Hey Guys! I just thought of this story the other night – it kind of just came to me, and it's a lot different from the original CJ story. But since I have a CJ story going that follows on from the real story, I thought I'd do this one too, because I really liked the idea, and hope you do too!

Well here's all you need to know for the start in case I'm not too clear about it in the chapter – Ruby is Charlie's sister, not her daughter. Most relationships (as in romance) are actually built on the ship, and not in Summer Bay. All the girls really from the Bay are best friends, all the ones in my fic anyway, as you will see as you read this chapter – it's to make it more interesting!

Joey and Aden work on a Cruise ship, as entertainers, and the rest the characters will unfold sooner or later. Thanks for giving my story a go... Review so I know how you all think it's doing, and so I know whether to continue!

ALSO! Come up with the name of the ship for me! Maybe something crafty – idk! Thats why I'm asking you guys! Let me know what you think and I might use the name you choose for the name of the ship in my story!

Chapter 1

"Oh my GOD! Charlie look at the SIZE of it! It's huge!" Ruby cheered as they got out of the bus.

"Tell me about it!" Charlie glared at the massive cruise ship awaiting them.

"I can't wait to get on! See our cabin! The pools! The -"

"Yeah yeah Rubz, we get it, EVERYTHING!" Ruby grinned.

Even after a long plane trip and a lengthy bus journey Ruby was still her cheery chirpy self, only slightly more hyper and excited. She couldn't wait to spend a whole month out at sea visiting some Caribbean islands on the holiday. It was going to be great, just her, Nicole, Annie, Charlie, Leah, VJ, Martha and Rachel. A girl's month cruise- except from VJ who Leah had to bring as she couldn't leave him back home with a baby sitter for that long! It was definitely a one off; they would never have a chance in a lifetime of doing something like this again. Charlie had applied for trip on a website, it was a one in a million prize draw, and she had somehow won.

Charlie had invited three of her friends, and told Ruby she could come (as it was the summer holidays) and to invite two of her closest friends as well. It had to be girls though! A month away was arguably a long time, but they all took the sacrifice of taking a month off work, since none of them were getting any younger, and fancied a nice trip away. It was an experience of a lifetime so none of them wanted to miss out. Plus, Annie had found out that her brother was possibly going to be working on the ship, she hadn't seen him since they were both young, and during a telephone conversation, he had mentioned working on a ship that sounded either alike this ships name, or was this ships name. Anyway, Annie was double excited for the trip in that case!

They all moved towards the ship at the sound of one of the crewmen asking them forward, for their boarding passes and their passports. After that, they all boarded the ship with smiling faces, and a rather sleepy one from VJ.

Whilst inside, dragging their hand luggage, they were receiving their all inclusive cards from the polite woman at the reception area, where the queue was quickly lengthening.

"Wow" They all stated in amazement as they admired the stunning lights and decorations in the reception area of the boat. There was a bright golden chandelier at the very top of the ship, above all the rounded stairs and glass lifts that you could see from any floor in the centre of the ship.

"Thank you" Charlie said when receiving her card from one of many busy receptionists.

"Thanks a lot"

"Thanks"

They all echoed as one by one they got their cards. Ready to begin their long long vacation, surprisingly excited to be away from the sunny little place of Summer Bay, they began their journey to the lifts, discussing which floor their room was on, and what number.

*****

Joey smiled as she finished unpacking her suitcase and stored all her belongings for the next month neatly and tidily away in the small but comfortable cabin. She had gotten on board before any of the vocational passengers, and so started ahead with the unpacking. She looked around and grinned, she loved how safe she felt in her little room on board. She walked over to her bed and slumped down on it, sighing contently to herself. Joey brushed her hair from her face with her hands, and then closing her eyes she laid her head on her hands, yawning.

She was interrupted from her musing as she heard three small knocks coming from her cabin door. She got up and looked through the small eye hole in the door, smiling and instantly opening the door when she saw who it was.

"Aden!"

"Hey Jo" The handsome blonde smiled, "how's the cabin?"

"Great actually, not too big, not too small. Yours?"

"Same same, guess who's only went and got the cabin next door to you?!"

"Aw great!"

