Me: Hiya peoples! This is the first chapter of Every Rose has its Thorn! The Prologue!
Drew: I kind of actually like this plot! Oh and Fprmr1 does not own anything except the plot idea! She also does not own Poisoned with love by Neon Hitch.
Me: Thank you Drew! For actually being helpful for once! Oh and I LOVE the song Poisoned with love!
Drew: There's a first time for everything!
May's POV:
Ten Years Ago
This is not fair; I am beyond repair cause of you
Yo-o-ou, you, yo-o-ou
Can't find my head, so I've fallen instead over you
Yo-o-ou, you, yo-o-ou
"Daddy!" I squealed. I ran to the giant teddy bear that was my father.
"Princess! I've missed you so much!" he told me as he brought me closer, I could smell the cologne he was wearing, it smelled like the forest, it smelled like home.
"Ready for your training?" He asked me with a smile on his face. I nodded my head and ran to the bookshelf. I grabbed a bright red book that jutted out just slightly more than the other books. As soon as it was out the bookshelf turned halfway showing an impressive training room, full of ninja knifes, throwing stars, and a bunch of training dummies.
"Today we'll work on your roundhouse kick, how does that sound?" My father asked me. I once again nodded my head, eager to perfect the move I've been working on for months.
"Well then let's get started!" was my father's reply.
"NO! We have to wait till Drew gets here!" I complained. My father chuckled at my request.
Just at that moment the front door was thrown open and revealed my red faced best friend, panting as if he just ran a marathon just to get here.
"Glad to know you'll be joining us Drew!" My father said with a hearty laugh.
"Wouldn't miss it for the world!" Drew replied with a smirk that I've known practically my whole life.
"Like I said before, let's get started!" My father once again stated while leading us to the secluded training room. I giggled and grabbed Drew's hand, leading him inside for the first time. He would be training with us, I would be trained as an assassin and he would be trained as a top shot. Someday we would join up and fight crime in the city like my dad did. My dad was a lawyer by day and a superhero by night. I was the only other person in our family that knew his secret identity. I was also the person along with Drew that would one day take over his place.
I was five at the time; I was trained for five more years, until the incident happened. Those first ten years of my life were also probably the last time I was truly happy.
Five Years Later
Blood on my sleeve, I give more than you need, yes I do
Do-o-o, I do, do-o-o
Frightened you'll creep so I cry in my sleep, yes I do
Do-o-o, I do
"Ring! Ring! Ring!"
I stared over at my shaking phone that was on the coffee table in front of me. I was currently reading one of my favorite gossip magazines and I DID NOT want to be interrupted. I waited for a while for the phone to stop ringing, but whoever it was wasn't going to stop anytime soon.
I groaned and stood up, walked my lazy self to the coffee table, and stared at my phone screen to figure out which JERK was calling me.
What caught me off guard though; it was my father's name flashing on the screen. My Father DOES NOT call me at this hour. At this time in the night he goes out and fights crime.
I hesitantly pressed the answer button with an inexplicable sense of dread slowly filling inside of me.
"Hello is this May Maple!" An urgent voice that was NOT my father's voice asked.
"Y-yes." I shakily replied.
"This is the chief lieutenant of the Police Department of Petalburg. I am sad to inform you that;" his voice hesitated before continuing his speech. "I am sad to inform you that your father was, killed tonight."
I dropped the phone when I heard that, I slowly crumpled to the floor, and the first tear slowly, painfully slid out of my eye. It wasn't before long that full sobs were coming out of me.
Just then, Drew opened the front door and cheerily said, "Ready for some more training?"
When I didn't answer at first Drew looked confused and started to look around for me.
"May? Where are you?" he asked/yelled.
"Just because you know I'm going to whip your butt in training doesn't mean you have to hide from me!" He teased.
It was then he finally noticed my sobs and ran toward my crumpled form in the living room.
"May! What happened!" He asked while helping me up from the floor.
"M-my f-father…" I tried to explain, but before I could finish a new wave of sadness and tears hit me. I would've fallen back on to the floor if it weren't for Drew that caught me.
"What happened to your father?" He demanded in a gentle way.
I took deep breaths while Drew led me to the couch that was nearby, with my long forgotten gossip magazine still lazily on top of it.
"He was killed!" I wailed, I grabbed Drew for comfort and he rubbed my back while I still sobbed.
"No, it's not possible!" he argued.
"I just got a call from the police, he, is, dead!" I countered while uselessly pointing at my abandoned phone that was on the floor.
"I-I'm sorry May…" He said; the grief and misfortune of the situation finally reached him.
And for the next couple of hours we silently comforted each other. For the death of my father not only affected me, his ten-year-old daughter. It also affected Drew my ten-year-old best friend. Even though I still had the rest of my family like my mom and my sisters and brothers, and even though Drew had HIS family, we were the only two that really were affected by my father's death and we relied on each other every single day of the year after that.
It was also the first time I realized I had a crush on my best friend.
Two Years Later
Oh I I I'm poisoned with love, love
But I I I can't get enough, enough
So I keep walking on broken glass for you, y-o-ou
I'll keep walking on broken glass for you, y-o-ou
Drew and I were creeping along the roof of the tallest building in the city, looking out for crime and potential dangers to the citizens of Petalburg.
"May, I have to tell you something." Drew told me with a monotone.
