AUTHORS NOTE: this is the second chapter from "THE TOWER", it´ll take awhile for me to upload again since i´m going through a lot right now, i´m from chile so be gentle with my English, it´s not perfect but I try!

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Chapter II

Little ducks where moving along with their mom passing behind us, Spencer took her camera and started taking pictures of them. "Amy is never going to believe me if I don´t take enough pictures of this, here" she passed me the camera, and I took it wondering why was she giving me her cam, "are you going to tag along with theme and join the family?" I told her grabbing hold of the object wile sending her a teasing smile. She just laughs at that and tells me to take pictures of her with the little ducks and proceeds to move where they are. I take a couple of pictures and return the camera to her "you are not quite what I was expecting" I say and she stops her movements and looks up to meet my eyes with a worried look in hers. This sends a shiver down my spine, did I messed up by saying this? "What do you mean?" she says eyeing me suspiciously, I look away and start rumbling something about school and my friends, then meet her eyes once again to find her standing up in an uncomfortable way, with both hands in her pockets. "Did someone said something about me?"

"Everyone is on everybody else's business right? Plus we do share the same school" I smiled at that; something tells me that I better not tell her everything that has been told to me. Since I've been here wasting my time with her she's been cool and I don´t want to angst her with thing that she can´t deal with, she is too far to do something about it.

After "the family" went somewhere else we started talking about our families and interests and everything people talk about when they first met. I told her about my obsession with songs that no one knew about and how I got them from movies that no one even cared existed. And she just asked questions as if I really were an interesting enough person. It really did make me feel a little more important than most people do. We started walking after an hour or so to where we were supposed to meet with the rest of the group for our noon appointment with the sailors on the pier for our trip through the coast of New Plymouth.

When we got to the meeting point there were 2 more girls, one of them was Monica, she was an over the top girl with a screaming type of voice that always got me wanting to stab her a little bit. She had dark long hair and bright clothes with a matching pair of boots (for the mood of the seas as she told us) as we got closer she just looked at me with a blank expression as telling me WHAT THE HELL! And I just shrugged and looked in to her eyes that asked me questions I didn´t know how to respond to. Danielle was the other girl waiting there for the rest to get there. She was a girl I used to be friends with, when we were younger we used to do this pj parties and told every other girl about our first kisses and things like that, it was a far memory now. She had shorter hair than Monica, her eyes were green and she had lighter hair and better clothes if you asked me, she wasn´t over the top at all, and her smile was something that always got to me, why did she smiled that much is still a mystery for me.

"Hey girls! what are you two up to" Danielle asked sending us both one of her beaming smiles.

"I´m bonding with my new friend" said Spencer almost trying to embrace me. This made me look at her with a strange look and move a little bit far, and as she noticed my reaction, she moved away giving me back my space once again. This made an awkward silence appear and we all just stood there looking at each other faces.

"Well, that´s cute" Monica said, a teasing smile entering her features. I just did what I always do in this kind of situations; I turned my back to the three of them and lighted a cigarette. As the rest of the group got to the meeting point our teacher told us to keep up with her and we all walked until we got near a little bus, this motorizes little crap was supposed to take us to the pier. I got in the little crap first and sat in the last row of the bus next to the window, took out my ipod and pressed play to one of my many songs to start sounding through my ears. Then I stared out the window and entered in to my own little world.

The rest of the group started filling the bus and took their places, there were four rows in the bus, with 2 sits in each side, me in the last one on the right next to the window, and as the rest of the bus got filled, there were just two sits open. One right next to me and another one next to our teacher that was on the other side on my row next to the right window. Danielle approached me and took one of my earphones off. "I'm going to sit by you, and I don't want you to be complaining like a little pussy ok?" I stared at her for a minute like if I were thinking about it; there was nothing to think about really, I was just messing with her. "ok" I said and smiled for her to know that it was really ok to sit by me, I don´t bite, even if it looks like that, I really don´t. she smiled back at me and asked, "what where you doing with her in the morning anyways" she looked strangely at me. "I got lost and she kind of found me" I said shrugging and looking away.

"Aaw, isn´t she you savior" she said wile laughing; I looked back at her with a blank expression. "Who is you savior" Spencer asked me as she turned around in her own sit right in front of me. I looked uncomfortably between her and Danielle a couple of times and then focused my attention back on my ipod. "Why are you listening to other people's conversation?" Danielle said.

Spencer made a clumpy movement not knowing what to do and immediately turned around again. I laughed at that.

"And what was that?", Danielle said again eyeing me suspiciously. "I don´t know what are you talking about" I said looking out the window to the sea that was right in the open.

We got to a place called "Big John´s Seas", it was a place where you could rent big boats and get on them with a guide (and his dog) and sail through little islands covered with walrus or sea wolfs I'm not really sure of what they were, because of the distance, (not because of my myopic syndrome or my ignorance by the way). As usual I got dizzy (I don´t belong in the sea…sorry?) and guess who was the first one to notice.

For those of you who thought it was Spencer neeeeeeeee! WRONG!

"What´s wrong?, you look kind of pale" Johnny said sitting next to me. He was much smaller and skinny than most guys his age, brown hair and red eyes like no one knew before; he had a strange disease that made his eyes look like he was fucking stoned all day long. He looked like a little boy but his pervy comments and approaches to the feminine community showed otherwise.

Yes, you do look kind of pale, are you ok?, Spencer said knelling in front of me. Her hands went directly to my shoulders sending a strange tingling sensation trough my upper zone. Weird, what is this!, maybe if I repress it deep down, yeah…much better.

Ok so as I was saying, "yeah, I don't feel so well, maybe if you guys don't block my precious air, it'll be a little less suffocating" I said forming a big fake smile. Yep I'm like that, don't judge people.

Spencer finally took conscience of her hands standing over my shoulders and stepped back, was that a blush I just noticed?, it couldn't "I have stuffs on my back pack if you want to eat or drink something" she said before storming away.

Johnny stayed by my side, "I don't think it's too kind of you to be shooing people all the time you know?, maybe if you give them the chance for them to know you and for you to know them then things will improve a little for you, I think the more you get to know people the more you get to know you and love you". He said looking directly in to my eyes, and for a brief moment it felt like it really mattered, it felt like someone was finally looking farther than obvious behavior permits.