People at the front of the boat start screaming. Another boat approaches us - a pirate boat! The smugglers greet them and they jump onto the pirate ship with the bucket of valuables. The pirates weren't looking for money or jewellery, they were looking for girls who were out of doors without their parents! i immediately pull Bibi's headscarf off and put the t-short hat on her head instead and tuck her hair under it. She knots her skirts between her legs so that it looks like a baggy shorts. I tell Omar to give the shorts to Rashida so that she can do the same. I wrap the blanket around her and rub my hand over her face until her makeup is so smudged it looks like dirt and green stains. We sit down and start knee bouncing the ball to one another except Omar.
Then, a pirate comes to us and swings his foot at the ball. My leg responds faster then my brain and i trap the ball and slide it to one side. His kick misses and he falls. Other pirates laugh. He gets up and kicks me in the hip real hard. Omar holds Bibi so that she's not able to kick back the pirate. Tears stream down and the pain was killing me. Only after Rashida rubs my hip for ages, i managed to sit up. The pirates had gone and the smugglers had abandoned us. We were in the middle of the ocean starving with three scared sailors.