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Chapter 3 - Queenstown

April 11th, 1912, 10 AM

"Excuse me sir, may we sit down? A man had said as Foxy woke up to see the man and possibly his wife.

"Of course, my apologies" Foxy stood up as the others sat down and thanked him , Foxy began walking down the stern and onto the aft well deck, walking pass passengers of different races and species, giving nods as he walked towards the bow of the stern, he didn't have a room, after all, he snuck on board, he could stay in the room on Scotland's road where he hid, but why would he do that when there was a whole ship to explore, and so many people to met, he already met a man and his family, he could go talk to him again.

And that's what he did, he continued on his way towards the forward well deck, it was a cloudy day, soon the ship would be arriving in Queenstown Ireland to drop off and pick up more passengers. Once he got to the forward well deck, he could see the coast of Ireland , it had to be a mile and a half away, he made his way down into the decks below into the Third Class General Room, there were passengers talking about whatever was the topic of the day, just like the other passengers, Foxy waved and smiled as he passed by, if he had a hat he would have ripped it down. eventually he found Joseph's wife with their two kids, they were sitting on a bench as Foxy he walked up to her.

"Juliette, is it?" he said as she looked up and smiled

"Yes, I believe we met yesterday afternoon" she took out her hand as they shook hands. "Sit for a while. You must have been walking quite a distance"

"I did, all the way from the back of the ship, I saw the mainland, we should be arriving in a hour, maybe more"

"That sounds good, me, Joseph and the kids, might do a bit of quick sight seeing before the ship leaves again"

"Hope that goes well, so. How long have you and Joseph known" each other?"

"Oh let me think, I say 4 and half years, we got married in 1908 in Villejuif, it's a very pretty town in France, and a year later we had our first child, Simonne, then a year after we had another, Louise"

"Have you thought of a name for your new child"

"Oh we haven't, we haven't thought of any names yet, we don't even know if it will be a girl or boy" she said as she looked down, her belly wasn't as big, there was a noticeable bump, she had to have been 2 months pregnant.

"Well, congratulations, I hope all goes well, do you know where Joseph is? I wouldn't mind catching up with him"

"He should be outside, he said it was a little stuffy in here, I don't really notice it"

"Thank you, have a good day, hopefully we can all talk later" He smiled as he shook her hand and left to go back upstairs and looked for Joseph, eventually he found him.

"Hey there" Joseph said, leaning over the railing.

"Hey there, your wife said you would be up here, I'm surprised I didn't see you when I came down to this part" Foxy put arms on the railing.

"I most likely came out when you went in, haha" they both laughed as the land came a little closer into view "what did my wife say?"

"She told me about how you guys have been married for and that you plan on doing some sightseeing"

"We will be doing a lot of sightseeing as we travel back towards Haiti, Im hoping i can get a better job then i was in France dude to all the discrimination against us black folks, not even my engineering degree helped, I had to go back and forth between France and Haiti to get money, but we are heading back to Haiti for good, we were actually supposed to be on another ship called the La France, but due to policy regarding children travelling, we were transferred to This ships second class"

Foxy's ears perked up? This man and his family were living in a higher luxury than most of the passengers, and he was socializing with us steerage.

"Wait? You aren't from third class? Then why do you stay here?" Foxy asked, Ireland was drawing closer and closer.

"Most of the folks down there are more understanding, they sympathize with us, they might not be treated poorly dude to the color of their skin, but they are most certainly treated poorly dude to their class"

Foxy nodded his head "I understand, i truly hope America is full of freedom"

At 11:30 AM, the Titanic had arrived at Queenstown. There was a sizable number of passengers lining up, waiting to board the ship. Meanwhile Otto was on deck, contemplating the sun as it hung in the sky. Deep in thought, pissed at his circumstances, 123 passengers boarded the Titanic while deep in thought.

last night was not ok, hearing those things his father said, hell, his mother was no better, he expected nothing less from them. It was par the course anywhere in the world, it will be the same in America.. So why even try, but hopefully, he could escape and run away from them, maybe his parents actually knew he was a homosexual, and would abandon him anyway, he doubt they knew. What a fucked up way to publicly threaten your son by talking such vial things about gay's right in front of him. Regardless, even without what happened last night, it changes nothing, either way, he was going to leave them.

While 123 passengers boarded, 7 got off the ship, including a stoker who signed on the Titanic to get a free ride home, and when no one was looking, he hid under some bags of mail on a small boat and made his way to the shore undetected.

He had a cigarette in his hand. he had found it unappealing to him but he'd heard it could help with stress, by that point, he had finished his first ever smoke, he tossed it over the side, it would be the last cigarette he would ever have.

At 1:40 PM Titanic began to leave, people waved goodbye, waving tissues screaming and cheering, lots of excitement, as the Titanic left Queenstown, at 1:55, Titanic gave 3 long, mournful blasts of her whistles.

But no one knew that this would be the first and last time anyone saw Titanic afloat, as she sailed away into the sea.

Never to return...

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