Chapter 2: Who is that? A reunion of old friends!
Looking around at all the people, both on the ship and the pier, it seemed to be a rather large number of people. They all wanted to get a glimpse of us as we all left the port on our journey.
I happened to look just at the right time, a wisp of blonde hair glinted in the sunlight. I looked in that direction, standing there was a woman, her blonde hair up in a braid with a rather large hat on, I was amazed it did not blow away. I decided that perhaps that was a better place to stand than off on my own somewhere along the deck. As I was walking along, I got hit in the face by something. Realising it was the ladies hat that I had noticed earlier, I retrieved it before it could be blown any further down the deck.
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I approached her rather nervously. She was rather pretty, her blonde hair braided down her back, complementing the green dress she was wearing, making it almost look like a snowfall on grass. "Excuse me, Miss, your hat appears to have blown away. She whipped around rather quickly at the sound of my voice, I don't think she knew that her hat had blown away. After all, it was a rather exciting journey for us all. She smiled as she turned around to face me. Her blue eyes seemed to sparkle in the sunlight. She looked like someone I once knew. I couldn't place my finger on it. "Forgive me, have we met before?" I asked trying to remember who she was, I must have met her at one time or another. "Not unless you visited the De-Pris house in London or in the country."
De-Pris, yes that's it. Annabell, I had met her a few times in my youth. My parents had been rather close with hers. "Lady Annabelle is it not?" She seemed rather surprised by my asking. "Yes it is, and who might you be?" She asked rather quizzically before bursting out with a giggle. "Andrew Florent, my word, you have changed since we last met." I smiled back, glad that she recognised me. Though it had only been five years, one changes a lot in that time frame. "Lady Annabelle De-Pris, you have not changed one bit. Still as beautiful as ever." I then kissed her hand, she was rather surprised and blushed at my actions. It was then that I realised that I was still holding her hat. I then gave it back to her, the smile she got at seeing me and remembering who I was, never leaving her face. "It is wonderful to see you again, Lady Annabelle. I think the last time I saw you was about three years ago, before I went off to the navy." I chuckled a bit to myself remembering that fateful dinner, our parents had been trying to hint that we would have been good together. "Let us forget about our youth and start again. What do you say?" I asked her, she smiled rather broadly at the completion of my question. "I would say that is a good thing. After all, we need to know ourselves. People changed. Even if it was three years ago." She giggled. Just then a great splash was heard along the side of the pier. Being in the navy I knew what that meant. We were underway. "Best hold on, we are off on an adventure." I said as I grabbed the rail with one hand, knowing how much of a jolt departures of warships had.
A/N: Thanks to all those who have read this story so far, I hope to continue it. As I stated in the intro to this story it will be an OC/OC story. This chapter has introduced the second OC. As I stated before, the rating will stay T if/or I decide to change it to M.
The next chapter will cover the first night on the ship, the stops in Cherbourg and Queenstown before the ship heads out to sea. We get to meet Rose and Cal at lunch and a relationship grows.
Nex Update, Sunday or Monday
