Chapter 1
He crouched down next to Ruby as she lay very still below deck on a make shift bed of old life Jackets. He gently pushed the hair from her forehead and felt for a temperature. Sigh her forehead was dry and not too warm. Out of his pocket he pulled out a pill and placed it her mouth and tipped a bit of fresh water into her mouth from a container that sat beside her.
"Hey man! What ya doing Ram? Trying to poison Ruby?" said a male voice.
Damn it! How long has he been standing there watching me?
Looking peeved Ram turned and smirked at Lex.
"Naw just giving her something from the secret stash."
"Secret stash?" asked Lex now even more suspicious.
"Yeah as in secret stash of pain relievers" says Ram as he stood up and passed Lex. But Lex followed behind him.
Above deck the wind is beginning to pick up. The Mallrats had pretty smooth sailing up until now. It had been a day since they left the city and were already beginning to get antsy. There hadn't been any time to gather supplies and all they had was what the captain of the ship had stocked for himself.
Suddenly the sky got dark and rain seemed inevitable. Besides Ruby with Salene and Lottie, who were watching over her, everyone else was above deck trying to escape the smelly dankness of the cabin below. As Amber jostled Bray in her arms she looked up at the sky worried.
"I don't know about this wind." She said uneasily too Jay.
"Look what its doing to my hair!" exclaimed Gel, "And when am I going to get to take a shower!" At that moment, having had heard enough of Gel, Jay decided that everyone should get below deck because the waves were getting higher and were beginning to wash over board. Everyone obeyed, but Lex and Ebony who continued to hang over the railing of the ship. Ebony gazed deeply into the increasingly rough water.
I can't bare the thought of going down and being near Ruby.
What if they all can see her guilt? What if Ruby comes to and tells everyone? What will they do to her? Her thoughts were broken by Lex.
"Thinking about jumping Ebony? Nobody would miss you if you did. Not even the sharks deserve you after what you did to Siva."
"No Lex they prefer big dumb monkeys like yourself" said Ebony quickly, barely making eye contact with Lex.
"You make me sick Ebony. You know that? I don't know how you can stand yourself." With that Lex turned around and started to head below deck. As he reached the doorway a huge wave hit. Water flooded the whole deck knocking Lex against a wall and Ebony right off her feet.