"Winnie?" Rose tapped me on the shoulder. She turned to Jack. "I think she went into her one of her trances again." I looked up at her.
CRECK!
People lost balance, and fell over each other. Little children slide on their sides. A panic came over the passengers. Everyone started running towards the deck, hoping to find a lifeboat.
"So it has begun." Jack looked around looking at the people scramble and knocking one another over.
"Their animals!" Rose gasped.
"We got to get you two to a lifeboat. Come on." Grabbing both Rose's and my hand he rushed us on to the deck. I couldn't believe the sounds I was hearing. It sounded like the nightmares I had. People were screaming, officers where yelling orders and telling people to wait their turn to get into a life boat.
"WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST! WOMEN AND CHILDREN!" I saw grandmamma, and Lulu with Eddy climb into one of the lifeboats.
Then I saw mother. She was like the wild women I saw her when I first arrived home. Her hair was coming out of her tight bun. She had a strong grip around my father's neck. An officer was trying to pry her from him. Tears flooding down her face, screaming, and laughing madly, "No… no! I won't leave you! Not till death do us part, never!" It took two officers to pry my mother away from my father. She started punching and clawing at them.
An officer grabbed her by the stomach (the same position as if you where going to do the Heimlich on someone). They dragged her toward the boat, then threw her in. Her face hit the hardwood of the life boat making her mouth bleed and nose.
My mother creating quite the commotion, made people make a clearing. "That's the last one, lower the lifeboat!" An officer blew a whistle. The crewmen began lowering the lifeboat. My father ran to the edge of the ship and held out his hands to my mother. My mother tried grasping them but only touched some flesh. I broke from Jack's grasp.
"Winnie! My Winnie!" Her voice cracking. She looked up at me, tears flowing from her puffy red eyes. I could never forget that face. Blood coming out of her nose, and the corner of her mouth. Her eyes wide with fear but happiness at the same time. She reached for me. I only could touch her finger tips, for the boat was getting lower, and lower to the ocean.
She started blowing kisses at me and was screaming at the top of her lungs, "I'M SORRY WINNIE! I'M SO SORRY MY DEAREST LITTLE GIRL! PLEASE FORGIVE ME! PLEASE! I LOVE YOU!"
That was the last time I thought I would ever see her again. The boat crashed into the ocean and went away from view.
As my father and I watched as my mother and the rest of my family drifted further, and further away from the ship, my father turned to me, tears falling down his cheeks. It's heart breaking when you see your father cry. Out of his pocket he took out my bracelet. He put it around my wrist.
"Don't forget…. Where you come from. And how much your mother and I love." He gave me a hug, then a kiss on the head. With that he did a summersault into the ocean depths below. Full of confusion I looked over the side. The tears came.
"FATHER, FATHER!" I screeched at the top of my lungs. My voice cracking with every squeal.
Later I found out that my father jumped into the ocean to reach my mother. He never made it. The water was freezing that night. "The water hits you like a thousand knifes." Jack told me once. "You can not think of anything but the pain."
Speaking of Jack, he and Rose had other issues of their own. I was thinking of jumping over the ship myself thinking I could have a chance at reaching my mother; a hand grabbed my arm.