Jayah @ Pt England School : May 2019

Friday 31 May 2019

can you save her writing

jayah text type reading about kahawai

they dragged the tin boat along the beach, Areta pushing from the stern her grandmother pulling from the front . it was hot...so hot areta felt she could melt keep pushing mokopuna trish called the sooner we get this bucket on the water the better what do you reckon were going to catch today Areta asked. Who knows grumbled trish we could catch anything in the filthy moana The Pier drag the boat passed the familiar signpost witch was both direct and ignored danger polluted water Unsafe finally they reach the water up and I'll give us a Porsche citrus adjusting the dirty rope slug over her shoulder they were out on the swell facing backwards and her baby son soup and Canvas hats as she the boat used to have a motor back in the day back when when regular people could still get special his mum had told her no they had to use sweats if they wanted to get anywhere we supposed the problem of her hat over her forehead she could feel the sun burning my skin even through the thick layer of cream beneath your goggles suitescript into her eyes glass at the red monitor on the sleeves of her too level yellow and it wasn't even 10 are we going to Forest she asked as always up a here so I could see after row of tall white pillows sticking out of the Sea Servants hundreds of them a few other boats were already at their picking their way through Forest trying their luck this will do the trick when at last they had reached one of the pillars they turban turned lazily above them enormous thin slicing big girl at the rope and they looked around the base feeling tight chest how and and set they're catching breath her chest rising and falling like the boat the uncle Roger had a good catch the other day she said at last week's tyres two of them and down at my that gave him $25 for the pier do you think might get lucky like that the murky water only one way to find out she's thought less unsteady and sponge collage grappling hook back and forth and then out over the side as far as she could scholarship against real real not wasting her breath and taking and chip the weights at needed to sink right to the bottom with a good salvage lay over the side plastic appear below the surface should give it a few minutes across the water was the city the Sky Tower that have do they hate just make a month she tried to imagine but the city look like in the old days full before all the computer and computers have crash Crust and Dad a life became hard for everybody eats up again pulling on the rope at different something was caught and then it feels like whatever it is trusted the rope attire no chance but it's something come on pull the two of them hold the rope hand over hand with a final he's the net was out of the water and in the boat just pick through the mesh then fell back at can't be she was good they can't be closer they're flapping in the plastic net pounding against the floor was a fish a real-life fish it's body was powerful black Specks round proudly over it's back proudly over it's back a fish slowly it's a fish quickly should grab their white bucket and scoop up some seawater Harry lips get out of there to help untangled the knitting just placed her hands around the struggling creature and it was longer than two hands and then some the bucket was just big enough the fish Twisted and crashed during the water mind it doesn't get out the trash still shaking her head from side to side Kawaii Fighters kahawai I never thought she won again what's a day she left her face to the sun forgetting about radiation for a moment and laugh out loud alcohol way she called to the sky just started down at the fish at the body of silver the grey blue fence she couldn't take her eyes off at how does it live in that she asked just doing to the water who knows it's a miracle trust people like a schoolgirl what do we do with it of course have you any idea what those people in the super yachts would pay for real fish hundreds just clapped hands more even thousands and thousands shook her head no way who knows and you called it a recent look down at the fishing game sunlight flash became a silver scales its mouth opened and closed calling out the kahawai was probably the most beautiful thing that ever seen a RISA thoughts about the rich people about all their dollars her heart pounded but if we take it that might be there in she said slowly lights in it I accept so the smile faded from her lips but if we let it go there might be more more as in more fishes who will just pull up same as a situation but maybe they wouldn't leader Dorito maybe one day there will be a whole school of kahawai just know that again I guess there might be her voice was not I was the old woman looked over at Rita she reach for the girls goggles left lifting them off her granddaughter's face he has his young brown eyes Trish trick-or-treaters cheek cheek working hands all of a sudden you're right mokopuna she said maybe there could be more Silence then without another word the old woman picked up the bucket carefully she poured the fish back into the sea