Titanic | Rose x Taehyung

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On April 10th 1912, the Titanic was to set sail on its maiden voyage. The ship was to carry many of the wealthiest people in the world, along with many emigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, and all over Europe aiming to build new lives elsewhere.
 
But nobody knew of the impending disaster that was yet to strike.
 
The dock was a very busy place that day, filled with passengers getting ready to board, and even people who were there just to see the newly built ship with their own eyes. Afterall, the ship was said to be the largest vessel ever built. It was also said to be unsinkable. Everyone who had tickets to board the RMS Titanic started making their way towards the ship for ticket checking, name recordings, health inspections, and getting luggage and cargo stored.
 
A loud car horn grabbed the attention of the people crowded on the dock. A shiny, maroon coloured car made it's way through and scared the crowd so that they eventually moved out of the way, giving the car a pathway through and they all stayed out of the way as another identical car trailed behind it.
 
The car eventually halted and the driver opened the back door with an outreached hand to help the passenger out and out stepped Rosé Park, a first class lady born into the 'wealthy' family of the Parks. The girl adorned long, blonde wavy hair but it was pinned in an updo on her head, along with an ivory skin tone and chocolate coloured eyes.The girl was wearing a suit dress that was an off white colour, with purple around the collar, and purple stripes running horizontally. The outfit was finished with a purple sun hat topped with a big lavender coloured bow and white gloves on her hands.
 
Following behind her was her fiancé, Kim SeokJin  who was a tall and broad man who had golden blonde hair. Jin worked alongside the designers, engineers and others that put their efforts into constructing the ship, and had also funded the construction financially so strictly speaking, he held partial ownership of the Titanic.
 
After Jin stepped out, the blonde assisted Rosé's mother, Allison Park. Rosé inherited all of her features from Allison, head to toe. The only difference was that Rosé, at the age of 20, looked younger than her mother of course. She was a splitting image of her mother at that age. A beautiful girl that any man would want as a wife.
 
Rosé's mother had played a large part in Rosé meeting her fiancé and the younger lady was not entirely pleased with that situation, she did not want to be placed into a marriage like she was a pawn in a game of chess. She wanted to choose who she married, but that was not happening.
 
As the trio were finally outside their vehicle and on the dock, they could get a look at the massive vessel with their own eyes, and one of them was not too impressed.
 
"It doesn't look very special or any bigger than any other ship I've seen," Rosé said to Jin, shifting her large purple sun hat out of her eyes and gazed at the ship and not looking at him.
 
The size of the Titanic seemed to be ineffective in awing her like it had many others.
 
The man looked down at Rosé with an expression of annoyance, Rosé was always such a hard one to please.
 
"You can complain about something else later Rosé. You should be happy you are one who gets the chance to board this ship. Not to mention you're boarding as first class. You should be honored." The taller said sternly to his soon to be wife.
 
The girl just rolled her eyes.
 
"Enough with that," Allison said softly, "we should all enjoy this once in a lifetime opportunity."
 
The blond smiled at the women, closing the car door, "my apologies Ms. Park, your daughter is just very hard to please." the man chuckled and led the ladies to board.
 
Rosé couldn't help but think she was going to America locked in chains.
 
 
 
In the small bar filled with smoke, a poker game was being held. But not just any poker game, this game had 2 third class tickets for the Titanic on the table, along with someone's hard earned money.
 
The winner would take all.
 
There were four men at the round table, each betting everything they had. The first two people at the table were some Swedish men who spoke little English, the other 2 were Taehyung and Jungkook. The one named Taehyung, had a messy chocolate coloured mop of hair, along with emerald coloured eyes and caramel skin.
 
Taehyung was a young man at the age of 23, who had nothing other than some clothes, the art portfolio he carried around with him, a couple of cigarettes, and a little bit of change that he had already bet in the poker game he and his friend were currently apart of.
 
"I cannot believe you just put down all our money, you idiot," Jungkook had bitterly whispered to Taehyung through gritted teeth, while the two Swedish men were whispering something about losing their tickets, "What are we supposed to do when you fuck up?"
 
"I don't think I have anything to lose, and when you got nothing to lose, you got nothing to lose" the brunet said nonchalantly, blowing out a breath of smoke and studying his share of cards.
 
The men at the table all swapped cards, then Taehyung put down one of his cards and picked up another from a pile, not letting anyone see through his poker face, even though inside he was a nervous wreck.
 
