At the Bottom of the Ocean ‘’Mom! I am not going with you on this boat. It is small and unsafe. You are not going on this boat. The ocean is way too big for a boat like that. I don’t think this is safe“. My mother is such a snob. She would trade on me for a tan and a fruit juice. And Dad, he is no better. He is the person who is responsible for this. How did he ever think of this? Now I’m being forced to go with them and sail on this stupid yacht. And what about Will or Jenny? What are mom and dad going to do if she falls overboard? She is only eight. She’s smart for someone who is eight years old, but she is still only eight. We had left the harbour. It was too late to go back. I just had to stay here for a week. I mean, it‘s not so long. All I had to do is just study some more, read and, well, yeah read. Maybe I could play cards with Will. No. He only played video games, it was all he cared for, or at least I thought so. There was no chef on the boat so I had to make lunch, dinner and all that. Mom was, and still is, just so lazy. She doesn’t do a thing. She can’t even boil water. That was going to be a lo-o-ong week. It’s five a clock in the morning. We didn’t have dinner the night before, because none knew how to, so dad gave us ice cream. So I just went to make breakfast for my siblings and me and waited for my parents to wake up. I didn’t get this; they just got on a boat with no crew and sailed to the middle of the ocean. And then I realised that no one knew where we were. And no one was steering the boat. I panicked. I couldn’t have been lost in the middle of the ocean with the most boring people on the whole earth. No. No, no, no and no. I told my self to take it easy, and that it was going to be OK. But it didn’t work. I had to stop lying to myself. I had breakfast with Will and Jenny, and then they just left to play video games and Barbie. I couldn’t stop thinking of what would happen in the next two days. ‘’AAAAAAAA‘’! Jenny screamed. I ran to her room. ‘’What’s wrong? Is everything OK‘’? ‘’No, nothing is alright, look out the window, can you see the island, huh‘’? Yes I could, and then it hit me. We were suddenly sailing to an island, we were going to hit it and crash on it, and then the boat would sink. But fortunately the island was pretty far away, and Jenny pointed to the big in the middle, between the island and us. All I could think of was to go to Will. I was the oldest and just had to take control. Will has played many games, also sailing games, I needed him to steer the boat away from the rock. ‘’Will‘’! I screamed. ‘’Come on I need your help, quick, you’ve played those Captain Charles games. Haven’t you‘’ ‘’Yeees, he said, not so sure about what I was talking. ‘’Well, I need you to steer this stupid boat away from a really big rock ahead‘’. Then we were at the steering wheel. Will had no idea how to steer, but he tried, and it was working, until suddenly something hit the bottom of the ship. I ran down to our rooms. There was water floating all over the floor. I had never been so scared. I ran to mom
and dad’s room and woke them up. We ran to Will. His face was so white. He had saved us from the big rock, but we hit another one, which was all under water, and we couldn’t see it. He looked so scared. And Jenny, I had never felt so sorry. This wasn’t my fault but still I somehow felt like it was entirely my fault. The water had filled the cabin floor. And it flooded over my toes. ‘’Everyone to the life boat‘’! I screamed. I opened the closet with the life wests and threw them at them, but there wasn’t enough for all of us. There were only 4 life vests in this closet, then there were 8 downstairs, but I couldn’t go there. The water reached up to my knees. We all went to the lifeboats, and everyone went in. But me, I had to cut the string that held the boat stuck. I ran I to the kitchen, it was hard because of all the water. I found a knife and ran back out. I cut the rope and was going to jump in the boat but the rope got tangled in the ladder on the boat. I jumped overboard and cut the rope again. But I couldn’t get to the boat again. It just floated away. I heard Jenny and Will scream, telling me to swim to them, but then I saw my parent’s faces. They looked like they just didn’t care. And I just stood there and stared at them. Then I said, ‘’I’m sorry‘’, but I didn’t make a sound, and then the boat sucked me down with him. I held my breath as long as I could, then I took a deep breath and felt so good. And since then I have been sitting here, at the bottom of the ocean, hoping that my family is still alive.