Opposites Attract

A/N - This fanfic is Rax and Danice. I really shouldn't have started it because I need to be finishing the ones I have - ie 'As One' coz I seem to never have time for it anyway I have started it so there haha. This is the first time I have attempted to write Rax so if I start focusing on the Danice just give me shout in the form of a PM or review coz if u dnt I probs won't hear u unless u r quite near to me! :D

I will try to update this as often as possible bt wi two other stories on the go and being back at Uni very soon I can't promise anything

ANYWAY

This is based at South Africa. Rax are both 15 and Danice are both 36. Nothing else to say really Except hope you enjoy.

(X)

Rosie sat in the kitchen at home with her friend Emily, she fiddled with an empty crisp packet. Emily was looking at her.

"So your dad…."

"Is gonna freak out. For once he will actually know I'm alive." Rosie drawled.

"Just explain it to him."

"You think he'll believe me?" Rosie asked incredulous.

"He might."

Rosie snorted her reply. "I hate him Em!"

"Who your dad?"

"No, well I don't much like him either I mean HIM!"

"O, he who should not be named then?"

"Yes." she seethed.

"I don't think he's all that bad." Emily mused.

Rosie got up and tossed her an apple.

"Not that bad! Him and that slimy girlfriend of his are making my life hell and he isn't that bad?"

"C'mon aren't you being overly dramatic?" Emily asked.

"No actually I'm not!" she sat back down and slapped her hands off the table.

Emily smiled. "You have to admit he's kinda cute."

"I don't have to admit anything, and he isn't cute!" except he really was, and he knew it too! "He's just an arrogant, self centred egotistical jerk!"

"You thought hard about him to come up with so many words Rose." Emily grinned.

"No I would have add more but those are all I could come up with in the spur of the moment." she ground her teeth together. "Eugh I just hate him!"

"You have to at least try to get along with him seeing as your sat together in some of your lessons."

"Yeah how could I got moved next to chuckles the evil clown and not you?"

"Coz she knows that if she moves me I'd only talk to him. It's widely known that you and Ma…."

Rosie glared.

"That you and he who should not be known can't stand each other."

"Yeah so the teachers all have a sick sense of humour. She exhaled. "Why does he provoke me Em?"

Emily shrugged. "Maybe he fancies you."

"I seriously doubt that." she muttered dryly.

"I dunno, he tried to get you attention at the beginning of the year and you weren't listening."

"What so now he spends all his time thinking of ways to get me angry?"

"Who knows how boys minds work." Emily muttered

"Anyway he has a girlfriend. Not that I'm interested." She really wasn't! She loathed him!

Rosie heard footsteps. She exhaled. Here comes father. She dropped her head onto her hands.

"Just tell him." Emily whispered to her.

"Rosie I saw your mid term report." Danny spoke up.

Rosie already knew the damage, all her old marks had dropped, dramatically.

"What happened to your high grades?"

She got sat next to Max Gifthold that's what! "Nothing dad." she said raising her head.

"Emily I have rang your mother, she is coming to collect you." If that is how Rosie wanted to act then so be it.

"That's not fair!" Rosie said standing up.

Emily covered her face with her hands. She knew what was coming, recently Rosie had been flying off the handle for next to nothing and Emily knew that a blow up of massive proportions was imminent.

"Until your marks pick back up then no friends at home and there's other things I'll do if you push it!"

"So I'm not allowed friends?" she fumed clenching her fists.

"Don't start like this Rosie. This is important!"

She glared at her dad. This wasn't her fault. Max came in and messed her life up an she gets punished for it!

"Why are all men pricks?" she asked Emily.

"ROSIE!" Danny declared.

She looked at her dad disgust on her face. "Well it's true every single man I know! I do absolutely nothing wrong and I'm getting punished.

"Rosie." Emily hazarded, knowing it was no good. Rosie was gearing up to go the whole way.

"Tell me what us bothering you and we'll sort it, but I'm not letting you off for your marks dropping so drastically."

"This is MY life dad, if I want shitty marks then I'll have them!"

"Rosie I don't like swearing so stop it."

"Fuck you." she hissed crossing her arms.

Danny rubbed his face. "What is wrong Rosie? I can help."

"I seriously doubt that, not that you even want to. Acting like a good dad coz Emily is here." she muttered shaking her head. "Your too busy sorting your animal surgery to even know I'm alive."

"That's not true Rosie."

"Well how come it took you 5 months to realise that my grades have been steadily slipping?"

Emily looked uncomfortable, finally heard her mum's car beep. "I'll call you Rosie."

"Telephone the house, I may confiscate her phone."

