Shattered Soul

Chapter 4- The Storage Room

I followed Oscar and Lenny all the way in the sewers to nearby the Whale Wash, stopping when they stopped and moving when they moved. Finally, Oscar peeked out into the dark street to make sure there was no one around.

"Alright, just follow me and don't make any noise," Oscar indicated

"Okay…" Lenny whispered, "oh, an echo. Echo!"

I shook my head in annoyance, Lenny could be SO childish at times, and suddenly I heard a smack.

"OW! It's not okay to hit!"

I growled lowly; Oscar had SMACKED my brother! Only I could do that, no one else! He was SO lucky I was dead… Oscar quietly swam out of the sewer and Lenny tried to follow, but got stuck. I swam through him and looked around; the street was empty, there was no one around. I noticed Oscar was trying to help Lenny out of the sewer. Suddenly, we heard a siren; damn, a patrol… Lenny managed to finally swim out of the sewer and Oscar pushed him to an alley. I didn't bother to move; nobody could see me, anyway. The dolphin patrol swam by and, as I expected, didn't even notice me. Oscar motioned Lenny to follow him and snuck towards the Whale Wash storage room… but when Lenny tried to imitate his movements, he knocked down various things and ended head-fist hitting a garbage chute. I sighed in annoyance and smacked my head, that boy could sometimes be a complete moron. I swam towards the storage room just when Lenny was swimming in there and Oscar was speaking with a crab that had peered out from the garbage chute. It surprised me that I hadn't heard Sonia's voice for a while now, she apparently was the silent type of girl.

"I'm still here," her voice sounded just before I swam through door Oscar had just closed

"hey, are you a mind reader or something?" I asked her in annoyance

"more or less, every time you think something I can hear it. I'm the Keeper, remember?"

"whatever," I growled

"what's with that attitude of yours?" Sonia growled slightly angry

"hey, I'm Great White! We're the terror of the ocean, we're not supposed to be friendly with our dinner!"

"is that all sharks think of? Dinner?"

"Forget about it, you wouldn't understand.

After that, I spoke to her no more for now. I had told her enough. I swam through the metallic door and noticed my brother was hugging his tail with Oscar next to him.

"… I'm a vegetarian," Lenny whispered shamefully before flopping on the bed and covering his head with the pillow, and peeking his eyes to look at Oscar. To me it was clear Oscar wanted to laugh, but he repressed it quite well.

"That's all?" Oscar still tried not to laugh

"What do you mean that's all?" Lenny cried in desperation, "you're the first fish I've ever told, I'm tired of keeping it a secret!"

At this point, Lenny had stood and was floating in front of Oscar, poking him with his fin.

"And my dad! He will never accept me for who I am!" Lenny cried with notable sadness and hurt in his voice, then he sat back on the bed, "what's wrong with me?"

Oscar tried to calm him down

"Nothing' is wrong with you, man. I think all sharks should be like you,"

"God, that's sweet of you to say," Lenny looked up at his new friend

"And stop blaming yourself for what happened,"

"Really?"

"If you wanna blame anybody, blame me. if I hadn't been there on the first place, none of this would've happened,"

Then Oscar turned and started to swim away.

"Jeez, if Pop knew that, he'd ice you for sure," Lenny commented while looking away

Oscar chuckled and turned to see my brother

"'ice'? What's he, the Godfather or something?" he chuckled

"Yeah," Lenny replied

"What do you mean?"

Yeah, he is,"

Suddenly, Oscar's grin vanished in the blink of an eye and a horrified face drew on his features

"Hey, are you okay?" Lenny inquired in concern

"Do you mean… Don Lino is your father…?" Oscar mumbled in terror, fearing to hear the answer

"Uh… yeah?"

"Would you excuse me?" Oscar tried to force a grin as he swam towards the door, opened it and swam out before quietly closing the door.

I felt curious and swam through the door to see what had happened to Oscar. The last thing I saw for now was that puny fish swimming at top speed while screaming in terror. I chuckled slightly as I swam back inside. I noticed Lenny had fallen asleep… I swam closer to his bed, how I wanted to stroke his head… but when I tried, my fin went through him.

"Hey, Frankie…" I finally heard Sonia's voice

"What?" I growled softly

"Since we're going to stay here for a while, wouldn't you mind telling me a bit about how you reacted when you found out you were going to have a little brother?"

I turned to face her in surprise, her icy blue eyes showing curiosity

"Why do you want to know?" I narrowed my eyes at her in suspicion

"Just curiosity,"

I sighed as I sat down on Lenny's bed and closed my eyes; why shouldn't I tell her? I have nothing to hide, anyway. It was just that people didn't bother asking.

"Get comfortable, this is going to be a long story,"