"Come on, I'll spin ya even faster now!" Tommy says over to Irish music as he begins to spin me around. I'm getting so dizzy! But it's so fun I don't want it to stop. I can only see blurs of the bar now, and the smell or beer and cigarettes that's here in the bar, I'm used to them smells, so it doesn't bother me, it gives the room atmosphere. We finally stop spinning and I laugh so hard, the room looks as if it's swaying right to left.

"Careful, don't fall into the table!" daddy jokes and holds my arm until the room stops spinning. I can see clearly now, all the people, the tables, the band. I look over at the clock on the wall, its 9:00 now, so that means... we've been here half an hour, but it only feels like 2 minuets. Dinner went quickly, and afterwards we came here.

Lots of people are here, I think the whole of our ticket class is here. And it's a mix of people too, grown-ups, kids, men, women, one person even brought their baby here. Tables and chairs are spaced out around the edges of the room, with the bar in the far left, near the back. The middle of the room's left clear, so that people can dance, and there are two platforms, one on the left side, and one on the right.

"I'm okay now, the rooms stopped spinning!" I joke, daddy laughs and let's go of my arm. The end of one piece of music finishes and another starts, I love the music here! It's great to dance to! Mommy loves Irish music too, that's how I got into it. It's great to dance to. I danced with daddy first, like he promised, then we saw Fabrizio, and then I danced with him, and then I danced with Tommy, and he spun me around! Fabrizio's the blonde women I saw in the seating area today, I think her name's Helga, she smiled at me when she saw me , I think she's quite shy, but that's probably cos she can't speak much English. Fabrizio's been dancing with her since we got here, and he was here before us. I think he loves her, and she loves him too. There sitting down at our table now, talking. It's funny how they can communicate even though she doesn't speak much English, and he doesn't speak Norwegian, but they've found a way.

"I think I need a drink after that, spinning you around missy!" Tommy jokes to me, I laugh as we go to our table, daddy's already over there now. Fabrizio and Helga are still talking, after saying hello to daddy for a second, then carry on, like it's just them two in the room, I giggle at that and sit down. Tonight is great, but it feels like something's missing. I know what's missing, Jack. The first class dinner should be over by now, why's he not here? I hope he comes soon...

"Another drink everyo-hahaha! Look at this!" Tommy laughs, he's looking towards the stairs leading down to here, I can't see anything, why's he... Jack, Jacks here now!! And... No way! ! He's with her, Rose is here! Everyone looks very surprised, especially Tommy! Jack's leading her by the hand, he can't see is yet. Rose looks really beautiful, in her burgundy dress with glittering jewels, or sequins or something at the bottom. Everyone else in the bar's looking at her too, shocked that a first class girl's here, and the chatter get's quieter. A few seconds later they go back to what they were doing before, and the talking gets back to normal again. Rose looks a lil nervous to be here, but mostly happy, very happy. She says something to Jack, and he says something back, though I can't make out what they said. I can't believe she's here! I mean, why would she wanna come down here when I bet it's much nicer for her on her deck. She must be really good friends with Jack now then. Maybe she wanted to see what it was like here. Jack see's us now and leads Rose to our table.

"Well I never." Tommy says as Jack get's closer. Jack catches my eye and smiles at me, I smile back, I bet he's got lots to tell me about the dinner.

Finally Jack and Rose get to our table, everyone greets Jack and say hello to Rose when Jack introduces her, she says hello back, she seemed a bit shy, I would be if I had to go into a room and meet new people who I'd never seen before. Then I realize, she probably doesn't know if she'll get accepted. Her class are like that, they wouldn't accept one of us, and maybe she thinks we won't like her, cos she's first class.

"Don't look so worried love, we don't bite!" Tommy said to Rose, she smiled and laughed at that, looking more relaxed now. Fabrizio got up and started talking to Rose, Helga he introduced Helga to. Daddy and Tommy were talking. While this was happening I got off my seat and ran around the other side to Jack.

"Jack!" I hugged him around his waist, he didn't see me coming so it surprised him.

"Hey, looks like someone missed me." He laughed and got down to my level, so he could talk to me, I laughed too.

"Why's Rose here?" I said quieter, I looked up at her but she was still talking to Fabrizio.

"I wanted to show her what a real party's like, it's pretty boring up there, everyone's pretty stuck up, part from Rose and Molly- the lady who lent me the tux. Her mother about grilled me." He motioned to Rose, I giggled, poor Jack!

"You wanna say hi to rose?" I nodded he smiled and played with a curl of my hair, then got back up and spoke to Rose.

"Rose, this is Cora." Jack introduced me, I'm not normally shy, but I suddenly did feel shy, I always seem to when I'm around her. I guess it's cos I want her to like me.

