As Cal and Rose walked out onto the empty deck of the ship, in the midst of the night air, Rose noticed Cal was suspiciously silent. She had known that type of silence from him before, but it was always when Cal was enraged with her about something, and she hoped that wasn't the case. As Rose and Cal were walking across the deck, Rose stepped in front of Cal and took hold of his hands and looked at him worriedly.
"Cal, are you alright?" Rose asked.
Cal looked at her briefly and then looked down and blinked repeatedly with a slight frown.
"Please don't leave me, Rose." Cal said in almost a whisper, while still staring down at the deck.
Rose frowned with confusion as she stared at him.
"What? Leave you, why would you think that?" Rose asked. "We seemed to be having fun down in third class—for the FIRST time ever."
Cal nodded briefly and then looked up at her with saddened eyes.
"Yes but—but then you saw Jack Dawson," Cal said in a low tone, "the man from my dream, the man who's supposed to—take you away from me and who is supposed to make you fall in love with him, and I—I know what I did before to you—the abusiveness, the controlling behavior, the wedding, the—the proposal, but please Rose, I'm trying to change. I—I even came down with you to this third class party, when I didn't really want to, but I did it for you, because I love you Rose, so please—please don't leave me. Give me a chance to prove I can be better to you and for you and then if I can't, I give you my permission to leave me, and I won't stop you, I promise."
Rose looked at Cal with sympathy. That was the first time Cal had ever pleaded to her the way he was. She gently caressed the side of his face.
"I promise I won't leave." Rose said in a low voice. " I promise, as long as you keep being the way you were tonight, I won't leave."
Cal looked down and nodded and eventually broke into a brief laugh.
"It was fun tonight in third class." Cal said with a smirk and a laugh from Rose.
"I know, and you dancing, it was so amazing." Rose said with a laugh.
Cal laughed.
"I know, I didn't even know I knew those dance steps," Cal said with a laugh, "I guess I can catch on pretty quickly, huh?"
Rose laughed and nodded.
"I'll say so," Rose said with a laugh. "You were doing more footwork than I've seen you do in my six months of knowing you."
"Yeah and I didn't crush your feet while doing those here and there moves not once." Cal said with a laugh that Rose shared.
Cal hugged her closely in his arms and kissed her on the forehead and smiled.
"However I thought when we were twirling and spinning around, I was going to throw up." Cal said with a laugh from Rose.
"I saw two or three Cal's when we finally came to a stop with the spinning and dancing." Rose said with a laugh from Cal.
Rose looked up at Cal slowly and gently but passionately kissed him briefly on the lips. Cal looked at her with a intrigued look.
"You kissed me." Cal said in a low, slightly surprised voice.
Rose smiled briefly and nodded.
"Yes, I did" Rose said with a brief smile. "And as long as you keep up with the way you were tonight, you can expect more from where that kiss came from."
Rose gently and briefly kissed him again on the lips before walking away, stopping to look back at him with a flirtatious smirk. Cal looked at Rose with a faint smile, his face blushed. It was as if he were a young man back in school, getting kissed by his crush for the first time ever, Cal's heart melted instantly. He knew now more than ever that he couldn't screw this up with Rose. He couldn't go back to being the way he was, not when it seemed that he was finally getting somewhere with Rose in their relationship. No, he had to be exactly what Rose wanted him to be, he had to do exactly what Rose wanted him to do, go where she wanted, say what she wanted—no matter if he approved, liked or disliked it. He had to work hard to please Rose in every way, because he feared, he greatly feared that if he didn't, his nightmarish dream would come true, and he would lose Rose forever, no matter how much he fought against it, and fought to try to keep her….and that was something he just simply couldn't have happen…however, what he didn't realize was that, no matter what he did, it would still not be enough for Rose, for in the days to come, Rose's attention, her feelings and attractions would begin to wander….and destruction for both she and Cal would be soon to come…..