See, I'm finishing it...
I know its crappy... I'm sorry... :(
I don't really know much about what happened after that. My father never liked to talk about it.
I know he went back to the house and hid there for a few weeks waiting to see if Sunny and Beatrice would turn up.
But they never did.
What he did with those few lonely weeks perplexes me. I imagine he sat in the house which used to be his home and cried, holding me closely.
I imagine my father felt the most alone he had ever felt in his entire life and the only person he had for company, the only person he could trust was me. And I couldn't talk or walk or communicate in any way with him.
He must have been the loneliest person in the world for a very long time.
A few weeks after the death of my mother while hiding in the house my father began to smell smoke. It was the bad side of the schism and they were burning down all the memories of the place my father and his family called home.
That was when Quigley fled, he rented a boat and using his cartographer skills went to the only place that he really felt safe.
The place he wished he had never left,
Even when it was his idea to leave in the first place.
The island where Isadora, his sister was buried.
He tells me the house looked a lot different when he returned, it was even more run down and desolate, but it was the only place Quigley felt safe and he wanted me to be safe.
Even since I was born my father talked to me, about everything. VFD, this whole schism, it was like I was the only person in the world he could trust.
And he put all his hurt and grief onto me. I enjoyed his stories and began to document them writing everything down in a notebook which once belonged to my father.
And that was how I came to write my story, on a tiny island in the middle of no-where.
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Diary entry: 15th February
I'm 12 today and today is the day I'm going to finally leave this desolate island. 12 years I have lived without friends and only my father for company.
My father didn't want to leave, he tried very hard to persuade me but I want to leave, I want to start a life of my own.
I want my father to finally move on from Violet, I want to see him happy again.
And the island is a place of escape, but it is not a place of happiness.
I want to experience friendship, and romance and all the other things most normal girls get to experience.
I'm looking forward to my new life and whatever it throws at me.
So right now I'm sitting on a boat floating towards Briny Beach, I can see it in the distance and I'm so excited.
There looks like there are a few people on the beach although I can't make out their faces or anything, there is also something very shiny it looks like someone is holding up, the sun is reflecting off it quite magically created rainbow patterns everywhere.
I'm so ....
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That was when he shot him, the hook-handed man. It didn't even occur to me that he was him hovering over Briny Beach. I didn't even see it coming but the harpoon flew right through the air and hit my father in the chest.
He gasped and fell to the floor of the boat, but he didn't die right there and then, he lived and suffered and spoke to me about how much he loved me and how much he wanted me to turn the boat around and sail back to the island.
I tried to sail it back to the island for him, but he never made it back. My father died on the way there.
And I didn't go back to the island, I sailed towards the Beach and when I got there the hook-handed man was gone.
I pushed the boat carrying the body of my father back onto the shore, and I sat on the beach and cried as my whole world fell apart.
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