The Daughter of Captain Hook

Chapter 7

I can't believe Evie pulled it off. I actually look...good. I hear a knock on the door. "Remember why we are doing this." Mal says to me. I nod and go yo open the door.

I see a little more dressed down Ben with two helmets. "Wow. Now I know the difference between pretty and beautiful." He says admiring me. "Thanks." I shrug. He smiles. "I hope you like bikes."

**

We ride a bike to a forest. I stop in front of it. Memories of me and my father running around when i was a child run through my head. I look the other way for a bit.

"You okay?" I hear him ask putting his hand on my shoulder. "Yea." I nod. "I just thought i was gonna sneeze." I lie. He nods and pulls me into the woods. We walk for a little bit until we get to a bridge. "Is this the part where you murder me out here so no one will here my screams I say walking backwards to the other side of the bridge. "No." He answers. "Just, not yet.." He says seriously then laughs.

"So, Romeo, where are we going?" I ask. He covers my eyes. "Just a second." He says. "If your pranking me, its not funn-"

I see a beautiful patio with a table and a picnic set up. I smile and we walk over there.

I eat tons of the roundish red things. "You like strawberrys?" He asks. I look at all the stems i didnt eat. I smile and put them away.

"Lets go for a swim." He says standing up. "Oh...uh...im good...I'm just gonna stay here and eat more strawberries. Or this brown stuff." I say i put a small brown rectangle in my mouth.

Mmm, its so sweet.

Ben laughs. Oops i said that out loud didn't I?

"Well join when you wanna." He says and runs off.

I stand up and take off my jacket. "Blaze!"

I look to see him on a cliff. He roars so the whole forest can hear. I notice his boxers. "Are those little crowns?" I ask laughing. He smiles and jumps in. I laugh and sit at the table.

"A million thoughts in my head
Should I let my heart keep listening
'Cause up 'til now I've walked the line
Nothing lost but something missing

I can't decide
What's wrong, what's right
Which way should I go?

If only I knew what my heart was telling me
Don't know what I'm feeling
Is this just a dream?
Ah oh, yeah
If only I could read the signs in front of me
I could find the way to who I'm meant to be
Ah oh, if only
If only [2x]

Every step, every word,
With every hour I am falling in
To something new, something brave
To someone I, I have never been

I can't decide
What's wrong, what's right
Which way should I go?

If only I knew what my heart was telling me
Don't know what I'm feeling
Is this just a dream?
Ah oh, yeah
If only I could read the signs in front of me
I could find the way to who I'm meant to be
Ah oh, if only
Yeah."

I hold my head trying to think.

"Am I crazy? Maybe we could happen
Yeah
Will you still be with me when the magic's all run out?"

I stand up and look at the picnic.

"If only I knew what my heart was telling me
Don't know what I'm feeling
Is this just a dream?
Ah oh...
If only I could read the signs in front of me
I could find the way to who I'm meant to be
Ah oh...

If only, yeah [3x]

If only
If only"

I feel the wet substance fall down my cheek. I wipe it and turn around to find Ben.

"Ben?" I say loudly. No response. "Ben?!" I look around. What if he's drowning or worse. I could get blamed and put on death row.

I jump in and look I feel something hold on my leg and pull me into the nearby waterfalls current.

I cant breathe. Water surrounds me, fills my lungs. I feel someone fix my leg and pull me back to the patio. I cough uncontrollably. "Are you okay? What were you doing?" I look to see a soaking wet Ben. "What were you doing? You never answered!" I say angry and coughing. "I was getting you this." He says showing me a small shiny rock.

"You make a wish and throw it back in the water." He says. I'm still angry and breathing heavily, so i just throw it back in the water.

I scoot back next our picnic shivering. I grab my jacket but its freezing. Leather does that to ya. I feel something warm cover me. "Here." I see Blue and Yellow. Its Ben's Letterman Jacket. I cover myself. "Are you okay?" He asks again.

"Why do you care so much? It wouldn't matter." I shrug. "Yes it would." He says. "It would mean a lot. To everyone." He says. I chuckle. "Thats how it would work for you. Not me." I say. "You don't understand." I say messing with the jacket sleeve.

"Explain to me whats different about us. I want to understand." He says. I shake my head.

"You have many friends. Everyone. Your a prince. You have money. You get everything shiny and new. You have more people in your life." I explain about him.

"I only have the ones i came with. They are my only shot in living in this world any longer. They keep me halfway sane most of the time. My family is not my family." I start to get mad i get up and pace. "I would be somewhere else and you with Audrey still. You wouldn't know me because thats the person I was before my friends. I was a socially awkward loser. You would think i was a joke and think my real dad is a joke. If it wasnt for my stupid-"

It wasn't short, it wasn't long. It was amazing.

It was...

My first kiss.