I don't know what I expected from Nick Boyle, but it definitely wasn't what I got. Last night we took him to the movies. Jurassic Park was playing, and I'd been dying to see it for weeks, and since Derek had actually left no work for any of us, we decided to escape, taking Nicholas with us. I think he needed to escape far more than we did.
I guess I've been watching too many movies, because I've always pictured a SEAL as a loud, obnoxious male with a crude sense of humour. He isn't anything like that. On the island he's so quiet, always off by himself. Tonight, Alex was trying so hard to draw him into the conversation, but he just sat there, smiling sometimes, distracted, almost. I must admit, he has my curiosity raised. In the cinema, I glanced at him a few times. He seemed to be watching the movie, but I felt more that he was just looking through the screen, completely lost in his own thoughts. I'm not ashamed to admit that I get really involved in movies I see, and I did jump at one point, like everyone else. Nicholas sat motionless, like he didn't even notice the poor sheep getting ripped to shreds.
Afterwards, walking along the pier to the boat, he hung back, a few paces behind the rest of us. One could get the impression that he simply doesn't like us, and didn't want to be around us, but I know that isn't true. Derek, however, he doesn't want to be around, that much is clear to me. And the way he acts around Derek, isn't the way he acts around us. It's almost like, he doesn't know what to make of us. We're as much a mystery to him as he is to us.
But I'm good at solving mysteries.
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