Jeanne
I´m scared. I don´t like this cave, it gets dark fast and the sea makes too much noisy hitting the rocks outside at night. I remember that i used to like the sea, i wanted to go on a adventure on a ship around the world with daddy. I remember him, and mommy too.
Daddy used to sell things, all sorts of things like, good food, beautiful clothes, diferent jewelry. He was charismatic with other people. I remember he being fat, but mom had told me that he got fat after he came back from a long travel around the world and that one day, he might take me and mom together with him to do the same travel. I don´t want to get fat like him.
Mommy was beautiful, she had a curly black hair and she had a beautiful voice. One day, she taugh me how to sing like her, then one day, we started to sing together, that was the first time that mom showed to me her laughter; she was like a piggy laughing. It was fun. I miss them both.
Jhonny: Guys, why don´t we try to get out of here?
Eugene: We can´t, the rocks are to slippy and the sea´ll throw us back here, i´ve already tried before.
Jhonny: Yeah, but you were not with me around, that´s why it failed.
Eugene: Shut up, Jhonny.
Jhonny: oh, c´mon!
Wallace: Eugene is right, it´s too risky.
Jhonny: If we had some wood, i could make a boat.
Eugene: No, you couldn´t.
Jhonny: Yes, i could! One of the things i remember is how to make a boat with some wood.
Eugene: Really? Was your father a carpenter?
Jhonny: Yes, i guess...
I miss my daddy, he would save us from here if he knew were we are, all of us. I think that Jhonny must be missing his dad too.
Jeanne: Do you remember your dad, Jhonny?
Jhonny: I don´t know if that´s him who i remember, but i do remember seeing someone. He taugh me many things like how to make boats, fishing, how to make knots on a rope, i think that i wanted to be one of those mens from the sea.
Eugene: A sailor?
Jhonny: Yes, a sailor. It would be so cool to travel the sea, being trapped by it it´s so boring.
Wallace: I think that i wanted to be a writer.
Eugene: Really? Are you starting to remember now?
Wallace: I don´t know, i think so.
Eugene: That´s good, see if you remember something about this place.
Wallace: I´ll try.
Jeanne: Why would Wallace know something about this place?
Eugene: He was the last one to come, he might know something.
Eugene is smart, but sometimes i think that he pretends to know things to play the smart one.
I stand on my feet, i want to walk around the cave. This place it´s so big, but there´s almost nothing to do here, i don´t feel hungry anymore, but i miss the taste of mom´s chicken pies. They where so good, once i was able to steal three pieces from the pie alone, but mom got angry at me and threw one of her sandals at my head, she said that the next time i do something like that, she would make a pie of me and give it to the bears in the woods. But then, dad suddenly appeared and started to make fun at mom saying that i was like her when they were younger, my head was hurting so much but i couldn´t hold my laugh when he said that to her, the look on her face was so funny.
Wallace: What if we go to the far end of the cave?
Eugene: There´s nothing there, just some of these weird rocks.
Jhonny: Why are these rocks so weird? They appear to have been shaped like that by someone, but who would to that to rocks in a cave in the middle of nowhere?
Jeanne: Maybe they where already like this before.
Jhonny: Weird. Very weird.
Sometimes i forget that the sea is so beautiful during the day. I used to live in a place surrounded by a forest, i used to see squirrels climbing big trees, little birds on their nests with their moms, the sky full of clouds, the sun. I miss the heat of the sun on my skin.
Eugene: The sea is rising again, it won´t reach us here.
Eugene is aways staring at the sea, why is that? maybe he´s afraid of the sea, i was once, but daddy helped me, he took me to beaches so that i could get used to it, but i still prefer the old forest where i used to live.
Jhonny: I envy you Wallace, you don´t get wet from the water.
Wallace: I´m weird, ain´t I?
Jhonny: Yes, pretty much.
Jeanne: That´s not nice, Jhonny.
Jhonny: Hey, i´m just joking.
Wallace: It´s okay, i don´t care too much. I think that i would hate to get myself wet from the sea.
The sea it´s at the entrance of the cave again, what if the water fills the cave? what´ll we do? I remember something that mommy used to say to me everytime i was scared, that those who can sing from the heart are able to drive away their fears.
Jeanne: Guys, do you mind if i, hmm, sing?
Wallace: What?
Jhonny: You know how to sing?
Jeanne: Yes, my mom taugh me how to sing.
Jhonny: Go on, i want to hear it.
Jeanne: "Deep Breath"
All the little boats are gone
From the breast of Anna Liffey
And the ferrymen are stranded on the quay
The Dublin docks are dying
And a way of life is gone
And Molly it was part of you and me
Where the strawberry beds
Sweep down to the Liffey
You'll kiss away the worries from my brow
I love you well today
And I'll love you more tomorrow
If you ever loved me Molly love me now.
I did it. I sang like i used to do with mommy.
Jhonny: that was... brilliant!
Jeanne: Did you like it?
Jhonny: Yes! How could i don´t like it? Your voice is so diferent when you are singing!
Jeanne: Thanks, i guess. My mom used to sing this song to my daddy, i find it a little sad at some part, but it makes me remember her.
Wallace: That was very beautiful.
Eugene: You´re amazing Jeanne, really.
Jeanne: Thanks you, boys.
Mom, wherever you are, i hope that you know that i´m not alone wherever i am, you´ll aways be in my heart and the boys, i know they´ll help me to get out of here. Even from far away, i can still feel the comfort that only you gives me. I love you mommy.
Wallace: Jeanne. You´re crying.
Jeanne: What? Oh, sorry about this.
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