Rose's POV
"Jack it's hopeless! We'll never find any place to sleep at this time of night! It's not like we have the money to pay for a hotel!" I'm beginning to give up. As much as i'd hate to keep Cora out on the streets for the night, I doubt we'll find anyone willing to take us in at this hour.
"Jack, are you even listening to me? Can we just sit down for a minute? We've been walking for like an hour and my feet ar-" I begin to complain, before Jack puts one finger up in the air so that I could see, and it seems as if he's trying to stop me from talking. He stops walking for a moment, so I take this chance to catch up to him, though he's only a few feet ahead.
Once I catch up to him, I look over at his face and he looks to be in deep though, so I remain quiet, that is, until he looks over at me not even a few moments later.
"What was all that about?" I ask him, utterly confused over what just happened.
"See that light over there?" Jack asks me, using his one free arm that isn't holding Cora, to point up ahead, to where I see a small shining light.
"Yes, but Jack, it's just a light." I explain to him. Maybe he's just tired, and thats why he's acting so strange.
"It may not be just a light Rose, we have to go check it out! I promise you i'll find us some shelter." He says, before placing a light kiss on my forehead and dragging me off with him up ahead to where he saw this 'light.'
It turns out though that it wasn't actually as far as it seemed, only about 5 minutes away from where we were just earlier.
"Rose! Rose, look! Read the sign Rose!" Jack exclaims happily, pointing over to the other side of the road. I squint my eyes, trying my best to read the sign in the dark. After a minute or so, I'm fianlly able to read it. 'Manhattan Family Rooming Home."
"Jack! We have to go ask if there's a room avalible! The lights are still on, so someone must be awake!' I tell him excitedly,relieved that this is all working out.
"C'mon, lets go!" He smiles tiredly, pulling me to the oppisite side of the road to where the rooming home is. As we walk further up the walkway, I begin having second thoughts as to weather we should knock on the door at the time of night.
"I really don't think we should do this!" I exclaim suddenly, pulling myself out of Jack's grasp. He looks back at me, his eyes coated in confusion.
"Why? Whats the matter Rose?" He asks, completely lost. I let out a sigh, and push a few strands of loose hair from my face before speaking.
"Wouldn't it be rude to knock on the door this late?" I ask him, and he begins to shake his head side to side.
"Of course not! I mean the lights are still on and i'm not keeping you and Cora out on the streets tonight. I need to keep you safe." Jack reassures me, before he turns around to walk up to the door, so I begin speedwalking to catch up to him. Once we're both at the door, Jack softly knocks two or three times, and we just stand there and wait.
A minute or so has gone by, and there was still no answer. I'm beginning to lose hope again, but juust as Jack lifts his knuckles to knock again, the door opening, revealing an older lady, probably n her late 50's
"Now what can I do for you at this hour of the night?" The lady asks Jack, though she doesn't sound annoyed, but rather, she seems kind and caring.
"Oh um, well sorry to bother you ma'am, but we were wondering if you might have a room avalible for the 3 of us?' He asks her politely, and a wide smile suddenly appears onto her face.
"Oh why of course we do! Follow me upstairs and I'll bring you to your room!" She ushers us inside the rooming house and when she see's our tatered clothes her eyes are washed over with sympathy. I just shrugged it off though, I've never really like it when people were sympathetic for me. I think Jack might have notice the lady's change in mood too because he seemed rather uncomfortable all of the sudden.
"Oh sorry, I forgot to introduce myself, I'm Eileen." She introduces herself, holding out her hand for both of us to shake. As we're taking off our shoes at the front door, we begin to introduce our selfs as well.
"I'm Rose." I tell her smiling politely. She smiles back, nodding her head, then she turns over to Jack.
"Oh, and I'm Jack, and this little one's Cora." He laughs as he introduces Cora, who has her cheeks smushed up against his shoulder, asleep.
"Well come on then, lets get you guys up to your room, you seem tired." Eileen says, whilst leading us upstairs to our room. Once we're upstairs, she opens the door to the room, and turns over to speak to us.
"It'll cost about $1 a night." She informs us, and Jack runs his fingers through his hair, both from frustration and nervousness.
