Surrounded by Sharks

Author:Northrop, Michael [Northrop, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Itzy, Kickass.to
Amazon: B00G5N4RJQ
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 2014-05-06T04:00:00+00:00

Davey was two and a half miles offshore, drifting to the southwest in a countercurrent. It was a bad situation, and it had just gotten worse.

That was a shark. He was sure of it now.

He replayed the images in his head. There was the first quick one, just a blur as it turned quickly and vanished. If that had been it, he could’ve told himself it was something else. It could’ve been some other big fish, a tuna maybe. But then he’d seen it again. It was moving slower this time. It was in no hurry at all, and why should it be? This was its home, not Davey’s.

It glided slowly by, ten feet down. He saw its pointed head and its knifelike body. The water and plastic between them warped its shape slightly as it slid by, but he followed it and got a good look. He could see its fins, as clear as any nightmare he’d ever had. The dorsal fin angled straight up like a sail; the pectoral fins projected out like wings. Its mouth hung just slightly open, a line of black in all that blue.

He lost sight of it. He turned the bottle, tugged it through the water, tilted it farther down. Nothing, it was gone again. He began to see stars and realized he’d been holding his breath the whole time. He gulped in air and tried again. This time he dunked his head under the water and tried it without the bottle. He opened his eyes, but all he saw was water.

The little fish had scattered, not because of the shark but because Davey was moving the bottle all over the place. He saw them now, just off to his left. They were four little gray blurs, moving in unison. They skittered a few feet farther away as he watched them. It’s behind me! he thought.

He jerked his body around, kicking his legs and pushing through the water with his right arm. His left arm was draped over the top of the water cooler bottle, and it was slowing him down. By the time I see it, it will have its teeth in me.

But when he completed his turn, there was nothing there. The endless ocean faded to a featureless blur in front of him. The ocean pressed in. He let out a few bubbles to keep the salt water out of his nose. He looked to his left, to his right, and then down past his feet. He surfaced, blowing out air as he went.

He checked to make sure no water had gotten into the bottle during the commotion. He wanted to climb up on top of the thing. He wanted to stand on it, like a lumberjack rolling a log. But he couldn’t. It would sink, and then where would he be?

He told himself to calm down, not to panic. Yes, it was a shark, but it was small. It didn’t look much more than three feet long. There was no way to be sure at that distance, but that’s what he decided: three feet.

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