A DIFFERENT TALE
Chapter Six
"Jack!" I screamed,
hoping that maybe he would hear me.
Cal had gone after Jack, and now
I didn’t know what to expect. But suddenly, the stewards who had chased after
me earlier spotted me. So, I began to run.
"Shouldn’t you be protecting
the peace or something?" I asked them, still running like crazy.
Suddenly, a shot rang out over my
head.
"Where the heck did you get
guns?"
I ran down corridors, having no
clue where I was going. I reached one hallway. The floor was flooded, and I
slipped. I slid down a bunch of stairs and fell into the freezing water once
more.
"Where’d she go?" one
man yelled.
"This way!" another
replied.
I stared at the frigid water and
held my breath. I was being sucked in a certain direction, and it was so cold I
could have frozen in a matter of seconds. I pushed against the flow of the
water and grabbed onto the railing of a staircase, sucking in deep breaths once
I had pulled myself up out of the water.
Something was floating by, and
for a moment, I thought it was Jack, but I turned and shut my eyes once I
realized it was a body. I ran up the staircase and to the main hallway.
"Jack! Jack?" I
screamed frantically.
No response. I ran down
corridors, just screaming his name over and over again, but never got an
answer.
"Oh, Jack…" I mourned,
thinking he was dead.
I went to the rich stairwell,
where we had gotten separated. I stared at the hallway he had gotten chased
through by Cal. Gathering up my courage, I went down that passageway.
"Jack!" I yelled again.
I went to the dining hall, but he
wasn’t there, either. Cal appeared suddenly on the other side of the room.
"Cal!" I said in
surprise, backing up a bit, for a gun was pointed at me.
He smiled, that twisted, evil
smile. My stomach lurched.
"Wh-what have you done to
Jack?" I stammered.
I backed up towards a window,
cornered like a rat. He advanced on me, keeping the gun pointed directly at my
chest.
"Nothing yet. You are both
going down with this ship."
When he was a foot away from me,
I tried to punch him, but he grabbed my fist and pushed me out the window. I
clung onto the window ledge, screaming.
Cal bent over and started to
loosen my fingers from the side.
"You shouldn’t have messed
with my darling Rose," he said, shaking his head.
Suddenly, Cal’s head bent forward
and he fell out the window and, unfortunately, landed safely into a lifeboat
and scared the heck out of the people in the boat because he almost sank it.
Jack hovered over me, a smile on
his face. He grabbed my hand and pulled me back over the edge. I wrapped my
arms around his waist.
"Now we’re even," I
said.
He laughed, and then we raced to
the upper decks.