The next couple of days went by quickly for Rose. She was seating in the garden, she spent almost every free moment she had there. Rose had Jack's portfolio in her lap, he was getting better every drawing was full of emotion. Most of these drawings were of the Titanic; there were actually few drawings of Cora.
"Hi Rose" said William seating in a chair next to her.
"So… The moving out subject is official?" he asked.
"Yes it is, Jack bought a house in his home town"
"Oh, that's so selfish of him, well… At least that's the way I look at it" he said.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, he must know that you want to be an actress, and if I'm not wrong, there are not many opportunities of acting in Wisconsin" said William.
"I…"
"You told me you wanted freedom, you wanted do everything you ever dreamt of. I don't think you're free Rose. You're following Jack's dreams, not yours"
"You don't know that, you don't know me! How dare you telling me this?" asked Rose in a bad mood.
"I told you I have friends that could help you in your career, actually one of them told me he could give you a small part in his play. It's small, but that's how all actors start" said William looking at her wishfully.
Rose was surprised by their conversation. She always dreamt of being an actress, she loved theater very much. She knew that New York was the perfect place to start… But Jack. Was it true? Was she following someone else's dream?
"You know you can stay as long as you want here," said William smiling. He gave a quick kiss in Rose's hand and left.
Cal decided to pay a visit to his friend William. He was ashamed of his behavior from the last time he saw him. William had always been a good friend. His driver stopped in front of Will's house and Cal was just about to get out of the car when he saw Jack Dawson. He was walking calmly and stopped in front of William's house and started walking towards it.
"What the…" said Cal surprised. Why would that gutter rat be doing in his house? If William knew Jack, it was obvious he knew Rose. He felt his body trembling from courage. He was furious.
"He betrayed me! He preferred to help him instead of me" he said to himself. He walked the faster he could towards the house. Kitty opened the door and recognized him right away.
"Sir…"
"Jack Dawson!" he yelled the loudest he could.
Jack recognized the voice without a problem, Cal Hockley was in the house. William heard him and cursed. Cal knew. William told Jack to go for Rose and hide her. He couldn't help but to feel guilty, Cal was his friend after all.
"Cal, what are you doing here?" he asked casually.
"I came here, you saw me. You saw how I was, how desperate. You didn't care, you knew right? You've always had, you know where Rose is"
"Look…"
"Where is she?"
"I wont tell you"
"What?" asked Cal even more furious.
"Leave her alone, it's obvious she doesn't love you" said William.
"I thought we were friends!" yelled Cal.
"We are, but I wont let you hurt her"
"Why do you care?"
"I care about Rose"
Cal laughed at loud, this was unbelievable. He just couldn't believe this whole situation.
"Bastard!" said Cal before hitting him hard in the nose.
"Leave, no one wants you here" said Jack entering the room.
"You rat!"
"You should feel lucky neither Rose nor me have told the police what you did at Titanic" said Jack entering the room. "You could go to jail"
"Just gutter rats like you go to jail Dawson" said Cal laughing.
"You've gone too far Hockley, entering my home, almost destroying it, hitting me… Rose will never come back to you" said William recovering checking if his nose was broken, which wasn't.
"Neither to you Gaarder"