"Jackie! Get off the table at once!" shouted my brother Alex, short for Alexander. "You know you shouldn't play pirates! They are mean, awful bastards, besides; you're 14 and much too old for that now."

I sighed and jumped off the table.

It had always been like this, for as long as could remember I had been fascinated by pirates, and for as long as I could remember Alex had told me off for even mentioning the word 'pirate.' It was like he feared them or something, I could never understand why. He knew just s as well as I did that our father is a pirate, not just any old pirate though, he was the infamous Captain Jack Sparrow.

Mum didn't mind me acting like a pirate; it was only Alex that stopped me. He hated pirates with a passion. So much that he wouldn't even keep his name. He was born as 'Alexander Jack Sparrow' but he now goes by the name 'Alexander James Freeman.' Even Mum had changed her name back to 'Elizabeth Anne Swann.' Everyone but me believed he was dead, or at the very least had started a new life and forgotten about us. But I'd never given up hope. And despite being begged to change my name, or at least stop shortening it, I never listened. My full name is 'Jacqueline Alexandra Sparrow'. But for as long as I could remember I had gone by the shortened version of 'Jackie Alex Sparrow." I don't even answer to Jacqueline anymore.

My thoughts had drifted to other things while Alex continued to lecture me about how pirates weren't good role models, blah, blah, blah. I couldn't tell you what it was he said because I hadn't listened to a word of it.

I could never understand how everyone could have given up on Jack so easily. But maybe it was better to forget than face the crushing truth that maybe he just didn't want our family anymore and that he might even have a new family now.

Luckily for me, this wasn't the case. If he had never come back I don't know what I would have done. Because, like it or not, even when he was gone, I was always a 'daddy's girl.'

A/N I know this chapter is short and sort of boring! But I had to get this done so I could move on to the rest of the story! Please review…Good or bad, I want to hear it! I have my next chapter written so I will post it ether tonight or tomorrow.

Thanks, Marlee