Chapter 7
Antonio's P.O.V
I walked over the deck, the sun was shining brightly over my head. I walked over the deck, saying the usual good mornings to the crew members. I stopped one of them.
"when do we arrive at the port?" I asked.
"about 15 minutes" he answered.
"thanks" I said with a big smile, and continued my walk. I started humming an old song, I haven't hear in a long time. The melody ran through my head, as I walked on the deck.
Lovino's P.O.V
I lost my balance, but just manged to get a grip on the edge, before I fell over. I hear somebody sigh from behind. I turned to the person,seeing that it was Cloe standing there.
"what the hell was that for?!" I said in my usual angry voice as I got onto my feet.
"I think you should fall over" she said like it was nothing.
"why? You want me out of the way?" I asked.
"yes" was all she said, and smiled. I couldn't believe her. Yes, I of people should know about natural hate, but this was extreme. It's the first time we talk, and she's already trying to push me into the water.
"can't you just disappear?" she said, she even looked at me with puppy eyes.
"why should I? What do you have against me?" I said. I'm not leaving this ship, just because she asks me to.
"everything...I don't like you" she said.
"don't you have a reason for hating me..." I said.
"yes I have!" she actually shouted.
"then say it!" I answered.
"why should I" she began smiling again.
"I want to know why"
"you have to figure that out yourself"
"and how the hell do you expect me to do that?"
"figure that out yourself" she said, almost in playful tone. What is wrong with her?
"you could just disappear, then I would tell you" she continued.
"how would you be able to tell me if I'm not here..."
"I just can" she said. Do she really think I'm that stupid?
"if you say so.." I walked past her. I could tell it irritated her, but I didn't care. The ship finally reached the port. I was actually exited to set my feet on hard ground again, being able to get away from the crew for just a little while. Antonio walked over to me.
"now we're here, want to go take a look around the port?" Antonio asked, smiling brightly.
"I'm on it" I said, without even trying to hide the little bit of excitement there was in my voice. He walked over to where some of the crew members was about to put up the gangway. I followed closely behind as Antonio was the first to set foot in the port.
"so where should we go?" Antonio asked.
"I don't know, explore a little?" I said, looking around. He smiled and began walking down the road to he left. We walked for awhile, around the small streets. Here and there stood street traders, selling fresh tomatoes. I stopped a little because of the tomatoes, but I kept close to Antonio. I didn't want to get lost. We walked into the town. As we walked I could feel the stares from some of the townspeople. I looked at them out of the corner of my eye. I could hear the whispering to each other, but I wasn't able to pick up what it was. So I ignored it. They somehow looked frightened, but I just kept walking close to Antonio. Antonio stopped as an old man walked past us, he was looking at us, but Antonio didn't seem to notice.
"so, we have about an hour before we set sail again, what shall we do until then?" he asked me.
"I don't know, you can choose" I said. He looked around for anything to help. I noticed that the old man had stopped a little away.
"any ideas?" I asked.
"ahh it's been such a long time since I was here last. We could take a look at a cafe?" he said.
"sounds fine to me" I answered.
"alright I know a good one, come" he said and started to walk again. The old man was staring absent-minded after us. I followed Antonio to a cafe where the sign said- wait was he for real? I know Antonio, but does he mean this? -the sign said "maid cafe". I looked around.
"is it this you mean?" I asked him.
"yes" he said and walked over to a girl standing in the entrance.
"a table for two, thanks" he said, smiling.
"yes this way" the girl answered, and lead us to a table.
"thanks" I said, sitting on one of the chairs, Antonio sat in the other side of the table. I looked around for a little, til another maid came over to our table.
"what can I get for you" she asked, and looked directly at me with a friendly smile.
"uhm..." I didn't know what say
"look at the menu" Antonio said from the other side of the table.
"yeah yeah I know" I answered and took the menu. I didn't notice what was going on, before I heard a slap. I looked up from the menu, to see a really surprised Antonio holding his cheek.
"what going on?" I asked really confused.
"you promised to come back!" the maid practically screamed at Antonio.
"what is she talking about?" I tried again, looking at them on turns.
"she...she..." Antonio started but was cut off.
"you can't even remember me?!" she screamed. The best way to explain my reaction right now was like a question mark.
"how long time has it been?" Antonio asked.
"ten years!" she said.
"I'm sorry" he tried, but it didn't seem to work.
