Drabble: The Twelfth of April

A/N: This is the very first drabble I've ever written. It's based in the movie "Titanic," even though I don't name any names. The idea is the main character, Rose, meeting up with a friend of hers on Friday April 12, 1912 on board the ship. That person is technically supposed to be Jack Thayer, a real person. As he was in fact a real passenger, I feel kind of bad about doing this, but both the character of Rose and Jack Thayer were seventeen and members of Philadelphia high society in 1912. It's impossible to imagine they wouldn't have known each other pretty well, but he doesn't show up in the movie at all. This takes place before dinner on the night she meets the other Jack. The fictional one. This note is probably longer than the story itself at this point. Word count: 100, not counting title.

The Twelfth of April

He probably wouldn't have thought about it again if it hadn't been one of their last conversations. They'd known each other their whole lives. If he'd been older, she probably would have been marrying him. On Friday, they'd met on the deck before dinner. She hadn't wanted to talk about the weather or her wedding.
"Do you remember," she'd asked, "when we used to pretend to be pirates?"
He supposed so; it seemed a silly thing to bring up.
"We've been friends so long." He would always remember the profound sadness in her eyes. "When did you stop seeing me?"

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