I gulped as I am currently facing the man from the other ship I saw before. The one who looks like Lilian. The blonde hair, crystal blue eyes, and reddish skin are similar to Lilian. He's as tall as Drake and he looks very strict too.
I looked at him in the eyes but he just smiled at me. In Short, awkward. He keeps staring at me but I don’t dare to make him stop.
“C-captain, it’s nice seeing you again!” Von said while he stand in front of me, trying to cover me from the said Captain.
“Oh Regor’s nephew, it’s hot out here why are you just standing in here?” The captain asked. I lowered my cloak more and choose to look down.
“We are here to buy some fabrics to use for our sails, Samson is already managing it and we’re told to wait in here.” He answered. The way he speaks towards the captain is a sign that he's really afraid of him but here I am hiding in this nervous child’s back where I should be the one covering them. But with my current situation, I couldn’t just act recklessly. I have to think carefully.
“Oh I see, then you must have seen my sister?” He asked again.
“Yes Ser, Lilian is currently in her room in the Hellbender’s ship,” Von replied. So I am right. His Lilian’s older brother.
“I see.” He said. “Then who might this lady be?” He added.
Von tried to answer but I stopped him and signaled him that I’ll be doing it.
“My name’s Vienna Captain, Vienna Watson of the Pirate Hellbender,” I answered.
“Oh, so the twin has a new crew. So what’s your job? A cleaner? Cook or perhaps their new Toy?” He asked which made me furious. I saw how Von and Thompson who tried to remain silent looks angry so I stopped them before they tried something uncalled-for. Especially to a Captain.
“With all due respect Sir, I am not a cleaner nor a cleaner and strongly not a toy and I’m not obligated to tell you my job. I guess you have a very busy day so you can now please leave.” I said and stared at him. But he just looked at me with amazement written on his face.
“Hmm not until you let me see your face. You must have a pretty face underneath that cloak of yours.” He said and tried to remove my cloak but I already stopped his hand from reaching it.
“What’s going on in here?” Samson asked as he saw the situation and easily pulled me away from that Captain.
“Captain Lucas Whites of Leviathan what do you think you’re doing to our Navigator?” Samson angrily asked. The Captain just chuckled.
“Oh, I’m just saying my hello to your dear navigator.” He playfully replied and stared at me. I can feel his tenacious stare beneath my cloak.
I tried to remain calm and silent as much as possible while Samson is covering me. Von and Thompson are already on my sides. Keeping an eye on both men in front of us.
“I hope it’s like that Captain Lucas, Ms.Vienna is part of the Hellbender and if you lay your hand on her we won’t let it pass,”  Samson said and the Captain just nodded.
“Sure. I won’t. And oh please let your captain know that we’ll be visiting your dearest ship, Hellbender later in the evening to discuss something. I hope you’ll be preparing something.” The Captain of the Leviathan Pirates said before he left us. I sighed in relief when I longer couldn’t see him in my peripheral view.
“How are you, are you okay? Did he particularly hurt you somewhere?” Samson asked in concern. I shake my head. Even my hunger is already gone because of the tension we felt.
“The two of you, are you okay?” He asked the kids too. They all nodded in unison.
I thought that no one would notice us since Rico’s shop is secluded but we’ll never know if someone’s eyeing us already. Pirates usually fight each other to steal and to know who’s the strongest among them. According to the book, of course. They’re prideful and merciless.
“That damn Lucas, he must have followed us when he saw us going down. We must return to the ship this instant now. Lucas is not the only one we need to avoid.” He said and we all agreed. We better return as fast as we could before the others notice too.
“What the hell happened?” Drake exclaimed. His face darkened when Samson told him everything. He looked like he was ready to start a war. I looked at Jake who was smiling evilly. The two pirates must have some unfinished business with each other.
“Now look at what you’ve just created my dear brother!” Jake said. He looked at his twin deadly. Drake hissed and looked at Jake too.
“Shut up for now Jake. You’re not helping.” He said and stood up.
“Ha, if something happened to Vienna I’ll kill you myself!” Jake said that made me look at him. What the hell is going on?
“That won’t happen.” The captain answered. “Not again.”
“You better make sure, I don’t care if you’re my brother or not. If something happened to Vienna, I might do something you’ll regret.” Jake added.
