Come Hell or Highwater

Ok, here's the deal. The whole thing started as a joke. You know, how when you have a sleepover and you and your friends talk about things, and some things end up sounding like a wish? Well, that's the case here. The whole thing was an accident that turned into the biggest adventure of our lives. Ok, and the funniest.

It just started out like any other slumber party I'd had. Fun, friends, food, and a movie. It was my birthday, so I'd decided on watching the Titanic. We were all best friends and we were talking about how fun it would've been if we were on the ship. My best friends, Megan and Shavai are two of the most awesomest people on the planet. My lil sis, Darcie invited her friend Katie, and then of course there was me and Elizabeth.

Elizabeth was there just because the poor girl had been sheltered all her life and we miraculously talked her parents into letting her come too. Her dad was a cop and neither of her parents liked me, so it was destiny that we come and take her away.

As the credits rolled and the voice of Celine Dion coursed through the room, I spoke aloud "That movie's ending was great-but damn! That sucked!" My friends immediatly agreed. With a click of the remote the tv was off. "I mean, god, losing the dude she loved, the dude she was gonna marry plugs himself, and she goes on to be an old lady, unhappy and, and-"

Darcie looked at her nails and finished my thought "And dead."

We all broke into laughter. Katie rolled off the water bed, laughing. Megan stared at her for a second, and when she thought she'd seen enough, slugged her with a teddy bear. Katie got up, grabbed my pillow and tackled Megan, smothering her with the fabric. Megan's muffled cries could be heard as we all gasped for air laughing. Elizabeth got up and walked to the door way, not wanting to have anything to do with it.

We all froze and broke out into a chorus "Jesus loves me, this I know. For the bible tells me so!" We all broke off laughing as Elizabeth got a running start out into the hallway and sprung into the air landing on me. Megan looked out from behind the pillow, Katie and Darcie and Shavai all stood up.

"Stop her! She's attacking, Numbnuts! Ahhhh!" They all yelled as they charged at Elizabeth. Ramming her off me, they slammed her on the bed. Elizabeth yelled "Rape!" as she shoved them off herself.

For some reason, my mind just wandered off. What would it have been like if we were on the Titanic? What would've happened? Megan brought me back to earth as she waved her hand in my face. I grabbed a fist of popcorn and threw it at her.

"I was just thinking what it would be like, if we could all be on the Titanic." Everyone took a seat around the room, some sat on the bed, others on the floor with me. "We'd have to be respected rich people...I could be...Sydney Davidson!" I laughed at myself. "Or Violet Davidson, heiress of a ... I dunno, couple of diamond and gold mines or something."

Megan bit out "Or a very large field of flowers. I guess my name would be something along the lines of Kyra Alexander."

Shavai laughed out too. "Yeah, and I'd be Nina Ashcroft. Parents deceased, I got all their cash in the end! Plus, I'd be the richest negro on the ship!Ha!" We all laughed at her idea. She loved her mom and her brother, hated her dad. Megan almost choked on her coke laughing.

"You mean you'd be the ONLY negro on the ship, Shavai." Katie laughed out.

Darcie's turn inevitably came and she opened her mouth, "Yes! And I would Jocelyn Edwards and Katie would be my sis. Her name would be Myra!"

Everyone laughed.

"Elizabeth? Let's change your name!" Shavai anounced and we all thought for a moment in silence.

Elizabeth spoke up immediately, "How about Faith Anderson?" I thought on it for a moment, as we all got up and got into our sleeping arrangments.

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That night, the same thought kept me awake. The movie shouldn't have ended that way.

"Megan?" I spoke out into the darkness, hoping someone's voice would answer my own, but I didn't hear anything. "Megan?" Again, there was no answer. So, being satisfied no one else was awake I sighed.

"I wish we could all go back to Titanic and change things."

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Morning inevitably came. And immediatly, I knew we weren't in my room. Either I was someplace else, or someone came upon a spider or something, because when I woke up, it was to the sound of Shavai, screaming.