Endless Love
By Mallory Quinn
Chapter 3
"Fun times on the Titanic"
The next day, Candy was on the deck of the boat, and she met the captain of the ship, while Jack was talking and walking with Rose who wanted to thank him for saving her life the night before.
- Good morning captain, she said smiling
- Good morning my child, said the captain
- Is it your first trip on a boat so big?
- Yes, the biggest boat ever built...
- And what's our speed?
- 21 knots...
- The Titan was going at 23 knots...
- The Titan? I don't recall a boat by that name...
- Oh, it's not a real boat, it's from my book "Futilities", by Morgan Robertson....
- A book, you say? And the boat's name is the "Titan"?
- Yes...
- A coincidence?
- There's not only that... they were saying it to be unsinkable, so there wasn't enough lifeboats... it hit an iceberg and sank with 2000 passengers, because there wasn't enough lifeboats
- Really?
- Are we going towards icy waters?
- Mr. Ismay, the president of the Company White Horse, had asked us to get the fastest as possible, for the press...
- Buy can't you take another route? Where there's no iceberg?
- My child, you're worrying a lot about nothing, for a book about a fictitious boat... everything is going to be fine, you'll see. Now I have to go see Mr. Ismay... bye child...
- Bye, said Candy sadly
No one wanted to listen to her; she had a bad feeling because of the book... That book had shown her how men's vanity could be broken and reduced to nothing by a simple peace of ice that was floating on the icy waters and that never melted.... If the Titanic could change his course, she would feel better... but who was going to listen to the rambling of a girl from the third class? Even if she was in first class; no men listened to women.
She met Terrence who had been looking for her for a while, he wanted to see Snow White; he couldn't stop thinking about her.
- Snow White, he said
Candy turned around, and she saw Terrence with a mocking smile.
- Terrence, she said
- How are you this morning?
- I'm fine...But I've been better...what about you?
- I'm fine. What did you mean by "I've been better"?
- I still have a bad feeling...
- Because of your book?
- Yes. I tried to ask the captain not to go toward icy waters, where there's a lot of iceberg...
- I bet he told you everything was going to be fine, not to worry that your book was fiction...
- Yes...
- So then don't worry about it, everything is going to be fine...
- But I saw that there wasn't enough lifeboat on this boat either... in case of a catastrophe...