"you said you would come back! I wasted eight years of my life on waiting for you!" she continued.
I didn't say anything I just looked at them. I pretty much knew what was going on, I just didn't want any details.
"eight? Then you must have moved on" Antonio said.
"yes! No! Idiot!" was the last she said, and left. I looked over at Antonio.
"explanation?" I asked. Yeah I know I said that I didn't want details, but I had to ask.
"it was someone I found when I was here for ten year ago" he said.
"and she still remembers you?" I asked.
"yes, there happened things" he said.
"i don't want to know..."
"no" he said. I looked down at the table. I knew it was something like that, it didn't really surprise me. But anyway I...no I shouldn't think that.
"is something wrong" Antonio asked and broke my chain of thoughts.
"no no" I answered. Of cause nothing was wrong. Nothing's wrong. Nothing...
"good" he said, not noticing anything. Thank god for that.
"so, do you think we can get another waitress?" he asked.
"I don't know"
Antonio just sighed "why did she have to work here..."
"don't ask me" I said
"no where should you know it from" he looked out on the street. I just sat, looking a little down at the table.
"eeh..." I heard a voice say. I looked up and saw that the old man from earlier, now stood in front of our table.
"you..." he said, and pointed a finger at Antonio. Once again I was confused as hell.
"I know who you are" he held his finger in front of Antonio's face, he seemed to be just as confused as me.
"does everybody know who you are?" I asked, looking at Antonio.
"apparently" Antonio answered me.
"you've returned" he man said. I didn't know what to say, but I must clearly have looked like a question mark.
"yes I've been here before, many years ago" Antonio said, mostly to me.
"won't you take me with you this time?" the man asked.
"what?" I asked from the other side of the table. Had that man asked before?
"no we don't need anymore people..." Antonio said.
"but I don't want to get kidnapped by aliens again" the man suddenly said.
"aliens?" I asked. Was he for real? Aliens? The man suddenly looked directly at me.
"have you seen them too?" he asked, looking at me with big eyes.
"uhm...no" I said, looking at him as if he was completely crazy, which he probably was.
"fight against the sea serpent! Fight against the sea serpent!" he suddenly shouts.
"there must seriously be something wrong with you..." I muttered.
"there's nothing wrong with me!" he said and the turned to Antonio. "captain Antonio, I summon a cures over you, your ship and your lover!" he continued, while making some wired movements. Antonio was sitting at staring at the man with a look that basically said "wow" I just sighed exasperated, which caused the man to turn to me.
"let the evil spirit come against you!" I just shook my head at his words.
"I wish they all will hate you, even him" he pointed intensely at Antonio.
"what?" was the only thing I managed to say. Did he really mean that? That everyone should hate me? It wasn't really that hard to accomplish because most people already hated me, but Antonio. I couldn't even imagine a life where he hated me. I didn't want to imagine it. The man stared evilly at me, ant then left as fast as he could -it wasn't that fast- I stared confused after the old man.
"what just happened?" I asked.
"I...don't know...it hasn't happened before.." Antonio answered.
"okay..." I said.
"that was wired" Antonio was clearly still confused.
"your completely right"
"we could just go back to the ship?" he suggested.
"yeah, before other wired things happen" we both stood up and left the cafe.
On the way back to the ship. People were pointing at us and whispering behind our bags.
"what's wrong with the people here?" I asked, looking around.
"now that I think about it, I think we've plundered this village" Antonio said.
"you mean that?"
"yes"
"somehow it doesn't surprise me..."
"no..." the rest of the walk back was I silence. As we got on board, I looked around the deck. It was unusually quiet, no sign of ether Amando or Cloe. I smile a little for myself, and walked over and stood up along the mast. It was really peaceful, some of the crew members was walking on board with some barrels. I looked as they placed the barrels on the deck. I felt a drop hit my cheek. I just dried it away, but another hit me instead. I looked up to see that it was slowly beginning to rain. I walked over to the cabin, quickly looking around for Antonio before I walked inside. I saw him standing in front of the helm. It started to rain even more as I walked inside. I looked around and saw a bouquet of flowers on the table. Who would put flowers in here? As I walked over to the table, I noticed there was a card with it. I took it up and read it out of pure curiosity. It read "dear Lovi, here is some flowers for you" next to the text there was drawn a smiling face. I stared at it with big eyes "what the fuck?"