HEARTS ARE BROKEN, LIVES ARE SHATTERED
Chapter Two
Written by Kelly Roberts
Rose
stepped off the Carpathia to a sea of camera flashes. She hid her face behind
the blanket she had taken off the ship so she would not be seen. That was all
she needed, for Cal to see her in some newspaper.
Once she broke free from the crowd, she made
sure to get far, far away from them. All around her, newsboys were trying to
sell newspapers about the disaster, and she could see that the headlines told
people nothing of the true horror of the Titanic tragedy.
Fear overtook her once she broke loose. She
had nowhere to go. She had no family in New York, except an aunt. But she was
not going to see her. Mary was her mother’s sister, and she knew that she and
Ruth were the same person. She tried to think, to remember if any members of
her father’s family lived in New York, but there were none. They were all in
Philadelphia, and she was not going to go back there. She was not going to risk
her mother and Cal seeing her again. She would never go back to them.
She had reached the point of desperation. She
didn’t know where to go. She sat down on a park bench, and prepared to spend
the night there.