The Senior Trip by Trent Wes

Chapter 7: Capsized

                  "Row faster." The captain commanded as he and the staff members from the cruise ship rowed away from the crashed ship. The "captain" was Jimmy Nickles, a thief who only cared about money. He had killed the real captain and took his suit before throwing the real captain overboard and crashing the ship. He then stole a hidden supply of money in a lock box. There had to have been at least $500,000. He had set a bomb within the ship that would go off within a set amount of time that would give him plenty of time to get away from the ship. Then, he gathered the few staff members from the ship and forced them into the escape boat. He would force them to help him escape. Then, once they got closer to the shore, he would kill them.
                What the captain hadn't expected was how severe the storm would get. Lightning forked the sky and the rain pelted down on him and the staff members. The waves began growing higher and higher. "We're gonna die!" One of the female staff members screamed over the storm. Jimmy ignored her and forced them to continue rowing. When one of them stopped, Jimmy held them at gunpoint and forced them to continue.
                Eventually, the waves became too severe and the escape boat began getting tossed around like clothes in a washing machine. The staff members began falling off the escape boat into the murky abyss that was the ocean. Jimmy held on for dear life, that is until the boat capsized. Jimmy was thrust into the dark waters, with dollar bills floating in the water.
                Jimmy tried to swim to the surface, but the current was too strong. He kept fighting until his arms eventually gave out. His lungs screamed for oxygen until they couldn't scream anymore. He inhaled the water. It burned his lungs as they filled to the brim with water. The last thing he saw before he died was his money, slowly getting washed away in the tide, just as his life was drawing to a close. He took one last glance at the money before the ocean and the darkness engulfed him.