Carmel by the Sea~39

"My turn." Hue spoke as he tap the pin and the

letter C flashed.

"CARMEL."

Hue tilted his head only to be sucked in within the depth of the sea.

The whole place was ship that sunk many years ago.

"Amazing. We can breath and talk. We are not drowning." Nod exclaimed.

"Wohoooo!" Stirpe cheered as he started gliding and performing like a seal.

Oak and Nod clapped their hand as Hue just chortled.

"This place is beautiful even if it's broken." Oak admired.

The blue sea highlighted all that were inside.

"Let us take a tour while looking for our PLUG." Hue announced.

"I wonder if there are people who drawn with this ship?" Nod asked as he looked around. The window has displayed an aquarium vibe as it frame the fishes and marine life they were passing through.

"What does Carmel mean again?" Stripe asked as he tried to touch a cross neclace hanged by a nail on a hole wall.

"I bet it got to do with a mount or mendicant." Nod replied.

"I can touch this huge rusty cross." Stripe stated.

"Wow, you really are our finder." Nod commented.

"No, I think this face powder dictates our ability as well." Hue remarked

Oak observed how Stripe uses both of his hand to lift up a rusty palm size cross.

Stripe passed it to Hue who regretted it. The cross overweight his wrist and started to numb from it's heaviness. The cross fell down on the wooded floor and passed through it. It created a hole and it swiftly sink within the water.

"Let us glide after it." Oak said and dive in even if the water passes through her.

It's a normal reaction for whoever that wanted to be within the sea. It's a response to swim after even if they can walk after it.

Oak saw the cross sinking lower. It might be because of it's weight scale that had ut getting in depth. Oak can't help but glance and pause to admire the marine inhabitant upon her view. It was like a kingdom from the sea. The corals were pure white in different shapes. The sea plants and flowers were dancing with the water. And the fishes escorted each flowers.

"It was like a sway of courtship." Hue voiced out.

The view had them captivated that for a moment they forgot the palm size rusty cross.

Stripe glided with the sting ray. He twirled and tried to embrace them. Nod wanted to pick a pearl, shell and flower for Oak but his hand passes through. Hue scanned the sea floor and found some stone that he never saw. He can't help but be in awe at how the life underneath the sea was magical. Truth to be told. Hue hated a deep water volume. He used to get punished by his aunt whenever he won't get a perfect score. He would be soaked with a human length drum and would shiver from evening to morning. His hands are weak from the water that is why as much as possible he limits himself from soaking or getting wet.

Hue waved and freely moved his hand like a gymnast and ballet dancer. It's no longer numb. His hand is fine, he decided to remove his gloves and have it be freely one with the water. He exposed his weakness in front of his new found family. His fingers were shorter. His knuckles were rounder and his wrist were stitched. His hand looked like a garments with a lot of knitting.

Nod clapped his hand and said.

"Now the best dancer goes to Hue. Your finger are cute. Only you have them. So treasure it, it's not normal but is more than ordinary." He speeched.

Oak and Stripe smiled. They proudly clapped at Hue. The two knew what he went through to survived all day from wearing that gloves. During summer it would accumulate it's sweat and would get foul if he won't remove it. Hue tried putting a bondage and pad on it but the gloves worked well. Thanks to Lo, his younger brother who brought it for him.

Stripe recalled that the whole winter time Hue's hand were disabled, It was a year after his aunt hammered it with her mug just because he got promoted as a school principal at the age of nine. Stripe was an orphan and a school drop out. He used to work with his father back then. He would deliver some documents and have Hue signed it that is when the small talk became longer. The long talk became a relationship. It may looked like a boys love but it's not. Since Hue is his first ever friend who helped him to get a bread for his mother.

Stripe glide by his side and slid the jumper to his side. He unbuttoned his pajama, and showed them how his ribs got covered in bondage. Nod lined up with them and showed out his pouch. At that moment, Oak allowed as single bloody tears of joy lined to the side of her face. This are the people she love, they all have their own disorder and disability yet they can help other people who are not like them. Their dramatic transparency and revealing their weakness had Oak clasped her hand.

"We forgot the cross." She proclaimed not sure if it's alright to end their sentimental scene.

Nod was fixing his pouch when the face powder vibrated.

"Caught."

"Cough."

"Cut."

They carefully descend toward the endless depth of the sea. Their view got grayish to black. The water was no longer clear. The unlimited space had them lost. They don't know where to start searching. The ocean seemed to had no floor nor bed. If it had, they can't measure and tell how far it was from the surface it was like a bottomless pit that blackened your mental fortitude.They descend deeper as the they tried their best to search for their PLUG.