Chanel looked at the young man staring back at her. She examined him from head to toe, froze in position. Quickly remembering her position she dropped both arms from above her head and uncocked her hip so her bum was no longer sticking out. Her face was turning red by the second but he remained there giving her a smug look. She flustered as she made contact with his one eye hazel eye on show. Wait… She looked at him as he stepped closer towards her.
Eduardo watched her stunned and slowly moving back to her original stance. God she did look good with her arms crossed above her head with her right leg cocked up so her waist was pointed out to the side making her ass look, well amazing. He slowly moved off the pillar and stepped towards her. When she made eye contact he thought, maybe just maybe, she recognised him. See Eduardo knew it was her from the start when he saw her in the window. The girl he once loved and grew up with sitting in the same window looking out on the sea as she had done.
"E…Eduardo?" She whispered unsure. He smiled and nodded.
"Oh god!" She proclaimed and ran into him arms. He held her tight by the waist and twirled her around. He feared if he let her go she might fade away from him like she had done once before.
"What are you doing here!" She asked holding on him. He put her down and explained the crew was here having repairs done to the ship. Chanel looked up at him her eyes growing bigger by the second. This was the man she once adored with everything and here he was standing in front of her…
Chanel gestured him to a table and went to the door, she turned the "open" sign to "closed" what was one days profit going to change? It was empty anyway. She went behind the bar.
"Still drink Ale?" She said reaching down and pulling a bottle out.
"Yes, and let me guess you still coconut rum mixed," he replied turning around and peering over the bar. Chanel flushed it had been years since she last had that, infact the last time she had that was her engagement party.
"Um no actually, the last time I had that was my engagement actually…" She whispered walking back to the table. He watched as the colour faded from her eyes and sadness replaced them. He leaned over and gently took her left hand. No ring?
"No ring? Suppose you wouldn't wear it here, being a performer must put men off," He started.
"On no did you think? No no, Im just the bar maid I was just messing around," Chanel said blushing.
"Well you was good," He replied giving her hand a gentle squeeze. She gave him that smile. That same smile she had always given him, god he hadn't seen in it in ages.
"So how is marriage…?" He asked. She knew it was coming, the last he saw her she was engaged to his best friend. God how did she say this…
"We're not, he… he um left me in the night of the engagement," She said avoiding eye contact with him. Eduardo saw the hurt and pain in her eyes and without think he hugged he tight. They don't know how long they was there but they just stayed embraced talking for what seemed hours.
"So your actually a pirate?" She asked. He nodded and gave her that cocky grin. When she'd asked him why he had left it nearly killed him. How did he tell her that he'd left home because the women he loved was about to marry his best friend? He just made up some excuse and luckily she believed it.
"CHANEL!" A booming voice screamed slamming the door open. It was him…
"Boss!" She cried. He never turned up work, the one day she actually didn't open and he came it was just her luck.
"WHY IS THE BAR NOT OPEN!" He yelled walking towards her and grabbing her hair. He pulled off the chair and shoved her against the floor.
"Get off her!" Eduardo yelled shoving the man. The boss looked at him and smirked.
"Oh you've got a little visitor have you? Always knew you'd be the slag of the bar. Whatever you pay her, give it to me first," He spat coldly towards Eduardo. Chanel whimpered on the floor watching the men above her.
"You're her boss? You disgraceful thing! What do you pay her! What do you make her do!" Eduardo yelled slamming him against pillar he had earlier been leaning against.
"Oh all sorts, she's a right beg, always teases the lads. She's a filthy little slut who can't do anything more than please men, I only keep her here to entertain the men," He said staring coldly towards Chanel. Chanel hid her face, never had she been so hurt by words. She heard a thump on the floor and a pair of arms pick her up.
Eduardo punched the sack of shit right in the nose knocking him out cold. He scooped her up and carried her behind the bar. He took off his jacket and wrapped her up in it before opening the counter and taking all the money out if. He picked up Chanel and bolted it out of the bar.
"Which ways home?" He asked her. She muttered directions to him whilst weeping against his chest. She gripped tightly to his shirt. She had waited so long for a moment like this, her hero to rescue her. He took her to a small house and opened it. She climbed off him and put a finger to his lip.
