"You are becoming a pirate?" a boy with gray hair asked Shayne as he was sitting on a tree.

"Yeah! And I want you to join me!" Shayne shouted from below.

It has been 8 years, and now Shayne was around 15. The boy he was shouting to from the tree name was Mark. He was 16, and lived across the street from him. He didn't pay much attention to Shayne, the only reason he hung around him was because Shayne would follow him around when he was younger, and his mom told him not to let Shayne get into to much trouble. Jane and his mom were friends, and often would come over.

"Never," Mark said.

"Why not? I'll let you be my first mate," Shayne told him.

"Cuz! I don't want to listen to you give me orders!"

"Fine then I won't order you around. How's that sound."

"Then there's no point in you being captain!" Mark replied.

"What are you 2 arguing about?" a girl, around 14, asked. Her name was Mia,she had gray hair, blue eyes, and was a head shorter than Shayne. She was Mark's sister.

"Mark won't join my pirate crew!" Shayne told her.

"Are you seriously making a pirate crew?" She asked him. "Would you mind me joining?"

"Sure!The more the merrier!" he said.

"You will not!" Mark said jumping down from the tree. "And I'm not either."

"Oh you just convince him. Then he'll have no problem," Mia told him. After that they all walked home to their respective houses seeing as the sun was going down and it was getting late.

The next day Mark awoke to yelling outside his bedroom window. "Mark. Join. My. Pirate. Crew!" Shayne yelled.

"Never!" he yelled back as he opened his window.

"Come on, Mia said she wants to join me! Your the only one stopping us!" Shayne yelled.

"Oh come on Shayne think," he begins. "Do you even have a boat?" He asks him. "You can't be a pirate without a boat. Otherwise you'd be well...a bandit."

"Well, once you join we'll have enough money to buy a boat," he says.

"So you plan on using my money!"

"Yes we do."

"You know, this is another one of the reasons why I don't like you. You never take into consideration your crew's feelings or opinions."

"Really did you just say crew?" Shayne asked with excitement in his eyes. "That means you'll join us!" he said running off to where Mia was.

"Wait I never meant it like that," he said, but Shayne was to far away and to excited to hear any thing.

"Shayne will you listen to me I never said I'd join your crew!" Mark said when he found Shayne in the forest.

"Why not?" Shayne pleaded.

"Yeah, why not bro?" Day asked.

"Cuz, have you ever maybe thought I don't want to be a pirate. I mean I've been giving you the same answer for about seven years now?"

"Then what do you want to be?" Shayne asked him.

"You wanna know what I want to be? Well I'll tell you. I want to be a marine that's what!"

"Fine then!" yelled Shayne. "I don't want you to on my crew any more leave!"

"Fine then I will!" he shouted as he walked off, both heading home.

"Shayne," Mia said once Mark left.

"Mia," he began. "If you still want to join me, I'm leaving first thing tomorrow. See me then," he said as he left to go to his house.