Snippet #1049356

Trystan sat in a small rowboat out a good ways from the shore, the thing was rickety and old but it sufficed. He sat on the hard wooden seat with a smoke in one hand and a fishing pole in the other. He had never been any good at fishing, however it was his dad's favorite pass time and so the young man kept the tradition alive. When he was younger his father would bring him out every saturday and they would sit out in the in middle of the ocean waiting on fish to bite. Back then it was all about spending time togethor and filling up the waiting time with chatter about friends, grades, and girls. However now the young man used the time just to soak up the peace the ocean held on an early Saturday morning. Out on the shiny blue water there was no one to remind him of all the things he was doing wrong, of all the trouble he was to blame for, of all the pain and affliction that he had caused the only people he ever trully loved. He exhaled slowly a ring of smoke engulfing his face as he did so, "Time to get back to reality, time to leave this peacefull haven for the real worlds and all it's damn problems." he grumbled as he pulled the fishing pole from the ocean and began to row himself back in.

Once he was closer to the shore he put out his cigerette and jumped out of the boat and began to pool it onto shore, water splashing up onto his khaki shorts and white wife-beater. "Hey there" came a voice from behind him and Trystan jumped, half expecting to find the cops ready to give him another ticket for fishing without a license. It was perhaps the dumbest law he had ever heard of, needing a license to fish and he had just about had enough of cops trying to enforce it. "Listen I haven't done anything wrong, so why don't you just leave me the hell alone?" he snapped, turning around as he did so. What he found standing behind him was not a cope, but much to his surprise a beautiful young girl. He walked up closer to her before speaking "Look I am sorry, I didn't mean to snap. I thought........ I thought you were someone else."