Chapeter 9 Savvy?
Jack: If that ruddy Samuel doesn't keep his hands off my daughter...
Me: Jack, you obviously don't have enough rum in your system, so here are 3 bottles to keep you happy
2 hours later
Jack: Luv, you know that Samuel character isn't soo bad!
Me: Chapter 9!Later!
Chapter 9
Samuel awoke to the water of high tide lapping playfully at his feet. He took a few moments to get his bearings. Aria was laying with her head on his stomach, and their clothes were in two piles on the rocks farther up the beach. Samuel looked up and saw that the sun was almost directly above them.
"Aria! Wake up! We fell asleep! It's almost noon!" He said shaking her awake.
"Huh?" She said, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. Then when what he had said hit her she got pale.
"Oh no. Father." she said, almost whispering.
They hurriedly got dressed and ran back to the tavern, hand in hand.
" Father's not usually a morning person, so we might get lucky." She said, and then began to slink up the stairs, silently as she possibly could. They reached the top of the stairs, and she opened the door. Jack looked up from the book he was reading sitting in the window sill. Aria dropped Samuel's hand immediately, but not without it going unnoticed by Jack.
"Hello Father." she whispered. He got up from the sill and crossed the room, causing Aria to back up a couple of steps. He looked into her eyes and with the most dead serious voice Samuel had ever heard said,
"We need to have a talk." He pulled her into the room and slammed the door in Samuel's face. Samuel went down stairs and waited. About an hour later Jack and Aria walked downstairs.
"Come on Samuel! We're setting sail in an hour, so let's get to the Pearl!" He said testily. Samuel tried to meet Aria's eyes as they walked along, but she refused to meet his gaze.
The Pearl sailed for a day before Samuel went to Jack's cabin.
"Uh, Jack? I was just wondering where we're headin' now?" he asked tentatively. Jack looked from his book and looked at Samuel.
"Well I reckon we aught go after them dirty pirates that kidnapped ye." He said, and with that returned to his book.
"OK. Uh thanks." he replied akwardly, and walked out. He walked pass Aria's cabin and stopped. There was quiet crying coming from inside.
"Aria? Is that you?" he asked rapping on the door. As soon as he spoke the crying stopped. He knocked again. No answer. He slowly opened the door and walked inside. At first it seemed that the room was empty, and he was about to leave when something moved in the corner. With a closer look he saw that it was Aria, wrapped in a blanket. Her eyes were bloodshot and her face was red and blotchy. He came and sat next to her.
"What's wrong?" he questioned. "Ever since you spoke with Jack, you haven't spoken or looked at me." He looked into her eyes. She sat a long time without speaking.
"He told me that I shouldn't become too serious about you, because of your past with women. I know that I love you, but now I'm not sure you feel the same." She said quietly.
"Look, Aria. I have been with a lot of women, I'm not going to deny it. But the other day at the tavern, I, I don't know, I felt something I'd never felt before. It was like another part of my heart had opened." He explained.
"When you say the other day you felt something you hadn't before, do you mean the laces on my dress? Because I'm certain no one ever let you get that far before." She said with such hatred in her voice, that it felt like a knife had ripped through Samuel's heart. She stood up and walked into her powder room. He sat there for about ten minutes before standing up and quietly walking out the door.
Aria noticed a change in Samuel over the next few days. He stopped eating with the crew, sitting at table in the corner, quickly eating and leaving, not speaking. He never spoke to anyone, actually. He was like a shadow. Aria felt her heart twinge every time she saw him. She started to withdraw from the crew and went into a state of melancholy. She stopped eating. Jack grew worried as he watched them during the day. He had never seen Aria so distraught before. One night he went to her cabin.
"Aria, luv, what's wrong? You haven't eaten more than a crumb in two days. I'm worried about ye." He said sitting at the table across from her. Her eyes looked dead as she replied.
"I love him, Father. But I know you don't approve of this, so I told him off. Just like you told me I should do."
"Aria, you're going to listen to me. I luv ye, know that. But I've been too protective of ye over the years. Yer a grown women now and you should be able to make decisions by yer onesee, savvy? So, if you really love Samuel, I'm not going ter be one ter ruin that for ye." He said getting up and gathering her into a hug. He held her away from him for a second and wiped a tear from her face.
"Father, you really mean it?" she said, the spark returning to her eyes.
"Of course luv." he replied. She laughed in relief and hugged him again. They walked outside and she pecked him on the cheek.
"I love ye Father." She said as she bustled off to find Samuel.
She found him in his cabin. As she walked in the door he didn't even look up from what he was writing.
"Hi." She said shakily. He jumped, not expecting her of all people to be in his cabin. He stood up, hovering by his desk uneasily.
"I need to say something to ye and if yer not willing to listen, then fine, but I need to speak me mind." She said sitting on his bed daintily.
"I'm very sorry for the way I treated ye the other day in me cabin. I was confused and I didn't know what to do. On one hand, I knew that I loved you, with all me heart. On the other hand my Father didn't approve of my seeing you, and I did not want to betray him, seeing as he's the only family I have. But just now my Father came and said he changed his mind about us. So now I have not a doubt in my mind that you are the person I want to be with till the end of time." She said slowly, not looking up.
"Well, that's all I had to say and I'm going now." She said getting up. She reached the door when Samuel reached his arm out and stopped her.
"Aria- when we first met I should have told ye about my, uh, past relationships, before we went any further. But what I said was from my heart. You asked when it was that I felt that way, you never let me answer. I was going to say that it was when I saw you asleep that first night. You looked so beautiful lying there, so peaceful. I'm sorry too." He said looking into her eyes.
Suddenly, the dinner bell sounded, causing Jack to jump, dropping the glass he held up to the wall. Luckily, it didn't shatter. He wasn't thinking about the glass though, he was thinking about what he had heard. Finally content with the situation, he walked out of the room and up to dinner. Samuel offered his arm to Aria and they went to dinner, arm in arm.