Today it was a little more than a month since the young couple had met, and a month that each of their lives took a new turn.

Rose woke up and dressed quietly, humming a melody, while Jack was still asleep, tangled in the blanket and his dark blond hair falling on his face. "Isn't he cute like that?" She thought. Once ready, she bent over to Jack and whispered in his ear.

"Jack, wake up, it's 10 in the morning." He mumbled something incomprehensible and turned on his stomach, plunging his head into the pillow. Rose sighed desperately. She repeated her words, shaking him lightly, and saw that he smiled. She tickled his side lightly, smiling mischieviously. He immediately reacted laughing, begging her to stop. Even though he was blind, Rose had made him understand that despite this, life continued, and that if the doctor was not mistaken, he could quickly return to his passion, drawing.

"Rose, I hope you don't plan to do that all the time to wake me up" He said to tease her.

"Well it will depend," she said before kissing him on his lips. Jack deepened the kiss. Before she could respond, she was much more nauseated than the other times. She quickly pulled away from him and ran to the bathroom.

"Rose ? You're all right ?" He said. No answer. Apart from the alarming sound of a person vomiting. Ten minutes later, she stepped out of the bathroom breathless, with a pale face and tangled hair. Jack heard her emerging from the other room. He got up from the bed and headed for the sound of her breathing.

"Are you okay ?" He asked.

"Yes, i'm feeling a bit better" She replied after a moment.

"You vomited did you ?" She nodded in reply before being nauseated again and heading back into the bathroom.


"Rose, are you sure you're okay ? Because you have not looked good since this morning." Rose's collegue, Anita, said with worry. The two young women had immediately sympathized with each other, and since then they had become friends. Anita was a little older than Rose, and had light brown hair and dark blue eyes.

"Yeah I'm okay" She said, her vision becoming blurred. Her condition worried her more and more. She had a little idea of what was happening to her friend, but wasn't so sure. Eventually the boss of the coffee arrived and asked what happened to Rose. Anita explained the situation to him as best as she could, and the boss decided to let Rose go home to rest and go to see a doctor, despite her protestations.


Rose was now in the doctor's waiting room. She had insisted that she go there alone, so Jack could continue practicing with the book of Braille. Her symptoms appeared three weeks earlier, and were only getting worse as the days went by, especially in the morning. Suddenly another thought came through her mind. 'But, I was supposed to have my menstrual cycle at the end of April, and it didn't come...' She gasped silently at herself. What if she was pregnant?

She had no time to think of anything else when the secretary announced that it was her turn. Fortunately the doctor who received her was the same as the one who took care of Jack. Once in the office, Rose explained her symptoms, and then the doctor proceeded to her auscultation. In the meantime, he asked her some questions, some quite intimate. The young woman was somewhat embarrassed by such questions, but tried her best to answer them sincerely, remembering that the man who was examining her was a doctor, it was his job, and he just wanted to help her. About ten minutes later, the doctor announced his diagnosis.

"So doctor, what do I have ?" She asked.

"Well, Mrs. Dawson, I can assure you it's nothing serious, on the contrary" He said, smiling, before continuing, "You're pregnant, about a month." Congratulations to you and the future father" Rose stood there in her chair, her mouth open, not realizing what the doctor had just told her. In 8 months, she and Jack were going to become parents.

But was she ready for such a change? Was Jack ready? Did he even want a child? Was not it too soon? They were not even married yet, and a child conceived or born out of wedlock was very ill-regarded by society. And Jack was blind. Would not it hurt him to visually miss the beginning of her pregnancy?

"I .. I have a hard time believing it" She said, "But doctor, I have to tell you something important that you need to know." She then began to relate her trip to the Titanic, her encounter with Jack, and how they survived the shipwreck without going into details.

"I'm sorry miss, it must have been terrible" He said sincerely.

"I don't really know how I would have done if Jack had not survived" She retorted, drying her tears.

"Pardon me, but from your story, I imagine this baby was conceived on this trip." Rose blushed and nodded, recalling one of the most beautiful moments of her life, When she and Jack flew into the stars, "And that's why I want to pay special attention to this pregnancy, because it's a miracle that the embryo survived with everything you've endured, physically and morally, but don't worry miss, everything should be fine, but you have to come back within two months, to check if everything is okay" Rose nodded. She thanked the doctor and headed back to the hotel, preparing herself to announce the big news to Jack, hoping it would make him happy.