Chapter Thirteen
Rose and Ruth spent a whole year and a half traveling from place to place trying to find Jack, but they couldn't. They weren't able to stay long anywhere because they still have Cal's people after them, but they had managed to remain hidden. Everywhere they went, the both got jobs to pay their tickets to somewhere else. They had been almost everywhere. They had visited Jack's hometown, Chippewa Falls, but they where told that there weren't any Dawson's left. They also went to Santa Monica, where Jack had promised to take Rose, but nothing.
Ruth suggested that maybe he had travel back to Europe, so they returned to New York and sailed in a ship that wasn't as half as luxurious as the Titanic, but it was the only thing they could save. As neither of them could get a very good job, they could only afford two third class tickets.
Rose didn't mind. Money was the last thing she cared for since they left New York the first time. She just wanted to find Jack, tell him that there has been a huge mistake, and that she loved him, but she was starting to lose her hopes. Where was him?
In spite the had change their last name (they now were Rose and Ruth Andrews) the oldest feared being recognize by one of her old friends, so she spent most of the time inside their room. Rose, on the other hand, took long walks through the deck of the ship, although it make her fell terrible sad. Everything make her think about Jack. "That's normal" she told herself "you met him in a ship, now, for the first time after what happened you are in one. What did you expected?"
April, 13 arrived and they were in the ship. Most of the passengers didn't seam to realize that the next day would be the 2° anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Rose did, as well as few passengers. That night she couldn't sleep. At 1 am she couldn't be there for any longer and she woke up. That was more or less the hour when she last saw Jack, when she boarded the life boat. Trying to do as less noise as possible she went to the back of the ship. That was where everything started and she wanted to be there once again.
She didn't find anyone in her way and she was glad for it. Maybe if she had met someone she would have to explain herself and she was unable to speak. She stepped on the rail, as she had once done. "How easy would be to jump. You can't stop me now" she thought.
"Jack" she whispered more to herself than to anyone "Where are you Jack? Are you still alive, or was my mother lying? Please, give me a sign. I wont give up, I'll find you, I don't care if it's the last thing that a do, but I swear that I'll find you. Please, you have to save me. You are too involve. You can't go without knowing that I'm fine." Rose repeated the words that Jack had once told her.
She was so distracted that she didn't hear that someone had come from behind. He was standing still, listening to every word that the woman said, trying not to make any noise, because he feared that the woman would stop speaking.