Chapter II

It was the grandest thing I had ever laid my eyes on. If you were in India, oh god, it would have still been possible, you to notice the ship. How many hearts this ship is going to win, I thought, you just cannot do nothing else to fall into it. Right starting from the bow until the very end of the stern. He had put his heart, hands, his soul into her. It was her maiden voyage. Titanic seemed to know that, since she was standing like a queen, letting everyone admire her.

I was making my way through the crowd, some point I was afraid that this ship might leave without me, but then again I was completely overworring. It just had would been a catastrophe, since I had waited this trip so long.

In fact, I wasn't alone, miss Edith Corse Evans was also with me. She was wonderful person, all kind and generous. We had met just some weeks before the voyage.

"So here it is," said Edith, lifting her hand to her face to cover it from sun, "You must be proud, men with these kind of dreams, well, you just do not meet often, Sarah."

Yes, you know now, my name is Sarah...and I was proud, I was more than that. The proud feeling would have been best described better, as the feeling of endless happiness. The day, when he crossed his path with mine - that was the day of miracles. A miracle that can happen only once.

Thinking back to old times, nothing really came to me, then just some useless memories. How I where an hopeless child with broken illusion in my very own head. This were the times, when cold was even colder.

Back to reality, I found myself standing and just watching the grand ship again, noticing nothing else around it. Edith, once again brought me back to reality with her nice soft voice calling out " It is time to go, dear...we do not want to miss the boat, don't we now". From that second, I started to move quite fast forward the ship. In fact, I was hurrying like insane.

"Now, where's the rush...I sure didn't meant that quick," said Edith with a small smile back in her face.

"Oh, I am sorry, it's just I have never been in a large ship like this one before...the excitement is taking hold on me," I answered quickly, still looking only at the ship.

We went through the entrance, which was for the first class passingers only. Just some deck below, last third class passingers where being loaded on the ship. I would have not cared less, which entrance I was using.

I guess we where among the last ones, who where loaded into the ship.

Finally, we had landed ourselves on the Titanic. It was good to feel the wooden floor under my feet, which belong to that ship...and to that ship only.

Once we were on board, we heard people cheering and claping their hands even harder. The largest noise came from the people aboard. It was clear, that in some point more than others, they were happy about their kind future. Especially the third class. Their heads were filled with dreams, even the wildest ones seemed to be clearer now.

All people where waving, the ones on the ship and the ones on the bare ground. There were families saying goodbye, everyone hoping to return with a better life.

I had never heard people filled with such hope and cheer.