Come Hell or Highwater
Don't get your hopes up for something when you knew all along it wasn't going to happen
There was 3 1/2 hours to go now. The sun had set, the air grew steadily cold, and we all had stopped crying. We took 7 doors off their hinges and quietly added them to a small pile on the top of the deck, behind a lifeboat. I thought it would be the best place for it. We walked around looking for Rose and Jack. Me, Shavai and Megan were one team, and Katie, Darcie, Whitney and Elizabeth were another. I figured Elizabeth better go with the other girls because they needed her more than us. Besides, they needed at least one person to have a brain. Suddenly, we walked to Rose's suite; I knocked extremely low, then just decided to go looking for them. As I walked in, there was an odd moment I ended up seeing Rose in the nude lying on the couch. It was an odd moment. I ended up having a Jack Nicholson moment leaving the room saying I was sorry. Once I got in the hall I tried to forget the things I'd seen as I slammed into the wall beside the door.
"Oh God am I sorry..." I muttered as Megan and Shavai came over to me. I decided to wait a few more minutes. I heard a few giggles from inside, but I guess they just dismissed it and Jack went back to drawing her. Everything was going on as scheduled. I waited about 10 minutes before Shavai and Megan came up beside me. I continued to cover my eyes in pain.
"Oh my god. What happened to you?" Shavai and Megan asked in unison. I continued to cover my eyes with my hand.
"I saw Rose in the nude!" I said. They both laughed at me. "They should be done by now." I stated as I looked at the door as though an 'unoccupied' sign would pop up to tell us they were done. Turns out we didn't need one. At that precise moment, Lovejoy came walking down the hallway towards. I caught sight of him and nudged Megan's elbow. In return, she kicked my shin. I bit my lip in pain.
"Excuse me, ladies, have you seen Miss Bukater?" He asked. I noticed this time, he tried hard not to look at Megan, and whenever he did, he quickly cast his eyes away. I wondered what was up. We all shook our heads and said "Nooo..." We got the look a child gets whenever they're lying on our faces, and obviously he could sense that. Shavai took off running to the other hallway where they would come out to escape Lovejoy.
We could hear doors opening and closing as Lovejoy brushed passed us and went inside. Me and Megan took off in the direction Shavai ran. As we ran, I realized how out of shape I was. This was nothing like P.E. Whenever we ran in there we usually stretched out first. Plus, I was reasonably sure that it wasn't Wednesday. I was huffing all the way, and Megan was a little slower than I was. Meanwhile, Shavai was probably miles ahead of us. I couldn't catch up if my life depended on it...the girl did athletics. We panted as we caught up to her finally. Running in heels really was as hard as it seemed.
"Come on." I said motioning. "We all know the next part of this movie."
"Yeah." Shavai agreed. "We know where this is going." She rolled her eyes and joined me walking towards the upper deck towards the front of the ship.
"Professional my ass." Megan muttered as she joined us. We all laughed and almost succeeded in hiding the fear that lingered in our hearts. Our blood was no longer warm from the freezing air and we could sense it was getting closer by the minute.
A few moments later, after some pathetic attempts at trying to find some rum, things got silent between us. Neither me, nor Megan, or even Shavai for that matter were speaking.
"Look at the bright side of things." Shavai said. Me and Megan looked at her in disbelief. "There's no school."
We smiled to her, even though it was half-heartedly. The air made it almost unbearable to stay up on deck and we decided to head back to the room. As we got there, the others were there crying pitifully. We didn't even bother talking to them and walked to Shavai's room. We saw a small picture that was new in her room. It was a black and white photo of a cute blonde haired boy we could only assume was English. We laughed.
"Typical, Shavai. Real typical." I said picking up the picture. Shavai defensively ripped it out of my grasp.
"But he looks like Sid!" She stated and hugged the picture to her chest before placing it back on her dresser. She had a major crush on the late Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols and apparently it would never die. She sat on the bed next to Megan.
"Hey, next time you make a wish, do you think you could wish us back to May 10, 1957?" Shavai asked.
"What's so special about that day?" Megan asked. I sighed.
"I think it has something to do with Sid." I said. Shavai had a sly grin on her face.
"Correctamundo." She said. "It's Sid's birthday." Bingo.
Then the room became eerily quiet. The crackle of the fire's burning embers was the only thing making any sounds.
"So...any regrets?" Megan asked. I looked up at the ceiling.
"Just this whole thing with Cal. I know it's not going to work out, and it can't." I sighed again. Seemed to be a trap. I couldn't get out or away, then suddenly, I wished I never saw the movie. I REALLY regretted making the wish. Still I kept the tears in my eyes that seemed to sting with their own fury. I didn't know if we were ever going to go back to our own time and if we didn't, I still didn't know if it was possible to die, but I didn't want to risk it either.
"But you two were so special together..." Megan said. I eyed her suspiciously.
"Special as in "could have worked" or special as in "Special Ed. Couple of the year?" I laughed.
Shavai smiled. It had been one of few all day.
"I just wished it could've worked out." I said as I brushed a tear away quickly.
"Don't get your hopes up for something when you knew all along it wasn't going to happen" Shavai told me. I should've guessed. Cue the sappy music. Preferably some Elvis...
"I can't help..." I started singing, Megan joined in "Falling in love with you..."
Shavai shook her head.
"Okay, it's bad enough you wished me back to a sappy chick flick, and now you're making it worse? Why don't you do yourself a favor and for the next wish, go to Dawn of the Dead and kill yourself." She said as she stood up.
"Goos-fra-bah..." Megan said as she looked at Shavai's anger building up. "I mean, come on, we've already changed a lot in this movie, we probably already stopped us from colliding with it." Megan reasoned.
Suddenly, we felt a shudder from the engines that made us grab the bed and walls for support. I looked at Megan with a kind of "Oh shit" look. She gave me the same look. It had started. We grabbed some coats and ran to find the others.
"Not one word Shavai! Not one word!"