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responding, perked his brow a bit, silently asking her to go on.  “For someone,” she began again, looking away and down at her cell phone.  She had called Bex ten minutes ago and was hoping that her friend and her friend’s boyfriend Brandon would be here by now.  They lived only a few blocks away.  “For someone so firm in his claim of being from the past, you oddly don’t seem too disturbed that you were sent here.  And you don’t seem intent on trying to find a way back.”
     
    Johnny shrugged, and gave her a look that matched his sentiments.  “I miss my ship,” he told her, “but the sea is the same here and there.”
     
    “I disagree,” Izzy told him, turning around and facing the beautiful view of the sea her front porch provided.  “The sea is always changing.  The waves are never the same.  The sparkles are never the same.  It’s always changing.  The sea that you are familiar with is most certainly not the same sea I am familiar with.  It can’t be.”
     
    The pirate narrowed his eyes at her profile, as though he was trying to study her.  He didn’t expect such a subtly passionate description of the sea coming from someone here.  He had been here about twenty-four hours, give or take, and he could see, though he couldn’t quite understand, all the new technological advances this world had.  And he also knew that while technological advances made life more convenient, they also distracted people from natural beauties.  To hear her speak so eloquently about his love intrigued him.  There was more to her than he first realized.
     
    “I’m not particularly keen on going back right now,” he told her.  Johnny hated to admit it, but he wasn’t a war-fighting-leader kind of person.  He liked his ship; he liked running it, but he didn’t like being depended upon, and this upcoming war amongst the pirates and the law called for him to lead his people into battle.  So when he fell into this place, he realized that Willow had answered one of his silent prayers.
     
    Izzy rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest.  “Whatever you’re running from, be it this lifetime or your past one, will catch up to you,” she murmured.
     
    “If that happens,” Johnny said, grinning down at her, “then I’ll just start running again.”
     
    “You can’t run from life,” she replied, and suddenly her eyes brightened, encountering her best friend Bex and Brandon.
     
    Bex was a few inches taller than Izzy, with long red hair and pale skin.  Her eyes were almond shape and dark brown, rivaling those of Johnny’s.  She was always fashionably dressed; today, she had on a fuchsia dress that reached the middle of her thigh, with black, knee-length leggings and cute beige ankle boots.  Brandon had long dark hair and crystal blue eyes.  He was a couple of inches shorter than Johnny, but the two men had built bodies.
     
    “Izzy, what’s up, sweetheart?” Bex asked as she made her way up the narrow staircase, with Brandon following behind her.  When she reached the top, she gave Johnny a long stare before turning her attention back to Izzy.  “He so does not look like Jack Sparrow,” she told Izzy.  “I mean, look at him.  He has no bandana or hat, and he doesn’t even wear eyeliner.”  She glanced over at the man who was eyeing her rather oddly.  “Smile,” she told him.  Johnny arched a brow at her random request, causing Bex to sigh, and then bat her eyelashes before saying, “Please?”
     
    Before Johnny realized what he was doing, he glanced over at Izzy, as though he was silently asking for her approval on the matter.  Oddly enough, Izzy seemed quite skillful at reading his eyes, and nodded once, indicating that it was okay for him to do what Bex had asked.  So Johnny forced a smile.
     
    “And no gold teeth,” Bex concluded, turning back to Izzy.  “Although, they are rather straight.  You know, if he was really a pirate from the seventeen