Author's Note: I hope you enjoyed the fact that the actual story was shorter than my disclaimer info and the convo with Jack. But I hope you enjoy my first chapter even more. I really don't understand how I come up with these clever little ideas.

Jack: I do, I'm the one that tells ye them.

Aoife: No you don't. It's my creative brains that helps me.

Jack: And my seductiveness that ye love.

Aoife: (Rolls eyes) Whatever. Back to the story.

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Chapter One --- Drowning

"Keelin, are you ready?"

"Hold on! I'll be there in a second!" I yelled from behind the closed door. "God, I feel like a skank," I muttered under my breath, as I examined myself in the full length mirror hanging on the back of the door. I was dressed (by the forceful will of my best friend, Edana) in a sea green bikini that tied around my neck. It's not that the bathing suit didn't look good, it looked hot but I felt so uncomfortable in something so revealing. I slid my Aztec gold medallion, a replic from the best movie ever, off of the counter and around my neck. With the cold metal hanging in between the two pieces of cloth that covered my breasts, I felt a little better and a little more covered.

I opened the door cautiously and stepped out. I grabbed my tan mesh overshirt and threw it on, but not before Edana saw.

"Keelin! That matches your eyes pefectly!" she exclaimed, overenthusiastically. I rolled my 'perfectly matched' eyes and put a book, sunscreen, and towel into my beach bag. I put my sunglasses on my head and started out the door, when Edana noticed the necklace dangling underneath my coverup. "Aw, Kee..."

"Don't even start," I cut her off. "I like it, you like it, I'm wearing it."

"But you know what happens when the gold is in the ocean!" she protested.

"I think that I can take a chance," I replied sarcastically. Inside, I was actually really wanted to try it and see if any pirates would come and take me away. But then again, I knew that there was no chance in hell of that really truly happening.

"You're asking for it," Edana warned me. The look on her face was so serious that I just had to laugh. "Don't laugh," she protested. "I'm serious."

"I know. That's what's funny. Let's go before I change my mind," I replied. We marched out of the cottage that our parents, who were best friends, owned and down to the beach.

I picked a spot near the lifeguard that was on duty and laid my towel down on the sand. I sat down on it and pulled my sunscreen out of my bag. I lathered up so that my fair Irish skin wouldn't burn. I pulled my book out and began to read. Edana put some sunscreen on and then laid down on her back to tan. She can't be quiet for more than ten minutes and sure enough, ten minutes later I hear, "Keelin?"

"What?"

"What'ya reading?"

"A book."

"What book?"

"A book that would be even better if you stopped interrupting."

"Ya know what?"

I sighed. "Are you just going to keep talking?"

"Yep. Ya know what?"

"What?" I asked, putting my book back in my bag. I laid down beside Edana, catching some of the uv rays.

"Will Turner is the man of my dreams. I just know it."

"You have to be kidding. Ed, he's a fictional character in a movie."

"I know, but I can dream."

"You're obsessed."

"So are you."

"Not with Will Turner!"

"No, but with Jack Sparrow."

"Captain...Captain Jack Sparrow," I said in my best Jack voice.

"See what I mean?"

"I just really like the movie."

"Ah-huh...Let's go swimming," Ed said suddenly, pulling me off of my towel.

"Nooooo," I moaned. "The water's gonna be too cold."

"Suck it up, you chicken."

You don't just call me a chicken and get away with it. "Race you," I said, throwing off my coverup while running away. I jumped into the water and let a muffled squeal. Edana splashed in next to me, jumping a wave. "I win," I said, just to be obnoxious.

"Yeah, whatever. Let's go further out." So we swam against the waves that tried their hardest to push us back to shore, almost as though it was a warning. I pushed my curly wet hair out of the way and jumped as another wave came rolling towards the shore. Edana shrieked with glee as she got splashed right in the face with the salty water. Another wave came and I took a deep breath and dove underneath its crest. The familiar pull of the water took hold of my body but then it violently pulled me another way, taking me by surprise. I struggled to swim against the current and reach the surface. I forced my eyes open, feeling the sting of the salt burn at them. I looked for Edana but she wasn't next to me anymore.

Another violent pull of the water dragged me further out to sea. I rolled along, letting everything go numb as the cold finally took control. I couldn't reach the surface to get another breath and everything was slowly fading out black.