Chapter 6: The Survival

Helga watched Fabrizio leave with infinite sadness, she loved him, she had only known him for a few days but it had been love at first sight. Tears were rapidly streaming down her face, her mother rubbed her back trying to comfort her, it was not helping. Olaf Dahl pulled her into a tight embrace, he felt bad for separating her from the man she had fallen in love with but he needed to keep his family together. Mrs. Dahl continued to rub her back, she was whispering softly in Norwegian. Helga looked into her father's eyes desperately "Vennligst pappa?" she pleaded. Olaf shook his head, he knew Fabrizio was too far away now and she would have a hard time finding him if she tried, he wanted to keep his family together.

Helga thought for a minute, then she remembered everything Fabrizio had said and it registered, she and her parents had thought he only wanted to take her, but then she comprehended that he was trying to take them all to lifeboats. She quickly explained this to her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Dahl looked at one another, then at Helga. Helga had also noticed how scared and desperate Fabrizio had been, she realized the ship was indeed going to sink, it was not just a false alarm. She looked worriedly at her parents and told them they needed to get out of there quickly and onto the boat deck. Olaf looked at his wife, he knew Helga was serious. He and Mrs. Dahl went back and forth in rapid Norwegian, finally they decided to listen to their daughter.

Olaf pushed his wife and daughter in front of him as they made their way up to the locked gate. The stewards were still not letting men through, Helga pointed down the hallway Fabrizio had gone, they went that way. That led them to a broken gate, they climbed through and made their way towards the boat deck. Meanwhile Jack, Fabrizio, and Tommy had just broken down the gate and were running out onto the boat deck. Fabrizio was deeply depressed, he worried for Helga and her family. They split up Fabrizio with Tommy and Jack with Rose.

Tommy and Fabrizio came to a lifeboat being loaded, it was guarded by an officer with a gun, he was threatening to shoot men trying to get on. Tommy and Fabrizio made their way over, Tommy began to yell at the panicked officer with several other men. "Give us a chance to live ya limey bastard!" Tommy yelled. Officer Murdoch was getting more and more panicked as more and more men tried to get past him, he shot at a man on the ropes trying to jump in, the man fell into a pool of blood. Men were yelling and shaking their fists, they were pushing and shoving. Just then Tommy was accidentally pushed forward, in a desperate panic Murdoch shot him in the chest, he tumbled down on the deck. He was lying in blood, Fabrizio knelt beside him.

Fabrizio tried to save his friend "No Tommy!" he begged, Tommy was dying. Fabrizio looked up at Murdoch "Bastardo!" he shouted. Murdoch looked at what he had just done, he had just killed two innocent men trying to survive, two men who probably had families, he was overwhelmed with grief. He looked at a fellow officer and saluted him, then switched hands and put his gun to his head, the officer yelled "No Will!" and Murdoch shot himself, he went over the side of the ship. The lifeboat had been lowered, all the boats were gone. When he was absolutely sure that Tommy was dead Fabrizio took his life vest and put it on himself.

He stood up, he was incredibly sad, he had just lost Tommy, and he was not sure if he'd even survive, he doubted he'd ever see Helga again. The Dahl family had discovered all the boats were gone, Olaf cursed in Norwegian. Then they noticed some people clinging to the forward rail hoping they could hold on and not fall into the freezing ocean. They made their way up and huddled together, Olaf held Helga tightly as Mrs. Dahl clung to his side. The ship was sinking quickly, there were minutes left. People were coming and standing by them, everyone was trying anything and everything they could to survive.

Fabrizio was trying to look for Jack and Rose when he heard "I need a knife! Does anyone have a knife?" It was panicked officers trying to free one last collapsible lifeboat, this was the last boat and it was tilted. Fabrizio had a knife and he rushed over to help, his grief fueled him to work hard and fast. He climbed the ropes and began to saw away at it with his knife, all of a sudden he slipped and fell in the water. It was freezing and the suction was pulling him closer and downwards, he swam away from it. He paddled furiously away from the suction, he saw a lifeboat nearby and decided to try and get on it.

