"We're here" Mom said to me "Have fun"

"I will, thanks for the ride Mom" I called as I walked to the front door. I was about to knock when the door opened, Anne who was standing in the doorway looked me up and down and said,

"I'm sorry, but we didn't order any pizza."

"Well that's good because I didn't bring any with me." I retorted,

"Oh wait, you must be that alien that was sent to kidnap my sister, come on in." Anne shot back.

"So where's Tiffany?" I asked as I stepped inside.

"Oh she's downstairs with Valerie, she's finishing her packing, come on." As soon as I had stepped inside the house my mom pulled out of the drive way and left.

"Is that Katy?" Mrs. B asked after we had shut the front door.

"Yeah Mom it is." Anne answered.

"Katy, will your Mom be picking you and Tiffany up or should we take you home?" Mrs. B asked me.

"Mom said she'd pick us up at 4:30." I replied.

"Well its 12:30 now so that gives us abut four hours, come on lets go hang out until then." Anne persisted.

"Hold on a sec Anne. Thanks for letting Tiffany stay at my house for the week Mrs. B."

"No, thank you for offering to let her stay with you." Mrs. B thanked.

Anne and I headed down the stairs to Tiffany's room in the basement. As we did I thought about the events leading up to Tiffany spending a week at my house. I'm not exactly sure why but Anne, Valerie, and both their parents were going up to Spokane for the week. Tiffany didn't really want to go, so her parents let her stay with me for the week. My parents were okay with that. So the plan was that my friends and I would hang out till 4:30 then mom would take Tiffany and me to my house and the rest of the B's along with Valerie would drive up to Spokane where they would meet up with Valerie's parents. I also thought about how I was going to tell my friends about Jack.

We entered Tiffany's room. "Tiffany, the alien is here," Anne declared as we entered the room.

"Oh brother" I groaned as I rolled my eyes at Anne,

"Hey guys" I said to Tiffany and Valerie.

"Hey insane asylum buddy" Valerie greeted back. Tiffany rolled her eyes at Valerie and nodded in greeting to me, she was putting the last of her things into her bag.

"So Katy, did you meet Mickey Mouse while you were in the Caribbean?" Tiffany asked sarcastically.

"No, I met someone better than Mickey." I answered, "Did you meet Goofy then?"

"No, didn't meet him either."

"So who did you meet then?" Tiffany pressed.

I realized I had to tell them now. There was no turning back, so after I took a deep breath I said,

"I met Captain Jack Sparrow."

Tiffany raised an eyebrow at this. While Anne and Valerie started to giggle a little bit,

"Jack Sparrow?" Tiffany asked,

"Yeah, he gave me a sword and everything." I hurriedly tried to explain.

"A sword, Katy, I think you had a weird dream while on vacation or something." Tiffany said,

"You guys don't believe me do you?" I asked,

"Well we'd have to agree with you there." Anne tried. "

Here let me tell you what happened on my vacation" I preceded to tell my friends about my adventures with Jack.

"Well that was interesting and everything but I really think we should talk about this later and go outside and hangout." Anne suggested,

"You still don't believe me?" I quietly asked Tiffany as she passed me to go out to their back yard.

"Anne's right, we can talk about this later. Come on, lets see if you can still fence." She replied trying to cheer me up.

Valerie, Anne and, I waited for Tiffany to get the wooden sticks that served as our swords from the bucket by the back door. Once Tiffany was close enough to me she tossed me a stick, which I caught. I held my mock sword in a defensive position; Tiffany came at me, aiming her stick at my chest. I parried her blow and stepped aside. Tiffany turned to face me as I came at her to attack; she blocked my thrust with ease. Of the two of us Tiffany has the upper hand in swordplay, she's been light saber battling her brother Mark for the longest time.

As we battled we gradually fell into a rhythm of trading blows. My mind began to wander as I became comfortable with the pattern. I thought about pastors message that we listened to earlier that morning. Today he had talked when Jesus had died on the cross to save all of us from our sins. As I moved to block another of Tiffany's attacks, my thoughts jumped to Jack I thought about him for a while, then I jumped back to what Pastor had taught about Jesus. My mind seemed to do this for a while, until it finally clicked. I stopped what I was doing and lowered my weapon, as the gravity of what I realized hit me.

"What?" Tiffany asked me,

"Finally realize you made up that whole Jack Sparrow thing?" Anne called out.

I looked at my friends and said three simple words "Jack's not saved!"