The Assassin

Chapter 10: Stucked with the Jerk

"Jump or Die"

It’s becoming a mantra now, echoing in every corner of my messed up head, and I had this fucked up feeling.

For everyone to know, I’m in the middle of the most intimidating time of my life. Not because I’m about to get killed by a gun of course, but because of the daunted feeling inside of me when I saw the Dark Ocean.

And well, you may be thinking right now, ‘Why?’ It’s pellucidly obvious okay.

Ceana Kings is scared of the Ocean.

“Jump or Die!” The man asked me again but I can’t make up my mind. I’m tied up in here, having a dreaded feeling.

If I don’t jump, he’ll definitely and impatiently shoot me and, if I jump now, I’ll probably die. I’m not as perfect as you think okay? I have fears. And that is the freakin' f*ckin ocean. I don’t know why I do, but, I just don’t have that feeling that the ocean have a friendly approach towards me. It seems like when I get in the middle of the dark water, I feel, really lost.

I slightly turned my head and I saw Zach staring at me. He’s looking at me as if he’s having a rather stupid plan in his mind. I glared at him so intensely that it actually hurt my eyes.

It’s all his fault, really. And I'm actually blaming someone.

“if that's the case...” The man spoke  with satisfaction as he pointed the gun—again— at my face.

I closed my eyes. If this would be the end of Ceana Kings, I just hope I did a great job being an assassin for the mafia.

"Maybe I’m not the best assassin. Maybe I’m really not." I thought to myself.

I started hearing the sound of the pistol moving from the man’s hand. I can feel him slowly touching the trigger.

Wait. No. I have to save myself. I am Ceana Kings and I shouldn't get killed this way, not in this embarrassing way.

Good luck, please be with me.

I readied myself to do exactly the thing I should do. Counting inside my head, I opened my eyes, but then—

“Aaah!” I heard a shout from Zach. He’s running towards me.

“No! Zach wait no, no fu—” I shouted as he approached me and pushed me off the boat. We fell off the yacht and before my body could even touch the water, I hit my head into the stern that caused my body to plunged down the dark water.

My body is still in ropes. I tried struggling so that the ropes will come loose, but damn it! I can’t even touch it's end, and at that very moment, I’ve been took over by my fear and I’m really starting to panic. Everything’s turning to a blur now. I can see the bubbles escaping from my mouth and then I saw Zach, swimming towards me. Then that’s it. My eyes clutched close.

I saw a light. A very bright light. I saw two people standing just meters away from my point. Their face blurry but they look a bit familiar to me even if I can’t see them.

They’re getting closer. The more they go close, the clearer their face gets.

“Mom? Dad?” I started to speak. My voice starting to break because I can feel that I’m about to cry.

“Ceana. This is us.” She embraced me and Dad did too. I don’t believe this, they’re really here. But, how?

“Wait. You’re dead a long time ago.” I looked at them. “Am I dead too?”