Chapter 33 of me' pirate story!

This is the SECOND TO LAST CHAPTER! crazy huh?


Chapter 33:

"To think I once hated them all." thought Sarah, taking one last gaze at the Ransom, as The Swan pulled out the the harbor. "To think I once longed to go home with all my heart, and now, when I'm going, I'm crying."

She sighed. She was alone. A new sensation after never having a minute to herself aboard the Ransom.

"This is going to be the longest year of my life. And the loneliest. Oh, Jamie!" And Sarah felt her heart ache.

The Swan was a lovely fast ship. The Cabins were beautiful and the other boarders were friendly. They asked Sarah a great deal of questions, Sarah answered them politely, but confessed she had to keep some things to herself.

Sarah didn't know what to do with herself. There was no work to be done, no cards to play, no pirate telling a long exaggerated story, no dinner for her to cook, and no one interesting to talk to.

Sarah would have traded away The Swan for the Ransom any day.

Every time the weather was nice, Sarah climbed up onto the decks and looked out onto the water. Just water and sky, and nothing else. She longed to see the black sails and tall masts of the Ransom, but of course, she never did.

One time, by accident, Sarah fell asleep out on the deck, as she had so many times before. When she awoke, she thought for a minute she was back on the Ransom, but, of course, she wasn't.

They docked in Albandale on a cool spring evening. It hadn't changed one bit. But Sarah had.

She stepped down the familiar streets, seeing no one, then, as she ran around a corner, she bumped into her Mother.

"Mother! Tis' me, Sarah! Ohhh! I've got so much to tell you!...."

The word spread quickly as it always does in a small town. Soon everyone in Albandale knew the story of Sarah Smithins. She had been enslaved by pirates, captured by Indians, gone to the Bahamas, had seen a pirate raid, was trapped in a storm, had seen real buried treasure, then had gotten engaged to the young pirate who had started the whole adventure!

"Well!" said Mrs, Reban to Mrs. Smithins "So that's what it took to make your girl fall in love!"

All the other young girls wanted to know everything about Jamison, and how she could have ever fallen in love with him, but Sarah kept most of her story to herself. It was too a precious thing to share with everyone.