Prologue

Someone once said to me I should write down me memoirs. I said as soon as I figure out what that is, I will.

Well, I now know what that is, so I'm writing them now.

Me name is Captain Jack Sparrow of the Black Pearl.

Now some think me story starts with Barbossa. But it doesn't. It started long before him.

Before I can start me own tale I have to begin with someone else's. Her name is Margaret Sparrow.

Margaret a beautiful girl with long curly red hair and deep brown eyes was fourteen when she left England. With no family left, she boarded a ship; she had no idea of where it was going.

By the time the ship reached Tortuga landing, she didn't have a pence left to her name as she spent all she had, on passage aboard the ship.

Standing on the docks she looked out over this bustling town and wondered what she would do for money. Having no skills of any kind she ended up at the Faithful Bride as a working wench at the bar.

Margaret, or Maggie as everyone called her, lived in a one-room walk up above the bar. It was part of her payment for working at the bar. Along with a large bed, a vanity and a wardrobe, a small table next to the bed with a lamp upon it.

Maggie was very well liked. Not only by the customers, but by the other girls as well. Which included a stout woman a bit older than all of them named Agatha.

Agatha was as round as she was short, She had a round face with sparkling blue eyes. Her job was the cook. But she was also surrogate mother to the girls and looked out for them.

There was also Alex, the bartender. He was tall and broad and could handle any man what tried to get as he put it, too much for the girls to handle. If that happened, they often ended up on the outside of the bar and not in too fair condition.

When Maggie was seventeen, something happened. Something that changed her entire life. A certain someone came into it. And once he arrived she did everything she could just for him.

And now I can begin me tale. A pirate's tale if you would. A tale about a young boy growing up in Tortuga with his mum, Margaret Sparrow