After they heard some sniggering coming from behind them, Jack got irritated, told the crowd to go to hell, and slammed the door in their faces.
They went to bed. Rose woke up to find that Jack was not next to her in the bed.
"Jack?" Rose whispered. "Jack?"
"Relax, sweetie. I'm over here," said Jack in a tired tone by the vanity. He was turning his shirt around, trying to find the front in the low light. Rose got up and wrapped her arms around his bare torso. Jack stopped fumbling with his shirt as she did so. He turned around and put his arms around her as well. "Why haven't you kissed me yet?"
"What do you mean?" asked Rose. "I kissed you on the bow, after the drawing, in the boiler room, in the Renault, when I leaped off the lifeboat…"
"I meant on this ship," Jack said, cutting her off. "Since we first saw each other again in the lifeboat after the ship sank, you didn't kiss me. I kissed you." Rose smiled at him, and he reflected it right back.
"You could have told me that you wanted me to kiss you," she said, leaning in to kiss him.
All of a sudden, a knock sounded on the door. Rose grumbled as she answered it.
"Tea, Miss?" asked a man with a tray and two cups of tea.
"Yes. Thank you," said Rose, taking the tray. "Good-bye now." She closed the door with her foot, set the tray down on a table, and walked back over to Jack, wrapping her arms around his neck. "Now, where were we?" Just as they leaned in again, another knock was heard on the door. Rose grumbled again as she answered the door. "What do you want, Cal?"
"To speak with you," said Cal.
"What does he want?" Jack asked as he started walking over, but Rose held out her hand to stop him.
She looked back at Cal. "No. I'm not speaking with you," she said.
"Rose! Sweetpea, please! I love you!" said Cal.
"No, you don't. You don't know what real love is! Love is when you kiss the other person and know that they'll protect you throughout everything! That they'll die for you! I don't feel that with you. I feel that with Jack," Rose told him.
Cal sighed. "Rose, I know this is hard, but…" he said, but she cut him off.
"But nothing! I don't love you. I love Jack. Good-bye," Rose said as she slammed the door in his face. She opened it again. "Go back to where you came from, Hockley!"
Cal sighed and walked away. Rose looked down both sides of the hall before closing the door and walked back over to Jack, who was leaning against the vanity. "No one should knock on our door this time." She leaned in to kiss him for the third time, but heard another knock at the door. "Ugh! Next time, lean faster!" She walked towards the door again and answered it.
"Are you Mrs. Rose Dawson?" asked a nurse.
"Yes. That would be me," said Rose.
"You're needed in the infirmary for your second checkup," said the nurse.
"Second checkup?" asked Rose. The nurse nodded. Rose looked back at Jack. "Later, Jack. I promise!" Jack smiled at her as she followed the nurse through the door and closed it behind her.
*****
An hour or two later, Rose came back into the room.
"Oh, Jack! I absolutely hate infirmaries!" she said as she closed the door behind her. "They stuck me with at least three needles!" She noticed that Jack hadn't replied nor had he wrapped his arms around her. "Jack? Jack?" She walked over to the vanity, where a note with Jack's handwriting scribbled on it lay.
Rose, went to the deck. Love you.
Jack
Rose read the note again before setting it down and walking back out the door.
*****
Rose spotted Jack by the railing, smoking a cigarette. She also spotted a bowl of ice cubes by the door. She smiled as she picked one up and took off her shoes, knowing they would give her away. She walked closer to him, grateful that people talking all around them were drowning out the noise.
"So, you were a passenger on the Titanic?" asked a nearby man.
"Yeah, I was one of the six rescued from the water," replied another. Rose rolled her eyes, knowing that he was lying.
"Yeah, right! I saw those six come up in the lifeboat, and you weren't one of them!" exclaimed the first man.
"A lying man like you couldn't have survived the water," Jack told him. The first man laughed as the second grumbled, then walked away. Jack looked back out at the water and took a puff of his cigarette. Rose slowly reached up to the collar of his shirt and quickly pulled it back and shoved the ice cube in. Jack let out a scream as the cold hit his back. He dropped down to his knees and fought against Rose, who was laughing and shoving the ice into his shirt. The ice fell through his shirt and Rose stepped back as he stood up and looked at her.
"That's it! That's it! You're going overboard!" he said to her, reaching towards her.
"No! No!" Rose screamed, laughing.
Jack picked her up and half-dangled her over the railing. "You're going overboard!" he said, also laughing.
"No! Jack!" Rose cried, her hands on his shoulders. Jack pulled her back in as she wrapped her arms around his neck. "You're such an idiot!"
"Well, this idiot has fallen in love with you," Jack told her, leaning in to kiss her.
"Jack, stop! It's my turn to kiss you!" Rose exclaimed.
Jack pulled back, smiling at her. "Well?" he asked.
Rose laughed and kissed him on the lips. She just kept kissing him as he put his hand on the back of her neck. A few men had stopped to watch.
"Wish my wife would kiss me like that!" said one of them.
"Your wife isn't young like that," said another. The first shrugged, and they walked away as the young couple continued to make their passionate kiss deeper and deeper.