As he neared the lifeboat there was a loud screech behind him, the first funnel was going to fall right on top of him. "Dio mio! Oh sweet Jesus, Mamma mia!" he said. He put his arms up and tried to jump out of the way, he yelled as the smokestack came crashing down in front of him, it just missed him. He was about to sigh with relief when the wave pushed him violently backwards, he caught his breath and discovered he was now quite close to the lifeboat. It was one of the collapsibles, he swam over and begged to get on "Please…per favor….I have to…get to America." He wheezed. A man from first class in a black tuxedo was swatting people off "No you'll swamp us!" he was saying. Fabrizio tried to climb on and the man whacked him in the head, the last thing he remembered was a sharp pain and the faded image of this demon in a tuxedo then he lost consciousness.

The man was Cal, when he realized what he had done he felt as he had no other choice and pulled him aboard. Fabrizio was still breathing but he was unconscious. Meanwhile the Dahl family was clinging to the rail, the ship was almost completely vertical, Olaf lost his grip and fell into the forward rail gate.

Helga and her mother screamed. There was a pile up of bodies at the gate, less than a minute later Mrs. Dahl too fell into the gate, Helga was helpless, sad, and alone. She looked up to see Jack and Rose, she thought of Fabrizio.

Tears streamed down her face, she was sweating and her grip was loosening by the second, she prayed desperately as she stared at Jack and Rose. They had climbed over the rail and were staring back down at her, Rose gave her a sad smile, Helga was about to ask about Fabrizio when she lost her grip and began to fall towards the rail, she screamed frantically for help.

She fell into the forward rail where her parents had fallen, she nearly landed on her father, he had a small cut on his head but he was alive, "Jesus I himmelen Helga! Min dyrebare datter!' he yelled in Norwegian, he hugged his daughter close to him. Mrs. Dahl, who had fallen only a minute before Helga was also alive, she had landed on her side and wasn't hurt. She managed to scoot over next to her family, they all huddled together and held on as the ship sank. Helga was screaming, Mr. Dahl was yelling, and Mrs. Dahl was shaking, they prepared to hold their breath. The ship was about to go under, the Dahls inhaled deeply as they were plunged with hundreds of others into the frigid Northern Atlantic.

They were holding hands and immediately swam from the suction, they managed not to lose eachother in the confusion and chaos, Olaf was yelling in Norwegian that they needed to get onto a boat. "WE GO TO BOATS NOW!" He yelled. Helga told her father that she thought she sprained her tailbone and it was hard to swim, he put her on his back and began to swim towards the boats, Mrs. Dahl followed. Soon he spotted a boat not too far away, they swam towards it. The boat had many people in it and it wasn't too terribly far to swim, if they could just get close enough and tell the boat to stop.

They managed to get close enough and Olaf yelled for them to stop so they could get on "STOPP!" he shouted. The people in the boat turned to see them, they stopped and let them get on. They were handed a big blanket by a steerage lady, almost everyone in the boat they recognized from steerage. "Here ya are." she said handing Olaf the blanket. "Takk." he replied. A few minutes later their boat picked up a few others, the people in the boat were okay picking up a few more because the people in the water were calm and weren't going to swamp the boat.

The others got on and they rowed into the night, Helga sobbed into her father's wet coat, she did not know where Fabrizio was or if she would ever see him again. She was worried, traumatized, and freezing, she shivered. A few hours later they were approaching the RMS Carpathia, it was now sunrise. Helga squinted, Olaf held her tightly, they all sighed with relief. Meanwhile Fabrizio was just waking up, he saw the man who had hit him drinking with some steerage men, the sun was shining in his eyes and he squinted to see a large ship approaching. He ran his fingers through his messy brown hair when he felt something wet and sticky, he took his hand away to find it bloody. He realized that his head hurt terribly and he could not think straight, he remembered everything up to the moment he was hit with the oar but did not recall anything that happened while he was unconscious. He thought of Helga, he was sure Tommy had died, he did not know what had become of Jack or Rose, and he did not know what became of Helga and her parents.

He tugged on the man in the tuxedo's coat, "You hit me with oar you figlio di puttana!" he whispered harshly, he was angry. Cal turned and scoffed, he said "I don't know what you just said but I can tell that you were yelling at me, I will not be yelled at I am Caledon Hockley, and who do you think saved your sorry behind anyway?" Fabrizio did not know and shrugged, all he knew was that he was angry at Cal for knocking him out. "Well, it was me, yes I realized that I could have killed you and I didn't want that on my conscience so I helped you, but we are far from being friends spaghetti boy….I saw you with Dawson." Fabrizio looked at him "Grazie. Wait you a' know Jack?" Cal looked at him like he was stupid, "Of course I do! He only tried to steal my fiancée!" Fabrizio thought for a minute.

