Suji inhaled sharply, aware as Melody screamed her guts out beside her. Her ears felt like they were exploding from the terrified shrieks from Melody: the fact that she was on the door of death itself did NOT help at all. If anything, it just made her want to cover her ears and pull herself into a tight ball, as she had always done at school when she had gotten bullied. Yet, she did the logical thing and tried to sharpen her senses, clinging onto her consciousness.
Everything is fine. Just put your legs together and inhale when you feel the water right at your feet, Suji thought to herself, trying to calm herself as Melody gripped tightly onto her, the poor girl squeezing her own eyes shut. Suji gulped as the mad ocean waves came closer and closer to her, reaching out as if trying to grab on her leg and drown her. I can inhale at 3... 2... 1-
Suji opened her mouth to inhale deeply just as something or someone reached out and grabbed her right underneath her arms: they pulled her upwards.
"Caught her!" a familiar voice yelled over the winds next to her ear.
Suji yelped in surprise as Melody's hand was torn apart from her. Suji frantically reached, yet her hand searched through the empty gusting winds; fear gushed into Suji. What if the other girl fell into the churning ocean waves? Although Suji had met Melody only recently, she felt sorry for the hydrophobic girl. Yet when she glanced over at her, a girl wearing a black long-sleeved jumpsuit was pulling the other girl up from the furious ocean waves: Suji let out a sigh as a gush of relief swelled up inside her. The new girl had dark indigo hair with a single navy blue streak tied neatly into a ponytail. The black jumpsuit had two sky blue strikes at the end, trailing from the cuffs of her sleeves to the bottom of her ankle. The girl's hands tucked underneath Melody's arms, which made Melody spread out her arms like she was trying to mimic the letter T. Suji was in the same posture, except that Melody was frailing like a dying chicken. Not that Suji had anything against chickens. Suji would have felt bad for the indigo girl if she wasn't feeling bad for herself already.
"Are there any more captives on the ship?" the boy behind her asked, still pulling her up: Suji felt her loose hair flapping wildly against the wind.
"Yeah, there is a hatch at the deck, and there are people underneath it. We were underneath there, too, before they threw us off for whispering underneath our breaths. I know, they had the most pleasant house-keeping service," Suji replied. Although she knew that she'll drown if the boy let her go, but hey, who can miss a chance to be sarcastic?
"You heard that guys," the boy said, calmly ignoring the last bit: Suji felt one hand slipping out underneath her. Suji grabbed tightly on the other, holding on for dear life. "Find a hatch on the deck, keep in cover. We will get out from the bottom," in reply, muffled voices started answering: causing Suji glanced back slightly in confusion. The boy was wearing a single silver piercing on his right ear, pressing it slightly as he talked. "Go on ahead before us. We will join in soon."
"Where are we going?!" Suji yelled over the gushing wind, unable to keep her voice steady like the mysterious boy.
"To someplace that will keep you safe from pirates," the boy replied, his voice went up a note higher, probably indicating that he was smiling. "And someplace safe from other monsters as well."
"Wait... MONSTERS?!" Suji cried back in shock.
"Yeah, you know, monsters, demons, devils, pirates," the boy stated, unfazed by how unrealistic his sentence sounded. "And et cetera, et cetera."
Great. Today was going great for Suji. One moment she was in the most boring lecture of history, then she got captured by pirates that smash class windows. She was then almost drowned by a random-freaky-hydrophobic girl she just met, and now this boy is stating the impossible like it is an everyday situation. How worse can her day get? Suji sighed and nodded swiftly, thinking that if she heard another word from him, she'd start doubting science and all the whatchamacallit lessons. Or she might accidentally slip out her suggestion of, Get a brain surgery first before you talk again, Mkay?
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Worlds Collide(The Wish)
Fantasy⚭ Thirteen-year-old Suji Choi was not a fighter. She was not a lovable child with cupcakes and rainbows, nor did she care about a single thing in the world. What she was, though, was that she was a suicidal girl who lived this world with the thin...
