Hello everyone just a quick note. Thank you for all the reviews, I am from the UK so I have only just watched Mildred Pierce and I wanted to know what you all thought of it. I personally thought it was amazing and Kate Winslet was phenomenal, but then again she's great in every film she does. Anyways bit of a random thing there on with the story I go!
The grand stair case was full of confused passengers unsure where to go. Nobody really knew the seriousness of the situation. I doubt even half the crew knew what was going on. It was hard to believe that an unsinkable ship was sinking. I heard many women complaining to their families that the situation was ridiculous and many sent the maids back to the room to turn the fires on.
I pushed through the crowd of people who stared at me unsure what I was doing. There was a commotion with the lifts, unable to waste time I resorted to steaming down the stairs in a fit of desperation and hurry. I flew straight into a passenger and was flown off my feet. I lay on the floor grumbling in pain.
"Oh my you ok honey? Here let me help you up," I recognised that voice. I gladly took the hand and was helped to my feet. I realised it was the woman from before who had taken Jack to get ready. I didn't think she would but she recognised me to.
"Say aren't you Jack's friend? What was it? Cassia," Molly said smiling.
I nodded. "You're Molly right?"
"Yes I am honey. Where you heading? Orders have been to go outside must be a drill or something,"
I shook my head. "The ship it's going to sink,"
Molly's eyes became wide with concern. "Honey are you sure?"
"Yes, an officer told me. I don't think we have that long,"
Molly didn't know what to say. We were both interrupted by a man searching the corridors; he opened every door checking everyone was gone. He spotted us both at the end of the corridor.
"Mrs Brown, please get to a boat, both of you. There isn't time to waste," The man addressed us.
"Mr Andrews, is it true, the ship is it sinking?" Molly asked.
"Yes in an hour or so all this will be at the bottom of the Atlantic. Please go now and he began ushering us out of the corridor back in the direction I had just come from. Getting in a boat was no option for me. I needed to get to Jack, though I begun to wonder if he was even still there.
"Sir please, can you tell me where the Master's Arms office is?" I asked stopping in my tracks.
"There is no time for questions; you need to get to a boat,"
"I'm afraid I can't sir, not until you tell me where the Master's Arms office is," I said in determination, I wasn't going to let myself be bullied down.
Mr Andrews sighed and began giving me the long and complicated directions. I struggled to take in what he was telling me, but I tried my hardest to listen. Memory skills weren't always my strongest point, when he finished he asked me if I understood.
I nodded in uncertainty.
"Good, now do what you need to do and then get to a boat fast. I assure you they won't wait,"
"Honey you gonna be ok?" Molly asked in concern.
"Yes I will be fine. Get to a boat Molly, I would hate it if you missed it," Molly squeezed my hand.
"I hope you find Jack and get out of here. Good luck to the both of you. I know he didn't do it," Molly said.
"How did you-?" I begun
"Oh please honey the women up here or nothing but gossipers. News travels fast in first class you can't trust no one with a secret," Molly sighed.
I gave her a hug goodbye and then I was left alone again. I realised the time I was wasting and immediately began sprinting again. Down past C deck, D deck and then I hit E deck. I remembered Mr Andrews instructions The Master's Arms office was somewhere down here. I couldn't remember much else so I decided to try and find my own way. I ran down the endless corridor flinging cabin doors open as I went all efforts were in vain. I reached the end of the corridor and saw there were two options I could take.
I went with my instincts and went right, hoping it was the right choice. Suddenly the corridor was shut into darkness. I stepped back unsure what to do. Fear ran through me at the thought of been trapped in darkness while the ship sunk, alone without been able to reach Jack. I immediately regretted believing the lies Rose had told over Jack. I should've fought for him. I should've given an alibi for him, proved he couldn't have done it. Mow I feared I would never be able to apologise.
Thankfully the lights came back on lighting up the familiar corridor. I breathed a sigh of relief and continued my search. I carried on flinging open cabin doors and sure enough they were all deserted. I suppose this confused me a bit. When I had been up on deck I noticed it was only first class women and children boarding the lifeboats. I thought that maybe news hadn't reached the people on lower decks yet, but the empty rooms and corridors with a few stranded possessions suggested otherwise. I tried to focus on finding Jack but I wanted to make sure my friends were ok to. Especially little Cora whom I hadn't seen since dinner. I tried to reassure myself, the ship was so gigantic I probably missed them or something.
I was beginning to think I had made the wrong choice but sure enough at the end of the corridor tucked away was the Master's Arms office. As I was trudging through I noticed the water level was rising and was lapping around my ankles. I suppose this kind of shocked me, it meant two decks had already submerged in less than an hour. Fear and anxiety crept into my body as I tried to run as fast as I could down the rest of the corridor. I flung open the final door to see Jack standing on a desk, his head resting against the pipe in defeat. I hated seeing him like that. I couldn't believe they had left him to die, I thought everyone was innocent until proven guilty.
"Jack," I uttered.
His head snapped up to look at me and immediately his face looked brighter.
"Cassia!" He exclaimed.
"I'm so sorry I didn't believe you," I cried flinging my arms round me.
"It's ok your here now and that's all that matters," He soothed.
I took his face in my hands and stared into his beautiful eyes. It made me hate myself even more for ever doubting him. I nearly boarded a lifeboat while he was locked up down here. I nearly could've lost him. We stared at each other lovingly for a while until reality kicked in. There was no time for this the ship was sinking.
"Jack we have to get out of here now!" I urged.
"The key, he left it on the table I think,"
I turned round and saw the shimmering of silver on a table that was floating around the room. I splashed over to it and grabbed the set of keys, my hands shaking with the cold and fear. I moved quickly back over to Jack and showed him the dozens of keys.
"Which one is it?" I asked.
Jack stared at them in uncertainty. "I-I don't know I wasn't really paying attention,"
"Ok well we are just going to have to guess,"
I immediately picked a random key and began clumsily forcing it into the lock, but it wouldn't budge. "Not that one," I said moving it to the side.
The water was moving into the room fast and with it; it brought more anxiety and fear. My hands violently shook as I tried to force the third key into the lock.
"God damn it!" I shouted in frustration as the keys fell from my grip and into the water. I was becoming agitated and impatient.
"Hey Cassia, just breathe ok," Jack said calmly.
I closed my eyes and let out a breath, feeling better I gently knelt down and pulled the keys out of the water. I concentrated as I shifted a key into the lock finding it wouldn't turn. I calmly moved onto the next one. I tried to block out the fact that water was surging into the room, and the fact the ship would be under the Atlantic in an hour and we both would be joining it if I didn't hurry up.
I slipped the sixth key into the lock, it was a perfect fit. I slowly turned it, there was a click and then Jack's hands fell from the cuffs. We had done it.
Jack threw his arms round me. "We're gonna be ok," He soothed.
I took his hand. "Come on we need to get out of here!" I urged.
The door was pushed open slowly and we both stumbled back as the figure pointed a gun at us.
"Not so fast. You're not going anywhere,"
I'm so mean doing cliff hangers :P. Anyway there is chapter 20 and so much more to come. Remember to review or chapter 21 will be suckish and might take ages to be up, coz I'm mean like that haha.
Leah xx