Chapter Sixteen

The Gossip Train

After Elizabeth had her baby, we had to take them home. We arrived today.

"Thank you Lana. You got me ready for this," Elizabeth said.

"I was helping and I didn't even know it!" I said trying to cheer up. "Do you have to go?"

"Yes, we don't want to have a chance on getting Lil hurt in a battle or learning how to drink," Will said, looking straight at Jack.

"What there is no drinking age?!?" Jack said to cover up.

"Whatever," Peter said pushing Jack out of the way to say bye to Lil. We had good memories with Lil, we baby-sat together.

"Bye," we all said together.

"Hey, Jack, is this like your fourth time crying since I got here?" I said jokingly when I noticed his eyes were watering up.

"No! I haven't cried since I was five!"

"Right," Peter and me said together laughing.

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It as been another week, we missed Elizabeth and Lil. We didn't really care about Will (sorry).

"Hey, Peter would you mind climbing the mainmast and seeing if there are any ships coming?" Jack asked.

"Sure," he said grabbing onto the pole. I was standing next to the pole to watch him. He got about nine feet into the air, and then he started to lose his grip. He started falling and I didn't even have time to think. I ran under him. When he hit me, we both hit the ground with me on the bottom.

This time I got to return the favor and save him for once. He didn't feel good this time so I got to take care of him. I made him sit on the bench and wait for me to get an ice pack. I wasn't too far away so I could hear Jack talking to Peter.

"So..." Jack said walking over.

"What do you want?" Peter said noticing Jack, like you couldn't notice him?

"Why does everybody think I want something when I start a conversation?!?" He said throwing his arms out.

"Because you are you!"

"Oh," he said puzzled. "Well, this time I want nothing! I just wanted to see how you were felling after that nasty fall."

"Well, it never would have happened if you hadn't asked me to climb it."

"Well...well...uhmmmm well...I got nothing," Jack said trying to think.

Peter started laughing. "HA! You got beat by a 14 year old!"

"Well...I still got nothing! What is wrong with me today?" He said getting up to walk away.

By now I had been done, I was just listening to them talk.

"Why do you always show up when someone gets hurt?" I asked Jack.

"Is it a crime to want to see how y'all are doing? Considering that you two are the hottest thing on the gossip train."

"You know what? Never say 'gossip train' again. PLEASE!!!" I said to him putting the ice pack on Peter's head.

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"What are you doing?" Peter asked me while walking by.

"Carving my name into the ship."

"May I ask why?" He asked. I didn't even look up at him, I was too busy carving.

"Sure." There was a long pause.

"Well, are you going to tell me?" he asked.

"Well, you never asked why. You asked if you could ask why," I said laughing.

Then he started shaking his head at me. "Why?"

"So my name will be here forever. Even after I die. There, I'm done."

"Gimme that," he said taking the knife away. He carved his name right under mine and did a little heart around them.

"Hey! What are you doing to my ship?!?" Jack asked as he passed us. We started giggling and ran off. We hide behind a wall so that we could watch what he was going to do to it. Suprisingly, he carved his name right next to the heart.