"Ally you have to stop being so afraid of the ocean! I assure you that as soon as we step on the ship and you see the ocean from there you will love it and you will stop being so afraid," Trish says. I half smile at her and take a deep breath closing my suitcase.
Trish and I were going to what she called a music adventure. To be clearer, we're going to a cruise that is taking us to New York City to pursue our music careers. We were leaving from a port in England and arriving in New York City in about five to six days or possibly a week. The truth is that I didn't like the ocean due to the fact that my cousin died in it. Ever since she died drowning in it, I always got scared of swimming in it or going on a ship. We lived in Miami but I never really went to the beach. I know, you may be thinking, 'why are you taking a ship from England to New York if you live in Miami?' Well a month ago, our school sent some students here to England to practice our singing and instrument playing. Now instead of going home to Miami, we were going to New York via ship. The reason we didn't go on plane was because the tickets were supposedly too expensive. I rather travel by air than by water.
"Ally are you ready? Ms. Garner is waiting for us! The ship leaves in twenty minutes!" Trish calls from the door. I take another deep breath, take a look around the room, grab my suitcase and head out for the door. I'm scared to death.
"Ok so Ms. Garner said we are staying in the middle class quarter. We are not permitted in the first nor third class quarter, understand?" Trish informs. I swear, sometimes she acted like my mom. But I loved her anyways.
"Don't worry. I don't even think I'm coming out of the room," I say dryly. Trish looks at me with a you-have-to-be-kidding-me face. I shrug and we make our way to the bus that's taking us to the ship. When I told my dad about this trip he seemed pretty excited about it. Probably because he wants me to lose the fear of the ocean I guess?
We finally make it to the outside of the ship. I gulp at the sight of it. It almost looks like the Titanic, in fact, it looks exactly like it. Oh no. This made it even worse. What if this ship sinks? What if we drown or get eaten by sharks? I don't have a Jack to save me. I have Trish, what if I lose her?
"Ally are you thinking what I think you're thinking?" Trish interrupts my thoughts. She knew me too well. I nod not taking my eyes off the ship.
"Relax, we won't sink," she hits my shoulder playfully, grabs her suitcase, and steps on the board that leads to the door of the ship. I was the last student standing outside. I watched as more people went in the ship, smiling and waving at their friends standing on the port. How can they be so happy and carefree?
"Miss. Dawson!" Ms. Garner calls from the ship's door. I look at her, take a deep breath and try to remember happy thoughts. As I step on the board, a man with a blue uniform grabs my suitcase with his left hand and takes my hand with his right hand. As soon as I step in, the doors of the ship closes.
"Welcome to the Pearl," the guy with the uniform says. I look at him and he's smiling at me. I manage a half smile. The pearl. Ally, happy thoughts, happy thoughts. Trish comes next to me with a huge smile on her face. "Ready? We have our room," she says. I manage another half smile and follow her to the middle class quarter. How many floors did this ship have? We went up like three stairs and we still weren't on our floor yet. When we reached the fifth floor, we searched for our room.
"This is it," Trish opens the door. Hmm not bad at all. The room had a painting on the wall, a yellow bunk bed and a queen size bed diagonal from it. The walls were painted a light orange and there was a small circular window next to the bunk bed. Guess who's not taking the top bed of the bunk bed. Trish puts her suitcase next to the drawers, "I'm gonna go watch as the ship leaves the port. You coming?" I shake my head. "Well I'll see you later than," she closes the door and I'm alone in our room. I take out my notebook and start on a fresh new page. I needed inspiration but where was I going to get it? I guess probably if I went with Trish I could get some?
It took me some time to find my way out of the hall into the deck. There were hundreds of people smiling and hugging and waving at the people on the port. I searched for Trish or any of my classmates but found no one. I bumped into a lot of people and tripped about four times, clumsy me. The worst part was that I had my journal in my hands so I had to be careful not losing it in the middle of all these people.
As I tried to get in the way of the people in front of the deck, I bumped into someone and fell straight on my butt with my journal in my hands. Ow!
"I'm so sorry. I didn't see you," I hear a boy's voice. I look up at him and see the most beautiful eyes I have seen in my entire life, a pair of hazel eyes. His blonde hair shined really bright with the sun. And his skin looked so perfect. He has his hand lent out to me. I grab it and he pushes me up until I am completely standing and smiling like an idiot.
"I'm really sorry. Did you get hurt?" he asks. "No," I shake my head. He smiles and it takes me breath away. Was I really thinking this?
"Ok. Well I better catch up to my friends. I'll see you around," he says and walks past me. I turn around and watch him leave. As soon as he's out of my sight I turn around to look for Trish but I hear that same familiar boy voice.
"I'm Austin by the way!" he shouts. I turn around with a smile and see him smiling at me about six feet away.
"I'm Ally!" I reply back. With that, he smiles and leaves. Austin. He had a nice name. Probably this ship wasn't going to be so bad after all. Unless it turned out like the Titanic or something like that.
Ok so I was on facebook the other day and I saw some Titanic pictures and some people have been tweeting about watching the movie so I decided to write a story based on the movie. And I have to admit, I'm really excited to write this. There will be a couple of changes from the movie though
Please review and tell me what you think! greatly appreciated!
I'm going to do facts! So..
Fact 1: I was going to make Ally a first class passenger but I decided not to.
Fact 2: Austin & Ally weren't going to meet yet until later on in the story but I figured that you guys wanted them to meet fast