They made their way up to the first deck that led to the outside and breathed in the fresh salty sea air of the English channel. Sam looked about expecting to see clear sea as far as the eye could see, but this stretch of water had at least a dozen huge ships in view going to and from Africa, Europe and Asia to the UK.
“Wow. This ship is huge!” exclaimed Rae as she looked up at the enormous structure above her, the ship seemed to take up the size of a whole street and it made Sam's head swim. She looked back down and focused on the distance to calm her stomach.
“It's quite some thing heh?” Said Edward standing quietly beside her. she looked sideways at him, he had moved to within an inch or so away and she had missed it completely.
“Yeah I guess. It's been a hell of day so far and it's not even lunch time.”
Edward grinned, then looked down at the sea seemingly slowly drifting by and said. “I know you struggle with people, I see it and I don't want to push you away whilst trying to pull you closer, but I really would like to be friends...” Sam's shoulder tensed.
“Yeah I know, just give me some room to breathe. I see you, just give me time to adjust OK?” Edward nodded and smiled.
“Good enough.” And with that he wandered over to the stairs leading to the next deck. “Anyone want to see what this tub looks like from the top deck?”
“I'm in!” announced Paul and Sam saw Rae's eyes glimmer and her face light up as he grabbed hold of her arm. “Hey are you coming Sam? Look how high it is!” Sam nodded and grimaced. “I was trying not too. But I guess it's better to look down right?” Rae looked doubtful but nodded. “Erm..sure. We could always go back in if it's an issue?” Sam shook her head.
“Lead on macduff.”
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The trek up the steps to the tenth deck took longer than Sam anticipated and she felt the tug on her thighs and calf muscles by the time they reached the top. She hoped there was a lift going back down, she didn't fancy doing that in reverse. Then she looked out and saw the ship ploughing through the water heading for land. Wow. Already? She guessed it had to be Calais, but she had no true knowledge of where they were heading, it could be anywhere. She looked down at the ship and saw that it had actually got a fair size pool with a wave machine at one end. Had it been a bit warmer she would have liked to take a dip. It looked quite inviting, but today was not the day for such things. Evidentially not everyone thought like that as several of the people she had arrived with were splashing around with others she had never seen before, seemingly having a whale of a time. Edward got some startled and joyous calls from some of them. Notably from a couple of the girls who had decided that their underwear was good enough to go swimming in. Sam felt an inner rage building up as she saw them flaunting their bodies. She shook her head in disgust and turned away, she saw Paul already chatting happily with a couple of guys. Was he drinking? For fuck sake! This wasn't an actual fucking pleasure cruise. And they weren't legally allowed to drink anyhow. She saw Rae smiling and laughing as she was being drawn into a gaggle of girls and Sam turned away and headed back to her cabin. This whole place was a joke.
She eventually found the way to her level just by following the stairs down. She knew they were staying “below deck” and once she found her level her angst seemed to back off. She had come down from a different entrance than the one they had exited from and so had to walk passed the armoured vehicles and weapons. Everything was locked down tight, but still the place looked like it was getting ready for war. this place was fricking huge. She saw further on what seemed to be a gym like area with weights, punching bags, ropes leading to the ceiling and a whole swath of rowing machines and exercise equipment. She smiled. Now that was more like it. she wasn't normally one for exercise, but something inside her needed to blow off some steam and this looked just the ticket. Sam found her way back to her cabin and changed into her gym gear. She made sure to take her pass with her, the gene locked card would let her access this level, without it she couldn't get past the doors leading from the stairwell. Then she headed to the gym. She felt the need to punch something.