What if Rose and Jack had known each other before the Titanic? When they were kids? High school days.

"Hey Jack, look" Jack's best friend Harry was sitting with Jack near the bikes at Chippewa Falls High School in Wisconsin.

"What mate?" Jack was eating a red apple and his fingers were freezing. It was winter in Chippewa Falls and it was snowing. The school had not been closed yet as it usually was. Jack didn't look up.

"Look at that broad, she must be new, let's go chat with her!" Harry suggested. Jack looked up there was a stunning young girl with red curly hair wondering around the playground. Jack watched her. She sat down on a cement bench and opened a book. Her violent green eyes darted across the page and then at Jack. She smiled and blushed.

Jack got up with Harry and their other friend Billy and made their way over to the girl.

"Hello there, you new here?" Jack asked the young girl looked up she had pale white skin which made her beautiful green eyes stand out even more.

"Yes I'm new. My family and I are living in the old Wilson Manor. My name is Rose, Rose DeWitt Bucktar!" she extended a firm white hand to Jack.

"You'll have to write that one down for me Rose. I'm Jack Dawson; these are my mates Billy Road and Harrison Carmichael!" Jack shook her hand. So smooth. While Jack was shaking her hand Jack smiled and Rose could have sworn she seen his eye twinkle. Billy and Harry waved to Rose and then left.

"So what brings you to Wisconsin you don't seem like that sort of girl?" Jack said not realising he was prototyping her.

"Mr Dawson, I would like you to know I'm not a stereotype, I'm not stuck up or posh. I am just me! My family is that I am not!" she said she was shaking violently.

"I'm sorry Miss. I didn't mean it like that!" Jack said

"I'm sorry Jack, I'm not used to friendly people...I like this school a lot. It is nothing like I used to go to. Private schools or boarding schools. Mother says I will be seventeen in a year and I will not be able to come to school soon. She is trying to pick a suitable husband for me. More like for herself. She picks horrid people with so much money and I hate it!" Rose had blurted out she covered her mouth.

"Oh I wasn't supposed to tell you that...Jack I'm only here until Mother finds a suitable private school. Chippewa Falls High seems like the perfect place!" Rose said smiling. Jack and Rose both knew they had each found a best friend for life.

"I'll pretend I didn't hear it. Come lets go and get you enrolled..." he placed a hand on her back. He seen how distressed she was and place his hand on her hand instead.

"Jack I'm sorry, I'm not used to have boys being my friends...I doubt my mother would like it..." she said

"Then let's not let her find out...So Rose where are you from?" Jack asked

"Originally Philadelphia...then New York and then England...I liked it in England. I fell in love there. With a man named Matthew. He called me his English Rose. Mother liked him. We were set to marry next year. However, he died. Such a stupid accident!" Rose held tears back.

"Oh Rosie. I'm so sorry..."

"Rosie...no one has ever called me that...I like it...Jack!" she smiled and wipe her eyes.

In love at sixteen. Who knew that could happen.

They walked up the steps of the school and into the front hall.

"Ello Mrs Robin. This is Rose DeWitt Bukatar. She is enrolling here!" Jack announced. Rose didn't like meeting new people. Jack could tell. She became all quiet and secretive.

"Actually Miss. My mother Ruth DeWitt Bukatar already enrolled me I just have to pick up my schedule..." Why hadn't she told me before Jack thought.

"Oh yes...your Mother, Ruth she is such a lovely lady..." Rose didn't look anything like her besides her red hair

"She can be..." Rose replied

"Welcome to Chippewa Falls High School, we hope you enjoy your stay!" Rose smiled and when Mrs Robin had left Rose said:

"What is this, she sounds like I'm getting on a ship or a train. "Enjoy your stay!" Rose laughed Jack already loved her laugh. She was so beautiful. Jack laughed with her.

"Jack...Aren't I just awful!" she said her pearly white teeth entranced Jack.

"No Rose, you perfect...What do you have first?"

"I have Maths, English, Sewing and then Cooking!" She said Jack's eyes lit up they had Maths and English together maybe they could sit together.

/"Oh great. Quick come on the warning bell will come on soon!" On cue the warning bell telling everyone to get to class sounded.

Jack and Rose ducked into the classroom. B117. Mr Simons was the Maths Teacher he had ginger hair on the sides and bald on top. A ginger moustache to match. He was a funny teacher.

"Sir, this is Rose DeWitt Bukatar. She is new!" Jack announced.

"Oh yes Miss DeWitt Bukatar. You can take a seat next to Jack!" he smiled he had three teeth missing from the front.

Jack and Rose sat down together and didn't pay any attention to what Mr Simons was teaching and he didn't care.

"So do you have any siblings Jack?" Rose asked Jack slid a book onto the table. It was a tattered brown book, and he had carried it everywhere. On the top right hand corner it had:

Jack Louis Dawson 1-11-1892.

"I do, two sisters Elizabeth and Winona. My father was killed at what he loved to do. Ice fishing. He fell through the hole and drowned...I was there when it happened!" Jack bowed his head.

"My Mother died two years after, some say of a broken heart...Winona ran away I haven't heard from her. Elizabeth was the eldest. I was ten when Dad died and Elizabeth was seventeen. She took care of me. But then I was put into an orphanage. I ran away from there and now I live sometimes with Harry sometimes Billy or under the bridge! I have everything I need. I'm saving you know. I'm going to buy a ticket and go somewhere. Maybe Paris, England, Australia?" Jack said telling Rose his completely family life.

"Jack...I'm so sorry. If I had known I would never had asked..." Rose rubbed Jack's back.

"Rose it's okay...hey what about you any family?" Jack asked smiling trying to not upset himself or Rose.

"Well it's just me and my Mother...but soon, a couple of months... Mother is going to invite Caledon Hockling, He is arrogant and snobbish, and the heir to a steel fortune in Pittsburgh. I don't want anything to do with him. Mother wants me to marry him. See when Dad died, he left Mother a whole lot of debts and Caledon has enough money to pay them off so she is using me to use Caledon!"

"I'll make sure you don't Rose..." Jack promised