Rosie crossed her arms tightly. "You think I care if you take it away? Take everything I don't care!"

Danny waited till Emily was gone. "Rosie." he started softly.

"I'm sure there is an animal that needs you! I'm secondary on your list of important stuff."

"Rosie your really not."

"I was on report a few weeks ago. Did you know that?"

He frowned. "Why?"

"My work." she took a step towards him. "Messages from school on your phone. Letters from school. Emails." She counted it off her fingers. "Unless it says Leopards Den surgery you don't see it!"

"Are you doing this to get my attention?" he asked.

"No dad. I learned long ago that unless I sprouted fur and grew claws nothing I said or did would get your attention."

"Not true Rosie." Danny protested.

"Then why don't you spend time with me? Or even act like you love me anymore. Ever since mum died you just cut yourself off from me! Before mum died it was bad enough but now I may as well live alone in this house!" Well except for Nomsa, Dupe and Caroline.

"I'm busy Rosie and you know that I love you."

"No dad I don't. Look at my room. I have all top of the range stuff, designer clothes the lot. I say the word and you get it. Is there one picture of me and you in there? NO. all I want is some of your time, I don't want all that stuff. At first I thought if I get a good laptop maybe dad will show me how to use it. I taught myself. Some nice clothes, maybe me and dad will go out for a meal. I go bowling with my friends. It's easier for you to throw stuff at me then to get to know me!"

"Rosie I didn't know, you should have said. I give you space coz that what teenage girls want from their dad."

"I lost my mum! YOUR ALL I HAVE!" she was breathing heavily. "Doesn't matter now. It's too late, something else you don't know. As soon as July comes and school is finished I'm gone!"

Danny paled. "What?"

"Yep, in 5 months time I'm going to Bristol. Auntie Clare. said I could stay with her."

Clare had always disliked him, she was Miranda's sister. She had no doubt fed Rosie's anger. "Rosie you have to stay…."

"IF I stay she comes here!" she compromised.

Danny clenched his teeth. He didn't much care for Clare either. "Ok." he agreed.

Rosie frowned expecting a vehement denial.

"If you and I don't have a better relationship within 3 months time she can come over and I'll pay for the ticket myself. All I ask is for a fair shot."

"I may as well ring her now coz you and I both know that you couldn't find one hour to spend with me!"

"Don't count on it Rosie."

(X)

Danny knocked on Rosie's bedroom door that night. She was chatting on her phone. "C'min." she called.

He walked in. "Hi." saw her lying on her stomach phone pressed to her ear.

"Dad." she replied dryly. "This shouldn't take long." she said into the phone.

"I thought since we don't spend time it might be good if we got started straight away. Slowly. Tell me about your day." he said sitting down.

"I'm busy dad." she said sitting up.

"You wanted to spend more time. I'm here."

"Yeah and it's when you want, that's not fair!"

"Rosie I am trying here!" he said angrily.

She put the phone down. "O and I am grateful to be given a scrap of your valuable time!" she hissed sarcastically. "How about I shine your shoes while you're here to show my gratitude?"

Danny exhaled. "I don't know what you want from me Rosie you say you want time and I'm giving you time!"

"Fine!" she spat. "My day was rubbish, I got into trouble at school, the norm recently if you even bothered to listen you'd know that! Then I got home knowing full well that my self obsessed father was gonna decided that it was passed time he played daddy. Except guess what? Has has no clue who I am or how I do things. Now he's sat in front of me trying to convince me to act like the Brady bunch! Well we aren't the Brady Bunch and to be honest I don't even like you! So all in all this day has been worse than the rest I'd prefer that you go back to making me invisible! Tell me about your day! Is that the best you have?" she got up and stomped from the room.

Danny rubbed his face and waited for her to return, when she didn't he decided to retreat, regroup and try again tomorrow when feelings weren't running as high. "Rosie bedtime." he knocked on the bathroom door as he passed knowing that was where she would hide.

He walked into his room, picked up the picture of his wife. Felt longing for her fill him.

"Where am I going wrong?" he whispered to her smiling face. "Is she right? Am I neglecting her? I admit I got in the habit of buying her stuff but only coz I was trying to fill the void you left."

God he missed his wife, she was like the other half of him, without her he felt lost. A sudden heart attack had stolen her from them 2 years ago. Ever since then Rosie had changed from a happy child so someone he didn't know.

"I'll do better." he promised Miranda. "I'll get our daughter back somehow." ran his fingers down her face, missing her more than words could describe.

A/N and it has begun, straight into the story, the next chapter u get your first view of max - trust me all does not go well!
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