Strong Love and Strong Will

Ch.1: The Disaster

They sat out on the Sky Deck, talking about things ranging from music to breakups to schoolwork then back to breakups again.

"Sometimes I just wonder if I was right to break up with her" the young man finished,

"Huh," the girl replied as she bit her tongue in wonderment.

"Do you think I was right?" he asked her. The girl looked at her.

"Depends," she replied as she sat back in her chair, folding her arms across her chest. "Do you?"

"I don't know" the boy replied, turning his gaze to the side, staring at the railing. He drummed his hands against the table lost in thought,

"Lad," the girl said. "It's been a month-"

"I know and I still can't get over her" the boy replied.

"What I was going to say was," she said. "It's time to talk to her again"

"I'm not going to talk to her," the boy stubbornly refused. "She won't listen to me anyways"

"Yes she will" the girl replied with much confidence. "Cody, she is lost and still very heartbroken from that night, its time to talk to her and straighten things out"

"We broke up Maddy," Cody said. "Bottom line, there is nothing to straighten out"

"There is," Maddy replied. "Whether or not you two want to be together, if you would put that whole argument behind and just start anew"

"Anew what?" Cody asked. "Anew with more arguing and disrespect, no appreciation"

The girl thumped her fist against the table.

"There you go again" Maddy spat bitterly. She sat forward. She kept her clenched fist still on the table. "Blamin' that this breakup was all on her"

"No it wasn't," Cody said. "It was mine too"

"That a boy" Maddy stated.

All the sudden, a huge boom was heard, then the deck shook violently.

"What the hell?" Maddy questioned. They looked at each other alarmed. They quickly darted down to the deck, they stopped dead in their tracks. There they saw the crew crowding around a smoking bow.

"Oh no" Cody said. There were a few murmurs.

"We won't survive this"

"We'll sink"

Cody and Maddy looked at each other.

"Let's go wake the others" Cody said. Maddy nodded and they both took off down the stairwell, running as fast as they could.

"I'll get my brother and the others, you get Bailey and London" Cody told Maddy. "We'll meet up at the Sky Deck"

Maddy nodded and they both separated. Maddy swung open the door, only to see London brushing her hair in a mirror with her big smile.

"London where's Bailey?" Maddy asked, almost out of breath.

"I don't know" London said in her preppy voice.

"Listen," Maddy said. "There ain't no time, we hit something, and we're sinking."

London didn't answer.

"London?" Maddy questioned.

"What?" London asked. Maddy sighed.

"Look, git yer hind up to the deck and get yerself a lifebelt" Maddy ordered her. London only looked at her. "Just do it!"

"Fine! Fine!"

Maddy soon took off to find Bailey. She ran down every student corridor, finding that many have made their way to the boat deck.

"Bailey!" she had shouted, cupping her hands over her mouth, calling for her friend. There had been no luck. The floor underneath Maddy jerked, Maddy was more alarmed. "Damn"

She quickly ran up a flight of stairs towards the Sky Deck. She found the rest of her friends gathered around.

"Where's Bailey?" Cody asked once she arrived.

"I couldn't find her," Maddy reported. "I looked everywhere near the Student Corridors"

"Oh no" Cody said.

"Did you find out what was happened?" Maddy asked.

"We struck a mine" Cody reported. "The explosion destroyed half our lifeboats"

"What?" Maddy questioned. "That means we can't all survive"

"I know" Cody said. "But we need to at least try too"

"So what do you suggest?" came Cody's brother, Zack's, voice. Cody turned to his friends, Marcas, London, Woody and Zack.

"All of you get to a boat," Cody ordered.

"What about you?" Marcas questioned.

"I have to find Bailey" Cody said.

"Wait," London said. "Didn't you break up with her?"

Cody growled. Maddy placed a hand on Cody's shoulder.

"I'll go with you," Maddy told him. Cody looked at her. Maddy looked at the rest. "All of you get off this ship"

They all nodded and soon dispersed. Maddy looked at Cody.

"Lets go find her" Cody said.

To be continued.