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this is the first part...

so... umm....

Chapter 1 I guess....



"Wow Adam I can't beleive you one that contest!" Martin said laughing

"Shut up! I'm well aware of my disability to win anything, but luck was on my
side today!" I said in between dirty looks.

My name is Adam Marshall i'm 23 years old, and this is the story of how I died, and how I lived...

It was just one of those days where you wake up and feel like s**t... were your first thoughts are "Damn, why couldn't I just stay asleep?"

"Friday, and no where to go. How pathetic are we?" I sighed at my best friend as we played Halo 2 on Xbox--the score was 32-4 with me in the lead-- and drank out of our Jumbo Gulp cups we had picked up at a seven-11 on the way to his house. Martin just looked at me like I had said something like "we should eat your couch right now."

Martin returned his attention to the game, but still wore the same face. "You know me... I do this every weekend, you on the other hand have a really hot girlfriend to do things with; your here by choice my friend."

"Dude, you dont think I know that?" I smacked him in the back of the head. "plus, I gotta play my cards right with her mom if I want her to come on the cruise with me, her mom's crazy over protective, ya know?"

"Adam, I would be more worried about her killing herself in some crazy accident, your girlfriend might be hot, but she is about a coordinated as a potato."

I laughed. "Yeah your right." I looked down at the coffee table my feet were rested on and started at the document that said I could take 50 of my closest friends on a two week cruise to Jamaica.

A few weeks after that night I, along with 50 friends, and family members on a port in Los Angeles. My boss, Mr. Mallone, was standing right next to me--I had hoped that if I took him with me, I might have a chance of promoting--giving me a look of suspicion, then opened his mouth to speak.

You know Adam, taking me on this cruise is really nice of you, and i'm flattered, but it will not give you any traction on the wrungs of the workplace power ladder--my hopes hopes were in vein after all-- only hard work will ever do that, you have to earn your standing..." I stopped listening after that.

I moved away from Mr. Mallone eventually, and moved through the croud of family, and friends to the one I was really interested in seeing. I put my arm around the most perfect girl in the world, my girlfriend: Kathrine Sable.

"Hey there beautiful" I smiled my crappy lopp-sided smile, and looked down on her as she moved the hair out of her face.

The moment I saw her face the wind was knocked out of me, and my brain stopped thinking.

"I'm scared... I've never been on a boat before, and you know i'm afraid of the water..."

I sighed, and held her closer. "Don't worry, we wont ever actually be in the water, we'll be on the boat the whole time, nothing bad will happen."

I could still see genuine fear in her eyes when she responded. "I know I shouldn't be worried, but what if something happens?"

My bags hit the floor with a "Thud", then I cupped her perfect face in my hands and pressed my lips to hers. Her lips were so soft, I wouldn't complain if God saw fit to keep me there for all eternity. But I pulled away reluctantly to console her.

"If anything happens, i'll save you... I promise" My eyes searched hers, for some sign of acceptance. "Kathrine, I love you, and I would never let anything happen to you, you know that... don't you?"

She shook her head. "Of course I know that... I love you too."

I moved my head in for another reassuring kiss, but just then a large horn sounded in the distance, and a ferry arrived to take out to the cruise ship.





yeah...

Chapter 2 I suppose...


I smiled at the coming voyage. As the ferry moved closer to us I was astounded by it's shear(sp?) size. If it hadn't said "Cruse Boat Ferry" in bold red letters along the side I might have thought it was our actual cruise ship.

A rather pudgy man—for lack of a better word—waddled out from the bridge of the boat.

"Drop anchor, and tie this fat bi†ch down!!" he yelled at the crew. Even though he was a "well fed" man when he talked it sounded as if he were actually a woman with a gland disorder.

I felt Katherine flinch in my arms, her eyes were following the capitain of the ferry. She looked as though she might vomit at any moment.

I couln't help but giggle a little, "What's a matter?"

She sort of squeeked and looked at me. "He's creepy!"

I couldn't help but laugh.

"He's just fat Kathy, not creepy, just fat" I laughed again and grabbed our bags. I only had one bag full of clothes, but Kathy's numerous bags felt as though they were full of bricks and iron slabs. I gasped and dropped the bags.

"How did you manage these bags all the way over here?! They weigh a freaken ton!!"

She sighed and walked over to my side. she grasped the handles and tried to lift the bag, but to no avail. She almost fell over backwards when she let go of the handles.

"It was light enough for me to carry this morning!" she looked at me with questioning eyes. "I don't know what happend!"

I bent, and started to unzip the bag. Kathrine bent down next to me, and unziped the opposite direction. Before flipping the lid open, I caught sight of something that looked out of place in a bag... I didn't pause again to ponder it.

In one fluent motion I pushed the lid up, and over Kathy's luggage.

We both stared open mouthed as her mom stared up at us from out of Kathy's luggage.

Kathrine was the first to speak. "MOM!! What are you doing here?! You were supposed to stay home!"

She smiled and climbed out of the bag, how she managed to fit there I didn't know, and I wasn't about to question it.

"You expect me to let you go on a two week cuise with you boy friend?!" she laughed just one very audible "HA" then looked around.

"Well now you know i'm here, i'm going to go sneak on board the ferry, see you later Kathy." she smiled, then turned and ran through the crowd crouching rather conspicuously.

Both Kathrine and I could do nothing more than stare after her.

The horn to the ferry blew again, and the pudgy man's voice could be heard through a loud speaker.

"The ferry will be departing in 3 minutes, please get your bodies and posessions on board"

Kathy sighed again, and picked up her — now substancially lighter— bags.

"Well come on then we should get going right about now."

I nodded, then picked up my own bag and followed behind her.