Aden laughed at his friend's amusement. Aden loved Joey like a sister, they had worked together on the same ships now for three years, and had got along like a house on fire. They met when Joey was doing her first ever job on a smaller ship and Aden had guided her through the do's and don'ts of the entertainment business of cruise ships. Now they had risen to doing big ships like this and had never done a job without the other since. Infact, they had their own little group of entertainers that had stayed together for a year or so now. There was Joey and Aden, then a couple of years ago a blonde, muscular young boy had joined them, his name was Geoff Campbell. After him, Belle Taylor joined the trio and not long after, Jai Fernandez joined to make it a five. It was a very young group of entertainers but that's what the business seemed to want at the moment. Plus, in a huge ship like they were on at the moment, there were more than one group of entertainers, and throughout the vacation period of a month, all of the entertainment groups would go through various challenges to win (with the help and excitement of the passenger) the 'most entertaining group of the holiday' award, or as they liked to call it, the 'MEGOTH' award.

"So, where's Belle's cabin?" Joey raised an eyebrow at Aden.

She saw a faint blush form in the boy's cheeks and trying to chase it away, he shrugged, averting his gaze from the knowing Joey.

"Donno yet"

"Not too far, I hope" Joey winked.

"Shut up Jo!" He edged forwards towards her and got the girl in a headlock, playfully rubbing her head with his fist to give her a 'noogy'.

"Lemme go! Just coz you're so totally in love with Belle Aden!"

"Am not!"

"Admit it!"

"No, I'm not letting you go until you say sorry!"

"Sorry, can't apologize for telling the truth" Joey giggles and tried to shake free from Aden's hold on her. Aden had been secretly (or not so secretly) crushing on Belle ever since she stepped foot on the stage to their first trio act. Anyone with eyes could see he liked her, and not so surprisingly, she liked him back. Aden had held back though, as she had just gotten out of a relationship, and he had never brought up the idea since he heard that. They had shared a kiss, or two, or maybe even three when they got a bit drunk now and again on the ship, but they had never taken it further than a drunken kiss.

"Say you're sorry Collins!" Aden continued to noogy his friend.

"Never Jefferies!"

*****

"This is our floor!"

Nicole, Ruby and Annie nearly screamed with Joey.

"Ok girls, calm down or you'll get thrown overboard" Charlie laughed.

They were all glad to get cabins on the same floor as each other. It was decided Martha and Rachel would share a room, Annie, Ruby and Nicole would share a room, and Charlie, Leah and VJ would share a room. Charlie was at first reluctant to allow Ruby to sleep in a cabin with her two friends, away from her, and she was going to join them, but Ruby insisted since they ended up having rooms facing each other on the doorway, so when Charlie opened her door, she was facing Ruby's. Martha and Rachel's cabin was about ten cabins down the hall, so not far either.

They all walked along the gold are blue carpet up the hallway, Martha and Rachel waved to them as they headed down the hall towards their cabin, to get ready for tonight. It was only seven o'clock so they had all decided to go out for a while as there were various 'welcome ceremony' entertainments going in different places on the ship. Ruby had read that there were six different groups of entertainers on the ship, with another load of backups for shows etc. She was excited to get a choice to see them all, and to be able to decide at what welcoming party to go to.

"See you in a bit, be good."

"Yeah we will Charlz, don't worry. Look, I'm just here." Ruby grinned and waved as she headed inside her cabin with her two friends who ran inside to see their accommodation for the next month.

"I'll be through in a bit to see you anyway. Make sure you didn't get a better cabin than me!"

"Yeah Yeah, no swapping!"

Both waved as Ruby closed her door, Charlie stood and sighed at how grown up Ruby had become, and yet she still seemed like her baby sister. She smiled and hesitantly closed her own door, venturing in her own cabin to be welcomed by her suitcase, along with Leah's and VJ's.

"Look look, this is my bed mum!"

"VJ, calm down. You were sleeping a minute ago!"

"It's soooo cool though!" VJ bounced up and down on one of two visible beds in the cabin. Charlie and Leah laughed along to his musings.

"Anyway, I think you'll find that's OUR bed honey."

VJ's face dropped. It was in fact a double bed. There was a single parallel to it just across the medium sized cabin.

Both women laughed and began to gather their suitcases and luggage, beginning to rake around and find to wear for the welcome party/ceremony. They would unpack it all tomorrow.

*****

"Ok I'll see you in what? Twenty minutes?"

"Yeah Aden, meet you in the Starlight Hall yeah?"

"Yep that's the one."

"Good. That's one of my favourite, it's big and bright. Plus Starlight has them comfy seats remember? So more people try to get into that Hall."

"Oh yeah! But I heard Damien's group's getting the Blue Room tonight for the welcoming ceremony!"

"No way! They always get the best hall! Aw well, we got the runner up hall tonight. Better put on a good show."

"Yeah, so twenty minutes Jo!"

"Bye Ade!"

