Chapter 2 Into The Night
Suddenly, Jacks grasp was lost in my own hands, underneath the water. It was so cold that the lungful of air I had taken just moments ago whooshed out of me in bubbles, I couldn't think and I forgot to move my legs.
Jack pulled at my lifebelt, trying to get me to kick. I tried to remember I should, but I didn't see the point in fighting. It was too cold, and much too dark. I could see no light guiding me to the surface, and why would there be? It was 2:30 am and we were in the middle of no where. There was nothing. Nothing more to fight for.
Suddenly, Jack was gone. No, could he be? Or were my hands just so numb I simply couldn't feel him grasping them? I felt about the water, but he wasn't there anymore. That is when I started to kick, I had to find the surface, and I had to find Jack. I had to. Without him, I wouldn't make it. It had occurred to me of course that we both probably wouldn't survive, but that had been the reason for me staying on the doomed ship all along, the point was that if we were going to die, we were going to die together. Nothing in this world could keep me from my soul mate.
My head suddenly broke the waters surface without warning. I gasped in a lungful of freezing air.
"Jack!" I cried out.
"Jack!" My cries were lost in the hundreds of others.
I looked about and people were everywhere. Thrashing and screaming, one man was blowing a whistle.
"For God's sakes! Help us!" Cried out a young woman desperately.
Suddenly, I found Jack. He was swimming towards me.
"Rose!" He yelled.
"Jack!" I cried back.
"Swim Rose ! I need you to swim!"
"It's so cold!" I gasped. Jack wasn't hearing it, there was absolutely no way he was going to let me give up.
"Swim Rose!" He yelled again, determined to get me somewhere, anywhere that would be better. I had no idea what he had in mind.
Finally we reached a piece of debris floating in the water; It looked like a piece of the door broken off from the dining room. I tried to get onto it, and Jack did the same, but it could not support both of our weights combined and it tipped, almost landing on me. Jack struggled with it and put the debris back on the water.
"Get on Rose" he said to me. I clambered onto the wooden door gratefully, but I soon realised that being out of the water was not much better than being in it. The cold night air was harsh. I laid on my stomach on the door, and Jack submerged in the icy water holding onto the door to stay afloat. He had never gotten a lifebelt.
I was shivering violently and my teeth were slamming together, Jack was shivering too.
"The boats are coming back for us Rose! Hold on just a little bit longer, they had to row away from the suction, but, now they'll be coming back."
I wasn't sure I believed him. I lay there shivering, I was too cold to speak, I just nodded my head. I could still hear screaming and cries of
"Help us! Help us! Please! Lord! For God's sakes! Help us! Please! Please!"