Ocean's Eye

Chapter 2: A colour so brilliant

With an empty house and only Ocean and Fefee as it's occupants lustful thoughts that Ocean wanted but had trouble suppressing began filling his mind. It's only natural. He thought, after all it had been three months since he'd been with her and now that she's right in front of him he couldn't resist the urge to touch her.   

"What's this?" She said as she picked up the silver pendant the old woman down at the dock gave him. Ocean eyed the silver chain dangling between her fingers. A beam of light from his window caught the pendant as the glint caught his eye causing him to squint. 

"Oh some lady gave it to me but you can have it if you want necklaces aren't really my thing." He said nonchalantly while cleaning up his bedroom. He fixed his bedsheets and threw his dirty clothes in the corner so they weren't scattered all over the floor. He told himself that he would work on being tidier but every time he got home after work he just didn't have the energy, but now that Fee was here he felt embarrassed she had to stay in a room that looks like a pig sty.

"Sorry, I wasn't expecting guests." He said as he opened his closet and picked up the scattered clothes off the ground and began hanging them up. He could feel the heat rising to his cheeks as he picked his underwear up off the floor.

"No thanks I don't really do necklaces that have creepy eyeballs on them." She said setting the necklace back down and walking over to him before crouching down and picking up a pair of jeans.

"Hey, these are the ones I bought you for your birthday." She says pulling the legs from inside out before folding neatly and placing them on his bed.

"You better take care of those they were expensive." She says in a nagging tone. Ocean was used to that tone. Always nagging about this and that and telling him he shouldn't do this and wear that and although that type of behaviour would seem annoying to others Ocean didn't mind it at all. As a matter of fact, he found it quite comforting because ever since he lost his mother in a way Fee had become a comforting outlet when his nightmares would creep up on him threatening to show his mother's cold dead face. Whenever she's next to me I feel like I can breathe. Ocean didn't know if that made sense but he knew the feelings he had for her were real and the comfort she brought to him every time they were together was like kisses from mother sunshine herself.

After about 15 minutes of cleaning up the two collapsed on the bed and stared up at the ceiling.

"Still got that poster huh?" She says while peering into the eagle's eye. Ocean doesn't reply but instead crosses his arms behind his head and sighs.

"Yep." Is all he says before turning his head towards her and smiling. The two just stared at each grinning like they were in on some joke and just as he was about to lean in for a kiss the front door swung open and in walked the old man.

"Ocean who's car is that outside they parked terribly." The old man called out  in a grumpy tone. Ocean could hear the rustling of groceries being set on the kitchen counter and he knew the old man was about to go on another cooking spree. Heavily sighing he sits up and rubs his eyes before looking at the alarm clock on his beside table.

"Shit, I've got work in 3 hours." Fefee follows suit and lets out a wide yawn before stretching her arms out.

"That's fine I'm actually pretty tired I think I'll just take a nap when you leave, but I should say hi to Peter first." Ocean hadn't heard anyone call his father by his first name in a while. The only one to do that was his mother but since she's been gone his name had been replaced with old man.

"Peter I'm the one who parked terribly remember me, Felicia." She said walking down the hall as Ocean trailed behind her. 

The old man looked up at her perplexed trying to put the name to her face but he had trouble remembering just exactly who this woman was and the reason she was in his house.