The Flood : an Austin Carlile Fan Fic.

        My eyes were a blur as i felt the salt sting my eyes and prick at my skin, the murky water was chiiling to the bone and more...this was it, this was my choice and i couldn't be happier. The weightless feeling i had was so much more than i could ever imagine, i could live under the oceans surface and create a world of my own, the coral trinkets i could make, the seashell necklaces with a headband to match. I could be almost Ariel like, i could be that little mermaid that everyone adored...but only in my dreams would it be true. My lungs began to burn as the pressure filled and popped my ears, how did i get here?

--------------------------------------Later That Week---------------------------------------------------------------------------

"I am completely tired man, the work we did for Mrs.Kender was insane, do we have to know That much abount The Canterbury Tales?" my friend Danny would ask as she shoved a peice of pizza into her mouth, i began to feel bad due to the lack of attention i was paying towards the conversation. 

"hm?, oh...i guess we don't but that is was being a senior is about..unnecesary effort into shit we will never need to know.." i grabbed my bookbag and swung it over my shoulder as the bell rang, the sound of students talking filled my ears up until i put my earbuds in and blasted "Bones Exposed by Of Mice & Men" into my pale gauged ears. The walkway was crowded by people i was in no interest in encountering only to by pass them behind the lunch room and pass the barely locked gate leading to my web design class. The falls in Florida were never in the ordinary, always hot and windy...but unusually today a chill crept up the back of my neck and flooded my pale skin with risen bumps. Pacing into class, and dragging through the rest of the day, my only companions were my thooughts until i was waved over to the locker of my friend Jackie. 

"Whats up jack?" i would ask with a small smirk across my plush lips.

"Ohhhh nothinggggg....just a late birthday present for you." she would turn on her heels and hand me an envelope that seemed rather stuffed with a large smile. (If she had smiled any brighter i would be concerned of her face being stuck.) 

"my birthday was last month..but..okay"  i would reply and hold the envelope examining the stickers of kawaii ramen bowls with emoticon faces and small animals with eyes larger than my own.

"open it kris!" Jack bounced on her heels and gripped her bookbag close to her flat chest.

Upon opening the envelope i spotted many sheets of paper and a couple braceletes that had quotes from "The Fault In Our Stars" and my favorite band"Of Mice & Men", after putting them on with my already large collection that covered my wrist i dug deeper into the envelope grabbing a black and thin ticket.

"Happy Birthday CaptnKK! i hope you love it!'

Imeadiate tears filled my eyes as i looked up to my proud friend, "I told you ill make it the best birthday ever! you're only 18 once!"

i would sniffle my nose and smiled brightly, "Jackie, you don't understand...meeting Of Mice & Men in person has been a wish i thought i'd never have fulfilled...you  really are an amazing and true friend." Hugging Jackie had never been so sentimental..for the rest of that day i daydreamed of seeing the man that had impacted my life as a whole.

---------------------------------------------later that night--------------------------------------------------------- 

 Sitting at the kitchen table, i picked at my spaghetti and sighed looking to my family, they have always tried so hard to be "Normal" and often use me as their punching bag if they have had a bad day (figuratively of course, never literally.) unfourtunately, today was apparently one of those days.