get up."
I started to panic .I didn't want to leave my dream sea world.
"You'll be fine. I'll see you soon."
BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!
I groaned at hearing the annoying sound. Blindly looking for the off button, I rubbed the tired from my eyes. I sat up slowly, squinting my eyes beause of the bright light.
"Carlos breakfast is ready!" my dad called from the other side of the door.
"Coming Papi!" I called back. Swinging my legs to the other side of my bed as I stretched the remaining sleep from my body. I walk to the bathroom to take a shower.
As I waited for the water to heat up I thought about yesterday. After we found out that my dad won again, James would kept complaining about Clayana. Which I could understand kinda. But seriously?
"Dude what am I gonna do?"
"About what?"
"About Clayana. She's been acting weird since the party. I would try to dance with her but she pull away and storm off. I tried talking to her but she get all stand offish. What am I supposed to do?"
"You've been with her for how long now?"
"Almost two months."
"Then I would say, give her some time then ask her what's wrong, if she says nothing then it's nothing drop it right then. Whenever and however you can just be there for her."
James took a deep breath to calm himself. "Yeah, you're right. I'm probably just over reacting and it's most likely nothing. She'll tell me if I just give her time."
But that was yesterday. So it would be no surprise to me if he was still freaking over it.
Once I deemed the water showering worthy, I striped out of my sleep wear and hopped in. I washed everything with my cinnamon scented soap. Two minutes later I walked out of the bathroom and into my closet. I settled on a black t shirt with a purple jacket and a pair of dark shorts. After pulling on a pair of socks I made my way down stairs. I saw my dad at the table working on a cross word puzzle. I smiled at his focused face. " Good morning Papi."
He smiled back."Good morning Carlos. Come and eat I made chocolate chip pancakes."
"Great, I love pancakes." I say sitting down next to him. "I didn't get a chance to see the trophy, is it shiney? Does it glow in the dark? How big is it?"
"It's about as tall as my shoulder, it's really shiney , but sadly it does not glow in the dark." he answered my bunch of questions while giving a light chuckle.
'How much did you win by?"
"I beat Gill by two and a half points. The little sore loser threw a hissy fit."
I laughed. "That sounds like him. Tell me you got that on video?"
"Every second."
For the next twenty some odd minutes, we made small talk from school to family to toast.
"Oh I almost forgot." my dad started "You can't come by the restaurant until one. We've got a health inspector coming. Think you can handle being away from it for three hours?"
"I can handle it, I'll just hang out with James, until then."
"Then you do that. But I'm gonna head over now, don't do anything illegal ok Carlos?"
"No promises." I say getting up and placing my dishes in the sink.
"Ok I'll see you tonight." he said kissing my forehead.
"See you later Papi." Leaning against the counter I puled out my phone and called James. "Hey are you doing anything today, James?"
"No, not really. Just lazin' around the house with Clay."
"Oh. I thought she was mad at you?"
"I thought so too. But I guess not seeing as she showed up at my house sweetly demanding that we go to the boardwalk and then the beach."
"Oh."
"Well you do know that you can come with us right?"
"What? I knew that. Anyways that sounds like fun. When are you guys leaving?"
"Whenever Clay's ready. In the time it took for her to pick out what she wanted to wear, I was able to pack up the car." he laughed.
"Seriously?"
"Yea man. She couldn't pick between a striped bikini and a polka dotted one."
"I'm sure she'd look great in either. Like it matters anyways."
"I guess to her it does. So currently I'm sitting outside sitting on the ground waiting for her."
"I bet by the time I get there all dressed and ready, she'll be skipping down stairs to you."
"So you'll be here in ten?"
"Five."
"Sounds like a plan I'll see you in a few."
On a normal day, I would have taken the ten minute walk to James' house. But seeing as it's either I'm lazy or there's an emergency, we figured out this shortcut that made going to each other's houses easier.
I went upstairs to replace my shorts with a more water friendly pair, taking off my socks I slipped on my flip flops. I grabbed my keys and phone and I left my house. True to what I said I was in front of James in five minutes.
"Hey, Carlos." he smiled. James was wearing a tight brown tank top and camo shorts. "I take it your'e ready to go?"
I playfully rolled my eyes."Well duh."
A few seconds later Clayana me out wearing a blue tank top and s short green skirt. "Hey babe you ready?" she piped happily
"Of course I'm ready, and Carlos is gonna tag along with us."
"Oh that's great. We'll have tons of fun, just the three of us."
"Awesome then let's go!" I cheered. We all piled into James' car and off we went towards the board walk.
When we arrived, the first thing Clayana did was basically man handle James out of the car and drug him to the game booths. "James you should win me a prize" she said smiling.
When I caught up to them, James gave me this look that read 'please help me'. I shook my head."Hey James let me have a few bucks."
"Why?" he asked taking out his wallet anyways.
"Because you and Clayana are gonna do couple things and I don't wanna be the third wheel." Well that was true, but in reality, I just want to find that guy again. If memory serves right the person I saw yesterday resembled a boy. And I don't also want to walk around with no money.
'Well ok, but remember Carlos, text me if something happens, and meet back here in one hour."
I take the cash from him. I waved him off. "Yeah yeah now go and frolic or whatever, I'll be fine."