"What?" I said staring him in the eyes. He looked away.
"In two days, I-I'm moving." He stated, I could tell he was desperately trying not to show any emotion on his face.
"WHAT!" I yelled, possibly alerting every bad guy in a five mile radius of our location.
"You heard me." He replied with no emotion.
"And you couldn't have told me earlier? I just lost my dad two years ago and now my best friend is deserting me!" I screeched at him.
"It wasn't my choice. My dad just lost his job and my uncle offered him a new one in La'Rousse." He said, his eyes betrayed the stone cold façade he was trying to use. His eyes reflected the sadness that I was feeling.
I turned around from him, and ran away, as fast as I could. The wind was rushing against my black leather jumpsuit, and I left a trail of tears that fell from behind my mask.
"MAY! I mean, Silver Rose!" I heard him scream after me. I didn't turn back; I didn't want to face him again.
And that was the last time I saw him. The last time I saw my best friend.
Present (Three Years since last description), February 20th 2012 7:00 a.m.
This is not fair, but I've lost every care, I want you
yo-o-ou, you, yo-o-ou
I wear these tears and pretend they're not there just for you
yo-o-ou, you, yo-o-ou
"Beep, beep, beep!"
I groaned… Ugh, it's morning. And…it's Monday.
"Maaaaay! Wake up dear; you don't want to be late for school!" I heard my mom yell from downstairs.
"I'm up mom!" I yelled back.
I slowly took my sheets off and stretched out.
I walked to my bathroom and brushed my teeth, slowly preparing myself for school, ugh I hate that word!
At least I'll be able to see my friends! I thought while dressing.
At least there's that!
I also smelled my mom's famous chocolate chip pancakes, and bacon! A whole LOT of BACON!
I raced down stairs ready to consume more breakfast than the average human, and slurp down more orange juice than the amount of water in Niagara Falls.
Breakfast and food in general was comforting.
Present, at school 8:30 a.m.
Hurting myself, you say that I need help, and I do
Do-o-o, do, do-o-o
Under your spell, if you look you can tell I love you
yo-o-ou, I do
"Hey May!" I heard my friend Dawn call after me. I turned around and saw that the rest of my friends were with her. I grinned.
"Hey Dawn!" I replied.
"Have you heard about the new boys that are coming today?" Ella asked, ever the gossip.
"New boys?" I asked confused. I didn't hear anything about that, and with my brother the tech genius, I SHOULD know about this!
"It was short notice, I just heard from the principal." Ella further explained.
So that explained why I didn't get that piece of information, oh well, I can't know everything…that's Max's job!
"I just hope at least one of them is cute!" My friends Dawn and Leaf exclaimed at the same time.
"Yeah, remember the last new kid?" Misty asked with a grin.
Ella laughed, "Yup, not exactly our types!"
I laughed with her, I could remember Dawn's and Leaf's disappointed faces when the new boy turned up and asked where the trigonometry classroom was, and the sweater vest was a big tip off too!
"Can we head to the cafeteria now? I'm starving!" a loud voice exclaimed at the entrance of the hallway. My friends and I turned to see who arrived, it didn't sound like anyone familiar so it must be the new boys.
"Didn't you just put a breakfast buffet place out of business this morning Ash?" a spiky brown haired boy asked a raven haired boy with a cap on his head.
"But I'm still hungry!" Ash complained.
"Gary, we shouldn't even try to break his eating habit, the boy is a black hole." A stone faced purple haired boy muttered to the spiky brown haired boy.
"Now, now, let's not pick on Ash here for his eating habits. We should pick on him for his crushing defeat to me yesterday." An arrogant grass haired boy teased.
Arrogant?
Grass haired?
It couldn't be!
But as soon as I saw the boy smirk I knew it was him…Drew was back.
Present day, Silver Rose Head Quarters, 10:30 p.m.
Oh I I I'm poisoned with love, love
But I I I can't get enough, enough
So I keep walking on broken glass for you, y-o-ou
I'll keep walking on broken glass for you, y-o-ou
Somehow I managed to avoid being noticed by Drew the entire school day, which was pretty hard considering he's in all my classes. But being a crime fighting assassin teaches you how to blend in to your surroundings and strike when necessary.
Max my brother and head of tech operations at my HQ called me up here. Apparently some idiot thinks he can steal from my city while I'm on patrol! Max was going to give me the info on the heist so I knew what to expect.
"Glad you made it in time sis!" My brother exclaimed from behind all the computer equipment he was currently typing on.
"Quoting Batman, or some other super hero, justice never sleeps!" I joked.
"Here are the deets; the thief is planning on stealing a giant Ruby from the Parkinson's penthouse tonight. Around midnight or so." He began to tell me.
"Any idea on whom?" I asked him.
"That's the problem; he's a newish thief, so not much is known about him. He goes by Thorn though; his last major crime spree was in La'Rousse, and he can kick butt with a bow and arrow." Max stated after looking up the information on the data base.
"Seems simple enough, I'll just use my knives then." I declared while taking said knives from the wall.
"Be careful sis, he seems like a tough dude." Max warned his eyes full of worry.
"Nothing worse can possibly happen to us, after what happened to our dad, I think I can handle one measly little thief." I muttered.
But how very wrong was I…
To be continued…
Me: I'm sooo excited for this story! I think it's going to be the best one yet!