Tides

Surge

Prolog

By now Barney and I have gotten to know eachother, we have shared meals under the peer we like to call it our watch base. Barney at first was a faded image of a crazy man, but now he is me. (He as i have come to understand) he was taken, he was treated like dirt, they played games in him, this is where it stops.

Chapter One

If For

One Second

You Died

Would You

Come Back

If You

Had Nothing?

This runs through me, this runs in me, this is me. My head is more clear, i am more certain of things. "Get me a drink would ya!" Barney's always saying that, we have next to no money. "Yeah!" I say that to keep him calm, he has a short temper, much like how a skunk can only spray once. Our fire is burning briskly, and i feel warm and healthy. He dreams about it every night he says, how it took us took us, the tides.

We set up our camp a while ago. Now, If you call it illegal to permanently use and 'unocupied' chair on the beach than i have broken the law... twice. If we were to purchase a bedroll (of any kind) we would be asked to move, it is safer this way.

I close my eyes. And sleep.

"If For One Second You Died, Would You Come Back, If You Had Nothing?"

I open my eyes. And screem.

"What do you think your doing. The cops are just down the street!" I nod, i dare not go back to sleep, instead I sit there watching the tides, wishing for answers like how a shy boy wishes for friends, however i think the answers i am looking for will indeed not be friendly.

Sticks crack "Shh" barney says with a concerned look. Barney grabs the black end of a rather dangerous looking knife. I have never noticed it before, as he looks at me his face is dull.

"There is something we must discuss" a well trimmed man walks out with his hands up, barney points his knife angled towards him. "Oh Yeah! Well i'm not paying, I'm sick to debt of you collectors coming in asking for money!" This is a funny concept, as not once have i recalled a single debt collector. "If you put that knife down, maybe i can help you with that surge?" At this point his hands are up, but nit in a cowardly way, more like a naughty child unravelling a evil plan, indeed I did not like this man. "Surge?" I repeated, "it is again another word for what i am told is the tide" he said with a smug grin "how do you know that? How do you know anything about us?" I argued. Just as this man was about awnser, Barney swooped in his hand and the man took it firmly. It was clear then i would be finding a way to deal with this 'different' man.

He started off introducing himself "hi there! Im ricky, but you can call me ricko" " ill stick with ' ricky, if your gonna stay keep it down, I'm going to sleep" i walked to my faded chair of blue and white and set it so it would be wide enough to lie down and get comfy, not that you can in a beach chair constantly haunted by the surge.

I shut my eyes and fall asleep,

"If For One Second You Died, Would You Come Back, If You Had Nothing?"

When i awake i am panting, i get up and begin to adjust my wood beach chair. I start to think, no reflect, Yes i start to reflect. "Barney!" I hear "Barney, should we tell him!" I am at that point aware of whom they are talking about, me. " Tell me what?" I ask, just as i finish i walk out in front of the pillar, its funny as the pillar in many ways is like a wall separating us, i only regret walking through it.

Chapter 2

I walk out onto the open land i let the the smoothness of the sand brush against my bare feet, i let it absorb me, i let its beauty devour me. It is such a disappointment to know that this beauty is covered with evil. "Hey, Barney." He doesn't reply i suppose He and ricky are both rolling over on the ground, getting up and being well... Crazy. As i walk closer i smell it i smell it on his breath, he is not crazy

He is drunk.

"What do you think you're doing, drinking and spending our money!" I yell. No reply, just him and ricky bouncing around being buffoons. I can still smell it and he is not holding any, nor is ricky. I need to find it.

I look around our watch base and cannot find any, i am so infuriated at this point, he spent it, all. We have nothing "if For One Second You Died, Would You Come Back, If You Had Nothing?" I remember, i aknowledge. I walk back out to beuty, only to be ruined by my beloved barney and his new bestie ricky.

I spot search the ground knowing asking ricky or barney would be a waste of time. Out in the horizon i see a papery substance blending with it, smooth beauty. I dash over to find inside a bottle, this is it. A dark green bottle in a brown paper bag, the source of those two intoxicated baffoons.

Thankful barney and new bestie ricky can no longer poison themselfs, i lie down and literally absorb myself in soft beauty... In sand

I close my eyes and relax

" If For One Second You Died, Would You Come Back, If You Had Nothing?"

I open them, i am back, from the beauty evil has effectively taken over.

Chapter 3. .

I am panicing, bayonet tiles, and fear so much fear. I begin to scream, i dint understand anything. I can not sit here and let them/it do this to me. Just then i begin to have what i know to be a panic attack. I hit my head on the walls and i just cant take it anymore. I am bleeding bright red, bright oxygenated red. I fall an just then i hear the faint sound of a door open, i want to look but i cant my vision is too blury, i am sorry barney.

BEEP!

BEEP!

BEEP!

I hear the discomforting noise of a heart monitor. "He's here, doc! He is okay." A lady yells, "what, what am i doing whats happening?" I ask there are no windows like a 'normal' hospital, and i appear to be the inly patient in the room. Quarentene? I doubt it. The room is illuminated with white lights that seem oddly familiar. The walls are coated in black wallpaper witch is unusual for a hospital.

The door opens and a nurse comes in with a tray of food, as i eat doctors in the back of the room are writing things down and whispering to eachother. Everything else is a out right, there are difibulators, needles, and anything else from sanitiser to common black? Coubords. The nurse i think? Who bought my food in leaves she has pushed the door to far and it stays hanging open on a angle, the floor is tiled in white diamond tiles and no one else is worried about the door so its not quarantine.

When i look out the door i am infuriated with horror. The jet blackness if the walls especially distinguishes the whiteness of the sterilised halls, of the bayonet tiles, i am indeed in no hospital, far from, i am with them

The surge

I am petrified of what will happen if they notice me noticing them. There is a needle tray next to my bed, as the lady walks away to the 'doctors' i slip a needle into my pocket, one if the 'doctors' looks over for a second he gives me a dirty look and faces away, back to his rotten conversation.

"Okay sir, were ready for you" says the nurse. I don't touch the needle again, at least not here. She moves the bed out of the room, with me on top. It is odd we are just strolling through such a place, i mean didn't they think i would recognise this place? This is too easy

She takes me into a corridor, however instead of bayonet tiles, white lights, and the sterilised walls there is light blue Lino, rubber ducky wallpaper and steel ball lights. I am greeted by a man in a white lab coat and told that i was found on the beach with a head injury, even though my head has no wounds, at,east it enough to end me up in hospital. It was like how you set a trap for a mice,

1. You put something in there, something that they want

2. When they come to take that thing BANG there traped

In a way my curiosity along with forced knock outs led me here, and until i can effectively use this needle here is where i will be staying.

I just hope i make it out in time, before they change me.