Separated

Chapter IV

LUKE

Music: Into the Galaxy from Super Mario Galaxy

It's at around 6:15 PM that we hear a loud whistle and feel the ship lurch forward slightly. Things were a little bit rocky before, but now we're actually kinda starting to move forward. It's a little disorienting for us at first; some people have to grab onto something to keep us from falling.

"Alright, here we go!" Sam shouts excitedly. People start cheering and whooping and stuff as I look out the window and watch the dock slowly move farther and farther into the distance.

"This is gonna be one hell of a week," I say to Heath, who's at my side.

"Aw yeah, man," Heath says, nodding his head.

After a few minutes, the intercom comes on and some man's voice says, "All passengers are now free to move about the ship."

"Wanna go find our room?" Sean asks Sam, Heath, and I.

"Hell yeah, Sean! Let's do this!" I whoop. Heath grabs a map and we begin searching for our room, with the girls following us close behind.

The girls arrive at their room first, and right before they go in, Elle grabs Sam and asks him, "We'll hang out first chance we get, right?"

"Of course," Sam tells her, smiling. Then Elle gives him a kiss and heads inside the room. It takes all of my willpower to not say or do anything that even remotely seems pissed off.

After that, Sam, Sean, Heath, and I go search for our room. We have to climb down a couple flights of stairs before eventually finding the Alpha deck.

"I brought my Wii with me. Heath, did you bring any extra WIi remotes?" Sam asks once we finally locate our room.

Heath pulls our room card out of one pocket and two Wii remotes out of the other.

"Aw yeah, shit's 'bout to get lit," I say as Heath opens the door for us and we pile inside.

MACKENZIE

Music: Underground from Gradius III SNES

Inside our hotel room, the first thing to take notice of is a pretty sketchy sleeping situation. There are only two beds and a pullout couch, and... well, there's six of us total.

"Yeah... maybe we should've reconsidered all six of us rooming together..." I say.

"I brought my own sleeping bag," Elle says, shrugging.

"Well, just so you all know, I'm not sleeping with anybody. You can sleep on the floor for all I care," Avery snorts.

"I got dibs on the couch," Skylar smirks. She walks over and pulls the couch into its bed-form, and then sets her luggage down on top of it. While she's not looking, Avery secretly flips her off.

"Look, how about we all set our stuff down and we'll figure out a plan from there?" Shanna suggests. Everyone nods and proceeds to begin unpacking. I silently thank her for being the peacemaker of the group here.

Mia and I set our bags down on one of the beds. While we're unpacking, I randomly decide to take a look inside of Mia's suitcase and spot both a knife and a gun. My eyes immediately widen and I tap Mia on the shoulder several times to get her attention.

"Mia, why the hell did you bring weapons on a cruise ship!? You realize you could get in serious trouble for that, right?" I exclaim.

"You realize that we could run into serious trouble too, right? I mean, we don't really have the best luck in terms of having normal vacations," Mia replies, laughing to herself.