A Pirates Life for Me | Harry Hook

Chapter 3

I was still in shock; how could they do this to me after all this time? And they still planned on never telling me, I need to find that letter. But how? I have no idea how to be evil and take it or steal it, but I know someone who does. My eyes fall on Jay as I pull away from his weirdly long hug.

"What?" He questions before answering himself. "No, I'm not helping. No way Hallie."

"Jay, please. I need that letter; I need to know what it says. It might tell me why he left me." I practically beg with the best puppy eyes that I could do.

"Ughhh, you know I can't say no when you do that." He lets out a frustrated sigh. "Fine, I'll help but if anyone asks. It wasn't me." I nod in agreement.

"Thank you. Now it sounds like they're still arguing, so that'll buy us some time. And then for da- I mean Beast to calm down he'll take a walk outside near the Enchanted Lake with Belle." It felt weird calling them by their names, it was always mom and dad. But they're not my real parents and right now I need to find out who they are, well I know all about Hades. But my birth mother? I have no idea who she is, if she's still alive. "First things first, I'm gonna write this for them. Well for Ben, he's the only one who would maybe understand." I write a note for him.

'Ben,

I'm not really sure how to write something like this, I've never really had too. But anyway, by now you'll probably notice that I am gone. And hopefully I'll be long gone before you can find me, I heard the argument you had with your parents. Thank you for defending me the whole time, you're my one and only true best friend and family. Without you, I wouldn't be the woman I am today. But like I have always told you, I'm not meant to be a princess no matter how hard I try. And today I learnt why, I'm a VK. Even if I didn't know it, I always said I never would be like them but maybe it was my destiny calling me? I don't know, I got told what happened out there with Chad. How my eyes and hair changed colour, how I managed to burn Chad's hand. Which in all fairness he deserved it, and another thing. When I saw him kissing Audrey there was so much hate running through my body, more when none of you believed me. I guess I take after my real dad huh, please don't blame this on yourself. And don't come after me, I don't want to be found.
-Hallie x'

"Is this too much?" I ask Jay while showing him my note, he skims through it before passing it back to me.

"It looks fine, but you know he's gonna come looking for you, don't you?" I shrug as I place the note on my bed with my necklace that I didn't want to lose or get stolen. "We better get going, I grabbed a few things for you while you were writing." He passes me my bag and a coat.

"Thanks. You're gonna have to teach me to be sneaky while we're leaving you know." He grins at me.

"I know, just follow my lead. But you'll have to point directions to where you think the letter will be." I nod, we both sneakily leave my room and head to the only place I know Beast would leave the letter. Under his pillow, quietly I point out the directions for Jay and we soon arrived at the master bedroom of the castle. I was the first to check the room, it wouldn't look as bad if someone saw me go in there. Like everyone thought, I'm their daughter. I could easily lie my way out of being caught in there.

"Alright, it's clear. Quick." Jay quickly comes in and lightly shuts the door behind himself. "I'm gonna check under his pillow, that's where he used to hide stuff. You check the drawers over there." I point to Beast's set of drawers; Jay nods and runs over. I look under the pillow and groan once I find there was nothing there.

"Who's in there? Show yourself or I'm coming in." A loud voice rang out the door, I quickly look at Jay who froze before I motioned to hide in the wardrobe. I grabbed the closest thing to me and turn around just as a guard walked into the room. "Oh, princess Hallie. My apologies ma'am, I thought someone had broken in here. You parents have gone to see your brother if you're looking for them."