• The cold harsh wind blew against my hair as I made the effort to get across the deck. Attacking the deck was water it acted as if it was predator jumping on its prey, clawing and grasping it making sure that the kill was dead, and then it would recede until the next attack. Thinking to myself why I and my family must be treated this way, we were human beings just like the people in the lower decks, except that their weather protection wasn’t a tarp that was about ready to rip and the only warmth was a single blanket to share with the whole family.
    As soon as I am across the deck I sit down next to my younger brother Damien who is clearly shivering, I wrap my arms around him to make sure he doesn’t end up like his twin sister who died of an unknown cause. Everyone is aware of Damien’s worsening condition, but I cannot let him go I promised him I wouldn’t. He rests his head on my chest and in a hushed tone he says the he could hear my heart, I reply to him by running my bony fingers through his coarse dark brown hair attempting to make sure he stays calm so he doesn’t waste what energy he has left.

    “Amelia! Stop holding Damien! We don’t want you sick to!”

    “Mother, you know he’ll die if no ones there for him, do you want him to die?” I can not believe she said that… Some one needs to take care of poor Damien.

    “Right now we have lost two family members, do you really want to risk the family everything with your death?!” I can clearly see now that she is upset, I hold Damien close refusing to let go as she tries to pry him from my caring grasp.
    Just then a boy with dazzling clothes runs through the deck laughing, why would he laugh? What’s so funny, what’s going on? Stopping suddenly he stops and looks at me with beautiful green eyes, I blush looking away realizing that he is about my age, which is fifteen. The crew men grasp his forearms as he attempts to break free.

    “Sir Stephen stop resisting, you’re a bunch of folly you know that! Now Ma’am Mary, your mother wants you back now before you catch a disease from one of these poor savages.” A crew man yells at him.
    After a wild struggle, he finally gives up and returns from whence he came, but he kept his eyes on me until he could no longer see me. I can still feel the hot tingle of his kind gaze upon me.