"Jack tried to steal your a' fiancée?" He asked. Cal nodded again, he said "Don't play dumb with me spaghetti boy, I know you know the DeWitt Bukater girl, she danced with you pigs below decks when she was supposed to be in her cabin waiting for me after dinner! Yes, that's right I sent my valet down to spy on her and he saw her dancing with you and Dawson." Fabrizio remembered the redheaded first class girl, Rose who had fallen in love with Jack and Jack with her, he did in fact remember how Rose was telling them about her arranged marriage at the steerage dance party. "Oh." he said. Cal scoffed and turned back around. Fabrizio lay down in the boat, he couldn't stop worrying about Helga.

Helga was huddled between her mother and father as the Carpathia was approaching, she was still silently sobbing. "Shh." Her mother was rubbing her back as her father held her close. "Det er greit min søte jenta." He whispered softly. She was praying she would be reunited with Fabrizio but she doubted it, he was a third class man and not many third class men would have been saved. All the boats were rowing towards the RMS Carpathia and passengers were being helped aboard. When Fabrizio was brought aboard he was taken straight to the infirmary to rest and get his head bandaged.

He was brought inside the infirmary and they put him in a bed, nurses were attending to several people in much worse shape than himself. Soon Helga and her parents boarded the Carpathia as well, they were given blankets and hot tea, they gave their names and sat down on a bench. Olaf Dahl got up and began to pace around the deck, women and children were weeping in bunches on the deck floor wrapped in blankets, there were single men sitting around and smoking, almost everyone looked cold, wet, and miserable. Helga sat with her mother wringing her hands and sobbing, she did not see Fabrizio anywhere. Olaf was walking around looking to see if he recognized anyone who survived that he could talk to. Finally he spotted Bjorn Gunderson, he was a young Swedish man who had roomed with Fabrizio and Jack, Olaf had met him at the steerage party when Bjorn was arm wrestling Tommy Ryan, several men had been huddled around them betting, the Scandinavians bet on Bjorn while the Irish bet on Tommy.

Olaf had talked to him a few times, he was about four years older than Helga, he was twenty three. He had enjoyed talking to him because their languages were so similar they could easily understand eachother while each speaking their native languages. He said "Hei Bjorn." Bjorn looked up and smiled "Hej, Mr. Olaf Dahl!" he said. Bjorn was smoking, he looked sad and told Olaf that his cousin Olaus did not make it. Mr. Dahl frowned "Jeg beklager." He said, Bjorn thanked him. Bjorn looked up and pointed to where Mrs. Dahl and Helga were, he pointed to Helga and asked why she was sobbing, "Varför Helga snyftande?"

Olaf looked at his sobbing daughter, Mrs. Dahl was hugging her. "Den italienske gutten,Fabrizio hun elsket, har hun ikke se ham og vet det er sannsynlig at han døde." He explained about how Helga thought Fabrizio probably died and how she was worried because she loved him. Bjorn had known Fabrizio and nodded, he liked Fabrizio and had seen him dancing with Helga and talking to her several times. Meanwhile Mrs. Dahl had gotten up because she spotted the Finnish lady who she had befriended on Titanic, she was about her age and was travelling alone. Helga sat on the bench, she could not stop sobbing she still did not see Fabrizio, she regretted not going with him. Just then she heard a voice "Helga?"

She turned to see a woman next to her, she was wrapped in a blanket and all Helga could see were tiny red curls peeking out. "Ja?" she asked. The woman carefully took off her blanket, it was Rose, Helga gasped, she did not know why Rose was in steerage. Rose asked her how she had survived because she saw her fall from the rail, Helga explained how she fell into the bodies at the gate and was reunited with her parents, then they held on and after they got in the water they managed to swim and get on a lifeboat. Rose was so glad that Helga and her family were alright, she knew how much Helga meant to Fabrizio. "So where is Fabrizio?" Rose asked, she said that she needed to tell him something. Helga burst out weeping, Rose was startled.

