Shattered Soul
Chapter 10- Broken Heart
"That's why your tail and dorsal fin look like that?" Hurley couldn't help but to stare at my body's dorsal and tail fin.
"Yeah. The doctor said I was lucky; anyone would have already died because of the loss of blood," I replied when I finished, "he said I was very strong for my age. After that, Lenny was sticked to me the whole time when we went to school; sometimes, that annoyed me."
In fact, after the incident with Paolo, Lenny would always follow me around, no matter where I went. Even though Paolo and his goons had been frightened away by Pop and their parents had scolded them pretty badly, Lenny was wary. He knew they would not stand a chance against me, and that I would always protect him. How I missed those days…
"Hey, how much do you weight?" Hurley brought me back from my thoughts; I noticed he had taken my body over his back. Apparently, he found my body was very heavy.
"Oh, come on! I only weight a middle ton." I defended myself
"Just tell me where your fishy friend told you to take your body,"
"She told me to take it to where nobody could find it,"
"The only place I know is near the whale-wash, in the storage room. Actually, nobody uses it,"
"Bad news, my brother is hiding there,"
Suddenly, an idea entered my head. If Angie had given Hurley the so-called Vision temporally… could she possibly give it to Lenny…?"
"Good question," suddenly, I heard Sonia's voice sound in the back of my head
"WAH!" I looked around frenetically, expecting to see her floating around, but she was nowhere around
"Hey, are you alright?" Hurley asked me in concern
"Yeah… I just thought I heard Sonia's voice…"
"That's exactly what happened," Sonia's voice spoke again
"Sonia? Where are you?" I thought, still looking around for any sign of her.
"I'm with Angie, "
"Why are you in my head?"
"I'm not in your head, not at all. We're speaking using telepathy, it's another of the advantages of being a ghost," Sonia explained
"But the catch is that you can't have any privacy," I thought in annoyance
"Anyway, what did you ask?"
"… I was wondering if Angie could give the Vision to Lenny… at least for a little while…"
"She could do that, but it would have to be at night, when nobody is looking. Why?"
"I'd like to speak to him,"
"... fine, I'll tell her later. She'll have to go work soon, but I've got great news. The potion's done."
"Really? How is that potion going to bring me back to life?"
"Well, you must enter your body and we'll pour the potion into your body's mouth. After that, the magic will do the rest,"
"Can we do it tonight?"
"I'm afraid not quite yet; the potion will need some time to assimilate. You can drink it tomorrow,"
I sighed in annoyance; I had to wait a whole day to drink a forsaken potion?
"Like I told you before, I don't make the rules, I just follow them,"
"Hey, sharkie," I heard Hurley's voice, which got me out of the trance. However, the nickname he called me…
"Don't call me sharkie!" I snapped annoyed
"Where is the reef from here?" he simply stated
Uh-uh… that struck me. He was right; I hadn't actually seen where I had gone while I had been attracted to my body. How long would it take us to find the reef?
"I don't know…" I muttered under my breath, "i think it's over there…"
I swam towards a random direction, Hurley following me while trying to carry my dead body…
… But it took us various hours to find the reef, especially because we had not a map I refused to ask for direction. That reminded me of when Lenny, Pop, Mom and I would get lost every time we went on vacation, due to the fact that 'men don't like to ask directions'. It was not until Hurley took the lead that we actually found the reef, but it was almost night. Hurley was exhausted, having had to carry my body for almost twelve hours; I felt bad for him. When we arrived to the reef, the first place we went to was the Storage Room. I wondered where Sonia was…
"Hey, Sonia, can you hear me?" I thought, expecting her to answer
But strangely, she didn't reply. Funny, ain't it? When I want to speak to her, she doesn't reply and when I want privacy, she speaks out of nowhere; I laughed softly at the thought. When we arrived to the storage room, however, I heard voices inside. Oscar and Lenny were speaking about something… I wondered if Angie was with them. I turned to look at Hurley.
"Wait here,"
"Sure… *pant*… *pant*…" Hurley was taking deep breaths
I sighed and swam through the wall. Angie was sitting on a closed bucket of paint reading the newspaper, while Oscar and Lenny were making a high and low fin.
"And hey, hey, Casanova- I saw your big finish on the news!" Lenny grinned at Oscar, but I noticed Angie was quite upset when those words escaped his mouth, "nice smooch, lover boy,"
Wait a minute, Casanova? Lover boy? What did I miss now?
"That's private!" Oscar replied
"Private?" by now, Angie had left the newspaper on the bucket of paint and was swimming towards Oscar, "the entire reef saw you do it!"
