Chapter 10
Izou POV
"Why can Marco be there and we can't? It's so unfair!" Ace got upset. We stood at the railing and watched as Pops, Marco and Tiara walked towards Pops cabin. "Because she loves him!" said Haruta and had this one look that revealed that she knew something we didn't, or rather didn't know yet. "Tell me, what do you know?" Thatch wanted to know. "Nothing!" said Haruta. "It's not that she told me, but her behavior, suggests that she does." she added. "What do you mean?" Vista wanted to know who was standing with us. "When Marco came on deck to get me, it was because Tiara, who was in the shower, needed some new clothes, which I got for her. What exactly happened while I was in my cabin I don't know but when I entered Marco's cabin, Tiara was standing in front of Marco just wrapped in a towel. They just looked at each other. I shouted at Marco to leave the room and when he was outside Tiara told me why she didn't throw him out. But she only said that it was his cabin and everything important was covered by the towel. Since I knew that Thatch and Izou thought that Tiara was in love with Marco, I mentioned that and she blushed," Haruta told us what she had observed. It was all a bit strange. But not only what Haruta had just told us but the whole situation between Marco and Tiara. How does she manage that Marco lets her get so close to him. The incident is now 10 years ago and Marco has never let a woman get as close to him as he allows it with Tiara. He lets her sleep with him, comes hand in hand with her on deck and doesn't even seem to have a problem with it. What was her secret? How could she do all this in just one day while we have been trying for years to get him to get close to someone again?
"It's taking me too long. I'm gonna go to Pops." Thatch said after a while, tearing me away from my thoughts. "Stop, you know how Pops hates it when you barge into important conversations." I tried to stop him, but he just took off anyway, so I followed him. "Those two need to eat! Especially Tiara after last night's incident. Neither of them had been to breakfast so I'm going to drag them into the galley myself," said Thatch, so it was clear that nobody could stop him now anyway. As our chef cook he didn't like to see anyone skipping meals and he was right that Tiara really should eat something. After all, none of us knew how long she had been on this island and how long she had to go without proper food. But when we arrived in Pop's cabin we saw that Marco and Tiara were no longer with him. "What can I do for you two?" Pops wanted to know, but seemed a little distracted. "Where are they? They need to eat," Thatch answered the question. "Marco took Tiara to her room. She wasn't feeling too well after the conversation," Pops told us. "But you're right. Why don't you get them something to eat?" Pops asked Thatch and he immediately went to the kitchen. I stayed a little longer. "Are you alright? You seem distracted," I asked. "It's okay, son. I'm just preoccupied with something that Tiara just told me. I will let you know later." he said and asked me to leave him alone a little while because he had to think about something.
What had she told him? But I still wanted to know how she had managed to get so close to Marco, so I decided to look for her and just ask her as far as she was better. But when I arrived in the guest cabin it was empty! Where was it? Pops said that he asked Marco to bring Tiara to her bed. "Hey where is she?" Thatch suddenly asked. "Good question, next question!" I just said. "When I got here, she wasn't here," I told him. "Not again! Why do we have to keep looking for her?" Thatch said and went back out into the hall. "Where are you going?" I asked him. "Well, I'm going back to where she was the last time. I'm going to our pineapple!" Thatch smiled. Right. Why didn't I think of it on my own that she was back with Marco? Thatch entered Marco's cabin without knocking, which for sure will get a punishment later. They were both in his bed. Tiara seemed to be asleep and Marco was reading a book. When he noticed us he looked at us with a sinister look. "When will you learn to knock first?" he wanted to know and spoke softly so as not to wake Tiara. "You missed breakfast! Pops said I should bring you something," Thatch said, simply ignoring Marco's question. "Just put it on the table," Marco said."Why is she in your bed? We were wondering where she was. Didn't Pops told you to bring her to her cabin?" I asked him. "I just didn't want to leave her alone after what we she had told us," he said. It just made me wonder even more. After all they weren't just lying in his bed next to each other. She lay in his arms, her head lay on his chest. They looked more like a couple. "Why do you let her get so close to you? That's so untypical for you!" I asked him finally because I finally wanted an answer to this question