Lunch passed by quickly, me Tommy, daddy, Fabrizio and Helga were back in the seating area now, at 12:45. Everyone was still talking about Jack and the lady, Rose. No one could believe that she actually came to see him. I didn't see what the big deal was, so yeah, she's first class, and he's third, but that doesn't mean that they can't be friends. He saved her life, he could have gone over himself, I shudder when I think about that. But no, he's okay, and he saved her. So if she wants to talk to him, she can, can't she? I just thought where was her fiancée when she was trying to kill herself? Why wasn't he there? Maybe he was asleep when it happened, or still at dinner...but why wouldn't she talk to him if she had a problem. They were getting married, you should be able to tell the person you're marrying anything, because they love you. Mommy and Daddy tell each other everything, they're very much in love, although they haven't had a chance to talk to each other lately, but that'll change when we get to America.

"Well I never, Jack Dawson with a girl like her." Tommy said and shook his head at the thought. I'd have to think about Roses fiancée later. I looked over at Helga, she was really pretty, like the pictures that are on biscuit tins of blonde Swedish are Norwegian girls. She caught my glance and smiled, showing her pearly white teeth, I smiled back. Her hair was up but I think it's wavy when it's down. I can tell she's trying to follow the conversation, but she doesn't speak much English. Every now and then Fabrizio turns to her and uses actions are simpler phrases are repeats it to her slowly so that she can understand. Every time she understands a new sentence her eyes light up and she smiles widely, excited that her English is getting better. Fabrizio loves her, I can tell, he looks at her like she's the most amazing thing ever. I hope they pair up and get married, they're well suited, and he can teach her more English, and maybe she can teach him Norwegian.

"Sorry love, you must be getting a bit bored here." Daddy said to me when he noticed I hadn't said anything for a while. Usually, I would love to sit here and talk to everyone, but it wasn't the same without Jack, and everyone was soo obsessed about "How could she come to see Jack." And " why do you think she's here." Jack and Rose can be friends if they want to, what's the big deal!?

"Why don't you go out on deck and find someone to play with?" Daddy suggested. I hadn't really spoken to anyone my age since I got here. I had plenty of friends in America, not so much in Southampton, but where ever I was I always liked to talk to adults too. But this time I think I'll try and find some people to play with.

"Okay." I said happily and said bye to everyone and then made my way out onto the deck.

Surprise surprise, windy again! The sun was still shinning, we've not had weather this good since leaving America. There were lots of people my age about, there were five girls in one group, on the right side of the deck, three of them had dolls with them and they were all playing with them. They all looked like they were friends already, and were so busy in their game that I don't think they would have wanted another person in their party, so I left them to it. In the middle of the deck there were nine boys playing football, with two in goal. This was more my kind of game. I always played football back in America with the kids where I lived, boys and girls. The ball passed one boy and if I ran a few steps, it was be within kicking reach. I ran up and kicked the ball hard down the middle of the deck, the boy in goal got took by surprise and in his shock the ball flew straight in. I let out a satisfactory smile.

"What are you doing, you're not playing, girls can't play football." A boy went up to me and shouted in his Irish accent. He had brownish, reddish hair and freckles. He seemed full of himself.

" They can too, why, afraid I'll beat you?" I challenged as I stepped up to him to our noses were practically touching, to show that he can't push me around, I'm not gonna be scared of him. We were exactly the same height I noticed.

"Don't be stupid, girls can't play, I bet you're rubbish anyways." He said, even though he had just seen me score. I was about to say this when he pushed me, knocking me back and I fell t the ground. I glared at him, quickly getting up. The game had stopped and all the boys, and most of the parents and other children were staring.

"DON'T PUSH ME!" I shouted and pushed him hard in his chest, knocking him hard to the ground. The other boys were mumbling about the new tough girl. I'm not mean, but I don't let anyone mess me around. I looked up, everyone was staring. Oh no, was I going to get into trouble, what if his mommy saw.

"Good on ya girl, he needs a good kicking sometimes." A woman with the same shade of hair as he had said to me. I realized then that she must be his mommy. She had her hair up and a new born baby in her arms. "BENJIMAN, get up ya silly git." His mommy said jokingly, but with enough serious tone. "Say sorry to the young lady."

"s-s-sorry." Benjamin stuttered, still in shock.

