A Pirate Stole My Heart

Chapter 1

~ Chapter 1 ~

I was in the middle of the town.

Hot tears were running down my face as I saw chaos unfold before me.

There were gun shots, loud and paralyzing. My small body was shaking uncontrollably and I knew I had to get to safety, but I couldn’t move.

I was petrified.

All I saw now were bodies dropping in front of me and loud screams of the townspeople yelling “Pirates!”

Pirates.

That one word that brought me out of my frozen trance.

My father told me two years ago when I was 8 that whenever I heard the word pirate, I would have to run. And that’s what I did, I ran. But I ran into something hard. A man. A big,muscular, tattooed man with bones in his hair.

The man smiled at me and I could count the number of teeth he had in his mouth on my fingers.

“Wha’ ‘ave I got ‘ere?” he said menacingly with a snarl.

So I did the only logical thing that a girl my age would do- I screamed.

Before I could turn and run, a big hand was covering my mouth, or in this case, my entire face, and stopped me from screaming. I looked back as best as I could to see that the scary man was holding me back.

“Ye didn’t think that ye could get ‘way that quickly now, lit’le lady?” He spun me around and crouched down so I was staring into his black, emotionless eyes. “Ye can’t go runnin’ ‘way to ye parents now…”

I suddenly noticed a sparkly clip in his hair, and that was the only thing my eyes focused on. He noticed my staring at the shimmering object in his hair and he laughed a deep and loud laugh.

“This thing?” he asked, taking the clip out of his bone entangled hair. “This is from the cap’n. He gave it to me to hold on to”.

I grabbed his large wrist and pulled his hand away from my mouth gently, silently surprised that he let me.

“Is this important to the captain?” I asked.

“Aye, it is, it’s pure gold it is,” he replied quietly.

That was all I needed to hear. I snatched the gold clip from his hand and ran as fast as I could away from the pirate.

I heard him screaming curse words at me which, sadly, attracted attention from the other big, scary looking men that were raiding the town.

“Grab tha’ girl! Grab tha’ thief!”

I turned the corner and found myself in a dark alleyway. I hid behind a large crate and huddled in a corner.

It was silent in this corner. I could only hear my breathing as I slowly took out the golden clip. I’ve never seen gold before… it’s so… mysterious. Suddenly, hands took me from my hiding place and the last thing I saw were two bright blue eyes before I saw black.

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First Wattpad story!!!

Hope you like it :)

~Kristina