Sinistral

Chapter Twenty Six

Knowing everything about someone isn’t always important. Well, that’s what people say anyway. I thought I knew Zack but there was so much more. More then what came across. More then what I could of began to think or believe. But after what he told me, after him telling me more about himself on earth I had never felt closer to him.

Zack comes off as  that confident and strong person. He had grown up, being eighteen he had lived through all the shit you get as a teen. He had just about made it to an adult. As you’re an adult when you turn eighteen but he had more to worry about then any normal teenager would. I thought I couldn’t get any closer with Zack but knowing that information I doubt he would tell anyone else made me feel I would always know him better then anyone else. To understand him, to come to know who Zack really is and it felt good being someone he could confined in and trust with his past and the nightmares he had in the tunnel.

I doubt we could get any closer after that. No one could destroy the friendship we had made. It would always stay strong from then on out. Remember when I said you can’t have half an hour of peace within Sinistral. That isn’t entirely true. Never let your guard down but in all honesty you can have a peaceful half hour. Well we had a lot more then that honestly but we had just come to think never think you will have it or it will catch you off guard. We have experienced that too much to get caught by that again.

Zack and I we travelled, for how long not sure. But we travelled across that Ocean in peace, us growing together as best friends. Did we need anything else? 

No because in that moment it was just us.

I could feel the gentle breeze of the wind in my hair and on my face, it felt nice. I took the moment in, inhaling the freshness of our surroundings, breathing the air in, we were on a boat, Zack and I after escaping the tunnel and running for what felt like forever, we found a place to rest, Zack pulling out the map and telling me crossing the ocean was next, the running hadn't helped my leg, which was still recovering from the severe damage it had gone through but I had never run faster.

There was no way Lucas was going to catch me and throw me back in that tunnel, another minute in there and I would have lost it.

After stopping for a rest we followed the route, which didn’t take us long. In fact being in the tunnel had cut off a lot to our route.

 I was on edge being near water again, but Zack's company was all I needed, his smile was all I needed. Zack could tell I was relived about it, happy that we didn’t have to swim this bloody ocean. After my last time in icy cold water, the last thing I wanted was to be going back into it yet again. How did we find the boat? Well it was just sitting there. Like it was waiting to be used, at first we thought something wasn’t quite right but in the end we went on board and now we are travelling along the ocean. The ocean seemed calm apart from now and again light waves crashing against the edge of the boat, making it rock ever so slightly.

Zack was sitting opposite me, enjoying the calmness as much as I was, I didn't really like the quietness so I thought I would take this opportunity to ask Zack about his life back on earth, he hadn't really told me a great deal when I first met him and asked him about it and because I couldn't think of anything else to talk about, surrounding the topic I said the first thing that popped into my head

"You never told me about any of the foster families you lived with, were they nice"?

Zack had been looking out at the ocean, he had a smile on his face but there was something about it that wasn't genuine, I wondered whether he was putting on a act for me, I knew he thinking about Amelia, which made me think about her, was she ok? What was Lucas doing with her? Where had he taken her? Please let her be ok I thought and I knew Zack was thinking the same too. He looked up at me his smile starting to waver.