Fearing Death

I have a sneaking suspicion that Will has been avoiding me for the past two months, yes I said months. You think we would have talked by now, about our current situation. But no, he hides from me, and I think he even hid behind the anchor, I'm not sure but I think he did. He has really made me depressed; I don't even want to get right now from my warm and cozy bed. I mean why would I, just so I can face him ignoring me, not talking to me, hiding from me, I don't think so. So I snuggled back into my pillow and back to sleep.

"Emily get up!" I heard a voice yell through the door. I groaned and got up and walked to the door and opened it to find Billy standing there.

"You sure are lazy." He said as he looked me up and down.

"What do you mean it's morning." I said. He snorted before saying.

"It was morning hours ago, its noon." My eyes widen in shocked.

"Why did you let me sleep in late?" I shrieked at him as he laughed.

"We thought it would be a nice birthday present." I froze.

"It's my birthday?" I asked counting the days, and it clicked it was my birthday.

"Yeah, Emily are you ok you look pale." I shook my self out of my daze and said.

"Yeah I'm fine; I'll be up in a minute." He nodded and I shut the door before looking around for clothes to wear. I can't believe I forgot my birthday. I now am 24 years old. I feel old. I put on blue pants, with a matching vest, and a white shirt. It was warm so I didn't need a jacket. I put my hair up in a braid and I walked up to the deck to find everyone doing their daily afternoon activity, hanging around the deck. No one bothered even getting up and saying happy birthday to me, oh well I don't care. I walked to the back of the ship and I yanked on the rope pulling me up to the crow nest. Once up there I made myself comfortable, I mean I would be here for awhile. I grabbed a book out of my pant pocket, I had wanted to read this book for weeks, but the Will situation made it hard to. So I sat up there the remainder of the day reading, the sunlight didn't bother me or make me hot, there was a nice soft breeze up here, it was very comfortable. I wouldn't have realized the sun was setting had the sun was getting dimmer, and it was getting harder to read. I looked up to see the sun almost all the way under the ocean. I sighed knowing reading would be impossible to do in the dark. I peeked over the edge of the crow's nest to see the crew wandering around the deck, it look's like they're looking for something. Maybe the need help, so I stood up and rode the string down till I was back safely on the deck. Just then Lenny and Billy turned the corner and looked surprised that I had just shown up.

"There you are we've been looking for you forever." Billy said grabbing my arm and he started dragging me to the front of the ship.

"Hey Lenny tell everyone else we found her." Lenny nodded and took off running around the corner.

"What's going on?" I asked as squirmed out of Billy's grip, but I kept following him.

"Your birthday party." I groaned, but when Billy gave me a look I smiled weakly. Soon we ended up at the front of the ship and I went to the railing to sit on it while the rest of the crew came. As they came they wished me a happy birthday and I would say thank you while looking out at the ocean. Suddenly a bottle of rum was thrust onto my lap, I looked up in surprise but Billy only said.

"Birthday girl deserves first drink of rum for the evening so drink up. We all want to drink too." I looked around the crew who were waiting for me to drink so they could. I smirked and rolled my eyes and I took a huge gulp of rum. Everyone cheered and started drinking. I sat there observing them. Everyone was here, except the person I wanted most to be here, Will was going to miss my birthday. That made my heart drop and tears almost come to my eyes. But I won't cry on my birthday. I looked at the rum, it was tempting me to drink it and forget about all of my problems. And I almost did that, but then I remembered last time I got drunk and looked what happened. I sighed and while no one was looking I tossed the rum into the ocean. Right then Bootstrap came over to me and leaned against the railing, and he looked at me.

"What?" I asked as I continued looking at the ocean. He sighed clearly uncomfortable with what he was going to say.

"I want to say that I am sorry." I looked at him sharply.

"For what?" I asked in an even tone.

"For being hard on you and Will. Separating you two, and telling Will it would be better if he stayed away from you. I just thought it would be for the better, but it wasn't. I see how you two act when you're not together; you're both sad and miserable."

"Well you don't need to worry, us being mad at each other has nothing to do with you." I said before walking off, the crew didn't notice seeing as they were singing a pirates life for me. I didn't even care where I was walking, I was just sad and I didn't even realize someone was standing there because I ran right into them. I looked up to see Will looking down at me; I rolled my eyes, just my luck.

"Sorry." I muttered as I stepped away from him. He looked down at me sadly.

"No it was my fault, I saw you coming and I didn't move." I nodded and was about to turn around when he said.

"Happy birthday." I froze, and something in me just made me tick. I turned back around quickly and with a fire in my eyes I said in a loud clear voice.

