All of the boys were shocked and stood frozen in place. The first to react was Peter.
"I think two of us should wait here and the other two go back and tell your parents," he said into the direction of Giuseppe.
"Alright and who is going to speak with them?" Eddy asked.
Everyone looked down.
Please don't let it be me.
Finally they decided that Giuseppe and Joey would go and the two other would wait here. They knew that they need a boat to get the dead body of Andy on the other side again.
…
Fabrizio and Helga were happily hugging and kissing, when Giuseppe and Joey returned to them. They had been thinking the whole way back about the best way to tell them. But of course nothing could change the fact that Andy was dead.
When they heard the door open Fabrizio and Helga turned around. They were a little bit astonished when they saw them standing there in the doorway.
Helga immediately sensed that something was wrong. Both of them looked completely drenched and strange, as if somebody had just told them that they had an illness and would die in a month.
"Mama?" Giuseppe choked out.
"Yes, my dear?" Helga looked him up and down.
Joey meanwhile stood silently beside him. He couldn't think of anything to say.
"Something terrible has happened."
Fabrizio frowned. He two had noticed that only two of them had come back.
What had happened to the others?
"Andy he…we were…swimming to an island…ed era anche," (and he was too) "… i vestiti glie l'hanno succhiato…sono morto…" (the clothes sucked him down…he died), Giuseppe choked out.
"Oh, il dio mio," (Oh my god) Fabrizio put a hand over his mouth.
"Sono spiacente," (I'm sorry) "I tried to help him, we all did…"
"But we couldn't Mr. Di Rossi," Joey finally had found his voice as well.
Helga was the first, who began to think rational again.
"Alright you've to show us the place. And of course we have to tell his father and…"
"Rose," Fabrizio finished for her.
Helga just nodded. Both of them were too shocked at the moment to think of any punishment for the boys.
…..
Ruth found it somehow strange, but she actually enjoyed the afternoon with Jack's girls, Birgitta and Molly. They had gone over to Fabrizio's restaurants as Birgitta knew that they would of course be able to get something good to eat for free. Not that Molly wouldn't have paid but Birgitta knew that her father didn't like friends paying.
Ruth still remembered Jack from the Titanic, she hadn't seen him since then and was actually very curious now.
"Why don't we play something?" Birgitta suggested.
Molly nodded.
"That's a good idea."
Ruth didn't have to wait long about ten minutes later Jack was really there. Of course, when he had read the note from Birgitta before, he thought that he might've misread, but it now when looking into Ruth's eyes he knew that it was true.
He certainly must've gotten something special around him otherwise he wouldn't have driven both Rose and this other woman crazy.
Molly was a little bit worried, when she saw Jack approaching them. His last meeting with Ruth hadn't been pleasant at all.
Ruth wanted to greet him, but before she could she was of course interrupted by one of his daughters.
"Papa, Papa…you sit down beside me…right," Cora spoke up receiving a stare from her sister.
Jack had to laugh.
"No me," the other exclaimed pouting.
"Don't worry you just sit either on one side alright?"
Molly watched Jack carefully as he sat down in the middle of them, it was clear how much he loved his children.
Once they were all seated again, Jack was able to turn his attention back to the other.
"I'm sorry Mrs. Dewitt Bukater I really wanted to say hello, but well you see I had to…I mean," he stammered. In was still nervous in her presence.
"You had to take care of your children first. I understand that Mr. Dawson," Ruth said not taking her eyes of his children while she did so. They were surely adorable.
"Why thank you Mrs. Dewitt Bukater."
Molly could see that Jack was struggling for words so she thought it better to step in.
"Well Jack it's good to see you again. And I must say you really have beautiful children," Molly spoke up.
"Thank you too Molly. You know they mean so much to me. I would do anything for them," he added placing a kiss on each of their heads while he talked.
Molly smiled.
Jack meanwhile had turned his attention back to Ruth. He really wondered now what had happened to her. He didn't know that Cal had thrown her out.
He was staring at her for quite some time, while she was talking with Molly, when he finally found the courage to ask her.
"Mrs. Dewitt Bukater," he got out.
"Yes?" Ruth looked up questioning.
"Can I…can I ask you something?"
"Of course Mr. Dawson…"
"I'm sorry, if this sounds like…you know rude…but I…I mean…I'm really…what happened between you and Mr. Hockley," he mumbled on and on.
He knew that his words didn't make up sense.
Ruth however still understood him.
"Mr. Dawson…" she started, but was interrupted by Gisela.
"I just saw your note saying that you're here."
She sat down near Jack and took Zita in her arms.
"I'm sorry I didn't want to interrupt you. Please just go on," she apologized.
Molly was watching Gisela closely. Their first meeting surely hadn't been very pleasant.
"Oh no problem my love. These are Mrs. Brown and…"
"Mrs. Dewitt Bukater," she finished getting a confused look from Jack. "We already met. I fair however that I didn't make the best impression. I'm really sorry for that. I shouldn't have done what I did."
Molly wondered, if she had told Jack about it. She couldn't imagine that Jack would let her call Rose a tramp.
"Mrs. Brown is something wrong?" Gisela wanted to know.
"Yes sure…I just wonder…"
"You're wondering, if I told Jack right? Yes in fact I did. I'm not proud of my actions. However I was hurt and I couldn't think straight. I mean Jack has forgiven me and even Rose has. Now can't you do so as well?"
Molly wasn't so sure however. The main problem here wasn't so much that Gisela had slapped Rose, but that Jack and Rose had kissed.
"Sure," she finally said though Gisela wasn't convinced.
Soon they would have more important things to think about.
"Well where did we stop, oh yes at Mr. Hockley," Ruth spoke up.
Molly meanwhile was eying Gisela. Of course she understood why she done what she done and of course, if wasn't her fault that Rose and Jack were still in love with each other and Molly knew that they were even though Jack wouldn't admit it to himself.
"Mr. Hockley he…" Ruth started again, but was once more interrupted.
This time by Fabrizio who looked drenched and completely out of place.
Jack immediately knew that something was terrible wrong.