“Wait a minute, why the hell are you so concerned with Vienna?” Drake asked but Jake just laughed at him and suddenly grabbed his twin’s collar.
“If your stupid men didn’t take Vienna then this might not happen,” Jake shouted.
Wait, something’s off here.
I moved forward but a hand grabbed my hand. I looked back and saw Samson holding me tight gesturing me not to interrupt the two. But it’s my concern too. They kept arguing about me when I am just in front of them.  I pushed Samson’s hand aside and focused on the two.
“Explain, what the hell is going on?” I calmly said, hoping to ease the heavy atmosphere building in this cabin. They both looked away when I stared at them.
“I'm starting to think that something’s going on. And oh, now that I remember, why don’t you explain everything to me why you want to infiltrate the Andra Kingdom?” I said and they looked caught off guard with my question.
Ha. They must have thought that I’ll lead them without knowing their reason for entering inside the border.
“Nows not the right time to discuss that. The Leviathan will be visiting later, we should prepare and plan on what will do.” Samson chimed in.
“And what do you mean something will happen to me? Please explain everything to me in detail so I’ll be able to understand what is happening. I just felt like I’m the most useless being in here. If this is all about the deal we both agreed then I’ll  gladly die if you all plotting something that will ruin the kingdom.” I said.
“Vienna please.” Samson plead. I sighed deeply trying to remain calm.
“That Captain, who the hell is he?” I asked.
Jake sighed and sat in a chair and faced the ceiling. Must be his way to regain his forgotten calmness.
“Lucas Whites, captain of the Leviathan Pirate. He kept getting on our nerves when that thing happened. To be more specific, his our greatest enemy alongside the other pirates. Unfortunately, this brother of mine did something foolish before that fueled the anger of that Lucas to us.” Jake said.
“Watch your fucking mouth, you bastard,” Drake said while looking at his brother who’s now grinning like crazy.
“Why? Are you going to repeat what happened before?  Just so you know, Vienna isn’t like that girl. She’s different.” Jake said that made Drake stop.
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So I'm right. Then again, I kept reminding everyone about something or someone. Is that the reason why Drake agreed to my deal that easily because I remind him of someone?
“That which is nothing but a leech!” Jake added
I closed my eyes and brushed my hair in frustration when a loud thud was heard. I immediately opened my eyes and saw Jake who was lying on the ground already and his nose is bleeding. I didn’t think twice and covered Jake with my body hoping that the Captain would stop punching his twin brother.
“I warned you, stop mentioning her again you bastard!” The Captain shouted. Thank goodness Samson is holding back the captain.
Drake is furious now. But Jake being Jake just laughed at his brother but anger is written on his face.
“Why? It’s your fault right. It’s your fucking fault!” Jake shouted too and was forced to reach his brother. I have to hug him tightly so I can stop him thankfully it seems effective.
“You don’t understand!!” Drake shouted back.
“Because you’re selfish!!!” Jake shouted again.
“It’s because of you that everything happened to us!!” Jake shouted again.
“You fucking ungrateful child!!” He added so I hugged him tightly and buried my face on his chest and looked at him in his face.
“Please stop!” I softly said at him. He looked at me and sighed and nodded.
The Captain seemed to realize what just happened and pushed Samson aside and walked out into the cabin. Samson nodded at me and immediately followed the raging Captain. I returned my gaze to Jake who’s now sitting on the floor and pounded his fist on the floor in anger.
I saw a medicine kit hanging near the cabinet and took it and positioned myself facing Jake. I forcedly make him face me so I can check his nose. He looked at me directly in the eyes. He wants to tell me something but didn’t continue and just stared at me.
“I won’t ask anything anymore so stop staring at me!” I said and wipe his bleeding nose with the cotton I saw inside the kit. He softly laughed while watching me put some ointment in the cotton.
“You didn’t even know how to properly heal me but continue!” He said and laughed. I rolled my eyes and felt my face burning in embarrassment.
“S-shut up,” I said and pressed the cotton with much pressure in his nose that made him winced.
“Hey, that hurts.” He said while holding my hands. I chuckled and looked at him in the eyes.
“Then stop teasing me, you idiot!” I said but he just laughed at me and raised both hands.
