Fearing the Dead

8// Strangers

So here we are.
On a giant yacht.
With 9 people on board.
And possibly a deadly force, following us, as if they were hunting is down.

"Are you out of your mind, Nick?!" Maddy hisses at her son as he leaves the bathroom where he was getting changed.
Myself having already used that bathroom before him.

"Sorry" Nick tries to apologise but Maddy has lost it and she isn't taking any apologies.

"I swear if you do that again, I will leave you in the goddamn ocean, I shit you not" she says walking behind Nick who is heading towards me, himself with just a towel around his waist. I do have to admit he is really attractive but he's like a brother to me.

"I thought I heard something" Nick states flatly.

"What?! What could you hear?!" Maddy spits.

"I don't know. Something bumping the hull" Nick adds. Walking into his room Maddy following and myself standing in the doorway.

"Yeah, well, you almost got yourself killed. You almost got Travis killed. For gods sake you could have got Angie killed!" Maddy says completely done with her son as she waves her arms in the air.

"Actually I think I was alright. I was with Chris and-" I start to say before Maddy gives me a look as if to say 'be quiet, Your not helping' so I just shut my mouth and smile sweetly at her and Nick.

"We're still trying to help people, aren't we?" Nick says, giving me a small smile in return before looking back to his mum.

"Yes." Maddy says frustrated . "People that we can see"
But before she or Nick can add anything else to the conversation Travis walks over with the log book that Nick recovered from the sunken boat.

"Maddy. Nick found a log book to that boat." Travis states grimly. "We got a problem".

I look at Maddy as she looks confused as always, with myself probably looking like a stunned mullet.

"Follow me" Travis says before walking back up stairs where the front of the boat is, along with everyone except Nick, Chris and Alicia.
I contemplate going to find Chris but I decide that if we are ever going to be good again I need to learn to give him space.

"San Diego's dead" Travis says all of a sudden as we reach the others.

"San Diego?" I say confused as all hell.

"That where we were heading" Maddy informs me, with a small smile.

"How bad?" Daniel states with a grim look.

"It's gone" Maddy says. No one looking too impressed. Especially not Strand.
Who still scares me.
Just a little bit.

"What? Wait, wait, wait" Strand says obviously confused as the rest of us.

"What do you mean gone?" Daniel says.

"It's burned. The military burned it down" Maddy says and I kinda feel like leaving the conversation.
But because I'm nosy I don't.
"According to this, the Leigh Anne just came from the south right there" Maddy says pointing to a place on the map.

"Wait a minute, I thought you said San Diego was safe" Ofelia adds causing my face to screw up in confusion.
'Okay. We were heading to San Diego. It's burnt. We need to go somewhere else. Okay. Cool.' I think. Still 98% confused.