school trips & accidental friendship {Oliver, Bryn, Egret}
Oct 29, 2019 21:02:23 GMT -5
Post by pumpkinbagels on Oct 29, 2019 21:02:23 GMT -5
When Bryn had asked him to come along with her on the school fishing trip, he’d almost declined.
No one from school he could actually tolerate was going, besides her, and while he enjoyed the beach, she belonged more to the sea than he did. The sea would never belong to anyone — it was too wild for anyone to try taming it for themselves. He supposed that was part of why he felt uncomfortable with it, because no matter what he did, if something went wrong out in the open ocean, he’d be powerless to stop it.
His sister, meanwhile, loved the freedom of it, the distance from the rest of the world. The only reason he accepted was because he owed her from the week before, when, out of his distaste for authority, he’d said something dismissive to a Peacekeeper asking where he was heading. She’d explained that they were just on the way to the library, and hurried on to get him there. It was the kind of innocuous thing she’d forget about, but he didn’t, and even if she wouldn’t realize, it was his way of paying her back.
Bryn had invited Egret simply because he seemed to be needing to blow off steam.
She loved the ocean, and while she also knew he didn’t, it was the perfect opportunity to escape an extra school day for a perfectly valid reason, without needing to suffer their mother’s inevitable, insufferable questioning. She’d signed the permission slips quickly, glad for her beloved son to be doing something academic for once, and they’d been off early the next morning, fifteen students clambering onboard the large fishing vessel The Seahorse with its motley crew of eight fishermen. With most of the students there being underclassmen, she didn’t recognize the majority of them, but she was certain her younger brother did, him being a grade lower.
As the captain of the vessel explained the net rigging system they used to capture fish, garbed in a yellow raincoat with a matching hat shoved onto his head of silver hair, the boat hit a large wave, the entire vessel rocking. She stumbled, hand catching the metal rail, and she cried out as everyone on the ship swayed or toppled. Arm shooting out, Bryn attempted grabbing onto Egret, but the blonde fell back too late for her to catch him. She prepared for the moment her brother would hit the ground, already feeling guilty, but a brunette boy caught him before he could make contact with the wooden deck.
