A Pirate's Life For Me!

Chapter I - Playing With Fire

Sixteen years after Wendy's disappearance, Rose Nolan continued to live in the orphanage. The girl grew up listening to stories about Peter Pan and Captain Hook. Rose turned into a beautiful young girl with long light brown hair and blue eyes.
The orphanage was divided into two buildings with the church and the nun's and priest's dorms in the middle. The big lush garden in front of the church made the division between the boys and the girls' dorms. In the orphanage, the children learned to write, to read, good manners and exercised. However, while the girls learned to sing, dance, literature and how to be mothers and housekeepers, the boys learned how to fence, maths and how to proceed their adult lives.
The boys' fencing training took place every afternoon in the garden at the same time as the girls' literature lesson. Rose often looked at the boys training, not for lust but for their movements that made her want to learn that art.
Wesley Rodgers is one of the best swordsman in the orphanage, a 17 years-old boy with brown hair and blue eyes. Wesley would be a great teacher, thought Rose. The mealtimes were the only occasions when boys and girls could mingle without much supervision which made it the right moment for Rose to talk to Wesley. 

During lunch time, Rose sat down next to the boy.

 - Hello, Wesley, do you mind if I asked you a favour?

 - Sure, hmm...Rose, what do you need? 

 - Would you teach me to fight with a sword?

 - What? Are you sure? - Asks Wesley mocking.

 - Yes! I want to learn how to fight... So I can kick your ass later! - Responds Rose defiant.

 - Fine, I will teach you just so I can defeat you!

 - Great! - Says Rose victorious. - Then, tonight, meet me in the gardens after curfew. - Rose smiles and leaves the boy alone.

The night falls and Rose pretends to be asleep while the nuns blessed and checked every girl on every room. As soon as the nuns were nowhere in the dorms, Rose silently left the building heading for the gardens. There, she looked around looking for Wesley when she felt the tip of a sword on her back. She held her hands up showing mercy until she heard a familiar chuckle.

 - Wesley, come on, you can't do this... - Rose said turning around.

 - First rule, and probably the most important one of all: pay attention to everything around you. - Wesley said smirking, dropping the sword from the girl.

 - If I knew it was going to be like this I would have come prepared... - Groans Rose crossing her arms.

 - Which leads us to the next important rule: be prepared for everything. - Wesley handed one sword to Rose keeping the other one. - Let's start then. - Continues Wesley smirking.

Wesley began teaching Rose everything he knew about swordplay. As a regular religious orphanage, the proximity between the boys and the girls was frowned upon which made the new-found relationship between Rose and Wesley of student-teacher thrilling. As they continued with their training, their relationship grew inside of them in secret. The teens used the training to be together protecting themselves from unwanted looks.

Nine months later and Rose already matched Wesley in a match.

 - And the student becomes the teacher... - Says Wesley being defeated by Rose once again laying down on the floor.

Rose smiles and helps the boy up. They got so close to each other's face that they could feel the other's heavy breathing. A kiss was in order at the moment but numerous terrified screams stopped them. Looking for the source of the screams, they noticed that the girl's dorms were burning.

 - We need to help them... - Said Wesley to a distracted Rose that saw five tiny animal figures following a flying human. - Rose!

 - Yes, let's go! - Answered Rose looking at Wesley's frightened face.

Wesley quickly grabbed her hand pulling her inside the burning building. The smoke inside made it hard to breathe and, with some of the adults and children trying to save themselves, they got separated. Some of the girls were trapped inside their rooms and their knocking on the barricated doors echoed through the smoky halls. The ceiling fell separating Rose's path from Wesley's. The girl saw herself trapped between a window and the quickly-burning hall. Her only choice was to jump and she did ending up at the entrance of the orphanage. The fire quickly catched up to the other buildings quickly consuming it. The screams of panic echoed through Rose's ears. Wesley was nowhere to be seen and she was preparing herself to cut her dress with the sword to make a mask to go get him when the brown-haired boy came running towards her holding her hand. Wesley pulled her running away from the orphanage. 
They ran and ran only stopping when they reached the docks.

 - Oh my gosh! What do we do now, Wesley? - Rose asked still in panic.

 - We survive... - Answered the boy finding a place for them to stay and sleep near some barrels of rum and sacks of flour.