Hey! I tried to keep the chapters somewhat short, this is just the intro, it's not very interesting but it's setting up for the story!

"Raquel Elizabeth,:" my mother yelled. "Why are you still asleep? We need to be at the airport in 3 hours and you still haven't packed!

"Mom, we're only gonna be gone for a week." I looked at my alarm clock, 10:26. "It won't take me more than 15 minutes to pack and it's only 10:26." I yawned as I stated this fact. She can be so paranoid sometimes.

"I don't care! Up! Now!" she retorted, "We're leaving at 12:15 to go get lunch before we head to the airport, remember, you need to bring a dress for the formal night on the ship! And don't forget to bring your bathi- "

"MOM. I KNOW. BATHING SUIT. IT'S A CRUISE. WHY WOULD I FORGET A BATHING SUIT?" she was seriously bugging me now.

"Alright, be ready by 12:15" she stated.

My name is Raquel, but I go by Rockie. I'm the kind of girl that sits in her room, on the computer, most of the time. I occasionally slip away to the city to hang out with friends, seeing as they all live there. I hate beaches, and I especially hate being stuck in confined spaces with family. Our family has always gone on a family vacation every year. Joy. My mom and dad loved the outdoors, they could hike all day, and camp, oh how they loved camping. I suggested the idea of a cruise this year, which they thought was brilliant, and they were glad I was taking part in planning the annual family trip. I had ulterior motives. I HATE beaches, they don't know that though. Normally, on our little "vacation" which is more like a prison sentence for me, I have to constantly stick by there sides because there are "dangerous people in this world". But on a cruise ship... they had no issue with me roaming off and doing my own thing, after all, it's not like I could disappear anywhere right? We're in the middle of the ocean on a ship. I knew at the ports of call I'd most likely be stuck with them. But at least the cruise we were going on had many days at sea, so I'd get to have a lot of alone time roaming the ship.

We stopped at ate lunch at Gracie's, a local Italian restaurant. This must be their kind way of saying "Rockie, please don't make this vacation miserable for everyone," because they knew this was my favorite place to eat. We arrived at the airport at about 3pm. Our flight leaves at 4:30. I could handle the hour and a half we have in the airport. It's the 3 and a half hour flight from New York to Miami that was going to kill me. My mother had paid extra to make sure that we would all get seats next to each other on the plane.

"Flight 2389 to Miami now boarding." A woman's voice blared through the overhead speakers.

Great, here comes the torture, I thought. Luckily, I brought my ipod, with a fully charged battery, and a charger to use on the ship. This would be my sweet escape. I turned on my ipod and pretended to sleep. After what seemed like forever, we landed in Miami at about 8 o'clock.

We were going to stay at a hotel for the night, we had to be at the port to board the ship at 11am. There was a taxi waiting for us outside the airport. My mother was great at planning, I'll give her that. We stayed at the Marriot. I could get used to this. I'm surprised she booked this hotel, she never likes staying in hotels, she'd rather camp, and if we stayed in a hotel, it was cheap and dirty. Yuck. I sat in the hotel room, watching Pirates of the Caribbean on HBO. Ironic, we were going on a Caribbean cruise.

I would love to have a guy that looked like Orlando Bloom be a part of my Caribbean experience.

Hope you enjoyed so far!