"Oh um, I'm sorry but we can't afford that, we should be leaving now. I'm truly sorry but we don't have any money right now." Jack explains, scared of what her reaction might be. He probably expects it now, considering he was a penniless boy traveling the world, he's probably gone to a place like this a couple times in the past, but then has been kicked out when he told them he couldn't pay.
Eileen eyes the three of us up and down a couple more times before terror came over her. I guess it all added up to her somehow. The wrinkled, torn up clothes, no money, no belongings.
"You guys wouldn't happen to be survivours of the 'Titanic'?" She asks, shocked. Tears begin welling up in my eyes, and I take a brief glance over to Jack, and notice that he too, is on the verge of tears. All the memories are still so fresh in our minds, considering the tragidy happened just a few days ago.
I saw it all from the boats. The ship break in two, people taking there own lives by jumping, and I even saw the ship sink straight down to the bottom of the atlantic. I heard the screams and cries of the women, the men, and a couple of children. Though most of the children had died during the sinking, if not already on a boat. I saw a ton of bodies submerge from the water, but not nearly as many that went down. The majority of them stopped screaming after a few minutes which only meant one thing. they're all dying. I began to scream at the crew members on my lifeboat to head back and get anyone thats alive, but they just ignored me. I couldn't help but wonder for the rest of that time weather or not Jack was one of the ones amongst the dead at the bottom of the atlantic.
I immediatly throw myself into Jack's chest, and I begin to cry a little. My crying must have givin it all away, because suddenly she begins to repeatedly apologize. It took me about two muntes to stop sobbing before i look back over to the lady and apologize for my behavior.
I guess my crying must have woken Cora up because she lifts her head off Jack's shoulder and looks over at me, rubbing her eyes tiredly.
"Aunt Rose, Uncle Jack, were are we?" The little girl asks us confused.
"Oh we were just talking to this lady, but we're leaving now." I explain to her as I walk over to the stairs with Jack closely behind.
"Wait!" Eileen says suddenly, rushing over to the staircase.
"You guys can stay here, free of charge, for as long as you'd like, until you can start making money and find a place of your own." She offers us, and I look over at her and shake my head.
"No, we couldn't possibly intrude like that, really, it's too much." I tell her, trying to politely decline her generous offer.
"I insist, you wouldn't be intruding at all, plus its been so long since i've had such a pleasent bunch of people around this place." She tells me, trying to convince us into staying.
"I guess we could stay, but we won't get in the way too much." Jack tells her, looking relieved that we won't be out in the streets tonight as I had originally feared.
"Alright, have a goodnight you three, i'll see you in a morning." She smiles before disappearing back downstairs. Jack, Cora and I then head back over to the bedroom, and when we open the door, we're greeted by a room that consisted of one clothing cabinet and two beds, one a bit bigger then the other though. Once we're all in the room, I shut the door behind us.
Jack walks over to the smaller bed, and places Cora down under the covers.
"Goodnight Cora." Jack tells the small girl, placing a kiss on her forehead, and then she sits up on the bed, and in response she places a big kiss on his cheek, before pulling away laughing. Seeing this and how cute it all is, I can't help but to smile too. How did I get so lucky?
I crawl under the covers of the other bed, waiting for Jack to come over and do the same, that is, until I see him lie down on the ground, and then he mumbles a 'goodnight, love you Rose.' before closing his eyes.
"Jack, what in god's name are you doing on the floor." I ask him, utterly confused as to what he's doing.
"I'm going to sleep." He says, sitting up so that he can look at me.
"Well, aren;t you going to sleep in the bed?" I moition over to the empty spot on the other side of the bed, clearl big enough for another person.
"Well, I didn't know if you'd want me too, I mean we aren't married yet and-" He begins, but then I cut him off.
"Of course I wouldn't mind, I love you after all." I tell him, and a smile breaks out onto his face, so he walks over to the bed and plops down beside me. He then proceeds to kiss me softly, before whispering me a good night, as he wraps his arms around my torso and falls asleep, and soon enough I do too.
A/N: SORRYYYY FOR ALL THE DIALOUGE AND THE BORINGNESS OF THIS CHAPTER! Ugh i guess this is more of like a filer, cause not much happen :P ohh and if any of you have instagram, follow my Leo account heartbreakdicaprio IM SO SAD HE DIDNT WIN AN OSCAR AGAIN UGHH! But we all know the academyès stupid and that he doesnt need some award to tell him how great of an actor he is.-Jaime