Rose herself had been crying but not sobbing, she had cried herself dry hours before, she noticed Helga's eyes were crusty and red and she was wringing her hands. "Why are you crying?" she asked. "Fabrizio didn't…did he?" Rose's heart sank, to her relief Helga shook her head. She said "Jeg vet ikke hva som skjedde med Fabrizio, jeg elsker ham så mye, jeg er så redd!" She explained how she had no idea what had happened to Fabrizio and she was so scared because she loved him so much. Rose shushed her and patted her hand gently, she knew Helga's pain but much worse, atleast there was a possibility that Fabrizio was alive, Jack had died. Rose looked at Helga "Helga, Jack died, that is why I wanted to talk to Fabrizio, I know they were best friends." Rose could see the sadness grow even larger in Helga's eyes "Jeg beklager." She said.

"Thank you." Rose said. Helga blew her nose into her wet skirt and sniffled. She was mumbling in Norwegian, Rose thought she heard Fabrizio's name. Rose reached out her hand and patted Helga's back awkwardly trying to comfort her. Rose told Helga how she was hiding from Cal and her mother and that was why she was in steerage, Helga nodded. Meanwhile Fabrizio was waking up from a nap, he had been bandaged and was waiting for the doctor to tell him he could leave. A few minutes later the doctor came and said "Alright Mr. DeRossi, you can go now, take care." Fabrizio thanked him "Grazie signore." He said.

Fabrizio walked out onto the deck, he was praying that he would find Helga. He scanned the deck, he saw her father talking to Bjorn Gunderson, he felt a wave of relief wash over him. If Helga's father was alive, she probably was too. Just then he saw her, she was sitting on a bench weeping heavily and wringing her hands. Even though she was wet and sobbing, it was the most beautiful Fabrizio had ever seen her.

"Helga! Helga mamma mia it's a' really you!" He yelled. Helga turned around, her face lit up immediately and she let out a strangled cry of relief and happiness, they ran to eachother and she jumped into his arms. She kissed him all over his face and mumbled happily in rapid Norwegian. Rose couldn't help but smile, she was so happy that Helga had been reunited with Fabrizio, she had seen how they had been separated and how upset and scared they both were of losing eachother forever, atleast she had gotten to be with Jack until the very end.

Fabrizio said "Oh mio dolce Helga, I a' love you so much, I never lose you again!" Helga continued kissing him all over his face, she couldn't stop smiling, "Oh Fabrizio, jeg elsker deg! Jeg elsker deg!" She nearly screamed it. Fabrizio chuckled as he held her in his arms, tears of happiness and relief were streaming down her face rapidly. "I never leave you again!" Fabrizio said. Olaf was watching his daughter's happy reunion, he smiled and Bjorn chuckled. Mrs. Dahl was also watching, she was so happy for Helga she even ran over and gave Fabrizio a hug.

She had originally been concerned about the almost opposite ethnic backgrounds of Norwegian and Italian and had wanted Helga to be with a fellow Norwegian or atleast a Scandinavian, but now she finally saw how happy they were, she no longer cared that Fabrizio was different from them, she liked him all the same. Fabrizio hugged her back "Grazie! Grazie!" he said. Then Fabrizio noticed Rose, he said "Rose! Where is Jack?" Helga bit her lip, she knew Fabrizio would be devastated at Rose's answer. "Fabrizio, I am so sorry…Jack….well….he didn't make it." Fabrizio's heart sank, Jack was his best friend and he also felt bad for Rose. "Oh no! Dio mio no Jack! Not Jack! Jack is good swimmer eh? He survive eh?" Rose shook her head sadly, Fabrizio was devastated.

Fabrizio was still holding Helga, he gently kissed the top of her head. Olaf Dahl and Bjorn came over, Bjorn patted Fabrizio's back sympathetically and said hello to Helga in Swedish, she said hello back to him in Norwegian. Bjorn had seen Helga weeping over Fabrizio and he was happy that she was happily in his arms again. Helga continued to kiss Fabrizio's face, just then Bjorn pointed to Fabrizio's head which was wrapped in a gauze bandage. Helga looked up when Bjorn asked what was wrong with Fabrizio's head, she frowned and kissed where the bandage was. Fabrizio smiled at her, she looked worried. "I be okay." Fabrizio said shushing her. They smiled at eachother.

