I Must Protect Them

Chapter 4 - First Crewmate?

All around me was slaty blue water pricking at my eyes. I held my breath but I was slowly getting deeper and deeper. I was thinking about struggling but it felt unnecessary. 'So fate really is cruel huh.' I cruelly laugh at my own predicament. 'Actually I think I'm the idiot, going out to sea and can't even swim.' I close my eyes as I give up and decide that maybe it's better if this is my end. I slightly smile. 'At least my family won't have to suffer because of my existence.'

Just as I'm about to drift off to where you go when you die I feel something roughly grab my ankle and yank me up. Surprised I open my eyes to see the blonde, who I thought was quite stupid earlier, dragging me towards the surface. As I let out the breath I was holding for so long bubbles of air surround me under the water.

The surface was so close but to no avail I don't see light anymore and all is black.

"Thump............thump.......thump.. thump."

"Ack *cough cough* *cough*" I sit straight up headbutting someone in the process and grip my shirt above my heart. "Auggh." Is all I can manage to do. My heart and lungs burn so much from all the intake of water. *Cough cough* Tears stream down my face and down my neck.

Through blurry tear filled eyes I look around me to see I'm on S/n. *Cough cough cough* "H-how?" I look up at the sky still clutching my chest. "But I had already given up.." I say towards "fate".

While staring at the sky and not paying much attention to much else I feel something shaking my shoulders rather harshly. Finally being out of my dazed state I look to whatever or whoever was shaking me like a maniac.

"HEY! Look at me! What did you get brain damage or somethin!? I saved you! Right you're good right??!" The blonde man was shaking me by my shoulders back and forth yelling all kinds of words at me. I only stared at him blankly.

"I'm...I'm fine." I say looking down at my lap. "Uhm eh thank you for saving me."

"What kind of idiot goes out to sea by themselves and can't even swim!" He says finally letting my shoulders go and standing up. "Ugh moron." He says putting his palm to his forehead.

I finally shake off my depressed mind set and start to get annoyed with his insults. "At least I'm not an moron who tries to sail the seas in a canoe I stated. I stand up and walk towards my little cabin that's my room.

"What did you say? Shouldn't you be a little more thankful to the one who just saved you??" He says in an offended way. "And I'll have you know i wasn't even plannin on "sailing the seas in a canoe" it just sorta ....happened." He thinks while holding his chin.

"Mhmm sure canoe man." I roll my eyes not believing him. He seemed like a total ditz to me who would absolutely sail the seas in a canoe.

"Whatever lady." He says while walking to the edge of S/n. On the side where his canoe is. He looks down at it with a disappointed face and sighs.

While at my cabin door I go in and grab two towels and wrap one around myself and exit the cabin with the other. Outside of the cabin I see canoe man look down dejectedly at his little canoe.

I walk over to him while standing in front of him I unconsciously wipe his face dry and not thinking anything of it. I would always do this for my big brother so it was a no brainer for me. After I was done with his face I dried his hair roughly still kind of annoyed from his name calling.

"OK! okay ow you can stop now, I never asked you to be my mom." At that he snatched the towel from me and slapped my hand away. As he dried himself he had slightly pink cheeks and it suddenly dawned on me what I had just done.

"A-ah I'm s-sorry." I turn red from embarrassment. "I'm just so used to doing that with my big brother." I held my cheeks and looked away from him. "Forgot that just happened." I walk away clutching my face.