“Okay, I surrender!” He said then smiled at me. I felt something unusual on my stomach. I gulped and returned on treating his wound forcing myself to focus.
“I'm sorry you witness such a childish scenario.” He said.
“It’s fine. I shouldn’t have asked back then, because of me you and your twin fight!” I replied.
“Not really. We always fight. We may be twins but we are opposite to each other, he only thinks about himself and the things that can benefit him and I hate him because he's like that.”
“Is he always like that?” I asked.
“No.” He answered, “It started after that incident.” He added. I nodded and didn’t speak and just focused on treating him. After a few minutes, I already finished it so I started cleaning up the things I used.
“Thank you!” He said.
“Always welcome!” I replied and stood up and returned the kit from hanging but unfortunately, I can’t reach it.
A hand helped me push the box so when I’m done checking if I returned the box properly in the right position I immediately turned around but I didn’t expect to see Jake that is still close to me. I couldn’t move backward because of the cabinet and Jake is blocking my way and pinned me more in the cabinet.
I look at him in the face. He smiled at me and caress my hair and kissed it softly making my stomach upset. Is this what they called butterflies in the stomach. We’re too close to each other but I never felt uncomfortable with it. I like how our breath reaches each other's neck. I gulped when he just keep staring at me.
“Remember the day we first meet?” He asked. I looked at him in the eyes and nodded.
“Under the shiniest moon I saw is a beauty that easily captured my attention.” He said. My heart beats faster when his face is already an inch away from mine.
“That’s when I realized, I fell hard and for the first time in my life I doubted myself.” He added. “But when I saw you again my heart suddenly beat faster than usual, I even think that it’s must be fate. But my heart almost skipped when I saw you jumped out of the ship.” He said softly and kissed my hair again.
I abruptly pushed him due to my surprise but I instantly regretted it as I saw his pleading face.
“I'm sorry, I scared you,” I said and reached for his face and slowly caress it. I don’t know why but my heartache when I saw him hurting. I don’t want to admit this but I think this I felt is already different.
“Don’t do it again, okay?” He said and I nodded back in response and smiled.
The next thing I knew is that his lips already touched mine. His passionate kisses gave goosebumps down to my spine but I don’t understand why I'm responding to his kisses. The way his lips move makes me ask for more. He deepened the kiss more than it made me moan and he used that opportunity to enter his tongue inside the mine and his kisses started getting more violent.
He pinned me more in the cabinet still not letting go. His hands started wandering on my back. We both gasp for air after the deep kiss but before I completely breathe properly, he started kissing me again and again, I found myself responding, he stopped and bite my lips causing them to bleed.
“Are you an idiot? That hurts you know!” I said and he just laughed at me and smack me in the lips before distancing himself away from me.
My face started heating again when I realized what we had just done. I smiled and touched my lips.
“Wait- do you like me?” I asked him. He looks caught off guard but still closes the gap between us, facing each other again.
“The very first time I laid my eyes on you, my heart already know that I like you.” He answered.
“Wait, huh?” I asked confusedly but he just laughed at me.
“Stop laughing okay, I’m serious!” I said and punched him in the chest.
“I’m serious too. But anyways you better stay in your room only. That Lucas will use you from us. It’s safer to stay in your room than wandering freely on the ship. You still have to return home right? “ He said and nodded back.
What he said is right.
“Very good.” He added and turned around but before that, I manage to take his hand and stopped him.
“Don’t go, we’ll talk about what just happened!” I commanded and looked at him in the eyes but he averted what I said and pretended to be innocent. Which is he's not.
“What happened? I don’t know what happened!” He stated and still not looking at me but he's grinning like crazy.
I kicked his feet and looked at me with disbelief.
“Goodness sweetheart, you’re too cruel!” He groaned and acted as he hurt badly. I just stared at him blankly and when he noticed it he crazily laughed.
“Goodness, let’s talk about it later, or else I might not be able to control myself and do something lewd to you, my dear!”  He sweetly said and my eyes widen and automatically kicked him again.
“You pervert!!” I exclaimed and quickly exited the cabin and returned to my room. That bastard knows how to flustered me. Too dangerous.
I decided to just sleep with it so I ran towards the bed and sleep without even changing my clothes. I still have to avoid that annoying Captain Lucas later so it’s better to recharge myself.