Dolphin Tale: Through our son's eyes
Chapter 20
Well 20th chapter! How cool. And also you might have seen in the last few chapters, Shawl and Bailey of course become best friends. And Sarah's back but I won't include her in Shawl's adventures for a little while. Anyways enjoy.
The next day
Sawyer had everyone gathered in the downstairs area for a small meeting before the day began. "So you've all been here less than 2 weeks now kids." He began. "And I want to say that I find your progress going really well. My son has told me great things about you all and how you were able to help him carry out tasks and such." He explained. "So we've actually decided to send out reports to your families just to notify them. Any questions?" Shawn held up his hand. "What do the reports tell our parents?" "Just how you're getting on that's all." Sawyer explained to them.
Later that day Sawyer asked Shawl and the two Australian kids Jaymin and Dana to help him. "So guys what we are going to do is return some turtles who are better to the ocean. " He explained. The kids stood by a pool that had a few turtles swimming in it. "Okay so the process is simple we're going to try and lift them straight out of the pod and into a basin." Shawl said. They then attempted to lift them out. "Careful now guys." Sawyer said as he carried one out and placed it in a box. Jaymin then leaned into grab one, in fact he leaned in too far that he nearly fell in. Luckily he didn't. They eventually had all the turtles sorted out. "Good job guys." Sawyer smiled. "It was hard." Dana said.
Afterwards they went to a local pier and onto a boat. "So this is where we're going to let the turtles go back into the ocean now." Sawyer explained. "The three of you are going to float in the ocean and I'll handle you one each. Then you return it to the water." He explained. Once all three were in the water, using snorkels of course, he then got the box of turtles ready. "You all set?" he asked them. Shawl gave him a thumbs up. "Yes dad!" he said. "Okay then here we go." Sawyer said as he took out a turtle and handed it to one of the kids. The kids all watched as the turtles swam lightly underwater.
Later that day Shawl was cleaning the pool side to Winter's pool. It was late and most of the others had gone home. When he wasn't looking he got splashed by Winter. "Hey, what you doing?" he asked as he turned around. Winter made a dolphin sound in response. Shawl went to get a towel to dry off his back but Winter splashed him again. "Hey, can you stop that?" he asked turning around. Winter seemed to make a noise that sounded like a laugh. Shawl got close this time holding out the rubber duck that Winter enjoyed. "You want this?" he asked holding it up. Winter went for it and tugged it so tight that Shawl went splashing in as well. When he resurfaced, he saw Winter up close to him. "Wow this must be like how my parents did it when they were my age." He chuckled. "You wanna play?" he asked. He was pulled across the water by Winter's rostrum connecting to his foot. He even held onto Winter's fluke as she swam alongside. After a while he was just simply holding onto Winter's back.
"Shawl, what you up to?" a voice asked. He turned around it was Bailey. "Oh hey man, I was just playing with Winter." Shawl responded as he got out. "She wanted me to." "What you doing here? I thought ye all went home about an hour ago." "I just needed to collect my bag I forgot it." Bailey said.
Afterwards, both boys were walking out of the hospital. "So Jaymin was saying ye guys were sending turtles back to sea huh?" Bailey asked. "Yep." Shawl said. "Twas good fun."
So yeah that's it for this chapter. Also little hint, the early ending is a bit of a cliff-hanger. See yas!