"No it hasn't been a happy birthday; it's been a depressed birthday. It's been a depressed two months. Because you haven't talked to me at all, and you hid behind the anchor. And you have ruined my birthday, because all I have thought about it is you, and that makes me sad because you won't talk to me. And now I wish I had just told you about our kiss when you were drunk, but I thought you would ignore me, like your doing now. But if I had…"I was interrupted by Will grabbing my arms pulling me towards him and him crushing his lips down on mine. I was shocked for a good minute before I responding by putting my arms around his neck, as one of his hands caressed my cheek, as the other arm stayed tightly around my waist. When he finally pulled away he put his forehead on mine as we stared into each other eyes.

"What was that for?" I asked quietly.

"To get you to hut up." He said with a smirk, while I gave a small laugh.

"And I also have been wanting to do that for two months." I nodded as I brought one of my hands and I gently stroked his cheek.

"Well I'm glad you did." I whispered back before I gave him a soft kiss.

"We should get you back to your party." He said as he back away but he took one oh his hands in mine. I groaned and said.

"Do we have to?" He laughed and nodded. We walked back as another verse of a pirate's life for me came on.

"Want to dance?" Will asked bowing to me as I laughed and nodded. We danced around as others cheered. After we were done I was asked to dance by everyone, which I did. The party was actually fun when I was having fun. That went on for an hour, till Lenny came on deck and shouted.

"Everyone shut up! Would the birthday girl please go sit on the crate in the middle of the deck?" I did as I was asked and I sat on the crate as Lenny disappeared only to come back a few moments later carrying a huge chocolate cake. He set it down on a table that was in front of the crate, and I saw there were words on it. It said Happy 24th Birthday Emily! I smiled and said.

"Thank you for the cake." I was to take a piece when Lenny slapped my hand away; I looked up at him surprised.

"We haven't sung happy birthday yet." I nodded and let them sing.

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to Emily, happy birthday to you." Once there were done I blew out the candles while everyone else cheered. I smiled as Lenny cut the cake into pieces and the crew wasn't shy about taking some. I was eating my first piece when Will came over.

"Want a piece of cake? Because if you do I would get it now, before the crew comes back for more." He laughed and took a piece of cake as we talked. It was good talking to Will I had really missed it. After the cake was gone, and I mean all gone, they moved the table away and ordered me to stay on the crate. Billy then came up to the middle of the deck and yelled.

"Present time!" I laughed as everyone ran to get their gifts. Once everyone got back they formed a line to give me my present. Billy started off giving me a book, then Lenny, with a bracelet, Henry gave me a jacket, Bootstrap gave me a gold dress (Think of the blue dress Elizabeth had in AWE.) Michael gave me a pillow, Carl a new mirror, Jack gave me a pair of pants, Nicholas new boots, and finally Mark gave me a map.

"Thank you for all the gifts, I love them." I said as I really did love my gifts. The party went on for awhile more, but it finally ended a little while before dawn. Everyone was else was heading to their cabins and I was but someone grabbed my arm and I came face to face with Will. I smiled up at him and he said.

"And where do you think your going?" He asked with a twinkle in his eyes.

"Bed, I am tired."

"Oh well I guess you don't my gif to you." I perked up and said.

"You got me a gift?" I asked excitedly. He laughed and nodded.

"Why wouldn't I? Now come on it's in my cabin." He grabbed my hand as we walked to his cabin. We reached it soon and he opened the door for me as I walked in. He motioned for me to take a seat on one of his leather chairs, which I did. He went to the other corner of the cabin looking for something, and he finally came back with a box with holes in it. He set it down on my lap as he stood looking down at me.

"Will there's holes in this box?" I asked surprised as he laughed.

"I'm aware of that Emily, now open it." I nodded and I took of the lid to reveal the cutest thing I had ever seen.

"Aw." I said as I picked up the sleeping black and white kitten. The kitten opened one of their eyes sleepily and closed it again.

"It's a she just so you know." He said as I gently stroke the cat. I nodded.

"Where did you find her?" I asked as I put her on my lap and she curled up in a tiny ball.

"Remember when we were at Puerto Rico yesterday?" I nodded not fully getting what he's talking about.

"Well I sent my dad to land to find a birthday gift that I could give to you, seeing as I can't step onto land for about another 6 months. And he saw someone selling kittens and here got this little one." He said as he come over and also stroked the kitten.

"What are you going to call her?" He asked aster a moment. I thought about it for awhile. She was entirely black except for right under her chin there was a splash of white that was in the shape of a star.

"I'll call her…star." I said as I nuzzled her as she purred.

"I think that's a perfect name." He said as he stood up again. I also did putting star on the chair, she didn't seem to mind. I walked over to Will and said.

"Thank you, Star is the best gift ever." I said as I hugged him which he returned. When I pulled back I looked up at him and I kissed him, hard. He seemed surprised but he returned it and somehow one thing led to another and he was pushing me down on his bed.

(Please R and R! I do not own Pirates.)