STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT
Epilogue
Revelations
Cal and Britney eventually married, had two
children, and lived together happily ever after. Rose loved Jack more and more
each day. Everything was fine for them. One day, Rose heard a song on the radio
as she was cleaning the kids’ room.
It was a rainy night when he came into
sight
Standing by the road, no umbrella, no coat
So I pulled up alongside and I offered him a ride
He accepted with a smile so we drove for a while
I didn't ask him his name, this lonely boy in the rain
Fate tell me it's right. Is this love at first sight?
Please don't make it wrong, just stay for the night
All I wanna do is make love to you
Say you will you want me too
All I wanna do is make love to you
I've got loving arms to hold onto
So we found this hotel, it was a place I
knew well
We made magic that night. Oh, he did everything right
He brought the woman out of me, so many times, easily
And in the morning when he woke all I left him was a note
I told him I am the flower you are the seed
We walked in the garden we planted a tree
Don't try to find me, please don't you dare
Just live in my memory, you'll always be there
All I wanna do is make love to you
One night of love was all we knew
All I wanna do is make love to you
I've got loving arms to hold onto
Oh, oh, we made love
Love like strangers
All night long
We made love
Then it happened one day, we came round
the same way
You can imagine his surprise when he saw his own eyes
I said please, please understand
I'm in love with another man
And what he couldn't give me
Was the one little thing that you can
All I wanna do is make love to you
One night of love was all we knew
All I want to do is make love to you
Come on, say you will, you want me too
All I wanna do is make love to you
One night of love was all we knew
All I want to do is make love to you
Say you will, you want me too
All night long ...
She listened to the words, and it reminded
her so much of the story of how she and Jack had met.
*****
Rose, Jack, and the children all lived life
making each day count! Rose lived until the old age of one hundred and Jack
Dawson died at the age of ninety-five. They promised each other that no matter
what happened, their hearts would always go on. No matter what. And they lived
to fulfill their dreams and forever gave each other happiness until the end.
Jacqueline Dawson buried Rose and Jack near
her mother. Leo Dawson had been there when they had buried his father and his
mother, too. They both were happy that their parents were side by side, living
together in the afterlife.
"Jackie?" Leo touched her shoulder.
"Yeah, Leo?" She looked up at him.
"Let’s go. It’s time to go through all
the plans about what we are gonna do with the house and such," he said,
holding the umbrella.
"All right, Leo." She walked with
him back to the car.
They got to their old house, remembering all
the good times they had had. They sat down and looked at the lonely house that
had once had a happy family living in it and was now empty.
"Leo, I don’t wanna sell. I wanna live
here," Jacqueline told him.
"All right, Jackie. I understand."
He did understand. She had been in that house her whole life, and so had he.
Leo left, and a few weeks later, Jackie found
a diary in a box. She read the inside cover.
The inscription read:
Hello, Jacqueline. I knew you would find
this. Even though I am not your true mother, you know that I always loved you
as my own, but it’s time that you knew the full truth.
Jackie read everything, leaving no written
page untouched.
Jackie read a title called The Truth.
April 12, 1998
Jack has no idea of this. Samantha and I
made an agreement.
She had wanted to have Jack’s baby, and
she knew that she couldn’t bear children, but she wanted to face the risks. I
was secretly already pregnant with Jack’s child. I had conceived the first
night he was with me. I offered to give her my baby. And that was our pact. I
would give her the baby. She pretended that she hated me and would have Jack to
herself. I would take care of Jack when Sam was gone. She knew that she would
probably die in childbirth, and she had told me so. I never revealed to anyone
that Jacqueline was actually mine, but I hope that she knows how much I love
her, because she is my own.
Forever in Sin, Rose
"Oh, my God," Jackie said. It was
hard for her to understand why her true mother had done this and never told her
father.
Had he known secretly that she was his
from Rose? she wondered.
Jacqueline kept on reading the book, looking
for more secrets.
She found some other evidence.
April 2, 1998
Today I called Jack’s house to tell him
that I wanted him back. I had gotten hold of Samantha. She had asked why I had
called. I told her why. We discussed some things and I told her that I was
pregnant with not one but two babies. They were fraternal twins. That’s when I
got the idea. I told Sam that I wanted to meet her, and we did. She told me how
Jack was, and I, forever missing him, told Sam my situation. That’s where the
pact came in. Sam would tell Jack that she was going to her parents’ house, and
I would meet her at the hospital to separate the twins. It was very risky, and
I don’t know why I did it, but I guess it was because I wanted some part of me
to be close to Jack. When the procedure was done, everything was kept a secret.
No one knew.
Rose Dawson (I wish it was Rose Dawson.)
It was all way too much for Jacqueline to
handle. Wait until Leo found out. He would be shocked that they were actually
related, not by one parent, but by both.
Jackie called Leo.
"Hey, bro? Guess what I found." She
felt like her heart had stopped.
"Money?" he asked, joking, of
course.
"No, silly. Mom’s diary. I found some
stuff inside it which is very interesting," she told him.
"Like what?" He had time before his
next meeting.
"Leo, we are related. We are actually
brother and sister. Samantha was never my true mother," she revealed to
him.
"Really?" He thought that she was
faking.
"Yes. We were fraternal twins," she
finally mentioned.
"Shit! Why didn’t she ever tell
us?" Leo asked.
"I will tell you why when you get
here." Jackie had more to read before she fell asleep.
"Okay. I will get a flight
a.s.a.p." Leo hung up.
"Okay." Jackie hung up the
telephone and called it a night in the old home, taking her mother’s diary with
her to her room.
The End.