Chapter 5
I must have fallen into a really deep sleep, because I don't remember how long the captain kept up the pounding on my door, but it looks like I slept through all of it.
My arm hurts and my chest hurts and my mind hurts. But when I wake up, the first few bleary looks around my room on seaquest calms me and makes me smile, it doesn't matter what happens, this has been the best home I've ever had, even if it has been only a few months.
I roll onto my side, oh god, bad idea,
"Aghhhh damnit!" I yell as pain shoots up my bandaged arm, I clutch it trying to dull the pain as much as I can.
It's quiet, god, how can a submarine full of people be this quiet? It's unnerving. I look at the clock, and I swear there's something I'm forgetting, it's early morning, really early. What would I have to do this early in the morning? I mean its not like I have any friends to hang out with is it?...
"Oh god damnit!" I yell out loud. Friends, best friends, jenny! Oh god, how could I fall asleep and forget it all like that?
I don't know where the Captains gone but he's not outside my door any longer, that's for certain. I storm out of my room and run down the passageway that leads to the shuttlebay. I'm too late, I know that as soon as I round the corner, I can see there's no one there except the seaman that's on duty guarding it.
I stand there staring, frozen in time as it were, until a voice sounds from behind me,
"Hey Lucas, miss us? Because we sure as hell missed you!" I spin around and find myself standing just a few feet away from my best friend, jenny.
Only it's not jenny that spoke, it's a young boy, around my age, wearing baggy jeans, just like mine, and a short sleeved T-shirt over a long one, just the way I like to, when the Captain, or another aged member of the crew's not telling me how stupid and scruffy it looks. And to finish it off, he looks just like jenny, only male, you know, more masculine.
Then he brings me out of my daze by speaking again, "Lucas man, don't tell me you've forgotten me."
I hear my voice, but I can't remember giving my self permission to speak. "Course I remember you man, it's just been awhile you know."
I mean, of course I remember him, how could I not? He's the main reason I'm here, if it weren't for him calming down my father when we met up with him then I think my father would have gladly let the state place me in a foster home or something.
I'm grateful and everything, but I'm still mad, I wouldn't have even have been in a situation like that if it hadn't been for him, but hell, no, I haven't forgotten him, that's for sure.
"Lucas, sorry, I had to let him come, he wouldn't let me leave till I told him where I was going, and then he demanded on coming with me. There was nothing I could do, honest!" its jenny pleading with me now, I must look like I'm in shock, or mad or something. Shawn's her brother after all, and he's my friend, or at least he used to be, I'm not so sure anymore.
I'm about to answer her, but I don't. I'm just too busy staring at the Captain who's standing right behind her, giving me a death stare right this minute, to be very talkative right now.
I must have fallen into a really deep sleep, because I don't remember how long the captain kept up the pounding on my door, but it looks like I slept through all of it.
My arm hurts and my chest hurts and my mind hurts. But when I wake up, the first few bleary looks around my room on seaquest calms me and makes me smile, it doesn't matter what happens, this has been the best home I've ever had, even if it has been only a few months.
I roll onto my side, oh god, bad idea,
"Aghhhh damnit!" I yell as pain shoots up my bandaged arm, I clutch it trying to dull the pain as much as I can.
It's quiet, god, how can a submarine full of people be this quiet? It's unnerving. I look at the clock, and I swear there's something I'm forgetting, it's early morning, really early. What would I have to do this early in the morning? I mean its not like I have any friends to hang out with is it?...
"Oh god damnit!" I yell out loud. Friends, best friends, jenny! Oh god, how could I fall asleep and forget it all like that?
I don't know where the Captains gone but he's not outside my door any longer, that's for certain. I storm out of my room and run down the passageway that leads to the shuttlebay. I'm too late, I know that as soon as I round the corner, I can see there's no one there except the seaman that's on duty guarding it.
I stand there staring, frozen in time as it were, until a voice sounds from behind me,
"Hey Lucas, miss us? Because we sure as hell missed you!" I spin around and find myself standing just a few feet away from my best friend, jenny.
Only it's not jenny that spoke, it's a young boy, around my age, wearing baggy jeans, just like mine, and a short sleeved T-shirt over a long one, just the way I like to, when the Captain, or another aged member of the crew's not telling me how stupid and scruffy it looks. And to finish it off, he looks just like jenny, only male, you know, more masculine.
Then he brings me out of my daze by speaking again, "Lucas man, don't tell me you've forgotten me."
I hear my voice, but I can't remember giving my self permission to speak. "Course I remember you man, it's just been awhile you know."
I mean, of course I remember him, how could I not? He's the main reason I'm here, if it weren't for him calming down my father when we met up with him then I think my father would have gladly let the state place me in a foster home or something.
I'm grateful and everything, but I'm still mad, I wouldn't have even have been in a situation like that if it hadn't been for him, but hell, no, I haven't forgotten him, that's for sure.
"Lucas, sorry, I had to let him come, he wouldn't let me leave till I told him where I was going, and then he demanded on coming with me. There was nothing I could do, honest!" its jenny pleading with me now, I must look like I'm in shock, or mad or something. Shawn's her brother after all, and he's my friend, or at least he used to be, I'm not so sure anymore.
I'm about to answer her, but I don't. I'm just too busy staring at the Captain who's standing right behind her, giving me a death stare right this minute, to be very talkative right now.