"Alright fine, remember one hour!" he called as Clayana drug him away. I watched their fading forms and I couldn't help but wonder when I would be in a relationship like those two? That question bugged me as I went to get some cotton candy. And it was yummy might I add. I went from there to trade in a twenty dollar bill for games and ride tokens. I attempted to play that dart game and I know now that my aim sucks. Badly. I went and played something that I knew I could win, and that was whack- a -mole. After that I rode some fast rides but I came to the conclusion that I really didn't want do anything until I found that boy again.
As I walked towards my dad's restaurant, which I knew I really shouldn't even be by, I go to the back. I was standing over the edge, a familiar spot. I put my hand in the water and waited. Within a few seconds I felt something touch my hand. I look down and another hand was lightly gripping my upper arm. On the sides of their wrist, there were these fin like things sticking out. Then I met those piercing eyes once again. We held our gazes for a while when I looked around us. I couldn't help but feel like we were being watched. He started to stoke my arm lightly, not that I minded anyways.
I let do what he wanted to with my arm, when I started to think. If he looks like a human with human characteristics then I would like to think that he can talk or understand me a little. "So uh do you live here?"
He just looked at me and furrowed his eye brows a bit. " Living under water must be...nice. Living on land is nice too."
Still nothing. "What am I trying to ramble on about? Do you even understand what I'm saying? Do you understand English?"
He looked up at me with slightly wide eyes and nodded his head. I wanted to jump up and down. I smiled "Oh rally you can? That's fantastic!" my happiness didn't last long as that weird feeling came back to me. I know some one else is here, I can just feel it."Hey uh I gotta go...I'll see you lat-"
His grip on my arm got tighter and there was this sad lost look in his eyes. Dang. What was I supposed to do or say to that face? I looked around for a moment before I spotted this palm tree in the distance i by the beach, perfect.
"I have to go now, but I 'll met you by that palm tree ok?" he nodded at me before reluctantly letting his hand drop back into the water, then turning to dive under.
Once he was gone, I looked around to make sure that no one was really there before I headed off to the meeting spot me and James agreed on earlier, like fifty minutes ago.
"You remembered." James said walking up to me.
"Yes I did."
"I don't know why but I thought you would have forgotten."
"That just shows how much faith you have in me." I stuck my tongue at him. "Where's Clayana?"
"Right here." she said behind a mini mountain of toys and trinkets. I looked over to James who just rolled his eyes. I didn't want to question it as to why she had so many but that felt like a lost cost. Together the three of us walked down to the beach.
"James why don't you go on ahead and find us a spot?" Clayana said. James went anyways muttering a 'fine' as he pouted.
"So what do you think?" Clayana asked grabbing my attention
"About what?"
"The guys walking around in trench coats? They were every where, asking people questions and following people." I knew it my gut feeling was right from earlier.
"Who would wear a trench coat when it's really hot outside?" I asked.
"I don't know I guess those guys. But they looked really important, like they worked for the government or something."
"Oh I hope that they won't go around arresting people if that's case."
We met up with James a few minutes later. He asked us if the spot was good, and my response was that I don't care every spot is the same to me. Clayana seemed fine with it for she tore off her walking clothes and was sitting in her striped swim suit, playing in the sand. We splashed around a bit. James and I took turns dunking the girl under water. Of course then after James ran out because he said that he didn't wanna be too wrinkled. Clayana ditched me to go surfing, and I was fine with that, for I had better plans.
I made my way out of the deep blue liquid and I saw the palm tree. It's not super tall but you could still see it. It's like on it's own little island so to speak, a few steps away from the beach. I did the action to get the guy to show his face again. I felt his hand grip my wrist. "Hey." I smiled down to him. His eyes glittered with happiness.
"Sorry I had to run off like that. But I can't help but think we were being watched. I think we should stop meeting by the ledge."
His happy expression faltered. He started to panic, making the water splash as he turned his body in every direction looking for some one who could be watching us.
"Whoa, calm down there's no one watching us now. I'm sure you'll be fine as long as you don't go to that ledge anymore."
He nodded slowly. I gave him a small smile. "I'm Carlos by the way. What's your name?" I mentally slapped myself. I knew he could understand me, but that doesn't mean that he can talk back. When I least expected it, he lifted the hand that wasn't holding my arm in a death grip, and showed me his palm. In the center in medium sized cursive letters spelled his name 'Logan'.
"Logan?" I read aloud. "Your name is Logan?" He nodded smiling at me.
"Can you talk Logan?" he looked way from me before nodding once again.
I wasn't sure if was because we had the unspoken trust that we both knew was there or if we were comfy with each other in the short time we knew each other but I had this feeling that he was a tad bit insecure. "There's nothing to be shy about, Logan it's just me and you here." Logan nervously bit his bottom lip as if he was thinking. I could tell I wasn't going to get anything out of him yet, and I was fine waiting if that was what he thought was best for me to do. But I really wanted to hear his voice. It's great enough having his looks occupy my thoughts, so to hear his voice would make it better.
Wait a second, what am I thinking? I barely know Logan. Logan barely knows me. So how is it that whenever I have a thought process all I can think about is Logan? We were both guys. How would this even work seeing as I'm more human than he was? How would get to know each other just in case we liked the other a lot more than we thought?
I was torn away from my more current thoughts when I felt Logan pull on my arm. I didn't think nothing of it, like before I let him do what ever to my arm. I on the other hand was stroking his wrist fins. they feel much softer then the look. They had a delicate look to them as if me touching them at any given moment they would break in my hands. The longer I touched them, the more I started to like the feeling they gave to my fingers. This was really all we did for the next forty minutes. It was just comforting silence I just hope it lasts.
