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Chapter 9: The Night Conversation

Finished with her hair, Enola brought the towel down to her body, eyeing her bound ankles. It irked her for a few seconds, but she moved on and started drying off her wet body, refusing to remove any kind of clothing on her body. She wasn't going to take off her clothes in front of this Jaymz character when his eyes were only on her. She'd just sit in wet clothing for the rest of the night. Enola didn't care.

"Don't you want to take off your clothes so they can dry properly?" Jaymz's voice filled the silence. "I mean, you'd be dry and so will they. There's a fire over here. I think you should take them off." After that was casually said, Jaymz sauntered over to where a fire was going in a hearth. He added a few pieces of wood in there, watching as the flames sparked. The male turned his attention to a red faced Enola and smirked.

Enola glowered at him hatefully, still drying off her body with the towel he had given her. "Thanks, but no thanks. I'm not getting naked in front of you!" she growled out viciously, talking to him as if he were completely insane. She marched over to the flames and sat down in front of it, throwing the towel in Jaymz's face and putting her hands out in front of the fire to warm them. Her features softened afterwards as the warmth enveloped her. She'll be dry in no time!

"You could catch a cold," Jaymz pointed out, shrugging his shoulders. He carelessly removed his own shirt and laid it out to dry on the floor in front of the fire. The young man was about to remove his pants, but Enola's expression said otherwise, so he left them on. Jaymz brought his attention back to the fire and grinned, thinking Enola to be so innocent. "You're really different than any other girl that I've met."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Enola demanded to know, taking a look at Jaymz's shirtless body. She instantly felt uncomfortable because of it.

"What it sounds like," answered Jaymz.

Enola removed her eyes from him and roamed the flames instead, watching as it flicked about and burned the wood inside. She imagined Helen and all the people she knew burning to a crisp inside those flames, seeing the whole land be destroyed by the destructive element. It brought pain and fury to her heart and it made her wonder if everyone really was dead. Was Helen dead? Was her horse dead? Was everyone dead? It was a large possibility that everyone was dead and that the land she knew was no more! It was all because of the vicious monsters that occupied the ship, including the one sitting next to her that seemed nicer than all the others, but incredibly annoying.

"You see this fire here?" Enola commented suddenly, nodding towards the flames in front of them. "Do you see how they burn every single piece of wood away, slowly, painfully slowly?" she questioned him without looking at his face.

Jaymz, not knowing what she was getting at, put his green eyes on the fire, arm resting atop a knee. He stared at the flames consuming the wood in there before nodding his head. "Yes. Why?" he wanted to know.

"That's exactly how it happened to my land and to everyone I knew," Enola revealed, turning her head to gaze at the man beside her. "That's how it happened. Everything was burned away. I don't even know if anyone made it out alive. Now I have nobody…except him, which I'm sure he's coming for me right now."

"Knowing Captain Ringer, he probably didn't leave anyone alive," Jaymz bluntly stated, grim and a little sullen. "I'm sorry, Enola, but Captain Ringer is a heartless fellow."

Overcome by rage, Enola tackled Jaymz to the floor and Jaymz found himself on his back with the girl on top of him. Enola scratched his cheek hard, leaving blood. Grunting in pain, the male tried to grab her, but Enola was already off of him. She untied her ankles and was now sprinting towards the door of the quarters, attempting escape. Just when her hand grasped the doorknob of the door, Enola felt a pair of arms wrap around her waist and jerk her backwards.

"Let go of me!" Enola screamed ferociously, kicking and thrashing about. No matter how hard she tried to escape Jaymz's clutches, he was just too strong for her. "Let go of me you, monster!"

Jaymz said nothing as he brought her over to his bed, throwing her down upon it with him on top of her, pinning her there. His hands were clamped shut on her wrists and he had her legs pinned down with his body. Enola struggled to get free, but it was useless. He was too strong for her. Breathing heavily with anger, Enola stared up into Jaymz's attractive face, peering into his green eyes. Enola expected to see anger there, but she didn't see any of that. All she saw was…sympathy.

"I'm sorry for your loss, Enola…" whispered Jaymz, still keeping her pinned to the bed.

"Whatever!" hissed Enola, now limp and defeated. She was no longer struggling to get away.

Jaymz stared at her face for a long moment and Enola stared back, feeling really uncomfortable with this guy on top of her. She guessed that trying to escape probably wasn't such a good idea. Where in the world would she go in such a storm? Would she jump into the waves down below? Enola felt stupid as she stared back into Jaymz's green eyes.

Suddenly, completely out of the blue, Jaymz leaned downwards towards her face and Enola tried to pull back, but it was useless, the bed was stopping her from moving back even further. Her heart began to hammer against her chest as she began to breathe Jaymz's air and he hers. The male got closer and closer until his lips brushed against hers. Enola's eyes widened in shock and she didn't know what to do.

All she knew was that…it had been nice. Before she could say anything, Jaymz removed himself from her and shook his head. "Don't try it again, Enola," he informed her, sitting back over at the fire. "Captain Ringer might take you, you know, if he saw you wandering around the ship untied."

Enola sat up in the bed, glaring at him. "What will that overgrown ape do? Kill me?"

Jaymz turned his head to look at her, dark. "No. Something worse."