Suspense+-+Will+You+Forgive+Me?

=Will you forgive me? = = =  They looked at the boat in the middle of the night. The little boy, Dan, and his father were trying to get a new job and a new house. They had come from a small, little, poor town, so they had never seen such a grand boat. For them, the small fishing boat was the biggest boat they had ever seen or heard of. Dan's father decided to try to go to the ship for a new job.

The next night was a cold one for Dan and his father, without and blankets and a house. They went to the docks again and found the fishing boat they had seen the night before. Dan's father went up to the captain of the ship and asked the captain if they could stay and be given food and shelter and in exchange, Dan's father and his son would work for them. Luckily, the ship's cleaner had just quit, and captain was looking for a worker. They told Dan and his father to come aboard the boat and they will set out to the open ocean to catch fish.

The sea air in the morning was very refreshing. The workers told Dan which work to do and how to do it. Since Dan was only thirteen, his job was just to clean the captain's room and to fetch something when captain told him to. However, his father had to wash and clean the ship and also had to help the skilled fishermen to clean the fishing equipment. Dan's father wasn't very healthy to start with, and the food they got in the ship wasn't very nutritious. In about two weeks after they set out in the ocean Dan's father got a terrible disease that even the doctor did not know and died.

Dan felt as if he had lost everything he had. He had lost his mothe and his father, and he felt as if he even lost himself. Every night, he began to have nightmares, and in his dreams, his father would come and would tell Dan get revenge because someone poisoned his food. Every day, Dan was growing unhealthy both mentally and physically. Even though he did not believe that anyone on the ship could have poisoned his dad, after getting many nightmares, he had started to believe that someone might have poisoned him after all. He stayed on this ship for a long time and grew up on the ship, because he had no house and he wanted revenge.

Now Dan was eighteen and he was a tall and strong sea-boy. On the outside, he looked like he was an angel and didn't have any pain in his life. One day a man on the boat, with a child called Ben, also died and the doctor said that he was also poisoned. The hate that was sleeping in Dan had woken again. Dan went to the man who was killed and checked what he had eaten last. He was surprised and felt extremely guilty when he had found that it was a a cup of tea. The reason Dan was surprised was because **//he//** had made the tea!

After realizing that he had killed his dad and took a little child's father, he felt as if he was both alive and dead. He felt nothing and he couldn't hear anyone when they talked to him. When he was working on the ship, he felt as if his hands were not his hands and his mind was being controlled by someone else. He could not bear looking at the boy's eyes, because that one pair of eyes reminded him of what he looked like when he was a child. At first, he tried to be nice to the boy to get forgiveness. However, every single day, his pain just grew. So he started to drink with the other sailors to forget the pain. Soon Dan drank every day and with the drinking, he became much more violent. He even got angry at the boy just for looking at him.

After two months of drinking, he grew to hate the little boy's eyes. One day he drank and saw the boy. Without knowing what he was doing, he went up to the boy and poked his eyes out and threw him overboard. Then he quickly went into his room to wash out all the blood. The next day, he woke and he vaguely remembered that he had killed Ben. He became so terrified, and on that day, he went to captain and told him he wanted to quit his job.

After he left the boat, Dan wondered around the country trying to forget what he did in the ship. However every night, his dad and even the boy that he killed came into his dream and haunted him. With all these hauntings at the night, he became insane. He thought that he could see his father and Ben and started to scream. Or Dan would just start crying and pleading with the people that he had killed for forgiveness.

However, his pain just grew and he could not bear it anymore. After about two months of pure mental torture from Ben and his father, Dan found a way to stop feeling any pain. He knew that if he killed himself, he would not feel these pains. So he went up to a huge tree and with a thick rope, he made a noose and put his head into the noose. He said "Will you forgive me for what I have done?" Then, just before he died, he saw something. He saw his father and Ben and he knew he would go and see them soon in death.