Chapter 1

This is my first story! It may get confusing, but in this chapter it is 1945 with Alyson and her daughter Jackie at the beginning. Then, it goes to Alyson Dawson, then Micheal Dewitt-Bukater, and then finally Rose. And it will be in that order for the rest of the story, but it may or may not include Alyson with her daughter in 1945 in every chapter.

"Hey Mom, guess what we're learning about in history."

"What Jackie?"

"The Titanic." She said with a grin on her face.

I took a deep breath.

"Mom? Are you ok?'

"Come here, I want to show you something." I lead her into my bedroom and took a box down from the closet. I opened the box and handed her a piece of paper.

She sat on the bed and looked at the paper, intrigued. "Is this really what it is? A Titanic boarding pass?"

"Yeah. Cool huh? Do you want to hear what happened?" She shook her head yes.

"Now, its been 33 years, and I can still smell the fresh paint. The china had never been used. The sheets had never been slept in. Titanic was called 'The Ship of Dreams'. And it was, it really was…

"Now Aly-"

"Jack! You know Sven and Olaf are no good! You could be betting all of our, and Fabrizio's stuff away!"

"Al, just breathe. Go and see if you could have a pop and get the rest of the weeks pay, while I play some. Alright?"

"I swear Jack, if you lose…"

"Which I wont. Now go get your pop."

Jacks smiles could always do things to someone. It's a good thing that I actually knew what it ment, but it didn't matter. I quickly rolled my hair back up and put my hat on. Then, we went inside.

I sat at the counter and asked for my pay and a pop while Jack, Fabrizio, Olaf, and Sven started playing poker. It seemed like hours just sitting there thinking about how I hated jack for playing with them. When, I heard Olaf say something in Swedish to Sven

"I can't believe you bet our tickets!"

I knew I had to look then, my eyes went wide when I saw the titanic boarding passes.

"Alright, moment of truth. Somebody's life's about to change. Fabrizio…niente."

"Niente!"

"Olaf…nothing. Sven…uh oh, two pair. I'm sorry Fabrizio."

"Che 'sorry' ma vaffanculo! You bet all the money!"

"You're not gonna see your mom again for a long time. Cuz were going to America. Full house boys! Woo hoo hoo hoo, woo hoo hoo hoo!"

I was so happy! Jack and Fabrizio started putting their stuff into bags. I just got up when Olaf grabbed Jack. He said something in Swedish that I couldn't understand. Then, he hit Sven.

We started laughing and put the stuff into the bags. Then, Fabrizio handed me a piece of paper, I looked at it and it was his ticket.

"Go with your brother. They go to America!"

"No, lads. Titanic go to America in 5 minutes."

We looked at each other, then threw everything into the bags.

"You're the best Fabrizio. You better not change your address so we can send you letters." I said with a smile on my face.

"Of course."

Then, Jack and I ran out the door quickly.

"We're the luckiest sons of bitches in the world!" he yelled.

"We're practically god damn royalty!" I yelled back

"Jeeze, why are you running so fast?"

"Cuz I got the tickets!" I yelled behind me.

"We're passengers. Wait, were passengers!" we both yelled at the steward.

"Have you been through the inspection queue?"

"Of course. Anyway, we don't have any lice. We're Americans."

"Right come aboard."

We hurriedly ran inside the ship and went through the level.

"We're the luckiest sons of bitches in the world, you know that?" Jacks said happily.

We ran to the deck with all of our stuff and found an empty spot to see at.

"Goodbye!"

"You idiot! Goodbye! I'll never forget you!" I welled at the crowd.

Rose and I were whispering to each other in the backseat, ignoring Cal, which he really did not like. He couldn't stand that she would want to spend time with someone other than her fiancé. I mean, who can blame me? Cal made the both of us sick to our stomachs, and Rose had to marry him.

The car suddenly stopped and Cal pushed me into the door so he could go to the other door to get Rose out. When he did that, Rose got a devilish look in her eye and almost tripped him for me, but Mother saw and gave the both of us a disapproving look. I rolled my eyes to her as Cal opened the door.

"I don't see what all the fuss is about. It doesn't look any bigger than the Mauritania." I heard her say.

I knew my mother was going to be retarded and not get out of the car until she got helped out. So, I got out first. I heard Cal say something stupid so I got to the ground just fine. Then, I felt something against my leg and I couldn't stop myself until it was too late and I fell. Cal just helped my mother out of the car while Arose helped me up. Mother, of course gave us a disapproved look, again.

"Your daughter is too difficult to impress, Ruth." Cal told our mother. Her expression suddenly changed to a smile with a hint of smirking along with it.

"So, this is the ship that they say is unsinkable."

"It is unsinkable. God himself could not sink this ship. He told us. I highly doubted that.

Then, Cal got distracted by the baggage guy. I went over to Rose and we started walking ahead of everyone.

"I said that just to piss him off" Rose said. I looked at her then laughed.

"Rose? When you and Cal get married, can you buy me a house?"

"Only if I get to live with you in it, Micheal." She told me with a realistic look on her face. We both started to laugh when Cal came up to us.

"Ladies, and…Mitchell. We better hurry."

"Micheal, not Mitchell." I told him with frustration in my voice. Rose looked at me and gave me a devilish smile. "Cal, where's my coat?"

"I don't know."

Cal, I want my coat. Now!" She gave him a stern look.

"I have it here miss." Miss Trudy said to her.

I quickly got on board before Cal or my Mother saw me laugh. I asked a steward where I could find our rooms, and I got to them first.

When they got to me, I was sitting on one of the couches, 'like a poor person' mother would call it, with my feet all over it.

"I call this room." Which was the biggest out of the three rooms.

Rose smiled and said, "I call this one too.'

"But, Rose-"

"What mother? You can stay in your room all alone, can't you?"

So, that was settled then and there. They finally left us alone and we got to unpacking.

"Now Rose, I have one thing to ask you. What artwork should we put up?"

She smiled as we walked over to the art. Miss Trudy came in and helped us decorate. We filled that room up with so much Picasso, Monet, and others, that when Cal came in, he stayed there as little as possible.

I hated having to get all dressed up and fancy, just going to dinner. Going to, from the elevator with mother and Micheal, we saw a woman who came aboard at Cherbourg, named Margret Brown. We all called her Molly. She always made me laugh. Her husband had struck gold someplace out west and she was what mother called, 'new money.'

Dinner was boring and I retired very early. When Cal came to see if I would go to his room, I pretended to be asleep. When Micheal came in to get ready for bed, I was reading a book. We got to talking about everything, we stayed up most of the night.

By the next afternoon, we were steaming west from the coast of Ireland with nothing ahead of us but ocean. I spent almost all my time with Micheal, even though it pissed off Cal. But, that was a main reason I did. And I knew for sure that Mother hated that I was in the same room as Micheal. Really, we were in the same nursery when we were little and he's only a couple years younger than I. I don't see what the problem is.

But I still hung out with Micheal instead of going to tea with Mother and hearing all the gossip about J. and his mistress Madeline. Its so boring to hear about it anyways, especially since I have to hear it about five times a day.

We were walking out on the deck and we saw this, ridiculous man with what looked like a girl, just yelling at the top of their lungs. Micheal and I just looked at them. Then, just walked to another part of the ship so we didn't have to hear them anymore.