Lovejoy walked back into Cal's room and saw it in almost complete disarray, he saw Cal sitting on the sofa in the room, looking completely emotionally broken, and it was quite obvious, Cal had been crying. Lovejoy looked all around the room with slight confusion.
"What happened in this room, Cal?" Lovejoy asked, while looking around the room.
Cal looked at Lovejoy briefly and then looked down at the floor and shrugged briefly.
"Ruth," Cal said in a low, slightly hoarse voice, "I told her I had found Rose and then I told her she had to leave the room, that I never wanted to see her or her—DAUGHTER again and she became upset and refused to leave and I had to forcefully and physically get her out of my room. It wasn't a pretty scene."
Lovejoy sighed as he sat down beside Cal on the sofa. Lovejoy nodded with a serious expression.
"I'm sorry Cal." Lovejoy said sympathetically. "I overheard the argument with you and Rose, and I know you're hurt now, but you made the right choice. Rose didn't love you and she was only going to use again and then leave."
Cal nodded as he looked down and briefly closed his eyes.
"I know, Lovejoy." Cal said in a low voice. "I—I just—I don't understand why. I loved her and I was changing and she didn't even care."
Cal looked at Lovejoy with his eyes clouded with tears and a hurting frown.
"She—she didn't even CARE." Cal said in a low, tearful voice.
Lovejoy looked at Cal sympathetically and briefly touched Cal's arm.
"She DIDN'T DESERVE YOU, Cal." Lovejoy said in a low tone. "Trust me, she didn't and you can find someone better, believe me. There are other women out there who is much more deserving of you Cal. You'll get over her eventually."
Cal looked at Lovejoy as Cal briefly wiped his tears away. Cal scoffed and briefly smiled as he looked down at the floor.
"I didn't walk away too far for me to not hear your verbal spat with Rose, either, Lovejoy." Cal said in a low tone.
Lovejoy briefly looked at Cal with a hint, just a hint of nervousness.
"Oh?" Lovejoy said in a light voice.
Cal nodded seriously, while still looking down at the floor.
"Thank you Lovejoy." Cal said lightly. "For defending me to her, you ARE a friend and I do—care about you."
Lovejoy looked at Cal with surprise and Cal looked away from the floor and briefly smiled and then laughed.
"This is getting awkward." Cal said with a laugh that was shared by Lovejoy.
"No I know what you're saying, Cal." Lovejoy said with a brief smile. "Thank you too."
Cal sighed and nodded with a brief smile.
"Good, so how about we skip this awkward subject now and you get the hell out of my room, I need some sleep and some alone time to deal with all this." Cal said with a laugh from Lovejoy.
"That I can do." Lovejoy said with a brief sigh, as he stood up and walked to the door of the room.
"Lovejoy?" Cal said quickly.
Lovejoy turned and looked back at Cal.
"Yes, Cal," Lovejoy said.
"Seriously, thanks for being there with me through this entire—Rose situation." Cal said. "This was tough for me, it still is and it's painful. I mean, I don't know how or when, but I hope I can get over losing her, I really do."
Lovejoy looked down briefly and nodded.
"You will Cal." Lovejoy said as he looked up at him. "It just takes time, but your heart will heal, and if you keep being the NEW Cal you changed into, when the next woman comes along, it will be for the long haul the next time, right?"
Cal laughed briefly.
Lovejoy briefly smiled before walking out the room, closing the door behind him.
Cal hoped Lovejoy was right, he hoped he would get over the pain and hurt of losing Rose, but he knew that would take SOME days, SOME weeks, months and maybe even years. He loved Rose and despite how he first began to treat her, he was actually making some big sacrifices and changes for her and still it wasn't good enough for her. A part of him felt deep regret over it all; a small part of him felt he had changed too late for Rose. It would be a deep regret he'd had to live with for the rest of his life, it would be that regret that would slow the process of him healing from losing her—but one way or another, he would get there, he'd get to the point where all the hurt and pain of losing her would disappear like snowflakes in the beginning of a cold winter's storm.
As Rose Dewitt Bukater sat on the bench on the deck of Carpathia, rethinking everything that had happened to her, from Titanic onto the Carpathia, she knew she had blew it with Cal. The only chance she had with him was gone the moment she left him in that stateroom on Titanic. For all Cal's changing and trying to please her, it still wasn't good enough for her. Rose was Never Satisfied, and that's what caused her to have to live her life penniless and alone; And it would take her YEARS before she could finally come into her own, for Karma had to repay her for all the hurt and emotional pain that she inflicted on Caledon Hockley…All because of her hatred and impatience with Cal, as he was beginning to slowly change into the man she wanted, all because when it came to her relationship with Caledon Hockley, she was never satisfied….