Karr-chapter 1, The Karrkaroe

CHAPTER 1
THE KARRKAROE

“Daniel, Daniel! Get up before you miss the bus!” called his mom.
“Ohhh,” he moaned. “I forgot the alarm…again!” He began rolling out of bed but without meaning to he fell with a thud before he could grab hold of his covers. Daniel wasn’t usually clumsy so he knew today would a slow day.
He threw on his same school clothes he’d worn since grade one (except bigger size of course). Daniel glided down the stairs and into the kitchen where he fixed his usual, bland, breakfast of milk and cereal. “Daniel, hurry up and get moving, you don’t want to be late” Daniel’s mom always seemed to be rushed the first week of school. “Thank goodness it was almost over!” Daniel thought. Just then he heard bus drive past, tossed his cereal bowl into the sink and dashed out the door. Daniel was anxious to get to school for one reason and that was to think what his teacher would say to him if he was late. Although, he made it just in time to join his best friend, John Wells, as he was walking through the front doors, and he uttered to John, “Well, T.G.I.F.” And thus began Daniel Karr’s fifth school day of the seventh grade.
Later that day, when Daniel had come home from school he raced up the stairs, then past his sister’s room where he tripped over a basket dirty laundry.
“Whoa!” he yelled as he hurtled into the air. Daniel turned back to see his year old sister, Jessica, standing over him.
“You should probably lookout next time you run down the hall like that!” she shouted “don’t you think?” she added sarcastically.
“Sorry, but it’s not my fault you leave your junk lying around everywhere!” “I do not,” she said in a sharp whisper with a disgusted look on her face. Well, I need to go sort this so, I need you to move.” then she left without another word. Daniel then went to his room, plugged the ear phones to his CD into his ears, and lay on his bed to think.
He had been given, from his teacher, a report to do about his family. He knew much about his mom’s side, but as for his dad’s side he didn’t know a thing. And that was the problem, Daniel’s teacher wanted them to do a report on the side they knew least about, he said he wanted them to learn something, and of course all teachers do. He knew though that the reason he didn’t know much was of the odd disappearance of his father when Daniel was only one year old. But, all that made it all seem even more strange and confusing.
Daniel had always felt something missing without his dad and it that feeling began to grow stronger that very moment. He felt like his heart was in the Olympics doing a triple back flip. Daniel buried his face into the large feather pillow at the end of his bed.
Then all of the sudden he had an idea. Daniel jumped up from his bed (but kept his music, of course) and walked to the computer and booted up the Internet.
His whole life he had never realized he knew nothing about his dad and was almost surprised that his mom hadn’t told him anything.
After searching for about an hour Daniel had found that many members of the Karr family had disappeared somewhere off the coast of Florida in the Bahamas in an area known as the Bermuda Triangle.
Then he read aloud to himself, “On Mar, 8, 1995 one of the most amazing disappearances occurred, when Henry Karr was lost in the Bermuda Triangle aboard a sailboat called the ‘Karrkaroe’ a boat that was said to have been in his family for many years. Two nights later the boat mysteriously reappeared. Henry has not been seen since!” Then at the bottom of the paragraph it said, “submitted by: anonymous.”
He could not believe it. That’s how his dad had disappeared, In the Bermuda Triangle? But, how could that be? They had never lived anywhere near there. It didn’t seem right, his dad, vanishing in the middle of some bizarre triangle.
For a moment it seemed as if nothing in the world made sense anymore… a moment of pure confusion.
Daniel sat himself back in the computer chair to think it over. “This can’t be right,” he told himself. He wished there was some way he could figure out more (the site on the internet was the only source he could find). A few minutes later he went to the kitchen, to find that his mom was making dinner.
“It’s almost ready,” she told him.
“Why don’t you set the table?”
“Ok,” Daniel replied obediently.
“Mom, have you heard of the Karrkaroe,” he asked as he collected three plates from the cupboard.
“The Karrkaroe?” she stated questionably.
“It’s the boat that’s in our family,” he prompted, silverware clanging.
“Oh, that old sail boat,” she answered, while stirring something up in a bowl, “Your great uncle invited us to come for a ride in it tomorrow.”
“Uncle Rob?”
“Yep.”
“Can I bring a friend,” Daniel asked hopefully.
His mom answered knowingly, “Sure, John can come.”