THE LORDS OF THE SHIPS

CHAPTER 15 First Breath After Coma - Explosions In The Sky

"Am I dead? Am I alive? What happened? Don't remember. Where am I? (Remembering the explosion.) I can't feel my right arm." said James in his mind.

James could see a white light appearing from the darkness as he slowly opened his, eye????

He realized that his right eye was covered.

With his left eye, he saw the light from the ceiling of the hospital room.

And he realized where he was and who put him there.

He remembered the moment when the bombs exploded and his whole life flashed before his eyes.

James grew up being raised by several tutors and teachers, none of which were his parents, who spent all their time eating, drinking, partying, and hobnobbing with other wealthy people.

His parents indulged in every way they could.

Choosing to ignore and avoid every and any responsibility they could.

Convincing themselves that the only responsibility they had was seeking their own pleasure/happiness.

As a result, James' relationship with his parents was the equivalent of a person's relationship with a distant relative that they would meet once or twice ever.

James barely ever saw his parents, he maybe saw them once a year, sometimes not even once a year.

James was looked after and attended to by servants and teachers, all of whom constantly changed.

So James never formed any close relationships with anyone.

James was allowed anything he wanted and did anything that he wanted.

He and his friends had fun bullying their younger and weaker classmates.

Despite that, James would have fun bullying his own friends as well, who resented him for it, but James didn't care.

James enjoyed to make people angry and have them hate him.

He would laugh hysterically when people got mad at him.

It was a game for him to get someone so mad and hate him so much that they would go crazy, which would make James fall over laughing.

James was 14 years old when he was informed that his parents had died.

He was told that his parents had been drinking too much and accidentally fell off a ship and drowned.

He couldn't help but burst out laughing at the absurdity of their deaths.

When James returned to school, everyone gave James their condolences for the loss of his parents.

All the adults that knew and partied with his parents, were more upset that they died than they were sorry about him.

They could care less about him and he could care less about them.

The only classmate of James who went over to him and told him "Sorry about your parents." was Judith.

Which surprised James, after hearing countless of people say they were sorry about his parents, Judith was the only person who was truly sincere and genuine.

James did not know how to respond to that.

James never thought much of Judith before, until she told him that.

All that Judith ever was to James was a girl he would occasionally trip and make fall in the hallway as she walked by him.

But unlike the other girls he would trip, Judith didn't yell or tell on him to the teachers.

So James did not continue to trip her after she told him that.

Soon after Judith told him she was sorry about his parents, he quickly developed a crush on her and was the only person he ever tried to be nice to.

He eventually went up to her on one occasion and asked her on a date, but she turned him down.

James felt stupid and as he walked away, some boys who were watching, laughed at him for being turned down.

James looked at the boys with anger in his eyes and he later took his revenge on them.

James' antics started becoming more and more annoying to the teachers and adults, so he was sent onto the fishing ships where he could torment the kids and have free reign there.

When James realized that Judith was on the fishing ship, he decided to have fun tormenting her until it stopped being fun and started just being about revenge.

Once he realized he had been tricked by Judith and everyone, he became so angry that bullying people had stopped being fun for him.

And now, as he looked at his burned face in the mirror of the hospital, all he had on his mind was revenge.

"Where are they?" said James.