Daddy's Little Pirate
Chapter 1: Flattery and the Arrival
"Mom, let me in you whore!" I slammed my fist against the door a couple of times.
"Flattery will get you everywhere dear." My mom said from behind the door as she unlocked it. She opened the door and immediately I ran in, with her closing the door behind me. I walked over to the table and dumped my dirty, grayed sack I had with me on the table. Out fell 7 gold pieces, a few rings and a glass eyeball. My mom walked over to the table and grinned at me. "Nice job Sophia." She picked up the eyeball and grimaced, making a 'yuck' noise as she did. Obviously she thought she could have done with out that.
I took a mocking bow and smiled back. "I've learned from the best." My mom waltzed over to me and grabbed my hands; she started swinging me around while singing a tune long forgotten to most people in Tortuga, as they all walked around in a drunken stupor. She used to sing this song to me when I was a baby. I loved it then and I love it now.
"When all the fair rose petals fall to the ground, I shall come home to you." I sang with her for a moment before sitting down in one of the kitchen chairs laughing along with my mom. "You're growing into a fine young woman Sophia." She walked over to me with an +airy walk, almost like she was floating and gave me a peck on the cheek. I gave a loud snorting laugh.
"A fine young woman that drinks steals and still lives at home with her mother." She rose an eyebrow at. She was about to say something but a whole bunch of people ran past the door screaming with glee, cutting her off. I stood up from my chair and raced over to the door. "I'm going to go see what's going on." My mother followed after me.
"I'll come too." I just shrugged, signaling that I didn't care. She tried to follow but she couldn't run very fast and keep up in her blue satin dress. "I can't run very fast with this dress. Since you're wearing pants, you go on and I'll meet you there." I nodded my head and followed the crowd. I ended up down at the dock where a large brown ship with pink sails was docked. Pink sails? Yeah. Totally inconspicuous. I looked closer and noticed a blonde woman walking off the ship. I walked closer so I could get a better look. I listened intently to the people around me to see why these people were so important. All I heard were bits and pieces of things, but not who the lady was.
"The Pink Pearl! It's returned!" Squealed a little 12-year-old girl.
"Aye, Da capt'n's looking better than evar!" An old man growled out in his worn out voice.
"'Ave ye heard? They say they almost caught up with it, the famous Black Pearl!"
"Ah, the Pink Pearl's twice 's fast and ev'ryone on it's twice as good looking." Two young women gossiped. Agh! This was getting me nowhere. I had to go straight to the source. I'd ask the lady myself. I looked around as I was walked forward, I couldn't find her anywhere. Then I ran into someone, sending us both to the ground. I rubbed my butt as I stood and listened to the other person curse. It sounded like a woman to me. I opened my eyes, because they had closed on impact. I was about to start at them when I noticed it was the woman from the ship. She was wiping the dirt off her butt. A smile played across my face.
"Just who I wanted…" I never got to finish my sentence because immediately the woman screamed and ran past me.
"Mina, darling! You haven't changed a bit!" I turned around and saw her hugging someone. When they let go, the woman she was hugging stood up straight and I knew who it was in an instant.
"Mom?" I walked over to them with a walk that made me look drunk. My mother says I get it from my father. My mom smiled at me and ushered me toward the new woman.
"Zellie, this is my daughter Sophia." Mom was beaming proudly behind me with her hands on my shoulders.
I gave a tight grin. "We've met." My mom looked confused. "But not formally." I said. My mom gave a knowing look. She knows almost everything I'm talking about.
"Jasmina Carmen! I didn't know you had a daughter!" My mom gave a small chuckle.
"All thanks to you know who." The woman I knew as Zellie looked even more confused than my mother had. She just shook her head cluelessly. My mother just sighed. "Come on Giselle. I'll tell you the story." Giselle just smiled. My mom took her a few feet away and told her the story.
"You guys did what!?"
"Shhh Giselle. I don't want Sophia knowing about that moron."
"I would think not." Sigh, this is how it always goes. My mom's friends come back after not being here for 16 years, she tells them the story, they know who my father is but I don't. Grrr. This sucks.