Thirty minutes later we arrived at our destination, or so I thought. "Where are we?" I asked Tony but he only looked at me and smiled as he got out of the car. I followed after him and he ended up leading me to the dock. He hoped on an old boat and helped me jump in.
"This boat? I would've thought you had a mini Titanic or something." He chuckled and shook his head.
"Oh I do, but this one is my favorite." I stared at him in confusion, he was most centernly joking, was he? The noise of the motor starting startled me, before I knew it we were heading out into the sea.
"Where are we going?" Without looking up from the steering wheel he replied.
"South Brother Island."
I raised my eyebrow in confusion. "Wasn't that place abandoned like 40 years ago or something?"
"45, actually, and it's mine now. Bought it 2 years ago." He said with a smirk on his face. My mouth hung wide open.
"You bought a freaking island?!" He nodded proudly. Land started to appear in the distance.
"2 million dollars well spent." I couldn't help but laugh.
"For an abondoned island, why would you want it in the first place?"
I noticed his face expression changed and he stopped the boat. "It's not just an abandoned island, it's so much more than that. There is something about the empty the streets, the buildings being over taken by the thick foliage. It makes you feel good again, it clenses you." I sat there in silence for a few minutes.
"Damn that's deep."
He chuckled and went back to steering the boat.
"I know huh, I'm the whole package." I rolled my eyes and laughed.
"Yeah sure."
Ten minutes later the tip of the boat hit the old ran down dock. It looked like it was about to fall apart. Tony hoped off and tied the boat to the nearest pole. I followed after carefully not wanting to step through the cracks in the wood. The damp smell of the wild life filled my lungs.
It had recently rained so it was muddy everywhere, but the beauty of the island was worth ruining my shoes for. I ran to what looked like an abandoned hospital. Unfortunately, my shoes weren't that great with friction and I slipped, landing loudly on my ass. Tony ran over and to my surprise he slipped too.
"Hahahah!" He had landed harder than me and he ended sliding down the mud on his back. His whole back was covered in mud. I was laughing so hard tears slipped down my cheeks. My face was now red because of how hard i was laughing but I stopped when i felt something hit my chest. I looked down at shirt and saw it splattered with mud. Tony busted out laughing when he saw the surprised look on my face.
"Oh no you didn't!" I gasped, already making a mud ball in my hands.
Before we both knew it we were complety covered in mud and our stomachs were hurting from laughing. We were a long way from the dock by now. The mud war turned into a game of hide and seek somewhere along the way. I was hiding in an old run tower with two mud balls ready in my hands. The noise of leaves crunching behind caught my attention, before he could throw the mud ball at me I had hit him with mine. It hit it straight in the face and I ran out of there before he could get his revenge.
"Keep up old man!" I shouted as I was running towards the old boat stuck on a big rock by the beach. After ten minutes of hiding and absolute silence I started to get worried.
"Hello? Give up already?" I slowly walked out of my hiding spot and started to walk back into the town, with two mudballs in my hands of course. No response, just more silence.
As I was making my way back into the street a huge ball of mud hit me in the chest. I stumbled back and felt another ball hit me, and then another, and then another. This went on for a good 2 minutes until i was laying on the ground with my hands in the air.
"YOU WIN YOU WIN I SURROUNDER!"
The mud balls stopped and Tony came out of his hiding spot bending over with laughter.
"I win, you lose! I got you so good you should've seen your face!" he choked out and continued laughing loudly.
I pushed myself off the ground and shook some of the dirt off.
To be honest, I was quite impressed. Maybe he wasn't as bad as I thought.
"Nice job, old man. You win this battle." I said with a smirk on my face.
It was almost 8pm and the sun wsa starting to set down. My stomach was growling, all I had today was half of that Starbucks from the morning.
Starbucks, oh shit. I had completely forgotten. We were walking back to the dock, both of us too tired to keep up a forced coversation.
"I'm sorry about today it won't happen again." I said awkwardly. The guilt of everything I had done was starting to come back to me and it was hitting me in the face like a bitch.
He stayed silent all the way to the boat. He waited for me to hop on before untying the boat and hoping on, he sighed and took a deep breath.
"When I was your age my parents would never be home, he'll I barely got to see them through out my childhood. They stuck me with this Italian maid while they traveled the world doing business. I was desperate so I started to rebel to catch their attention." He confused.
It shocked me how similar our lifes actually were, like father like daughter I guess.
"If you want my attention break a vase or something, just don't kill anyone okay?"
I chuckled and nodded.
"Deal. Now how about we go get washed up and get some hot wings huh?"
