I go up the staircase. It always hits me how grand it is whenever I see it. I head up to the smoking room. The sound of the music is getting softer and softer until it is gone.

I open the door and I see a lot more people in here then what there was this afternoon when I came in to check it out.

No women are allowed in this room. So this means that we have the room to ourselves. I see a group of people playing a game of blackjack.

The round just finished and a man collects his winnings. He was fairly tall and had black flat bar. The other two players that were playing were both pale. One had brown hair and another man had dirty blonde hair.

I walk over to the table and I grab a pocket full of money on the table. I always carry one hundred dollars in my pocket in case of emergency or if I wanna bet on something.

"Deal me in. I'm feeling lucky today" I say. The tall guy with black hair looks at me. He was a little older than me by the looks of it but it wasn't very intimidating. "You got guts kid. What's your name?" I smile. "Tye. You are?" He smiles. "Randy and those two knuckle heads are Tim and Drake" I nod.

I place my bet as the cards are delt. I look at my two cards. I got delt a seven and a five. Drake the one with blond hair goes first. "Hit me" He gets a card. "I'm feeling a little lucky just like our new comer here." He says. He smiles. "Double down" he says.

Bad move you never double down it usually never ends up well.

He doubled his bet and then collected a card. "Stand" he says

It's now Tim's turn. "Hit me" he gets a card. "Hit me" he collects another. "Hit me" He collects his card then "bust" he says throwing his cards on the table revealing a seven a eight a two another two and another seven.

Now it's my turn. "Hit me" I get a five so now I have seventeen. I'm feeling brave again. "Hit me" I get an ace so now I have eighteen. This is it I'm gonna risk it. "Hit me" I get a two. Twenty. That's good enough for me to win. "Stand"

Now it's Randys turn. "Stand" he says. Oh no that can't be good. It can only mean one thing if anyone stands on their first go. "BLACKJACK!" He shouts way too loud and he collects all our money. Great now I have zero dollars in my pocket. Normally blackjack is my jam but for some reason not this time.

"Ha ha ha that was fun" Randy shouts in a loud boomer sort of voice. "Let's bet again" he smiles. "You got nothing to bet with so how are you going to play? Get lost kid" I bang my fist on the table. I am not leaving this room if I have lost. "Cabins. We have got the largest cabin on the ship. Besides the captian. You loose I get your winnings. If I loose you get the state room"

He takes a step back and he thinks about it for a second. "Why should I do this?" He asks me. "Because. You have three people against one" I can not believe how stupid I am being. "Make that three against two" I hear a voice and then I see someone sit down next to me. Kyler our waiter? What's he doing here? "Kyler? What are you doing here?" He looks at me then speaks. "Tye I barley even know you but I can tell that you are not the sharpest knife in the draw so I may as well help keep you from being anymore of an idiot then what you already are being" wow I just got roasted by my waiter.

Note to self do not tip him.

"And what are you bringing to the bet?" Randy says. I just realised he has nothing to bet with. Then he says something that makes me sound smart. "My money that I make working on the ship. It's not as much as it cost to buy a ticket on this ship but it is still better than a kick in the bread tray" wow we are betting our accomodation on this ship and he is betting his work salary and that is a pretty big salary.

"Actually lets make it three on three" I hear another voice that I know. It's Casper. "I'm betting all of the money in my bank account. It's not as much as Tyes but it is still a lot"

I'm on a table surrounded by idiots.

Randy laugths. "All this just so Tye can get his money back" then I speak up. "Actually since the steaks are high with is let's raise the steaks with you" I say. "If we win. You have to give us all of the winnings that you have made tonight" as I look at his pile of cash I can see that it is a lot of money and I wouldn't mind a bit of extra dough.

"Right then well enough with the talking lets get to the playing" says Randy. The cards are delt equally. We don't have to place our bets because we already know what the bets are.

I look at my cards. I have an ace and an eight. Not a bad combination considering the fact that an ace can either be a one of a eleven. So I can swap the value whenever I want to suit my needs to win.

I have no clue on what anyone else has so I'm just going to have to hope that we win. Well really if one of us wins we all win. But it's the same for them as well.

Well this either going to go really well or really bad. So game on I guess