Prince of the Seven Seas

Chapter 30

The Sun was beginning to shine down stronger than before as it continuously crept its way to the center of the sky.

Louis couldn't help but take notice to the weather's growing heat with each rock to the smaller, dingy rowboat he found himself situated within. He supposed it could be classified as a lifeboat, one of the few that hung for use on the bigger ship that they were now steadily distancing themselves from toward the land mass up ahead.

It was an island, it'd been clear to see that when they'd been approaching it from the ship and Harry had been incredibly closed up about what they were going to do there.

Just from looking at it, even in the distance it was clear that the island was devoid of any human life or settlement... That was a fact that made Louis a bit wary of the crew's intentions.

They'd stopped the ship a bit out from shore, which Louis found interesting as he watched Harry begin to instruct the crew on their duties, with who would be staying onboard and who'd accompany him to the island.

When it came down to it, only about seventeen of them were chosen, and Louis had been sure to be one of them in spite of Harry's clear disapproval.

His eyes fleeted out to his left to where he saw the other two boats trailing not too far away from the one he, Harry, Zayn, Niall, and Liam were situated in that was now sliding up on the sand of the beach from the push the small waves gave them.

Niall and Liam placed down their wooden oars and both immediately took up Zayn's offering hands that had been placed in their direction to help them up from their seats.

Louis watched with dull eyes as the three all seemed to simultaneously exit the raft with their legs working at the same pace.

He had grown used to how the trio always moved all at once but it was strange to think they hadn't always been like that.

It seemed like that's how it had always been but if Liam and Zayn's story of how before Niall came onboard was anything to go by, Liam and Zayn's feeling for one another hadn't always been apparent and they were only friends.

"Was watching Zayn and Liam interact as friends weird for you, Harry?" He mindlessly inquired while he placed his legs outside of the boat, his boots slid into the damp sand in a rather slick way and he turned his head over to the pirate Captain that didn't appear to be listening.

Louis waited a moment, his blue eyes watching Harry as the younger male silently studied a thin sheet of paper within his grasp from the other side of the wooden boat.

A cold wave of water washed over his foot and Louis scowled when it appeared he was being ignored, "I asked you a question." He curtly informed, though as before Harry took no notice to him.

"Are you still upset because I didn't listen to you before?" Louis inquired as his arms folded over his chest, the thought was a bit amusing and he began to walk around the boat to approach the still standing pirate, "I said I was sorry for jumping, didn't I?"

His tone was bordering sarcastic and he knew the obviously empty apology for blatantly going against Harry's commands for him to stay onboard by recklessly jumping over the edge of the ship to land in their boat wasn't enough to sedate Harry's annoyance.

Honestly, he figured Harry would have been happier having him around.

When Harry still wouldn't answer, Louis hummed tunelessly, "Do you want me to ask again because I wasn't loud enough? I will if you want." He tried to remain as innocent as possible with his words and even then when Harry wouldn't put up his head or flicker his eyes to give him some degree of acknowledgement, Louis sighed, "Harry, I asked you a question." He repeated boredly,