Lessons For A Thief

Feelings

{Alex}

Urg! He makes me so mad. Just when he starts to show me another side to him, he puts his defences back up and goes back to being an arrogant jerk! Wait, why do I care? I go out on to the deck to try and clear my head. I could see the sun setting and filling the horizon with shades of pink, red and orange. It was beautiful. I could see why people loved sailing and travelling from place to place.

I felt a hand on my shoulder. I grabbed their hand and flipped them onto the ground and climbed on top of them. "Well that's a great way to treat the man who just showed you mercy." He groaned. "Scott? What the hell do you think you're doing?" I got off him and helped him up. "I came to give you this." He said holding out a different a new dagger. "I figured I owed you something. You know, because I tied you up in a dark room and kept you as a prisoner." He said as he dusted himself off. It was a small silver dagger that was encrusted with emeralds and blue diamonds. "Thank you."

I said as I continued to admire its beauty. He was walking away but I grabbed his hand. "Sorry about the whole flipping you and pinning you to the floor. Oh, and the kiss thing." He put his hand on his stomach as he remember out fight. "Scott, if it makes you feel better I regret it." He turned around so that we were face to face. I slowly inched closer and closer, so that our bodies were almost touching. "But I don't." He whispered. He reached a finger under my chin and tilted my head upwards. He kissed me. But this kiss wasn't like the other one. There was no aggression in this kiss. It was sweet and passionate and sincere. I reached up and wrapped my arms around his neck, and felt his arms wrap around my waist. He pulled me closer as the kiss deepened.

All of the sudden he pulled away and put his fingers over his lips. "I'm sorry. I don't know what came over me." He said as he rushed away leaving me standing there in shock. All of the sudden I realised what I had just done.

I had just snogged a pirate. Not just any pirate, the pirate who kidnapped me and locked me in a cellar. God, what is wrong with me. I looked down at the dagger in my hands. I hadn't snogged the pirate, I had kissed Scott. The guy who treated me nicely and opened up to me. The one who came and apologized. That is who I kissed and truth be told, I really liked it. When we kissed it felt like fireworks.

Oh my god I'm going crazy. The kiss was nothing, just a moment of weakness. I ran back to my new room and buried my head in the pillow and screamed. What is wrong with me? All I can think about is him. Wondering why he ran away and whether or not he feels the way I feel. Eventually I fell asleep.

I woke up to the sound of banging on my door. "What do you want!" I screamed. "The captain requests you in office this instant." I low voice yelled through the door. I quickly run my fingers through my hair and open the door. "Well if the captain requests it." I said whilst doing a mock curtsey. The pirate went to grab my arm but I caught his hand before he touched me. "Try and touch me again and I will brake every bone in your body. Ok?" he nodded and snatched his hand back. "Good."

I strutted past him toward Scott's office. "If you want to see me you can come and get me yourself instead of sending one of your brutes to." I ranted at him as I stormed into his office. He just rolled his eyes and sat back in his chair. "So what is so important that you must summon me?" His face was blank and he looked almost bored with this conversation. "I thought I'd inform you that we'll be reaching land late this afternoon." His voice was cold and emotionless. "Oh." I said as I looked at the ground. "That's good." I turned and left his office. A few days ago I was dying to get off this ship, but know I'm not sure.

{Scott}

As she left the room she looked almost sad. When the door closed behind her I slouched over and buried my head in my hands. What the hell am I doing? All this time I have never once doubted or changed my mind about any task I've been employed to do. But now this one girl has got me doubting everything. She must think I'm the biggest bipolar jerk on the planet. She has brought back the real me. The part of me that I have never shown to anyone else before. If I just give her away I'll be back where I started, a low life pirate who doesn't care for anyone but himself.

She's messing with my head and there is nothing I can do about it. I walk to her room and knock on her door. "What do you want?" She calls. She opens the door and wipes her cheeks. Her eyes were red and puffy and she looked like she'd been crying. "Oh my god, are you ok?" I walked in and wrapped my arms around her. She cried and snuggled into my chest. "Shhhh, its ok." I said as I held her close. I had never seen her like this, so vulnerable.

"I am not ok. I have less than a day to think of a way to not be traded like some sort livestock. Then to add to my problems, yesterday you kiss me and I think that maybe there is another side to you. Then this morning you summon me like a slave and act as if nothing happened. Did you really feel nothing at all when we kissed?" She said as she continued to cry into my shoulder. "No." I whispered in her ear.

"No, what?" She said as she pulled away and wiped the tears from her cheeks. "That's my problem," I said as I moved closer. "I felt a million emotions at once. You see love, I have lived this life as a pirate for years now. I have done many bad things and to help myself do them I got very good at burying my feeling. But that kiss. That kiss brought back the feeling that I had buried so long ago. That kiss brought back me." She ran forward and kissed me. "It was like our last kiss, passionate but sweet. She tasted like apple but smelt like flowers.

She was amazing and pure and everything I wanted. I pulled away and stood back. "I'm sorry but I can't do this." I started to walk away but she grabbed my arm. "Why do you do that? You open up and let me in, then push me away the minute I get close." I turn back to face her but don't look her in the eyes. She reached up and held my face in her hands. "Because I'm a pirate and you deserve so much better than me. I have done many things that I am not proud of and wish I could take back. But you are beautiful and smart and brave, you deserve someone who can offer you a good life. Not a life like this.

For the first time in my life I'm scared because now I have something to lose." She wrapped her arms around me and we fit together like two pieces of a puzzle. "What are you afraid of losing?" She asked as she held me tighter. "You. I'm scared of losing you."

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