Secrets of the deep

Chapter 2

I sat there on the bed for a few minutes until I decided that I should probably start unpacking. I didn't have much, only two suitcases. As I unpacked my things my mind started to wander. What would this summer hold? Who would I meet? I was so lost in though that I didn't hear my grandmother enter the room.
"Hi Hun, I was just wondering if you would like to come pippying with me. I'm gonna make pippy soup for dinner".
Grandma and grandpa usually made their own food, with all freshly grow or caught ingredients. You see, the town was a few miles away and there wasn't many people around where they lived.
"Um, sure" I answered. I remembered catching pippys from when I was younger and it was always a lot of fun.

I threw on my swimmers and went out to collect the little creatures for tonight's dinner.

By the time I was done the sun was setting. I sat in the rocking chair on the veranda and watched the beautiful colours reflect onto the water. This was my favourite time of day! It was beautiful.
"Lovely sunset" grandpa said as he walked out of the house. He stood next to me and put his hand on my shoulder.
He was always the adventurous one in the family, always looking for an escape. Thats where I got it from. I was a lot like him.

Then grandma called us in for dinner! She had made a lovely pippy soup. We sat at the table and talked while we ate our meal.

Suddenly grandpa looked down at his watch. He made eye contact with grandma before saying "I'd better go" and getting up from the table.

I glanced out the window. It was fully dark by now and the crescent moon shon brightly over the dark ocean. Where could grandpa possibly be going at this time of night?

"Where are you going, grandpa?" I asked curiously.

"I just have a job to do" he mumbled.

"Melissa, I think you should go to bed now" grandma said. She said this with such a stern voice. She is usually so gentle.
I knew something was going on but I wasn't in the mood to argue, so I got up from the table and headed to my room.
I got changed and brushed my teeth but as I was climbing into bed, I saw a boat row out from the shoreline. I looked closer, only to realise it was grandpa in the boat. Then I noticed something even stranger.

He wasn't alone.

There was a boy next to him, helping him row. He seemed around my age, maybe a bit older. I couldn't really make out his features in the darkness but I could tell that there was something that my grandparents weren't telling me.

And I was gonna find out what it was.