Not All Roses Are Red Chapter 1
Chapter 1
‘Say cheese!’ The photographer said. With one eye covered by a cola black patch, he looked more suited to a jail cell, not taking school photos. He had on a striped jumper which really didn’t help the whole idea of him being a convict.
I hate school photos, I always look like a tomato and I get that embarrassed by the whole thing.
‘Cheese’ Everyone chanted, plastering the most fake cheesy smile they could manage on their faces, yet most of the still looked normal. Where as me, lets say I don’t fit in, I’m too short, I have blond curly hair, and really pale skin. Not the best combination.
As soon as the ordeal of having the class photo was over I rushed to my locker, trying to hide the fact that my colourless face had gone the brightest beetroot shade of red there was. As I opened my locker door everything fell out hitting my already painful head. I gathered my things form the cold floor, to see thee pairs of legs standing tall over me.
‘Rose, you’re the most clumsy person I think I will ever know! I’m really going to miss you, Please stay?’ Geri said as she helped me up onto my feet, then giving me a hug with one arm crushing everything that was previously in my locker.
‘I know. I mean, I want to stay, I’m really going to miss you too. Not just you Geri, I mean all of you, Kay, Frankie, I don’t even know why, I’m going!’ I explained squishing everything back into my locker, then slamming the door. But the truth is I did know why I was moving, why my mum had told me I had to move away from my friends, my school and him, the reason that to me seemed so stupid so inconvenient. I’ve lasted 16 years, why did they need to change what was happing with my life now?
I awoke from my day dream with some one clicking frantically in front of my face ‘One guess who she’s thinking about, no prizes for being right. Rose snap out of it!!!’ Kay said violently shaking me, to get my thoughts back to the conversation.
‘Just thinking about’ as I said that sentence he came around the corner and stood there just 5ft away. The most beautiful thing I think I have ever seen. Tyler Barnes 6,1 of pure perfection. The most gorgeous Boy there was at this school. His cropped brown hair, and gorgeous, deep brown eyes, that melted you into a shaky puddle when ever he look at you. The tattoo on his arm, that no one knew when he got, it was just there. It was a dark bat with deadly-looking fangs hanging from it’s mouth, and around the edge was a colourful, slim snake that menacingly wound itself around. It was kind of alluring. With all this running through my head and clouding my thoughts, I began to blush again. Seriously people, there must be a limit on how many times you can be this embarrassed in one day!
‘Hi, so what you girls doing this weekend? Me and some friends are having a beach party and we think it would be fun to invite you all.’ Tyler Said with the most heart stopping tone. I think that if my friends wouldn’t have been there I would have fainted, fallen for his charm, fallen even more for him. (which would be difficult concerning how much I like him already!).
‘Sorry, can’t go. You see Rose is leaving tomorrow and well, after that I think I have a life. So I don’t think you or your friends are worth my time so, bye bye.’ Frankie said, making faces as she referred to him and his friends. Typical Frankie, always being patronising, talking to him like he had no brain or was from mars and didn’t understand English. Frankie was most like me, she was short but unlike me she was overly confident and extremely beautiful. Her brown hair never looked wrong or out of place, which annoyed Geri who was her twin. Geri spent hours every day getting her hair to look half as good as her sisters, but you’d never say that to her face.
‘Ok so see you around, and Rose, have fun.’ he said walking off. My heart had already stopped beating a while ago but the last comment sent me over the edge. With nothing but him going through my head it was like I forgot how to breathe. I blackness swamped me. I lay there on the cold floor, for what seemed like a life time.
‘Wake up! Rose wake up! He’s gone now, breathe!’ Geri pleaded with me in my unconscious state ‘I think she's waking up. I don’t think she banged her head, so we wont have to tell the nurse, this time.’
While I was out I saw something. I know it sounds weird but I can usually see what’s going to happen or what has happened, my mum says I’m just making it up or that I’m just making a whole load of nonsense over nothing.
I saw a beach, and usually they are very vague, but amongst the mist I saw Tyler with Geri; then it stopped. I came back to reality, with my three friends sitting by me.
‘How long was I out? Please tell me he didn’t see! Oh God, my head.’ I rambled then touched my head hesitantly. ‘Can I get up now, I think my back has frozen.’ I was trying to stand up, but I was more unsteady than usual. It took both Geri and Frankie to get me steady on my feet. ‘So, if I wasn’t moving would you go to the beach party?’
‘I’d never waist my time with them. I mean Rose, I really don’t know what you see in him, he’s so dull, he has no personality, he is quite cute... but being cute can’t make up for the fact that if I go I will probably lose 10 brain cells." Frankie argued still keeping me on my feet.
‘Frankie, I know your views. I mean would you Geri, Kay? If I wasn’t going then would you go to the party?’
‘Rose, I’d go but I really don’t want to be with them, like Frankie said I will lose brain cells and I don’t have that many to spare!’ Geri said pointing to her failed maths exam paper. ‘Rose what did you see, you have that look on your face! What's going to happen? Is one of us going to get hurt? What is it? Please tell me.’
Out of my friends, Geri was the only one who believed I saw things. She knew that when ever I saw, I sort of had a tell-tale sign, I would always look around so It would look like I was looking for someone, but really I was just thinking about what I had seen. Me and Geri stepped to the side to let Frankie continue her rant with Kay. ‘ I saw you and Taler, then everything went black. And when I say I saw you and Tyler, I mean together.’
‘Rose, you’d fainted, are you sure that you didn’t just hit your head?’
‘Geri, I’ve hit my head, a lot, and never have I seen something wrong before, so... It must be true. You and him, how could you? To me?’ I said, once again rubbing my head and my voice getting at least an octave higher as I got angry.
‘I haven’t done anything! I do like him, but I would never be with him because I know it would hurt you and you’d probably end up killing me in my sleep. Just look at your self now, your ready to smack me and I haven’t done anything!’
‘Look... You're right and, sorry, I have a load of emotions going through my head right now so I think I might be getting mixed up signals. Hug?’ So me and Geri Stood there hugging until Kay had given up listening to Frankie rant, ‘So what we doing tonight? We have to make this special, it's my last night. And Frankie your not getting out of this, I know you have that French exam tomorrow but that can wait, were having fun on my last night, the last chance we have to be the four friends.’
‘Movie night? Or shopping? How about it?’ Kay Questioned
‘Lets see, every movie I have has been packed. We have no DVD player. I kinda broke it, how was I supposed to know that cherry aide and DVD player don’t go well? I have no money to go shopping with anyway!’
‘Like I said Rose, you’re the most clumsy person I know. While I would love to have you come round to our house, I think that you need your sleep. Don’t you leave early in the morning?’
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The bell to say it was my last day of school rang. I had officially finished, and I was never to see Tyler again. Never to see Geri, Kay or Frankie again. When I walk home I usually think, and some times I end up in the middle of a road with a car coming the other way, but today I managed to avoid becoming road kill. It was difficult though, I had that image of Geri and Tyler etched into my head. then I realised it wasn’t Geri who was with Tyler, it was Frankie. I never realised it before because they are the same, but because I was so used to them I could tell them apart really easily. But in my head it was different, it was Frankie with Tyler the man she swore to loath for her whole life, so why was she with him? ...Oh well, might just be me missing home already, and I haven’t even gone yet. Wonder what I will be like here when I go?