Chapter Fifteen
Rose was still looking into the water, as if she hopped that someone would come out of it. Then, she heard a man's voice. He spoke slowly, it seamed that he didn't want to scared her.
"Mind if a stay here?"
Rose didn't move. She didn't turn around either. She was scared. She knew that voice, she heard it in her memory, but could it be? Was Jack in the same ship?
"I do not own the ship. Please come."
Jack didn't say a word. He just walked towards her and stand next to her, looking into the water. No one said a word, no one look at the other.
Jack was thinking what to do. On one hand, he thought that Rose didn't love him, but he had heard her and it seamed that she really want him back. Rose was also thinking. Jack had all the reason in the world to hate her, after all he was told that she didn't love him. But he had heard her and he had approach. He wouldn't have done so if he hated her.
"Jack? Is this a dream?" Rose said, after what looked like hours
"Don't know. If it's so, let me tell you, I have had this dream many times, although you were with your fiancée."
"Cal is no longer my fiancée, nor my husband."
A little smile appeared in Jack's face, but Rose didn't see it. Both of them were still looking into the water.
"Do you hate me?" Rose whispered
"Trust me, everything would have been easier if I hated you"
The smile now appeared in the girl's face.
"Why did you chose him, Rose? Why did you chose him and then left him?" Jack asked, trying to stop the tears
"I didn't chose him, Jack. You have to believe me, please. It was Cal's plan." And she explained what her mother had told her. She also told him how she spent almost two years trying to find him. "You can hate me Jack. I hate myself for believing my mother, but, please, please forgive me. I can understand I you have already rebuild your life, I don't asking you to come back with me. I'm just begging you to forgive me. I can't live my life knowing that you hate me."
"You don't want me back?" Jack asked
"Of course that I would love that you come back, but I can understand if you don't want to. I know that…" but Jack cut her in.
"I do" he said
"You do what?"
"I do want to come back to you, Rose. I love you. I always did and I always will. I left because it was to painful to think of you and Cal together, but if I had received a sign of you, I would have come back, I would have saved you."
Rose smiled, but this time Jack saw it and also smiled too. He touched her cheek and made her look at him. He kissed her as he was hopping to for two years. Then they both started walking.
"Rose, I know this may seam too soon, but… I have a job, in Paris. I'm an art teacher in a very famous school. They say the pay is good, it wont afford too many expensive things, but I think that I can live with it, and I think that I will, eh… that I will also be able to feed a wife and maybe 2 or 3 kids, so…"
Rose looked at him smiling. She understood what he wanted to say, but she wanted to hear it from his own mouth.
"So…?" she said
"So… I guess that what I'm trying to say is… Would you like to be that wife? Would you marry me?"
Rose smiled. Jack, who was on one knee also smiled.
"Of course I will!"
"Crap, I don't even have a ring" he said
"I don't care if you don't have a ring, Jack, I don't care if you don't earn enough to buy food. I just want to be with you until I die."
They kissed once again.
"Come, we have to tell my mother" she said
"Your what?" he asked, still smiling
"Come, she has change. She'll be happy for us, I swear"
On they way to wake Ruth up, Jack asked
"Do you think this one will sink?"
"I don't know, but I do know that I'm not getting into a lifeboat without you."
Jack smiled and kissed his new fiancée.