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- Author: Evie Rae
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OSCAR
The Distant Past
Key West’s historic Shipwreck Museum wavers in the heat rising off the
pavement as my kid brother, Ollie, my dad, and I head across the parking
lot toward the entrance. He has been playing at being a pirate for ages,
completely obsessed, so Dad thought it would be a fun day out for us.
Ollie’s dressed up in a striped blue and white tee-shirt. It’s been his
favorite thing to wear for weeks; he even whines when it needs to go in the
laundry. Dad bought him an eye patch and one of those foam swords, and
Ollie’s excited in the irritating way only a little kid can be.
But me? I don’t want to be here. I’m missing out on a day with my
friends for this garbage, and Ollie keeps poking me and whacking me with
the stupid sword, making my already bad mood even worse.
It’s too hot, and this place is just dumb. Ollie wants to stop every few
minutes and stare at the people dressed up in olden-day costumes, and it’s
boring.
He’s trailing way behind by the time we get into the museum itself, and I
race ahead in an attempt to move him along, wanting to get out of here as
quickly as possible. So, while Dad and Ollie stop and look at every single
thing, and Dad reads all the information boards out loud, I take off and walk
to the top of the lookout tower.
I don’t know how much later it is before I realize something dreadful has
happened. After the lookout tower, I was hot, bored, and thirsty, so I sat
under a palm tree near the exit and waited for them.
It’s not until some security guy in a black uniform comes and asks my
name, then says into a walkie-talkie that I’ve been found, that it occurred to
me anyone would think I was missing.
I’m taken to some office where my dad’s pacing frantically, and guilt hits
me like a mack truck as I realize how worried he’s been.
“Oz! Thank God!” Dad rushes up and gives me a huge hug, squeezing
me so tight I can barely breathe. But it’s the way he looks behind me,
towards the door, with such hope in his eyes, that gets me really scared.
He looks back at me. “Where’s Ollie?” he asks, the joy in his eyes
turning to apprehension again.
I frown and look around myself, before shrugging. “I don’t know, Dad.
He wasn’t with me.”
Whatever happiness Dad experienced at seeing me is short lived. “Why
weren’t you watching him?” he demands. “He’s only six! You can’t just run
off and leave him.”
Anger churns in my gut and I lash out at the unfairness of it. “He was
with you!” I shout. “You were reading all those stupid signs to him while I
went up the tower.”
Fury wreaths my dad’s face and for a second I think he’s going to hit me.
Then some lady comes rushing up, followed by a policeman, trying to calm
the situation.
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