Aden closed Joey's cabin door and she quickly jumped into the shower to relieve herself of the travel from the day. Once out of the shower, she quickly blow dried her dark hair, and put her black jeans on and one of her work polo top on that she had to wear for during the days, and on the first and last night's of the cruise. The entertainer's polo's had a small orange sun on the right of the top, and it had the entertainers name sewed into the left of their polo. Each entertainment group had their own colour of tops, and Joey's was yellow. Joey was pleased with this colour, as it made her work feel brighter and more like a vacation than a job. She loved it though, no matter how repetitive it could get, they always managed to put on a great show no matter what.

Joey didn't have much family back home, apart from her brother Brett. This meant she didn't care about how long she was away from home, as Brett was a nasty piece of work, and didn't accept her for who she was, or what she was. Aden didn't have much family either, so he was on the same roped there, Belle, Geoff and Jai had some family, but also didn't mind being away. Joey had actually heard that Geoff's sister was to be aboard this ship, and he was really quite excited to get to meet her after all the years of being apart.

When Joey had finished with getting ready, she splashed on a tad or perfume before heading out the door towards the Starlight Hall. She always got a little nervous stepping on stage as the new passengers were welcomes, but she never told anyone that. She had only been aboard this boat three times, but she knew it well, and it was by far her favourite. She loved the decoration of it, the smell, and the calmness it sent. She loved the name of the ship. She loved how the sea splashed along the bottom of it, even though it did that with all boats, but it sounded different on this one.

Joey pushed the door open to the Starlight hall, heading to behind the stage to get ready to welcome the arrivals on board.

*****

Ruby opened the door for Charlie after she knocked a couple of times. She was met by the stunning figure, as always, of her sister. She was dressed in a black, medium length dress, one that she had for the first night here as so not be too dressy, or too casual. Ruby was wearing a purple dress with a belt around the middle, showing off her small figure. Annie and Nicole stood behind her, Annie in a green top and skirt while Nicole wore a long blue dress-like top, and leggings.

After a rough look around the room, interested in how to unfold the bunk beds in Ruby, Annie and Nicole's room, Charlie and the three girls met Leah, and VJ in the small bar just outside the hallway their cabin was in. Leah was wearing a skirt and halter-neck top while VJ was looking smart in a little short sleeved shirt and jeans.

"Trying to find a girl tonight VJ?" Ruby joked.

"Shut up!" He scowled and turned away, sticking out his tongue to the now three laughing school girls.

Martha and Rachel appeared minutes later, Rachel dressed in fitted jeans, heels and a dressy red top, whilst Martha wore a dress similar to Charlie's but a bit more frilly and grey coloured.

"Ready?"

"Yepp"

"So what club we venturing to?" Nicole asked.

"Well theres a few. The Blue room seems to have the best rating, on this anyway." Ruby showed the rest of them a leaflet she found in her cabin.

"The Starlight Hall sounds good too." Annie encouraged.

"Yeah, but so does Indigo's" Nicole said.

"Where's that?"

"Second floor"

"Hmm"

"I like the sound of Starlight Hall" Charlie pointed out on the leaflet, "Say's it's big, plenty of seats, and a dance floor."

"Every Hall has a different act on, but it doesn't say what. Just says something about the colour of the entertainment group. There's Blue, red, yellow, green, purple, and orange."

"Too much to choose from already" Martha laughed.

"Yeah"

They walked in silence, Annie studied the leaflet as they walked towards the lifts, Ruby caught sight of a nice looking, blonde, well dressed boy walking passed. She blushed as she realised he was staring at her, smiling. She looked up and smiled back, and she was brought out of her musings when Nicole butted in.

"I have an idea!"

"Whats that?" Annie asked.

They all watched as Nicole walked over to a pull table she just passed, and she grabbed six balls, pulling them to the edge of the table. One blue, one red, one yellow, one green, one purple and one orange.

"Ok I have six balls here, each represent a colour of the acts here. The number on the ball to be called out of these six is the one we go and see."

"Simples." Ruby imitated the meercat on a TV advert.

They all laughed and walked towards Nicole a bit more. They all let VJ pick the number of the palls and Nicole potted them as he said them with her hands. Eventually they were left with one ball. She brought it out from behind her.

"Yellow." She said.

"Starlight's Hall it is then!" Charlie Mused, and they all continued their walk to the lifts as they previously had done. The lift door opened and all the girls and VJ entered, ready for the night ahead of them, and ready to start their long vacation.

Next chapters to come I PROMISE there's gonna be ALOT of CJ interaction (That's if you want more chapters!?, let me know!) To Be Continued?