I swam towards the paint and took a peek at the newspaper… I saw a picture of Oscar being kissed by a very HOT female lionfish. I understood what was wrong with Angie: she was jealous. I turned to look at them.
"What's gotten into you?" Oscar asked her in confusion
"Me?" Angie growled, "I swear, sometimes I wanna take your big dumb dummy-head, and just…"
Then she punched her fin several times. I perfectly knew what that meant, I often did that when Lenny got me into a VERY BAD mood. Meanwhile, Lenny was peeking at them from behind a curtain.
"What's going on?" Oscar turned to Lenny, as if thinking he knew what was happening with her.
"I'm gonna stay out of this one…" Lenny hid behind the curtain again.
"Why would you even care about Lola?"
"I don't!" Angie replied
"You don't!"
"No!"
"No what?"
"I don't know!"
I sighed in annoyance. And where the heck was Sonia right now?
"Just tell me, Oscar, 'cause I'm curious," Angie swam a few steps away from Oscar, "why do you think she'd even be with you if you weren't the famous Sharkslayer?"
"Please don't fight," Lenny tried to break the tension between them, but to no avail.
"At least she treats me like I'm somebody," Oscar replied in annoyance
"But would she love you if you were a nobody?" Angie was starting to lose patience
"Nobody loved me as a nobody!"
"I DID!"
The three of us went silent. That explained lots of things, like why she hadn't simply gone and revealed the truth to the whole reef. Angie swam away from Oscar, who was as shocked as Lenny was, and her faces changed from anger to hurt.
"Before the money, before the fame…" she turned to look at Oscar, "… before the lie. To me you were a somebody, Oscar. Now you're nothing but a fake. A sham. A con… you're a joke…"
Each of those words seemed to strike Oscar right at the heart.
"Here I come…" I heard Lenny's voice once again, "ta-da!"
What I saw froze me right in place. I could not believe what I was seeing… Lenny was dressed as a DOLPHIN! He had painted himself in blue and white, there was caution black and yellow tape wrapped around his neck like a scarf, and there was a utility bell around his waist. Actually, I didn't have anything against dolphins anymore, but I was the only shark. if Pop saw this…
"Sebastian, the whale-washing dolphin," Lenny made some Dolphin squeaks, but that didn't seem to distract Angie and Oscar from their argument.
"Angie…" Oscar tried to get closer to her
"No, forget it," Angie retorted still hurt, "just go. Because I'm tired of hearing how ev3eryhting you had in your life wasn't good enough… including me."
Oscar was speechless. He looked at the ground sadly and swam out of the storage room, Angie sniffed. Lenny swam a bit closer to her…
"Angie?" he asked in concern
"Oh, honey, I'm sorry," Angie apologized, trying to blink her tears away, "go, go back and do it again,"
"Hey come on," Lenny dried a tear that was coming out of her eye with his fin, "it'll be ok,"
Angie smiled slightly at him. I felt so bad about her… I swam closer to her and tried to put my fin on her shoulder… she finally seemed to notice I was in there too. However, Lenny didn't understand what she was looking at.
"Angie, what are you staring at? There's nothing there," Lenny was trying to find the thing she was looking at.
Apparently, Angie thought now it was the best time to tell him about me.
"Lenny… there's something I need you tell you…" she started, nervous notable in her voice, "… about your brother…"
THAT caught Lenny's attention; he turned to look at her, confused.
"My brother? What do you mean?"
I was speechless… how would Lenny react to this? I thought that he would react the same as Hurley did when Angie told him.
"… He's… a ghost…" Angie gulped
"… What…?" Lenny was looking at her in confusion
"I… I can see his spirit, I know it's hard to believe but it's the truth!"
"Angie," I spoke up, "we can give him he vision, just like Hurley,"
Angie turned to look at me.
"But Sonia's not here…"
Lenny was freaking out a bit, seeing Angie speak to no one… in his vision, at least.
"I can do it with you…" I suggested, remembering Sonia's absence
Angie swam up to Lenny's head, and placed her fin on his forehead. I did the same, an soon the same light from before shone.
"Angie, what was-?" Lenny was seriously freaking out
"Look over there," Angie pointed at me
Lenny sighed and did as told…. Then froze in place. His cheerful green eyes were looking directly into my hazel eyes; I could see he was more shocked than anything. He swam a bit closer to me.
"F-Frankie?" he mumbled, still in shock.
"… hi, Len," I tried to smile, but I couldn't find it in my heart.
There was silence for a moment, it seemed like it lasted an eternity. Even seconds seemed eternal. Finally, after all this time, he could finally SEE and HEAR me… then it happened.
"FRANKLIN!"