Taehyung put his smouldering cigarette down in an ashtray and looked up from his cards at Jungkook, "alright, someone's life is about to change," Taehyung said looking around at everyone at the table, "what do you got horse face?"
 
Jungkook puts his cards onto the table with a disappointed look on his face, then the rest of the men put their cards down one at a time.
 
But Taehyung didn't put down his cards.
 
"Shit," the brunet said, but he wasn't saying that in the way everyone thought he was, "I'm sorry Jungkook, but-"
 
"You jackass!" Jungkook shouted at Taehyung and stood up, "that was everything I-" the sandy blonde stated but was interrupted halfway through his sentence.
 
"But you're not going to see your mom for a long time" the young man continued, sounding sad but not for long, "because we're going to America! Full house boys!" Taehyung shouted, slamming his cards onto the table with a giant grin affixed on his face.
 
The other guys at the table had mixed expressions of anger, and envy plastered on their faces, while Taehyung and Jungkook were ecstatic and had a little celebration dance going on at the other side of the table.
 
Winning these tickets was one of the best things that could have ever happened to Taehyung, he would get to start a new life in America. Being stuck in Europe for years was a complete fiasco for him, the only good thing he got out of it was some art inspiration. Re-locating to America for the second time was going to be a blessing.
 
The brunet's happy thoughts were interrupted by the bartender, "no, Titanic goes to America, in five minutes!" The man said, pointing at the grandfather clock in the corner of the bar.
 
In the background, the horn of the boat was heard and the two friends looked at each other for a second with wide eyes, then scrambled to grab the tickets and money off the table. With their bags of few belongings over their shoulders, they booked it out of the bar started running towards the boarding stations in front of the boat.
 
As they were running, Taehyung hollered behind him to Jungkook, "we're riding in high style now!" The brunette said as he ducked under a beam that was attached to a part of the vessel. "We're practically royalty!"
 
"I'm going to America and I'm going to become a millionaire!" Jungkook shouted back at Taehyung, the two almost running into horses and a carriage but dodging just in time.
 
"You aren't if you don't hurry up dumbass, I got the tickets." Even though Jungkook knew Taehyung was just joking with him, he still rolled his eyes.
 
The pair arrived at one of the boarding stations just in time, as the crewmen were starting to detach the bridge from the door going into the ship. Taehyung yelled at them to wait as he and Jungkook were running up the ramp.
 
"Have you both been through the lice check?" Asked the crewmen, one of the boys lied and said they had when in fact they hadn't. But neither had lice anyways.
 
The man accepted their tickets and the two jumped over the space between the boat and the ramp, careful not to fall through the gap and into the deep water.
 
"We're the luckiest sons of bitches, you know that?" Taehyung spoke to Jungkook, while they were running down the hall.
 
Eventually they found their way to the deck of the boat and found a spot against the railing that wasn't occupied by other people. People down below were untying the spring lines that prevented the Titanic from floating away from the dock.
 
Slowly but surely, the boat floated away from the dock a little bit, just enough so that when the propellers started to turn, it could move. All the passengers near the railings started waving and yelling goodbye to all the people on the dock, including Taehyung.
 
"You don't know anyone down there, why the hell are you saying goodbye?" Jungkook asked Taehyung, looking at him like he was insane.
 
"That's not the point dumbass" replied Taehyung. Jungkook just rolled his eyes again, but joined in with Taehyung and the other passengers.
 
The two looked and acted like they hated each other, but they were pretty good friends, infact they went through thick and thin together.
 
Soon enough, the two giant propellers in the water started rotating as the engines were turned on, and the boat started moving away from the dock at a quicker speed.
 
Soon the passengers stopped waving goodbye and all went to find the rooms they would be staying in for the entire voyage.
 
The two boys walked through the slightly crowded hallways in the steerage section of the boat, which was the lower section underneath the deck, but not exactly in the basement, as that was where the engine rooms were.
 
"G-60, G-60, G-60," Taehyung kept repeating the number of their room, until they came across it, "well, time to meet our new roommates" Taehyung said while he opened the door.
 
Once the two entered the room, Taehyung started introducing himself and his friend, the two settled into their rooms and beds, but not without a little argument over who got the top bunk of course. Taehyung decided to let Jungkook have it this time.
 
Taehyung couldn't help but think that this was going to be one of the best times of his life.
 
He had no clue what was in store for him over the next couple of days.