MEMORIES
Chapter One
Picture Perfect
Rose yawned tiredly as she made
her way back to her room. Her mission was finally complete. She had told the
story of the Titanic and she had returned the Heart of the Ocean to where it
rightfully belonged…with her beloved Jack. She knew that this was the exact
spot where she had watched him sink into the ocean. She had felt it the moment
she had landed on the ship deck. She was now floating over the watery grave of
her beloved…a place she was soon to join him in…she knew that for a fact. She
was very old now, and her body was no longer able to sustain her. In a way, she
was overjoyed that her time was to come soon. But then again…she was going to
miss her life with her granddaughter, Lizzy. It had been a quiet and satisfying
life, indeed.
Sighing deeply, she entered the
room, her gaze falling on her beloved pictures. Each picture captured a moment
of her life that she held most dear…the only one missing…the one that would
have completed her collection…was a picture of her time with Jack on board the
Titanic. But that was not to be.
Rose sat her old body down on the
bed and picked up the first picture, which sat right next to the bed. It was a
picture of a brick house, a young woman with blonde hair and blue eyes, and
herself, standing arm-in-arm, smiling. Oh, yes. Claire Penn. Jack’s old
girlfriend from Chippewa Falls. Rose closed her eyes and remembered the day she
had met Claire.