"Follow," She said shutting the door behind him and leading him upstairs. She unlocked a room and went in shutting the door. Eduardo looked around confused he had recognised the house but nothing in it.
"You look confused, see after… well after mom and dad died, Luke said I had to move in with him and sell everything. So I did… I sold the house and all their processions. Anyway I moved into his with just clothes and memory's but after I left… I mean he left me, I asked to rent out my old room. So I know rent my room out of my own house," Chanel said giving a weak smile. Eduardo felt sick to the bone, how dare she have to live like this.
"Thank you for earlier, I hated that job. The men who use to think they owned me because I poured them a drink," She started. Eduardo just pulled her close and hugged her.
"Come away with me," He said looking straight into her eyes.
"What…?" She said.
"Come and live with me, I know its a lot to ask but everyone on the ship would love you," He said. Run away and be a… A pirate?
"Yes!" She cried. What else did she have here? Everyone hated her for what happened with Luke. They packed her clothes and gathered all the money she had.
"Here take this, you deserve it," Eduardo said handing her the money from the bar. Then they both heard it.
*Ding, ding, ding*
Three bells.
Chanel's face went pail and looked at Eduardo.
"RUN!" She screamed and grabbed her bag. Eduardo didn't fully understand but he could tell it was bad. Bolting down the stairs together Eduardo pulled her in the direction to the ship.
"What's happening?" He questioned.
"Three bells mean a robberys happened and considering it came from this part of the town it has to be related to the Sammys!" She yelled. She kept running but was losing balance and breath in these shoes.
"Chanel! Im placing you under arrest on the account of robbery!" A voice yelled coming round a corner. Shit, the boats straight a head though Eduardo. He leaned over and grabbed the trembling girl and pulled out his gun.
"Move or Ill shot! NATHAN SET SAIL!" Eduardo yelled at such an extent he's surprised Chanel didn't go death. Chanel whimpered frightened and scared. The guard didn't budge and Eduardo could hear more guards approaching. He'd waited 15 years for this girl, he wasn't going to lose her know.
"Fine," He yelled before shoting the gun at the feet of the guard and Eduardo watched him flinch and run away in fear.
Chanel looked up in her hero's arms, her pupils dilated at the sight of his face. God he had always been handsome but he looked breath taking know.
Nathan was on deck handing over final payments to the repair men.
"Right, we have enough to go out on the town!" Morgan yelled and caused a cheer from the men.
"Lets just drop anchor and well go," Nathan said walking to the side.
"What happened to Master Eduardo?" Thomas asked. None of the men had really seen him since last night. Nathan knew what this town was though, it was his home town where the girl Eduardo once loved lived. Nathan knew he must have tried to find her…
"NATHAN SET SAIL!" A voice yelled. Nathan ran to the side of the ship and saw Eduardo running down the ports, a young girl in his arms and a bunch of guards following them and they were catching up!
"Someone throw a rope!" Nathan yelled whilst running to the helm. Russell threw a rope over the side ready to hoist it up. Eduardo grabbed the rope and help him and the girl against the ship. Nathan didn't even check they was both against the both before setting sail.
"Eduardo!" He heard a girl squeal.
"Russell what's happening!" Nathan yelled behind him. He heard a thump on the deck. He quickly glanced and saw the young girl on board trying to pull the rope up with Russell.
"He's hurt!" Russell yelled and Doc came running over.
"Quick get him downstairs," Doc said.
Chanel felt her heart stop as she watched three strange men pick up Eduardo carry him downstairs. He'd save her… He protected her from the bullets of the army.
"You alright lass?" A friendly voice asked. Chanel gasped as a man placed his hand on her back. He was tall with a beard and hat. He introduced himself as the Captain Morgan of the Sirius. Chanel explained everything to him and got the impression he was a friendly fellow. He went and introduced her to Nathan before going down below deck. Nathan introduced him self and told her about the others on deck.
"So your Chanel?" Nathan asked her. She nodded and whimpered. Poor thing, he though she must have been terrified only 19.
"Eduardo told me about you, about you and Luke…" He started.
"It's a lie!" She blurted out before covering her mouth. Nathan looked confused.
"Don't, I mean swear on your life you won't tell Eduardo?" She said. She felt like she could trust him, she couldn't keep the lies to herself anymore she had to tell someone.