CHAPTER 1 Jack:16 Eva:14
First of all lets say a few thing about Evagelia. She is 14 years old and lives in a small town in Greece, Nafplio. Her father is greek and her mother English. She is tall for her age, she has big hazel eyes, brown hair that becomes dirty blond when it's exposed to the sun for a long time, her skin is olive coloured tan and her pink lips are full. Her father died when she was 10 and since then, Evagelia and her mother were very poor.
It was a summer morning. Evagelia was at the beach with all her friends and was swimming in the deep blue sea. She swam under the Mediteranian waters and looked at the fish and sea shell all around her. It was beautiful. As she dove in to swim deeper, a hand grabbed her ankle and pulled her up. She turned around annoyed to see her friend Spiros with another boy she had never seen before in her life. He was about two years older than her, his skin was tanned, his hair was black and was falling over his shoulders and he wore a red bandana.
"?a?e?a, a?t? e?a? ? ?a?. ? pat?a? t? e?a? f? e t? pat?a ? a? de? ?e? e?. ?p?e? ?a t? ? es? a?t? ?a e ? (Evagelia, this is Jack. His father is a familly friend but he doesn't know greek. Can you speak to him instead of us?)" he said and Evagelia nodded. She looked at Jack and smiled at him.
"Hi, I'm Evagelia. Spiros asked me to translate to you what he and the other kids say because they don't know english." she said. Jack gave her a big smile and nodded.
"I'm fine with that. So, how come you know english?" he asked.
"My mum is from England and she taught me. Where are you from?" she asked. She was curious because the english kids she usually saw weren't tanned like Jack.
"I'm from the Caribbean, luv." he said and flashed her a toothy grin.
Over the days, Evagelia and Jack came closer and closer. They went out for walks, talked all the time and Evagelia showed him all the places she could. "And this up there," she said and pointed at a castle that was on a hill over the town "is Palamidi. We use it to protect our selves from dangers. I've only been there once but from up there you can see everything that is coming near us from land and the sea." she said. Jack looked up and admired the castle. All of a sudden they saw a man up the waiving his hands and yelling something. Jack raised is hands as well and started waiving back but Evagelia grabbed his arm and pulled him away. Jack looked at her curiously, her face had gon pale and her eyes were widened with fear.
"Jack...we're in danger." she said and started running towards her house.
"What do you mean?" Jack asked confused and started running after her.
"Jack, the man was warning us to find a place t hide! Someone is coming in town to threaten us!" she grabbed his hand and started running again. A woman came running towards them, she was told and sunburned, her blond her was curly and she had a worried expression on her face.
"Eva! Run away! Hide somewhere, I have to find your sister." she said and pushed Eva towards Jack. "No mum I'm not leaving you!" she said. Her mother looked up at Jack with a pleading look.
"Keep her safe." she whispered and ran away. Eva tried to run after her but Jack held her tightly by the arm.
"No! Mum! Mum I'm not leaving you. Jack let me go I have to get her." she said. Jack looked at her sadly but didn't let go.
"Sorry luv, but I need to keep ye safe." he said and dragged Eva to the docks. Eva started kicking and hiting him, yelling and crying, but Jack just wouldn't let go of her arm. They stood in front of a big ship, it was fierse and looked like it could battle with lots of ship at the same time and wouldn't get a scratch.
"We will get in here. Just keep quiet and don't let anyone see ye." he whispered and the still crying Eva. They hid into the darkness and seaked into a storage. They sat behind some boxes and hid in the dark. "I hate you." Eva told Jack and looked away, wiping tears from her face. "Luv, I couldn't just let you there could I now?" he said but Eva just looked away and ingored him. Jack noticed that she was shivering because the storage was wet and cold and moved closer to her. He put an arm around her but she smacked it away and crawled as far away from him as she could. She sat in a corner and started crying until the ship started moving. That was when they heard a loud noise and the whole ship shook. "What's happening?" she asked.
"They are attacking the ship, luv." Jack replied quietly. Eva looked at him terrified and Jack chuckled "Don't worry," he said "As long as I'm here nothing will harm you. come here." Eva slowly moved closer to him and finally let Jack put his arm around her and let her relax on his chest. She was still shivering and she jumped everytime the ship was firing or fired. That lasted about two hours, then, the ship started moving again steadily and left Nafplios port. Eva was fast asleep in Jacks arms and Jack fallen asleep as well. She stirred a bit and then opened her eyes to see that she was lying on Jacks chest. She moved away as quieter as she could not to wake Jack and then stood up. She streched and then noticed that the ship was moving. She quicky kneeled infront of Jack and started shaking him.
"Jack, Jack wake up!" she said.
"What is it, luv?" he asked, not opening his eyes.
"Jack! The ship is moving. We are out of Naplio!" she said and Jack chuckled.
"I know luv." Evas eyes widened.
"What? You knew all about this and you didn't say a thing?" she couldn't believe it "Jack, I have to go back home. My mother and sister need me!" she cried. Jack opened his eyes and sat up. Tears had started filling Evas eyes but he knew that staying in Nafplio wasn't a good life for her. "Luv, look at me." he said, Eva slowly looked up at him "You wouldn't be happy living there, I could tell. Listen, we are leaving this ship when it docks, then we can send a letter to your mother and my father, savvy?" he asked. Eva nodded and wiped her tears. She sat down next to Jack and sighed.
"Jack?" she asked slowly "Where are we going to go once we dock?" "Wherever you want us to go, luv." he said with a sparkle in his eye. Eva looked at him excited.
"Really? ANywhere I want to?"
"Aye, anywhere you want to." Eva sat to think for a moment.
"Hmmm, i always wanted to see the Caribbean." she said.
"Great. We will get the next ship that can take us to the Caribbean." Jack said simply, Eva jumped up and huged him tightly.
"Oh, thank you Jack! Thank you so much!" she said, Jack laughed and pattered her back.