"Apology noted ." I said and smiled and walked away. It wasn't technically an acceptance, I know, but he was really mean, and maybe that would teach him a lesson in future, to not be mean to other people, and not to be so sexist. By now the game had started again and the chatter had returned to normal. I went to where to railing was to separate third from first class. There had always been a barrier between the classes, it was just now that the railing cemented that fact. As I looked up, I could see a pair of shiny black small heeled shoes appear and disappear, appear and disappear again. That's weird. I stepped further back to try and see why... oh my god, they have swings! There were a set of four swings all in a line, with a shiny white frame and silver chains, and padded seats. I'd never seen a more luxurious swing set. I love swings, when I went to the park I would always chose the swings first, seeing how high I could go and screaming when my stomach turned in knots. There were two girls on the swing set, but both got off them and walked away. I wish they had swings down here...suddenly I have an idea. And it's a lil crazy, I could get caught, but I look nice, my dress is clean and my shoes are clean too, although my clothes are nothing near as fancy as the one's the first class girls wear. None of the officers are occupying that area. I quickly look back at the crowd down here, nobody's watching, to be honest they'd probably cheer me on if they did see me. Quickly without thinking I climbed up and over the railings, I was now in first class. I smiled, I felt excited, another spy mission by Cora Cartmel completed. I turned around, to get the shock of my life, well, a big one anyway. A blonde girl was standing there, she turned and saw me. She was ten, like me, with light blonde long hair that curled at the ends. She wore a lacy white and blue dress, blue at the ends, the rest was white, with white tights and the shiny small heeled shoes. She wore a white ribbon in her hair. She had sky blue eyes. When she saw me she smiled.

"Hi, what's your name?" She said, I was taken by surprise, I thought she'd tell me to go away back to third class.

"Cora, what's yours?" I said shyly, I felt a lil self-conscious in my cloths compared to hers.

"Ella. Do you want to go on the swings with me?" She smiled. I smiled back, I could tell she was been genuine, because her smile touched her eyes.

"Yeah sure." And we both went over to the swings.

Ella is one of the nicest girls I've ever met. She's not snobby at all. She thinks what I think, that the whole third and first class can't mix is stupid. She told me while we swung that her parents came to England on a business meeting, and her mommy not wanting to leave her daddy, came too, so then so did Ella. Her daddy works for some steel company, as someone important, and now they were going back to Philadelphia. I told her that we came to England to see my aunt Millie- I liked Ella a lot, but I didn't wanna tell her about mommy, she wasn't a best friend yet. We've been here for about half an hour. Just then a lady starts walking up to where the swings are.

"Ella, there you are, oh, you made a new friend I see." She smiled at me. She was English. She had brown hair tied up under a pale turquoise hat with pink and lilac feathers on the right side of it. She wore a turquoise dress to, with a whit lace collar and a parasol umbrella which was folded up at the moment. Her smile was genuine too, so her whole family must be willing to accept third class. I smiled back and said hello.

"Cora, that's a lovely name." She said when I told her after she had asked. "I'm glad to see Ella's with someone her own age, she's not really played with anyone since we left England. I'll be just over there if you need me, with daddy." She said the last part to Ella. I looked to wear Ella's mommy's hand had motioned to, looking over the baloney area was a man who had Ella's hair and eyes. He wore a suit and bola hat. He turned and waved to Ella, who waved back, and took his hat off to me, I giggled and smiled back.

"You're parents are really nice, I thought they'd mind me."

"No, there not like most other people here, there rich but respectful." Ella said getting off the swing. "They don't base people on how big their bank account is, as daddy says." I listened as we walked over to the railing, passing Ella's parents as we did, who had linked arms and smiling as they talked, they were in-love for sure. The ship was a bit complicated. Me and Ella were on the very top level, first class also had another level below. The middle was second, and the very bottom, third. Me and Ella looked down at the other first class passengers. Most were sitting on deck chairs, or admiring the view. Hey, that's...

"Jack!" I whispered to myself, I grinned. He was with Rose, talking to her. They were standing near the water.

"Do you know him?" Ella asked politely and pointed to where Jack was.

"Yeah, he's my friend, do you know her, by chance maybe?" I pointed to Rose, Ella might know her, this way I can find more out about her, Rose really interested me.

"Yes, my mommy's friends with her mother, Ruth. We sat with them at dinner last night. She's going to marry Caledon, or cal, mommy says. "

"How did they meet?" That was what I wanted to know. Maybe they knew each other from school...

"I'm not sure, I think it was arranged." Ella said unsurely. Maybe... suddenly the penny dropped. If it's arranged... maybe she doesn't wanna marry him. But her mommy wouldn't make her, would she? No, she wouldn't, I'm sure of it, she's her mommy, my mommy wouldn't make me marry someone I didn't want to. No, it's gotta be something else.

"Ella, can we go down there?" I pointed to the deck that Jack and Rose were on, I have an idea.

"Okay, follow me." She grinned, and we made our way down the steps...