Fabrizio pointed to Rose and said "That figlio di puttana of a' your fiancée. He hit me in head with the oar, I was a' just trying to get in the boat, I a' just wanted to get to America and be millionaire but he said I'd a' swamp the boat, that bastardo knocked me out and when the figlio di puttana realize what he done he pull me into the boat and I live. I a' just needed to get to America, I a' wanted to be reunited with sweet Helga." He smiled at Helga, she giggled. Rose was shocked "You….saw Cal? Wait Cal saved you? That is not the Cal I know, the Cal I know would have hit you but not saved you." She said. Fabrizio shrugged "That bastardo just didn't want that on his a' conscience, he a' told me we were a far from being friends and he said Jack stole you from him, you were his fiancée." He said flatly. Rose cringed at the thought of horrible, horrible, repulsive Cal. "I still can't believe I let my mother arrange that marriage, I hated the man the minute I met him." Rose said. Fabrizio chuckled.

Just then Bjorn asked Fabrizio "Do…you…know what happened…to Tommy?" Fabrizio remembered how Tommy was shot down by Officer Murdoch with great sadness. "He was a' shot in the chest, he fell back in a pool a' blood and I tried to save him but there was a' nothing I could do." He said. Bjorn turned away, he cursed in Swedish. Helga was caressing Fabrizio's face, she put her head against his chest, he had not put her down yet. Mr. and Mrs. Dahl smiled, they were happy that Helga was reunited with her one true love after she was almost positive she lost him, it made them happy. There were mixed emotions, everyone so happy for Helga and Fabrizio, but so sad for Tommy and Jack at the same time.

Rose, Bjorn, Fabrizio, and Helga mourned Tommy and Jack. Bjorn shook his head "I cannot believe Tommy er gone!" he said sadly. All of a sudden they heard a familiar voice that they did not expect to hear in a million years. "Who's gone?" said a man behind them with a heavey Irish accent. Fabrizio and Bjorn spun around, standing behind them was none other than Tommy Ryan.

"TOMMY! Tommy a' how on Earth did you a' survive? I take your lifebelt because I thought you were dead!" Fabrizio shouted hugging him. Tommy clutched his chest and lifted up his shirt revealing a large bandage. "The bullet didn't go into any vital organs but I lost so much blood I went unconscious and was barely breathin', some officers threw me into one of the very last boats cause' I was still breathin' and they had room so they would have me get medical attention on Carpathia, and here I am, bandaged up and in a ton a' pain...but alive!"

They each took turns hugging him. Bjorn and Fabrizio told him that Jack did not survive, Rose overheard them and started sobbing again. She sat down on the deck and put her face in her hands. Helga went and sat next to her, "Shh is okay." she said kindly. Rose managed a weak smile, "Thank you Helga." she said. Helga smiled "Du er velkommen." she replied.

Olaf and Mrs. Dahl went back to the Finnish lady. Fabrizio picked up Helga again, he carried her over to a bench and they sat down, Rose, Bjorn, and Tommy followed. Helga was still in Fabrizio's lap, they started kissing and Helga was caressing Fabrizio's face again. Rose sat there awkwardly, she had just lost Jack and desperately wished to be doing that with him, then she knew how Helga must have felt hanging alone on the rail and looking up to see her safely in Jack's arms.

She was happy for them, she figured that atleast there were a few happy endings out of many tragedies, if she couldn't have Jack she was glad that Helga and Fabrizio were able to be together. Fabrizio and Helga stopped kissing, Fabrizio looked into Helga's deep, blue eyes and smiled, he loved her so much. She smiled back looking into his hazel eyes, she said "Jeg elsker deg." And he said "I love you too my sweet Helga." Tommy and Bjorn were laughing, Helga and Fabrizio didn't notice.

They started kissing again. Fabrizio pulled apart to take a breath, "I never ever lose you again, I never ever leave you again!" he breathed. He went back to kissing her, Rose was still just sitting there unsure of what to do. A few minutes later they stopped kissing and Helga rested her head on Fabrizio's shoulder, then they noticed Rose, Tommy, and Bjorn were there. Helga and Fabrizio looked at one another then at Rose, Tommy, and Bjorn and blushed. "A' were you a' sitting there the entire time?" Fabrizio asked embarrassed.

