The Mysterious Ship

drowning in my own tears..

"Dear Mom,

This is awful.. I'm trying so hard to be strong for my dad and Valerie.. But it's so damn hard mom.. Dad doesn't say anything about his feelings but I can see what's on his mind just looking at his eyes.. He doesn't smile anymore and he looks like he's just surviving.. And Valerie.. Well she's quite fine I think.. When she isn't in the house she plays a lot and sometimes she laughs but never as she did before.. But at nights she looks for you to read her a sleeping story and when she noticed you aren't here.. She cries until falling sleep..

I feel lost in this world and I all can do is to do my best to do what you told me to.. But sometimes like today I can't still pretending that all is okay because it isn't mom.. It isn't.. I don't know how to live without you, I don't know what to do without you... because all feels like if is endless mom, like an endless nightmare and I just to want to wake up and hug you once, and tell you that I love you... that I love you more than I recognize, more than you think..

Help me mommy, because I'm drowning in my own tears..."

I put the letter in my purse and stand from my mom's grave.

I came here a lot since her death but this time was different because in the next six months I'll be far from here and this was the last day before we ship..

My father once was a captain and he decided to take us to his last trip as a captain.. He wasn't in a ship after my mom's death.. He was taking care of us but I know he doesn't want to stay more at home.. My mom was the love of his life and seeing all the things they built together, the life they did together, the memories they had in that house wasn't the best idea if he want to move on or well, in this case if he have to do it although he doesn't want .. So he decided to take us with him and start a new life in a ship..

I read for the last time my mom's tombstone " Sarah Madrid 1973-2010, for the best Mom, wife and angel"... I start walking trough the graveyard to my car with tears falling down my face and I know that the unique desire I have is totally impossible"..

All people say that I'm the image of my mother, black long hair, big and brown eyes, white as snow skin, big smile always and strong as a lion.. What they don't know is that I'm not as strong as my mom was.. I really want her strength right know because I don't know what would happen tomorrow..

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Valerie is so overactive but she's only eight years old.. She made our father bring her bike although we really don't know where is she going to ride in a ship but she is happy and we just want to make her life easier..

"We arrived the ship that is named Polar Star at 4:40 pm.. Our father as the captain has to be in charge of everything. So here I'm walking alone because Valerie went with my dad..

I was thoughtful looking at the amazing sunset, asking myself why I didn't pay attention to this unique things in the past.. That I didn't notice someone was shooting me with his camera.. I felt my pulse racing and my heart beating fast when I saw him..

Oh my God. I was shocked.. He was the most handsome man I ever seen.. He has dark hair and blue eyes.. His body was built but his white skin was tattooed with colorful paintings.. But there was something mysterious in him. His blue as ice eyes were looking at me with a strange gaze.. But then he started shooting me again.. And for the moment I noticed what was happening.. He wasn't there anymore..

I know there was something strange about that gorgeous stranger.. And not just my heart beating the fastest it can when I remember his gaze.. Nope. I'm sure there were something mysterious in him...

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I didn't know but polar star was an expedition ship.. I met Dr. Julia; she was part of the Alexandria project that is about an experiment with an particle accelerator.. In case there were problems with it.. The live in the earth would be in danger and obviously the people in the ship too..

Hours later an unforeseen storm attacked the ship and we lost the communication.. And after it, there started the magical and most mysterious trip in my life...

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The ship's younger crew enjoyed their first day on board ignoring the problem as that have happened but the adults started looking for answers, trying to reconnect the communication with land.

While all that mess passed, I was looking for my father when I found my little sister talking to an old man named "bubbled".. Then when I talk with him I noticed that he was part of the Alexandria project too but for trying to save the world.. Bad people try to kill him but they just made a bubble in his brain.. Leaving him unconscious and He couldn't remember anything..

He knew something strange happened and was that the storm was in the center or the earth because it became a magnetic camp..

Here in the ship I meet a lot of people, Ramiro, Piti, Palomares, Estela, Vilma, Gamboa and Ulices..

One of the latest two.. Is the love of my life.. He's that amazing man I met the first day I was here.. He still taking my breath away.. This trip is full of love, mystery and amazing moments..

Its just starting..

And mom?

I know you will be proud of me"

With love,

A.