"Well, after that, I worked on a squid boat in Monterrey, then I went down to the pier in Santa Monica and started doing portraits there for ten cents a piece." Jack said to Rose, it was sunset now, me and Ella had been quietly in the background listening. We weren't snooping, it wasn't like we were finding out stuff that we weren't supposed to know, most of the stuff Jack told Rose I knew already, but I just wanted to find out more about her, she interested me, I hope I get to meet her too, and be her friend, like Jack's hers. Me and Ella had talked quietly through some parts, I really like her. We were talking and on the swings for about two hours, and have been down here for one hour.

"Why can't I be like you Jack, just, head out for the horizon whenever I feel like it." Her musical voice rang. I found out a lot about Rose, she defiantly didn't seem to want to marry Cal, if she doesn't, why doesn't she just tell her mommy? She wants to be an actress ,if she had the chance to. Oh, and she loves art. Her and Jack seemed really good friends now, I was happy about that, and Jack still likes me best, he said so. Me and Ella listened to their conversation, I don't think Jack would mind me listening.

"Say we'll go there sometime to that pier, even if we only ever just talk about it." Rose said with a mischievous smile.

"No we'll do it, we'll drink cheap beer, ride on the roller coaster till we throw up..."

Rose let out a laugh, as if she was imagining what it would be like...

"No Jack, I couldn't possibly Jack!" Rose protested for about the tenth time as Jack went to teach her how to spit over the side "like a man." Me and Ella laughed from the other side of the wooden banister. It was a very Jack thing to do. She spat too.

"Uh-Oh" Ella said as she looked to the left, behind Jack's head, I looked to. Four women were walking towards Rose and Jack. The woman in the middle had the exact same hair colour as Rose... she was Roses mommy! Now she'd get to meet Jack. Why did Ella say uh-oh? Jack was in the middle of spitting when Roses mommy came and stood behind them both. She didn't look happy. Rose elbowed Jack to stop, and he turned round and saw them.

"Quick, come on!2 I grabbed Ella's hand and pulled her hand and we ran to the other side so we could see Jack and Roses face instead of their backs. Rose looked... scared, when she was talking to her mommy, why was she scared? Her mom didn't smile or hug her when she saw her, like my mommy would. I know I'm younger, but you would still be happy to see your daughter no matter how old she is. She didn't look like she liked Jack either. Maybe...she's not as nice as I thought. While I was thinking a man with a trumpet started playing it, It made me jump, I was sitting on the banister and nearly fell off in shock, Ella grabbed and steadied me. The trumpets to announce dinner, I think it's pretty pointless. After the trumpet was done I looked over at Jack again, he caught my glance, not registering it was me at first, I waved smiling, so did Ella. He looked surprised and confused. Rose then said something to Jack, and walked away with her mother.

"What in god's name where you doing with that man!? You are engaged Rose, remember that, I will not have our name ruined!" Her mother whispered angrily to her as they both walked past. God, she really wasn't nice. I had so many things I wanted to think about and they were all coming to me at once, I'd have to think about them later, I had to concentrate on Jack now. He was talking to another lady, she was about 45. She seemed the nicest of the group.

"What are you planning to wear?" She asked, Jack told me about how he was invited for dinner in first class tonight, they must be talking about that. Jack motioned to what he already had on, I giggled, cos that would go down well with the others.

"I figured, come on." She linked Jack's arm and started walking in the direction that Rose had. He looked at me then, he smiled confused

Why are you here? He mouthed at me

I'm with Ella, my friend. I mouthed back pointing to her. He smiled, I smiled back.

Il be back tonight, bout nine. He mouthed, I grinned, he'd be at the bar area tonight! It would be my first time there too, I was too tired to go last night. I waved bye, he grinned and waved from behind and then turned round to go inside. I turned round to Ella.

"I have to go now, my mommy's here." She pointed behind her as her mommy started to walk up to where we were.

"Okay, bye Ella." I hugged her

"Come up to the swings again." She smiled

"Okay, I'll see you tomorrow." I smiled back and then walked in the direction that Jack had to go down the steps, back to third class. So much had happened today. I could hear the clam sea rushing against the ship, and the warm sunset glow onto my face and tint my hair into highlights. I felt calm now, thinking about everything. What really took me by surprise was Roses mommy, she wasn't nice at all. I didn't even know parents could be like that. I've had so much love from my mommy that I didn't think there would be any other way of treating your children. It was only 4:30, I checked on the big clock in the hallway in third class as I looked in. I had plenty of time left, daddy would come and get me when it got dark. I pulled my legs through the railing and sat through them, leaning my head on my arms, looking out into the ocean as the sun slowly by hour melted into it, and thought about everything that had happened...

Ta -da! Hope you liked it. I know this chapter was more description of events than Cora's thought's, but the next chapter is gonna have lots of her thought in it, please red and review, new chapter coming up either on Sunday or Friday. xxx