May 6th, 1912- Chapter 3

At the wedding dinner……

Fred, Eva, Jack, and Rose all laughed at Fred's joke. Everyone was having a great time at dinner especially Jack and Rose. They had been whispering romantic phrases in one another's ear and playfully pecking one another all throughout dinner. Eva knew that they were newlyweds, who were always very romantic, but they were like that even before they were married. Eva wondered why and asked Rose about their "story" she had promised to tell her and Fred tonight.

"So, Rose you told me last night that you were going to share the story of how you and Jack met. I'm very anxious to hear it so if you wouldn't mind can Fred and I hear it now?" inquired Eva.

Rose looked at Jack's handsome face and he just flashed his famous smile at her. "Yes, Eva I believe Jack and I are ready to share this with you." said Rose. Jack and Rose locked their hands tightly together as Rose began.

"Well Eva and Fred have you ever heard of a man named Cal Hockley? asked Rose. Yes….we read in the paper he was mourning the loss of his fiancé he had lost on the Titanic." said Fred. "Fred, Eva I was his fiancé and obviously I am not dead, but there is so much more still." said Rose.

Jack and Rose told their parts of the story with tears streaming down their cheeks and they told their friends everything. They told them about the Renault, about freeing Jack after Lovejoy and handcuffed him, and when it finally came to the part in the icy Atlantic waters Rose was flat out sobbing and shaking. Jack had to continue for her.

"….Rose lay on a piece of driftwood while I lay in the water waiting for the boats to arrive. I made Rose promise that she would never let go because I knew the chances of me dying were great. But luckily we both made it, I proposed soon after and now here we are, happily married." said Jack with a slight grin thorough his bloodshot eyes and sticky form tears face.

Jack and Rose cradled one another quietly sobbing over the memories they had just shared with Fred and Eva. Jack and Rose's friends just cried right along with them with their faces pale as ghosts, almost not believing what they had just been told.

"Oh my God…. Jack, Rose I don't know what to say I can't believe what you've both been through. That's only something true love can get through. Now I understand why you hang on to Jack so close. If I ever lost Fred I'd be lost forever." cried Eva.

The four friends then gave each other hugs. Dinner was over and it was time for Jack and Rose to be heading back to their apartment…after all it was their wedding time.

"Goodbye Jack, goodbye Rose!" shouted Fred and Eva as they walked home. Jack and Rose finally got home. Tomorrow was a big day for them; they were going to Santa Monica, California for their honeymoon where Rose could learn to ride like a man.

Jack and Rose walked into their bedroom and Jack pulled Rose into a warm, passionate kiss. Rose didn't stop him, she kept the kisses going and forced her and Jack over onto the bed.

"Jack, I love you so much! I don't know what I would do if you had died that night." exclaimed Rose. Jack began kissing her neck as he loving whispered "Rosie I love you too, with all my heart, and I also don't know what I would do without you."

Rose pulled away from Jack and whispered "Take me to the stars Jack!" With pleasure my sweet Rose." said Jack. Jack passionately kissed Rose over and over. And with that the lights were turned off and Jack brought Rose to the stars were only two lovers could be…..the stars….their stars.