Beached (book 3)

Chapter 5

Chapter 5
Pearl's POV

I was naked and cold and afraid. Where was Pale?!?! How hard could it be to find clothes?

"When I see her again I'm gonna slap her so hard across the face she's gonna wish she was never-"

"So I got the clothes your looking for."

I turned my head and faced Pale. Her eyebrows were furrowed and she looked at me like I was an alien.

"Is everything okay? You look like you're going to explode."

"Pale! I'm not okay! You can't just leave me out in the freezing water for an hour and expect me to be okay! Where were you anyway!"

Pale glanced down at the water. "Uh, yeah about that, I kind of for caught up in something."

I rolled my eyes. Pale! Why can't you just do your job!

"Well, I got your clothes," Pale said holding them up.

In her hand were two weird thin objects. One had four holes, with red and white stripes. The other thing was long with three holes. It had lots of pockets and was olive green.

"Alright," Pale said moving in closer to me. "So this is a shirt, and it goes over your head to fit on your torso."

She took the red and white thing and put the biggest hole over my head. I slipped my arms through the two longest holes and my head through another small one.

"It's uncomfortable and itchy," I said scratching my back and stomach.

"Don't worry Pearl, you'll get used to it," Pale replied. "Now these are pants."

She held up the long olive green thing.

"These go on your legs and up to your hips," Pale replied. "Um...listen, do you think you can put these on yourself?"

I nodded and took the pants gingerly. I slipped it on through my ankles and pulled it up to my hips.

"There," Pale said, satisfied.

But there was still one big problem. "What do I do now?"

Pale scratched her head. "Listen, hop on my back, I'll ride you down the docks."

"But-but, it's the middle of the day, won't people see us?"

"I doubt it," Pale said. But, I could see in her eyes she didn't believe herself. I knew she had a plan, but she was questioning it.

"Come on," Pale said lying on her back.

I grabbed her shoulders and kneeled. She winced a little bit and shuffled me around, just so she was comfortable.

"Are you okay?" I asked her.

"Yeah-yeah I'm fine," she strained.

Pale then took off at lightning speeds towards the dock. My wet hair flew in the wind, giving me whiplash.

After about three minutes of traveling, Pale slowed to a halt.

"Here we are," she said. "I'm going to let you down now, it's a little deep do just grab on to my shoulders."

I nodded and hopped off her. The current pulled me a bit, but I did as I was told and gripped Pale's shoulders.

She guided me to the second out of three wooden docks. I looked around, and saw no one. Thank god.

Pale dragged me as far as she could.

"Okay, your going to need to stand up now, but be careful, it's slippery. And it may take you some time to get used to, because well, you never been human."