Chapter 9: Lost Names.
Quickly and quietly i walked towards mopboy. His eyes were closed and his face was tilted towards the sunlight. When i reached him I waited for his eyes to open but after ahwile i realized he probably wasn't going to so i poked his shoulder,
"Aaaah," mopboy fell from the rock and onto the sand. He stayed there, sprawled on the sand with his eyes wide open.
"I'm so sorry are you okay?" I walked forward so my face came into view.
"Let me just restart my heart." The boy put his hand over his heart and exagerated his breathing. He stayed like that and no one said anything. The tide started making it's way forward, licking the boy's hair and making it all wet.
"You might wanna get up." Silently agreeing the boy opened his eyes and stuck his hand out, I reached for it and helped him up. He dusted himself off and ran his fingers through his hair which now looked like a very wet mop! Finally he really looked at me,
"You, you're the girl from Deuce's office aren't you?"
"Uhm... yeah," his stare made me nervous.
"So, what were you doing at Deuce's office?"
"I could ask you the same."
" But you didn't," he turned around and started walking. "Was that the first time you were there?"
I quickly followed, "Yeah, Torrence took me to meet him."
"Torrence, eh?"
"Yeah, Torrence. So was it your first time?"
"Nah, more like third or fourth. Deuce was just confirming my 'duties'. I have to be an errand boy but i start tomorrow. You get a job yet?"
"No, he asked me if i wanted to go to school or help around but i haven't decided."
"Oh, well i heard the school round' here are pretty boring. You'd be better off with a job. You can even earn some coins and have money of your own. Hey, i don't even know your name yet, what is it?"
This boy asked too many question but for some reason instead of annoying me it was comforting.
"Summer and yours?"
"Summer, that's a nice name. Mine is Ted, pretty boring if you as-"
"No." The words came out of my mouth without even thinking.
"What do you mean no?"
Mopboy looked confused but so was I, I didn't know why i said no. Then came the flashback;
The boy from my dream and another girl
"Where's your hiking partner? No one wanted you?" The girl teased the boy from my dream.
"Over here actually," said another voice, emerging from the other side of dreamboy appeared mop boy. Or Ted as he called himself.
"Oh,"the girl said and then stuck out her hand. " Nice to meet you i'm Katherine Summers but as you can see, i'm called Kate." So this girl had a name.
Mop boy shook her hand, "I'm Zacharias Walters, but as you can see, i'm called Zack." He grinned at her and then looked at another girl who guessing from her looks was suppose to be me.
I was back and i looked at 'Ted' my eyes wide open.
"Uh, Summer are you okay you were all zoned out."
I blinked my eyes a couple of times and nodded, "Your name's Zack, Zacharias Walters. Not Ted."
"No, it's Ted that's what Deuce told me." The boy seemed to want to believe his own words but knew he couldn't.
"You actually believe Deuce? How long have you known him Ted!" I raised my voice a notch higher when i said his name. "I heard MY name was suppose to be Ruby. But it's really Summer. I don't know what Deuce is doing but he's changing our names and.... the point is your name is Zack. Zack Zack Zack. Not Ted!!"
He raised his hands up as if to surrender, " You sound really wacked right now. I've probably known Deuce longer than i've known you. Who are you to say my name's Zack."
I shut up not knowing what to say to that. How was i going to explain my flashbacks and dreams to this boy who didn't even trust me with his name. I took a breath to calm me down.
"I agree I probably sound wack but you need to understand that..." I didn't know what to say. "Just, your name is Zack not Ted. Deuce was trying to switch my name too. I have a bad feeling about him he doesn't seem like someone who tells the truth. You have to belive me Zack."
"It's Ted not Zack." He looked at me like I was a child that was trying to explain to him that rain was made from Sprite. I couldn't believe that, he was looking down on me. I was telling the truth. If this boy who believed his name was Ted was suppose to be some sort of key to my past, I needed a refund. With nothing else to say to him I gave him the bird and stalked off, back into the woods. just as I was about to step onto the streets once again I was pulled back into the same flashback
Ted, i mean Zack looked at me. Not me but the me that was walking with the group looking at a map.
The girl named Kate giggled "Oh, she's Summer. Summer Wymann. She's obvliously in her own world." Dream boy said
" Nice to meet you" My mouth mumbled and my gaze was back on the map.
My flashback stopped and I smiled forgetting whatever just happened with Zack. I had a last name. Wymann, not only did i have a first but i had a last name too. A beautiful last name. Wymann Summer Wymann. Oh how pefectly it went together. I ran back to the building where Torrence's car was parked and stood beside it still smiling. Not a minute later Torrence stepped out of the building fumbling with his phone. He didn't notice me untill he reached the car.
"Oh Summer, here already." He smiled nervously as he unlocked the door. I got in and strapped on my seatbelt.
"Have fun at the meeting Torrence?" I asked him.
"I don't think 'fun' is the right word." He started up the car and backed out. He started driving and turned on the radio really low.
"What about you Summer, find anything exciting about our little island?"
I thought back to the little hidden paradise on the other side of the forest.
"Yeah i followed the trail through the woods right down the street and it led to this really nice place. It was beautiful it was like this hidden beach." I left out Zack for many reasons.
"Trail through the woods? What trail, there is none. That place is just filled with thick trees it's hard to get through and come back out in a perfect condition like you." He looked at me, "Not a scratch."
I looked at him, "There is a trail i saw it with my own eyes even Zzz...."
I left my sentence unfinished and kept staring at him.
"Hm, maybe you misplaced it for another set of woods. There's quite some in this area."
I didn't believe what he said and kept quiet. I definetly didn't mistake any wood for that one. There wasn't any other one in sight anyways. I just looked though the window fingering my locket and smiling. Summer Wymann.
'Ted' (Zack's) POV
I sat there on the rocks again. After Summer has left i thought about what she said. Some part of me believed her, actually scratch that. The moment my real name came out of my mouth i believed her completly. I just had a hard time swallowing that she knew my name and i didn't. What was Deuce trying to do giving me another name. Whatever it was I didn't trust Deuce even more than i did before. Seeing a stick beside me I picked it up and started scratching the sand with it. Since i was the errand boy I made it a note to keep a lookout on anything suspicious. That was the least i could do and maybe report it to Summer. I chuckled remembering her giving me the birdie. The bell dismissing kids from school inturrupted my thoughts. I got up and threw the stick into the water. Looking down at the sand I saw my 'scratches' looked alot like a word. Using my finger i traced the lines even deeper and saw a name.
'Shirley'
This whole thing gave me the creeps. I stepped over it and sprinted out of there.
