chapter 5

    Chapter 5

     I curse under my breath. I had no choice but to surrender. Or so I tell myself. I’m somewhat confused, but too pissed to really care much. Sitting on a bed in a warm, comfortable, room while the crew decides what they will do with me. I kick my feet in the air out of anger and boredom. I cross the room and put my ear up against the door. “She seems strong enough to work as a guard.” So I’m gonna be a guard? “But sir, she is troublesome. She is stubborn, hotheaded, manipulative, and untrustworthy.” I’ve heard enough. Angry and hurt, I feel I have been betrayed. But how could I? I don’t even know them. I hear the door creak open “hello?” it’s josh. Of course. “So, er, we decided that since, well, you’re a girl, of course you’re a girl, but uh, we thought you would be good in the kitchen?” he flinches as if I was going to hurt him.  “ ’Mkay!” I smile and wink at him, and dash out of the room. “W-wait! You don’t know the way!” I giggle. It’s so fun to mess with him. “Or do I?” I look around the deck, hoping to see some door that could lead me to the kitchen, when I see a port connected to a small town. It was close enough that I could swim there. Reluctantly I turn around, because I hear a small voice calling from… a box? I walk over to see who it was because it sounded so familiar. “You’re going the wrong way!” I do know that voice. Without hesitation, I run and jump off the side of the boat, shivering when I plunge into the freezing water. I splash around frantically. I don’t know how to swim. I calm down and decide even drowning would be a better fate than being on that boat.