Dolphin Tale Chapter 23
Wow…..It's been so long….sorry guys a lot's been happening. Just had some rough times in like college and stuff and other kind of personal stuff and I just thought I'd take a break for a while. Well I'm back now and ready to continue Shawl's adventure. To be honest now 23 chapters I should really be planning the middle half and then the end half hahaha. I'm thinking if I get past 30 chapters or so then I'm good to eventually finish off the story from past 30. So uh yeah thanks for reading this update and enjoy this chapter.
Shawl was lying on the couch watching TV. There wasn't much on, so he was just flicking through the channels. He heard his sister crying upstairs. "That'll keep me some company" he said to himself as he walked upstairs. He walked into Abigail's room and saw her sniffling slightly. "Hey girl, woah you're getting heavy." Shawl said as he lifted his sister out of her crib and carried downstairs. He was sitting on the couch and waving a teddy in Abigail's face when the parents arrived home. "You still up?" Sawyer asked as he put his jacket on the coat hanger. "Yeah, didn't feel like going to sleep yet." Shawl said. "But it's 11pm at night." Hazel said. "Still it's only July. Not like I have school in the morning." Shawl said. "Also, Abigail just wanted me to give her some attention." He added as he stroke the baby's cheek. "Yeah you're doing your big brother duties perfectly my boy." Sawyer said as he patted his son's head. "Anyways Shawl you might want to go upstairs and get your stuff ready for next week, the rookies are coming back from their break." His mom informed him. "Sure, then I'm going to go to sleep anyways. Goodnight mom, night dad." Shawl said as he took Abigail upstairs. 'Brush your teeth" Hazel called up to him. Sawyer then sat down and turned on the TV. Hazel sat next to him. "You know earlier today he told me, he snuck up to Kyle's house and did the doorbell ditching prank. He's some messer I have to say." Sawyer said to his wife as she sat next to him. "Did he get caught?" Hazel asked. 'Well no but Kyle told me that Sarah spotted him from the window as he cycled off. Perhaps he got away with it from there." Sawyer laughed. "I think he's handling himself quite well after he managed to get the girls to stop fighting for him."
Meanwhile upstairs in his room Shawl was reading a book about Dolphins. He had loads of them so it really didn't matter which one he'd read.
The next week
Shawl was the poolside in the early hours of the morning. He sat there with his feet sticking in the water. He held Winter's rubber toy duck ring thingy in his hand fiddling with it slightly. He threw it in the water and within ten seconds Winter had it under her rostrum and was tugging Shawl's foot to give it back to him. "Thanks girl" he smiled as he patted her nose. "Hey man!" a voice with an Australian accent said behind him. He turned around and saw Bailey standing above him. "Oh hey Bailey what's up!" Shawl said as he fist pounded Bailey. "Nothing much, just ready to start hanging out here again!" Bailey led him out to all the other rookies who were chatting around each other. "Well welcome back guys!" Shawl said as everything screamed with delight to see him again. "So come on, I'll show you all Winter." He led them to main area where the large windows lay on the walls. "Don't worry she'll come by any minute now." Shawl said as they waited for Winter to appear. She then eventually did.
Later that day, everyone was taking a break, Shawl and his friend were sitting on the pier outside the hospital. However when Shawl looked around, he noticed Rufus the pelican was looking into the water. Looking suspicion he walked over. Bailey saw him go over and ran over to join him. "What you looking at?" he asked. "I don't know, this pelican is just staring into the water. My parents have told me he discovers quite a lot of strange things." Shawl said. "Well there's definitely something in there. Let's have a look!" Bailey said. They stuck there hands into the water and felt around, it was wet, hard and kinda moist. "It must be huge." Shawl said as they struggled to try and get. However they eventually managed to grab hold of something and fetch it out of the water and what they saw was a big surprise. "Wow, look at the size of this thing!" Bailey said as they saw that they and fetched a large seal out of the water. "Wow a seal!" Shawl said also surprised. "Aw look its eye is injured." Bailey said as he examined the injury on the seal's left eye. "What are you guys looking at?" another voice came over, it was Gary one of the other boys in the group. "We've caught a seal with an injured eye. Go get my parents!" Shawl instructed. "Right!" Gary said as he took off. The others saw Gary running into the aquarium and then turned to see Shawl and Bailey examining the seal as it lay down on the dock. So they all ran over to the boys. "What is that?" Shawn asked. "We found this in the water. It looks hurt around its left eye. Gary is gone in to get Shawl's parents" Bailey explained.
Tell ye what I'll leave it there. OOOOOOHH Cliffhanger! Anyways I am sorry about not updating in such a long time, it just has been a difficult time for me that I didn't know what to do. But hopefully I'll have another one up next week :) See ye!