How You Imagined

by HighWay2Expression

Elizabeth Swann and her friends set out to escape their seemingly perfect but extremely problematic lives. But when a storm seperates them, they'll realize that life isn't always how they imagined.

1. The Beginning

            Elizabeth Swann had everything she could ever hope for. She was loved, cared for, her family life was perfect, and her future was bright. To her, life couldn't be better even if she could have designed it herself. Little did she know, however, that her "perfect" life would soon take an unexpected turn. Join her and her friends on a journey as they learn that life sometimes isn't how you always imagined.

            "Never, not in my wildest dreams, would I ever think that the life I was leading was a lie. But as the truth continues to be revealed, I find that it is a lie I like living."  Elizabeth shut her leather bound journal and ran her fingers over the cover. As she lay in the lower deck of the ship, she looked out of the cage that enclosed her. Her gaze stared past the cold and rusted metal bars but her mind was neither on her prison nor on her present circumstances. It was on the adventures that she had so far, the adventures that   awaited her; the reasons she was here in the first place. She had so many questions, and no one to answer them for her. As she searched her mind for answers of her own, she was interrupted by a familiar voice from the cell across her to the right.

            "Elizabeth?" squeaked the voice. It was her cousin Tom, who accompanied her on the trip along with two others. Their boat had crashed into a coral reef during a storm, and they were separated.

            "Yes, Tom?" she replied in a slightly aggravated voice. Tom really annoyed her. She never really believed that he was 9 months older than her, most of the time it seemed like he was 9 years younger. He wasn't even supposed to know about the trip in the first place, but now they were locked in the hull of a ship together, which really got on her nerves. Now that's ironic.

            "Do you think that we'll ever get out of here?" he asked, his voice not full of much hope. Elizabeth felt sort of sorry for him. She doubted that he had ever been away from home for more than 2 days; and, even though he annoyed her most of the time, he was her cousin, after all.

            "Yeah Tom, I think we will," she said with a more hopeful tone and a smile. He smiled back at her. Right then, a crew member came through the door. Without expression or emotion, he spoke. "The captain will see you now."