Rose smiled "Well, yes, but don't worry about it, you two nearly lost eachother and I know how upset you both were at being separated, please don't mind us." Tommy and Bjorn were still laughing. Fabrizio looked at Helga, he had almost lost her and was still thanking God that he didn't. Helga smiled, she had thanked God too. Fabrizio looked at Rose "Tell me how Jack died, Helga tells me you were a' with him the whole time." Helga nodded, she wanted to know too as did Tommy and Bjorn, she patted Rose's hand gently. Rose explained how they managed to stay on the ship until the last possible second and how Jack had saved her, and how he had sacrificed himself to do it. Tears were running down Rose's face, Fabrizio handed her a handkerchief.

"That's Jack...brave down to the last second!" Tommy said. Rose wiped her eyes again. He and Bjorn's eyes were swelling his tears as were Helga's. Fabrizio kissed the top of Helga's head again, he was on the brink of tears himself but he didn't want to cry in front of Helga and Rose.

Rose said "I don't think I will ever love again, Jack was my soul mate and I will never forget him as long as I live, because he is the reason I lived, he is the reason why I wanted to continue living, I loved Jack Dawson so much." She was sobbing. Helga patted her back and shushed her, she smiled sadly. Rose smiled at Fabrizio and Helga, "But you two have eachother and that is a good thing, please don't pity me." Fabrizio said "Grazie Rose, and I am a' sure there is someone out there for you, you will a' find him eventually, I just a' know you will, and Jack would want you to move on eh?" Rose shook her head stubbornly and choked back more sobs, she said "I could never love another man as much as I loved Jack and I could never love him the same way as I loved Jack, if I ever meet another man I could marry him but I'd never truly be committed, my heart sank with Jack, now the only heart I have is Cal's stupid necklace!" Fabrizio nodded understandingly.

Tommy shook his head "Naw don't be sayin' that malarkey Rosie!" he said."You have a heart Rose, only part of it sank with Jack, the part with the a' love and the relationships for now but you a' are still a kind person and don't a' you ever forget that." Fabrizio said. Tommy, Bjorn, and Helga all agreed.

Rose was weeping now, she couldn't bear not having Jack. "Jack a' was my best friend. I a' don't feel your exact same pain but I a' have a similar pain, the pain of losing a dear friend." He continued "Jack was a good man and he'd a' want you to live on and be happy." Fabrizio said. Rose managed a weak and less than convincing smile, she said "I know but I feel so hopeless, now I have no one, not my mother or Cal and not Jack, I will finally have to face this cold world alone." Fabrizio felt deeply sorry for Rose, he said "You a' will have friends, you a' will make lots of friends...and we will always be your friends and eventually, when you a' are ready you will have another man in your life." Rose nodded and said that she hoped he was right. "Like who though? What man would want me? Jack is the only man for me and Cal only wanted to show me off!" Rose said.

Fabrizio said "Love is a funny thing Rose, it sort of just happens. Like Helga and I passing eachother in the hall, out of tons of passengers we fell for eachother." He smiled at Helga and she kissed his face.

"Aww! Ain't that the sweetest damn thing in the world now!" Tommy chuckled. "Do me a favor per favor...talk to Helga I a' need to ask her dad a important question!" Fabrizio whispered to Tommy. "You're not gonna ask her to marry you are ya?" Tommy whispered back. Fabrizio grinned and nodded, Tommy let out a low whistle.

"Sure laddie I got ya! Go get him tiger!" Tommy whispered back. He gave Fabrizio an incouraging shove towards where Helga's parents were. He asked and Olaf said yes, Fabrizio skipped back. He felt as though he was floating. Tommy was talking to Helga about the sinking when Fabrizio came skipping back.

He knelt down in front of Helga and took her hand in his own. "Helga, I never ever want to lose you again. I ask your father and he gave me his blessing, so can I ask you a very important question per favor?" he asked. Helga nodded, she was confused. "Helga Johanna Dahl would you a' make me a very happy man? I no have a ring but I will get one, I love you so much Helga, I a' really really do. Helga you are a' the only girl I have a' ever felt these feelings for, I know it's pazzo...it's only been a few days, but I believe in destiny and love at first sight, and I a' know that was a' what this is!"

Helga slapped her hand over her mouth, happy tears were rapidly streaming down her face. "JA! JA! TUSEN TIMES JA! Oh Fabrizio jeg elsker deg!" Helga cried jumping into his arms and kissing him again.

Rose, Bjorn, Tommy, and Helga's parents all smiled.