FALLING STARS
Chapter Two
Rose and Jack moved to Chippewa Falls,
Wisconsin right after they docked in New York, after that Jack proposed.
Six months later, Cal and Ruth had finally
found where Rose was at, they were planning to take her from Jack and make her
marry Cal.
"Ruth, how are we going to get her out
of the house?" Cal asked.
"We just take her," Ruth replied.
When they got there that morning, they found
Rose curled up in the arms of Jack.
"Ruth, we shouldn't take her," Cal
said.
"Hockley, have you gotten a soft
spot?" Ruth asked him.
"No, look on her finger," Cal said,
on her finger was a small, simple ring with just a tiny diamond in the middle
of it.
"Hockley, you will marry my
daughter," Ruth said.
"If you want the money Ruth then marry
my father," Cal said and then he left.
Ruth stood there, alone and confused, she
could do what Cal said to do, or live her life in poverty, she walked away from
the house toward Cal and he took her to his father.
Jack woke up and looked at Rose, she was only
five months along, but he could see the small pouch growing on her.
"Rose, wake up darling," Jack said.
Rose's eyes fluttered open to see the man she
loved.
"Jack, I love you," Rose said.
"I love you too," Jack replied.
Suddenly, they both heard knocking at the
door and Jack got worried, "Let me go see who it is."
"Jack, be careful," Rose said.
Jack opened the door to a person he thought
he would never see again, "Louise!"
"Well, I heard you were back in
town," Louise, his old girlfriend said.
"Jack, who is this?" Rose asked
after she came out of the bathroom.
"This is one of my old friends, Louise
Baker, this is the love of my life, Rose Dewitt-Bukater," Jack said.
"Nice to meet you," Louise said
shaking Rose's hand.
"Nice to meet you too," Rose
replied.
"So, Jack how long have you been
here?" Louise asked him after she got in the house.
"We have been here six months, engaged
and expecting a baby," Jack said.
Louise was surprised at how Jack had
straightened up over the past few years.
"My, you have settled down Jack,"
Louise said.
"Thank you," Jack said, pulling
Rose toward him.
A few minutes after she left, Louise thought
back to a newspaper article she had read about a Dewitt-Bukater drowning from
Titanic.
Rose looked at Jack, "Jack, she knows
who I am."
"No, she doesn't, I promise you that she
doesn't suspect a thing," Jack said.
After dinner that night, Rose and Jack
planned their wedding and set the wedding date for November 13, 1912.
Louise was at home wondering about Rose,
"Why did she leave the rich life?"
Finally, she settled that maybe she truly did
love Jack and she should give her a chance, "Good luck Jack."