Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction Group 2 -1 2019 | Page 45

for me.
“Your late!”
She said arms crossed, staring at me.
“Sorry, It took awhile to find the way up here.”
“I will let you go this time but next time you won't be getting away so easily, go over there and scrub the
deck with Ji Young.”
Out of the blue someone came up from the lower deck screaming about some of the gold being stolen! I
back away, towards the staircase afraid to be suspected of taking the precious cargo,so scared I start running
as fast as I can to the room. Oof!, I bump into Mr Chu!
“Hello Mr Chu honour to see you,sorry for banging into you.”
I stutter.
“It is nice to see you and it’s quite alright.”
replies Mr Chu.
“Have you heard about the gold being stolen?”
I ask
“Yes it's outrageous some criminal would do such a thing”
He explained with enthusiasm
“Indeed”
I reply. The door of the room opens and out comes Mrs Chu.
“Hello Mrs Chu it’s an honour to see you ”
I say curtsying.
“Yes good to see you”
She says, obviously worried about something.
“Miyuki there is something we need to tell you.”
There is a look of great worry and sadness on her face as she speaks.
“Anything”
I say with more worry on my face then there is stars in the sky.
“This is going to be hard for you to take in but we need to tell you, you may not make the ship back to
China.”
My heart sinks, I could not be going back to my family, I may be stranded in an unknown, sinister
place,with no one speaking my language.How can I persuade them to bring me back? How could I
change their mind?Then a crazy idea comes into my head, I will find the missing gold, that should persuade
them to let me return home to my beloved family.