PotC Lost At Sea Ch. 1

Instructions

I wake up to the sound of the waves beating against the ship making it rock back and forth gently. Birdie is still asleep snoring on the other side of the room, snoring loudly. Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever fall asleep at night. I get out of bed and look at my watch my father got me for my fifteenth birthday laying on the nightstand, “ Seven o’clock.” I say to myself deciding that it’s time to get up. I quietly get dressed, slip on my boots and walk over to Birdie's bed for it is now seven o’ ten and breakfast is in twenty minutes. “ Birdie.” I say, “ It's time to get up.” nothing, she continues snoring fast asleep, “ Birdie!” I say again a little louder this time and I push her shoulder… nothing. “ Birdie Sparrow!” I yell while shoving her off her bed, “ What! What happened? Are we under attack?” she yells flailing her arms, trying to get to her feet but she’s entangled in her blanket, she finally gets to her feet. “ No,” I say, trying not to laugh, “ it’s seven fifteen.” “ SO!?” she whines, ( she’s clearly not happy.) “ SO! Breakfast is in fifteen minutes. But if you want to sleep then don’t mind me, I’ll tell everyone you aren’t hungry.” I say as I turn and walk to the door smiling. “ Get out of my way!” Birdie yells, “ Hey!” I shout laughing as she shoves me out of the way. When I said she inherited everything about her father, I wasn't kidding, she even runs like her father! ( yes, she got the Jack Sparrow run.) If you’re wondering where we are, we are on the grand Black Pearl, Jack Sparrow's ship, on the way home to Port Royal. I walk out the door and begin walking up two flights of stairs. Birdie had to sleep in the servants quarters, because the beds are “ better ” and I stupidly agreed. I make it up one flight and I run into the cabin boy, we just stand there for a minute looking each other in the eye not speaking, but then he looks down and walks off. I’ve never asked his name all I know is he’s seventeen, his dirty blond hair is short and messy and his eyes are light blue, like the sky, but softer. He scrubs the decks and dose other chores, we never talk we just look the other in the eye, but it feels like I do know him, like in another world we’re friends, but in this one we just pass each other in the hallway or I see him at breakfast and other meals. I get to the mess deck and it is now seven twenty five, I see Birdie and her father sitting at the table waiting not so patiently for the chef to serve eggs, bacon and toast, usually we get oats or grits for breakfast but today is our last day at sea, so the chef made a special breakfast for everyone, even the crew. Birdie and her father are both just staring at the table where the plates would be. “ Food ready?” Birdie asks, continuing to stare at the table. " Uhh,” I say looking at my watch,“ it shou—” but just as I’m saying this my mother and father help the crew bring breakfast to the table, my mother and father sit on either side of me. After we eat breakfast everyone goes back to what they were doing, Jack relieves the first mate of steering the ship so she can eat, my father goes and helps, my mother helps in the kitchen, “ Liz, Birdie, come help us.” my father yells to us. “ Coming!” I yell back smiling. “ Last one there has to climb the mast!” Birdie yells, I can run fast, but I’m no match for Birdie. She beats me by a mile. “ I win.” she says triumphantly and takes the wheel and I climb the rope ladder on the mast to look for anything out of the ordinary, “ Be careful up there Lizzie.” my father yells up to me, “ I will.” I yell down to him seeing as I’m fifty feet in the air. I look out over the wide ocean and I see something in the distance and getting closer, a ship, “ I see another ship heading toward us.” I yell down to my father and Jack and then, I see the flag on their ship. “ Enemy pirates!” I yell as I climb down the ladder and the first cannon shoots…