I M SORRY FOR NOT POSTING FOR A MONTH, I HOPE YOU CAN FORGIVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

And there we were, at the gateway to our new life together. It smelt oddly of salt, but that was to be expected. We were on a boat, after all. I felt a feathery wing brush against my soft palm, I smiled and grasped onto it in a loving embrace of... Well... Fingers and feathers.
"We're finally doing this," His voice whispered into my ear. "What we always talked about, bzzert." I blinked slowly, and opened my eyes again. We were. We were actually doing it. We'd gone against my mother, in a large step from being 'the other child', to being my own person. With Jitters. My boyfriend; my life. We had gone from neighbors, to people who comforted each other in moments of weakness, to lovers, in a few short months. Was all of this going to fast? My heart was; it was beating like a hummingbirds'. I looked around the deck of the S.S. Crossing. There were so many possibilities now, nothing was holding me and my birdie boyfriend from a life of happiness, love and freedom-
"Here's your uniforms, now get to work and scrub that deck like a decku scrub- ha ha, I'm just joking with you! But really, scrub that deck until it's spotless." Ordered a dog, dumping a pile of clothing in my arms.
"Huh?"
"Uh, there's been a mistake, bzzert..." Jitters said slowly, "We're passengers..."
"No you're not." Said the dog. "If you were a passenger, you would be downstairs in the dining hall."
"Uh, we got lost on the way there." I made up, "could you point us there please?"
"No, no, no, you're staff. And you have to clean this deck! It's dirty I tell you! Dirty! Not like my cap, it's a very nice cap, don't you think? I got it last week!" The dog continued, before turning and yelling at a random bear.
"You there! Whoever you are! Clean my cap!" He ordered the bear, and the bear took the cap the dog gave him. "Oh, and my name is Horace, but you can call me Sir Bossman."

"I am not enjoying this." Jitters said as he scrubbed the deck.
"You're not the one wearing the skimpy skirt." I replied, pulling the blue and offensive skirt down self-consciously. "I thought that we were passengers on this ship, Jitters!"
"Me too, honestly." Jitters agreed, "but apparently not."
"It's degrading. I've gone from scrubbing a kitchen to make cookies for Caitlin, to scrubbing the deck of a ship that was meant to be a sign for freedom." I grumbled.
"I'm sorry, Allie, I really am, bzzert." Jitters said, a smile in his voice. He turned, and gave me a hug. "We're going to find a way out of this, Allie. Just you wait."

"I've got it, Allie." Jitters whispered to me not a few hours later, when we were setting up millions of tables for dinner. Appetizer fork, dinner fork, plate, dinner knife, appetizer knife, appetizer spoon, the pattern was, with desert spoons and forks north of the plate, and a wine glass, sherry glass and normal glass next to them.
"Got what?" I asked, folding a napkin into a swan, which one of the crewmembers had shown me how to do.
"How we'll escape, bzzert." Jitters replied excitedly. "I heard a couple of crew members talking, there are loads of lifeboats onboard. It's simple, we take one, lower it down, and then set off!"
"But what if we get caught?" I frowned, feeling very pessimistic.
"If we get caught, well... Uh... We improvise?" He shrugged, "We'll be doing it in the middle of the night, so nobody should be up anyway." I nodded, and began to work again.

"Ready?" Jitters voice came to me in the coolness of the light. It was odd to think that only a day had passed; it felt like an eternity. I pulled a pink wrap I had brought around myself, it was so cold out tonight. I looked up at the sky, it was dotted with a trillion sparkling stars. Just like the night Titanic had sunk- I smirked, it was possibly Caitlin's second favorite movie- after that children's one. Then I frowned. Where was he, was he okay? "Allie? I asked if you were ready..."
"Huh? Oh... Yeah, I'm ready." I nodded, smiling and walking over to the edge of the ship. The air around me was cold, cold enough to freeze a person. I wished I'd brought more clothes. Together we uncovered the lifeboat- it was a small one, although big enough to fit a quarter of the staff (and there were around a thousand employed on the ship). We hooked it up to the lowering device and then paused.
"This is where it gets hard..." Jitters mused. "How to lower it safely with us both in there..."
"Hey, dude."
"K.K. Slider?" I gasped upon seeing the white dog. "You got a ticket on the S.S. Animal Crossing?"
"It's like a prison, man." K.K. said, somewhat sadly. "They took my guitar."
"I'm sure that you'll get it back soon." I nodded comfortingly, and K.K. Slider chuckled.
"That's what your brother said." He replied and I blinked.
"My brother's here?" I gasped, wanting to hear more. Perhaps I could find him, take him back to Mom, so that she would calm down, and-
"With that purple haired kid- but they left a while ago, dude." K.K. nodded. "What you up to?"
"We're escaping, K.K, bzzert." Jitters said seriously. "We're getting far, far away from this slave ship."
"You'll need two people to man this lifeboat." K.K. Slider mused. "Here- I'll help you lower it, if you let me come with you."
"Of course, K.K!" I agreed, "But how will you-"
"Me and Jitters will lower it with you in, Allie, then you unhook the lifeboat when we're done. Me and Jitters will then jump down into the ocean, where it'll be your job to pull us out, okay?"

"Jitters? Jitters wake up!" I whispered to him, slapping him lightly. I'd fished K.K. Slider out perfectly, but Jitters had fallen unconscious from hitting the water too fast. Slowly, he came around.
"Man, that was cold, bzzert." Were the first words he said. I laughed in spite of myself.
"We're off the ship, Jitters. Look- it's just over there-" Just as I said the words, the most bizarre, scary yet beautiful crazy random happenstance occurred. The ship we had been on not long ago blew up. Literally. It burst into flames, a boom echoing around. Within seconds, it had been reduced to ash.
"... Woah."
"Couldn't have said it better myself."