The Ocean's Call: Part One | ✔

Part Fourteen

Part Fourteen

The second we reach the jetty Emily launches herself off the boat and races to the end of the jetty. I fully expect her to keep running once she's away from the water, but she doesn't. She drops onto the ground, star fishing.

"We need to talk." Nana says as she passes me. She hops onto the jetty and walks down to the end.

I step onto the jetty looking down into the water. I'm ninety nine percent sure the blonde mermaid didn't follow us, not that it matters. I have a gut feeling she already knows where I live. I have a gut feeling that she's also involved in the matter of how I ended up washed up on our beach a couple weeks ago.

My brief interactions with her tell me she's not going to give me the answers I need. The only person I can really turn to in this situation is him, the guy from my dreams. And apparently awake dreams now. I can see him without being asleep, he can talk to me too.

I lift my left hand, fiddling with the thin gold bracelet. Did he give me this bracelet? What exactly does the bracelet do? He told me if I put the bracelet back on, she wouldn't be able to find me. I need to find him, and I need to find him now.

He has the answers to my questions. He can tell me what the bloody hell is going on.

Nana doesn't return to the house like I thought she would, she walks into her shed leaving the door wide open. I slowly approach Emily who is mumbling incoherently to herself. I worry my best friend may have actually lost her mind.

"Emily, you good?" I ask, looking down at her.

Her lips stop moving but her eyes remain closed. "I'm just processing."

"I'm going to talk to nana, are you staying out here?"

She sits up abruptly, her eyes wide. "Hell no!"

I can't help but laugh as she jumps off the ground and speed walks over to the shed. I follow behind her, closing the door once I'm inside. Nana is seated at her desk, the lamp on but she's not doing anything. She's just staring at the item on the desk.

I walk over to investigate. The item on her desk looks like the thing Emily found in the ocean a couple of days ago. The round rock disk, the one with the yellow crystal in the middle and the carvings on the outside.

Emily appears beside me. "Hey...where did you get that?"

Nana frowns. "I've had it for years."

I raise a brow. "I found something that looked just like that the other day...where did I leave it, Isla?"

I shrug. "Somewhere in my room probably."

She nods. "I'm going to get it; I swear it looks just like that." Emily leaves the shed.

I grab one of the chairs nearby and drag it over to the desk, sitting down. "Where did you find it?" I ask, nodding to the disk.

Nana uses her tweezers to lift the disk slightly. "I don't know but I've had it for as long as I can remember. I think maybe your pop gave it to me on one of his adventures. I came across it a couple nights ago, I was spring cleaning and I found it."

"Emily found hers in the ocean, the same day I found more of the silver thing she had."

Nana gives me a curious look. "Hmm...when I touch it, it's very uncomfortable. Like I'm relieving the worst day of my life over and over again but at the same time it's an ache, like I'm missing a piece of myself and it's in there."

Nana stares at the disk, poking the crystal with her tweezers. "That's odd."

"Hmm...it is. not as odd as today's topic though. I'm a little overwhelmed and confused to be honest, Isla." She turns her gaze to mine.