Rosemary paused at the end of the street. She was nervous and scared. For the last months... was it months? She honestly didn't know. All she knew was that stuff had happened, and that was only because her friends had come and told her very vague information.
She wanted to stay back home, in the safety of her home. But it didn't seem right, considering the power that she had. She heard that she wasn't the only one, but still had a feeling that her power would be a very important one. Finally Rose willed herself to start walking, and finally once she had walked down the road, she started running.
Why am I running? She asked herself. It wasn't really necessary. She did have plenty of time. But in some ways she didn't. Everyone in Perido Beach were dying of hunger, or at least getting close to it. She was probably the only one that could save them.
She had still been running, and ran into someone. She feel down and scraped her knee. But didn't care because she noticed that the person that she ran into was Sam Temple. She remembered him as School Bus Sam and now knew him as everyone else knew him.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to run into you." Rose quickly said and got up off the ground. "I was actually looking for you."
She saw him look her over. He probably doesn't recognize me, Rose thought to herself. I mean I did spend all this time in my house, coming up with ways to live and testing out my power.
"Okay? What is it?" He said. He sounded like he was straining to keep from getting angry. He also looked pretty tired. She laughed, but only a little bit.
'Uhm, well I think I should tell you something." Rose took a deep breath and began. "First of all, for these last couple months I've been hiding out inside. Like everyone I ran out of food..." Rose saw him sigh. He probably heard about running out of food a lot. "Anyways, when I ran out of food I decided to give something a try. My parents were gardeners and before this thing, the FAYZ, happened we had went out of town and bought a whole bunch of seeds and soil." She was going to continue on but Sam interrupted.
"Wait, seeds and soil?"
"Yeah. I still have a bunch at home, but some are already planted. And that brings me to something else." Rose put a smile on her face. She looked around and saw a bush of welted flowers. She walked over to it and dropped. Before placing her hands on it, she made sure Sam was watching. Knowing that he was, she placed her hand over it and watched as the color came back into the flowers. After two minutes the flowers sprang up and she knew by the sensation she felt that they were in full bloom.
Rose got up. "Using this power, I grew all of those plants. It took a couple days for some of them, and less for others. And I've been collecting them. Anyways, I want to give the food to everyone here in Perido Beach. But I need one thing."
"What is that?" He asked with a look of hope on his face.
"When the people eat the food, they need to take the seeds out and send them to me. That will make sure that I can keep producing the food." She finished talking finally. It felt good to have everything out.
She looked down at herself for a moment. She was curious if she was the same person she was a couple months ago. Her legs were all cut up, but besides that she was still the same person. She was wearing shorts, a dark blue tank top, and a leather jacket over top. Looking at the jacket she remembered the apple she brought along with her. Rose took it out and put it in Sam's hand.
"Here is your first taste of my power." She said and walked away.