Sailing

Words: sailing, starboard, catastrophe

The wind blew heavily and the glass shattered. Henry and Sam decided the best place to be when a storm was brewing was out in the open. The only place that seemed safe was the lake. The boys had no knowledge of what to do or how to sail a boat but they had seen many T.V shows about it. They went with their gut and got on the boat . They sat there for awhile because they didn’t know you had to row to get the boat to move there was always a motor that made the boat move. Without knowing they still sat there waiting for the boat to start and it did finally not the way they had planned but it started alright. The tides of the lake became bigger and bigger drifting them into the middle of the lake. The boys panicked, the storm was getting worse and the boys thought that they needed to lighten the load so they threw the paddles overboard. The weight of the boat didn’t make a difference so they sat there asking themselves why they threw the paddles overboard, starboard and not portside.

An hour went past and the storm was still going, not as bad as before but there was heavy rain and shrieks of thunder now and then.  The boys sat on either side of the boat mocking each other and blaming each other for the whole thing. With no way to get back to shore they had nothing to do. Henry finally decided to break the fight say that it was no ones fault it was just a bunch of bad luck! “No, it is way more than that it is a catastrophe!” The day passed with the boys listing what it was. Whatever it was.

Darkness started to appear the boys shivered with fear and because they were cold. They couldn’t help but to say sorry. Saying sorry wasn’t going to take them back to shore though and they both knew that. They snuggled next to each and drifted off to sleep dreaming of happy places. In the time that they slept another storm brewed and left only this time it floated them back to shore.

In the morning Henry thanked sam for sailing them back to shore and Sam took full responsibility for it but he knew he didn’t do it. His thoughts were  that Henry was just saying that so Sam would be as cool as him but Henry didn’t do it either. No one thanked the storm.