Siren's Song

Chapter 2

You have lived with that dream for the rest of your life. It was so vivid that it almost seemed real. The only reason you know it wasn't was the fact that you don't remember getting back home. In fact the last thing you can recall was seeing your 'Monster friend' smiling and disappearing.

Then you woke up in bed to the sound of your grandparents waking you up for breakfast.

Dream or not you haven't seen this 'Monster friend' since.

Things didn't get any better as your grandparents passed away when you were a teenager and the surrounding area was starting to develop into a beach town fit with fancy hotels and businesses.

It got to the point that your beach house that your grandparents left in your name, was scheduled to be torn down no matter what you had to say.

It broke your heart and SOUL to be forced into a terrible apartment, far from the beach you once knew and loved, at the simple age of 17. From there you were juggling the workload of school and your job at the nearby emergency office.

Sure you weren't a doctor or a nurse, but the office was close by and when the doctor heard your sad story he was able to set up an assistance job for you. Of course you still needed training and he was gracious enough to pay for it.

Because of the nonstop depressing events in your life, you find little peace. The only things keeping you going were your memories, the fact you're still alive, and the feeling of courage coursing through you like it was your blood.

Every time you had a bad day your mind would wander into the memory of that dream or a memory of your beloved grandparents and the good times you all had.

It was annoying how you rarely got any time to go to the beach or anywhere close to anything related to the sea. For some reason it made your chest hurt.

One day you had a particularly bad time. Your boss called out due to a family emergency, which left you and the others under the next boss. Who was a total jerk. He flirted with every woman younger than him, he tried it on you a couple of times but your real boss put an end to that rather quickly.

You and your team you were assigned to lost more patients than you ever had in your time working here. It sets everyone's mood down. You were the one who had to drag them up from despair. But that was all a mask.

Someone had to be the rock.

That someone had to be you.

It's always you.

After that the bodies slowly stopped rising. But this did not stop your bad day.

Your bad day continued when you got home and learned that all your food was gone. You had forgotten to go shopping before coming home and getting comfy. You huffed and forced yourself to go out to do grocery shopping. Only to haul it up 4 floors to your apartment. Then it got better as one bag proceeded to rip completely apart. Spilling everything across the stairs.

Lovely.

After gathering everything that fell you hauled it to your apartment. Only to find that there was a note on all the doors on your floor.

The note was a rent raise note.

You now had to pay double the normal amount by the next pay period.

Which was in 2 weeks.

No way you would be able to come up with that much money in such a short period of time!! Even if you asked your boss for a pay raise! You were already stretching thin with money, barely eating as it is. Even the groceries you have in hand are times that are non perishable and could be stretched out in a 3 week period.