"Hello Cora, Jack was telling me about you on the way here. " She smiled at me, I smiled wide and looked at Jack, who was smiling too, now I didn't know what to say, what should I say, erm.....

"I like you're hair." I said to Rose, she smiled and laughed.

"Thank you, I like you're hair too, it's really pretty." She took a few strands of it and played with them, I giggled, people love to do that to my hair. She smiled, I think we're becoming friends.

"Right, who's up for a drink, Jesus I need one!" Tommy said, everyone laughed and Tommy went to get drinks.

"I'm gonna go help Tommy, you look after Rose." Jack said to me, half joking and he followed Tommy. Me and Rose watched Jack go, and then she turned back to me and smiled.

"Come over here." I took her hand and took her to a chair, out of nowhere my shyness was gone now. She laughed slightly and then we both sat down.

"Jack told me you both saw dolphins today." Her musical voice rang, I liked the way it sounded. I nodded

"We saw six of them, at the front of the ship, on the bow bit, they were all jumping." She smiled as I talked. "Do you like dolphins?"

She laughed. "I do, I saw some on another ship, though not for very long, someone made me come inside the minute I saw them." There was a hint of sadness in her voice, I don't think it was cos she didn't get to see them for very long, though that must have made her sad to, but about the person that made her go inside, I bet it was her fiancée that she doesn't like. It's almost funny when you think of it like that. I wouldn't like him if he told me what to do all the time.

"I wish I had my hair down now, like yours ." She changed to subject, playing with my hair again.

"I want it to be really long, like yours, I wish it was your colour." She laughed

"Your colour is very nice Cora, you don't need to change anything, and you shouldn't change yourself for anyone." She smiled, I smiled too.

"You came to see Jack today." She nodded

"Yes, we met before, and he did something for me, so I wanted to say thank you." Rose replied, I wouldn't let on that I knew about how he saved her, she doesn't want me to know yet.

"Are you and Jack best friends?" I asked, she laughed at that.

"Well, I only have just met him..." She looked up, he was walking back with the drinks now. I watched her stare, she had a look in her eyes, I can't explain it, like she suddenly realized something, and now it was clear to her. She still couldn't take her eyes off him.

"Yes... I think, you could say that..." She then got herself out of her trance and turned back to me. We talked for a few more seconds and then we both turned to Jack when he came back and put the drinks on the table, Tommy had the other half of them. Jack talked to Rose for a few seconds and then turned to me.

"Come on, let's show Rose how to dance." He took my hand and we went to the middle of the room...

The music stopped and everyone clapped and cheered afterwards for the band. It was really fun dancing with jack, Rose clapped along and watched us to. While we were dancing I asked Jack what the dinner was like, and what did he now know about Rose, I wanted to know so I could be sure if I was right about her fiancée or not. He told me he'd tell me tomorrow, but I can't tell anyone. I'd never tell anyone else's secrets. Jack smiled and then got down to my level to say something to me above the music.

"I'm gonna dance with her now alright?" He looked at Rose then back to me, I nodded and smiled at Rose and went back to our table.

"Come on." He said to her.

"What?" Rose looked confused, I don't think she's ever done this kind of dancing before.

"Come with me." Jack takes her hand and leads her to the middle of the room.

"Wha, Jack, Jack wait!" But he takes no notice and carries on leading her.

"I can't do this." She say's to him.

"We're gonna have to get a lil bit closer, like this." He out his hand round her waist and pulls her in. Suddenly, I don't want him to dance with her. I don't know why, I mean, I like Rose, she's my friend now, but I want Jack to like me best. It's as if he's heard my thoughts cos he turns round to me.

"You're still my best girl Cora!" He says to me, I smile, I'm secretly pleased with myself. Then Jack and Rose begin to dance, I got and sit with daddy and we both watch them, Tommy laughs as he watches them. She looks so happy, and so does Jack. Then Jack lead her onto one of the platform things, they dance up there, Rose copying what Jack's doing, then he spins her around, like Tommy spun me around earlier, you cross hands then hold the other person's, and then spin as fast as you can. They look really happy, especially Rose, I bet she's never let her hair down like this before, she looks.. free. And it's then I realize something, daddy's talking to me but I'm not listening, I don't mean to be rude, I'm just too busy in my own thoughts. It seems obvious now, why didn't I get it before? Tommy's come back to our table and is arm wrestling with a Swedish guy, Jack and Rose are coming back now, I'll have to put this thought out of my mind for now, I'll think about it later...

Authors note: Hey, I hope you liked this, not such a good chapter ending I know, but it will carry on and you'll find out what Cora's realized. I'll update soon, either tomorrow, Wednesday or Friday, but I do update weekly, I just can't guarantee that day, but keep reading please, in a few chapters it will get really exciting! Please R and R! xxx