Today was not a good day; the rain came down heavy at my mother's new Benbow Inn, Mrs. Dunwoody blabbering on about her damn purp juice.
And here I was, in the kitchen thinking if I should've stayed with Silver. To be a runaway and live life the way I could've. Collecting treasure from places and be a...A pirate.
Could that have been a better life for me?
"Jim!" Here she goes again, my mother, Sarah Hawkins. Screaming my name, I had a hunch...It was because I wasn't at my new job. "You haven't missed work, have you?" She tentatively cradled her locket around her neck, her big blue eyes searching mine as I sat here, crumpled by the kitchen double doors.
She looked tired, today. Her hair came from her ponytail and frayed down the side of her head, her lips were cracked and bags were forming under her eyes.
No. I couldn't have left my mother to do this by herself. Well, she gets help of Doc, but he has a family now with three baby girls and boy with Captain Amelia, well Amelia now, since she's put of ship work for awhile now.
Then there was B.E.N and Morph slithering by his side.
"Hello, Jimmy!" He said with such enthusiasm. His arms balanced 3 plates on each arm. He smelt like stale brass, since he is a robot, her pixel blue eyes configuring his emotions. And Morph carrying a plate, his little eyes on me with his mouth hanging open and tongue flickering as he panted. "Why are you here? Haven't you got a job to be working?" Even with his mind back from a few months ago, he was still the old B.E.N we all know.
"No," I stood up from my slouch and squared off my mother.
"Jim." She exclaimed, not knowing where to put her arms and quietly took two plates of B.E.N and exited silently.
I sighed; the heat from the kitchen was too much for me.
I left the Inn and made my way down to the Cliffside. Rain hit me like pebbles; it was so much harder today. It was going to rain like this for a few more days, as predicted.
The rain soaked my big black jacket loose around my arms and big black boots shiny from the clean they're getting.
"Agh!" I threw a smooth pebble into the crashing waves. They were big and black, also. Thundering towards me and colliding with the walls. I dropped onto a nearby bench, squinting at the skies to see lightening flash and ships come in to the Benbow Inn.
I covered my face in my hands, angry I can't do anything right.
Then something caught my eye in the water, green and scaly, swimming almost, and then the sight of flesh and locks of blood red hair.
I stood bewildered, my fringe flicking into my eyes and breathing suddenly ragged.
There, in the storm, a girl was swimming, her red hair flowing behind her. But she had a fish tail for her waist down! I rubbed my eyes, the sound of thunder clattering my ears, and when I looked back down into the black water it was gone.