Stranded Hope

Stranded Hope: Chapter 3

Later the same night I had a very interesting dream.

I would recall it a bad dream.

I hope this won't become reality.

The dream went like this, one day I was on the ship and the captain made an announcement that the motor had stopped working, and we needed to evacuate quick.

It was a stormy day, a very stormy day.

Carson and I, mom and dad, and all of our belongings were stuffed into the first lifeboat we could find.

We eventually ran into Ethan's lifeboat and his started to sink, they threw everything in ours and themselves into our lifeboat.

The current pulled us east and eventually we got to the worst of the storm, and it seemed like everything and all hope was lost, like we were just going to have to die in the middle of nowhere.

Then when I fell off the boat and remember screaming "help me" I gradually fell into the ocean, and that's where the dream stopped.

I remember waking up shaking and shivering to the thought of that becoming a possibility on my journey right now!

I have always had a habit of comparing imaginary things or thoughts into reality, to unleash my imagination, and in this case, that was a bad idea.

I tried to forget about this whole mess, and in doing so I went and checked out the ship some more, surprisingly I didn't see Ethan, which was odd.

I was used to seeing Ethan a lot at this point.

Especially since we were already getting a ways into the Atlantic now.

Which brought up my positive thoughts about how I can't wait to go to Europe.

I ran out and looked at the sea and saw dolphins and fish.

I had never seen a dolphin before.

And much less one jumping out of the water.

Then I saw Carson following me.

He had some shrimp and threw it off the balcony as far as he could.

Then before my eyes a school of fish it seemed like, jumped out of the water and got the shrimp.

"Hi, fishes!" he called.

I thought that was awesome!

Then Carson left and went on with his life.

Then before he went he said,"Oh, hi Josh."

I just ignored him, and I eventually left back to my room.

I asked my mom if I could go to the pool and she said I could.

I got my swim shorts and took off to the hot tub.

I could use a little relaxation from this morning.

When I got there, nobody was there.

I thought, really, how could nobody be in the hot tub on a nice day like this.

Nobody really was even out on the deck.

That is strange.

Well, I looked to the bright side.

Since nobody was here, it gave me good privacy and peace.

I wondered why nobody was here.

I stayed there for about 5 to 10 minutes.

It was relaxing at least.

But, in my mind I knew something was wrong.

I got out and dried myself off very quickly.

I returned to my room, and I was scared when I heard what my parents said to me.