I couldn't open my eyes. Not because I was dead, I mean I can't of been I could hear the thump of my heart and the shallow sound of my breathing. I was lying on something cold and hard, the floor perhaps. I was going to have to force my eyes to open even if they didn't want to. They did open and I was lying on the floor back in the exhibition.

Very much alive.

I slowly got up stretching out my aching joints, and holding my hands in front of me. I was still wearing one of the dresses from Kyle and I could feel my phone in my jacket, so it had definitely happened it wasn't just a dream. I walked back through the exhibition in a daze I recognized the tour guide and looked at the clock, not even an hour had passed!

I went straight home and sat in my bedroom trying to get a grasp of what had happened. Was it real or had I just imagined it, I highly doubt I imagined what I had experienced it had to real I was sure of it. I turned the TV on and was about to change the channel when something made my heart jump like a punch to the chest. On the news was an elderly man being interviewed about the Titanic. He was the oldest survivor at the grand age of 118, I looked at the name and I was speechless I stared at it but it didn't change. The name was Kyle Parton, it said he was at a care home and I knew it was not far from here.

I dashed out the house jumping on the first bus that came, first I stopped off to print off some pictures and then I ran to the home. I asked for Mr. Parton at the desk saying he was my relative and the women led me to his room.

"If you need anything just ask sweetheart" she said I nodded smiling at her before walking into the room. I saw him his back to me as he sat on the chair looking out of the window onto the park.

"Hey Kyle" I said nervously, approaching him slowly he turned shaking slightly his eyes wide in astonishment.

"Alice?" he sounded confused so I stood in front of him smiling, he beamed back taking my hand gently.

"You look exactly the same as when I last saw you" he exclaimed I laughed

"I can't say the same for you" I joked he chuckled I sat and told him the whole story from beginning to end while he listened intently.

"Leaving you there in that room was the hardest thing I had ever done and I would of swapped places with you if I could, everyday was torture for me not having you there, I never forgave Tom. It started to get better when I met Annie. She is an amazing woman you know." he told me

"I'm sure she is" I said my eyes being to fill with tears

"I've only ever had two loves in my life you and Annie, I thought I would never see you again and now I have I can die a happy man knowing you are safe and well" he whispered a tear rolling down his face "you saved me"

"We saved each other" I hugged him "I've got these from a while ago I thought you would want them" I said handing him the photos of us on the ship he grinned and laughed looking through them.

"Thank you Alice" he said

"its fine" I laughed

"Promise you will visit me again" he requested

"Of course I will I would like to meet Annie too" I said

"Do you think we could explain this confusing story to her" he asked

"We can only try as she can only try to understand" I told him. He smiled and it was a bit of déjà vu for me as the way he looked was just like the first time I saw him his eyes the brightest green and his hair the warmest blonde, his smile radiant and making my heart leap with excitement. It then disappeared and he was older but still the same Kyle just a little bit different. He was still the same to me and we cared about each other just as before.

It had been a very strange experience indeed but even though I went through heartbreak and pain, I wouldn't change it for the world. I would relive every moment of it the good and the bad. If this hadn't of happened I wouldn't have met Kyle and he would not have met me.

I wouldn't be who I am now and it sounds stupid to say it but it had changed me meeting him, experiencing the horror of that night. Its cliché but my life wouldn't be the same without him, even if he was a hundred years older than me.

The End