Written for blurred motion's "The Book Title Challenge" with the book title "Miss Popularity" by Francesco Sedita
Written for Aenaris' Charatcer Trait! Boot Camp with the prompt 'hopeful' (Hopeful!Rose)
WARNINGS: Story will consist of dark themes - abuse (sexual, physical and verbal). YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Prologue
Rose had always been popular; there was no denying it. She had always caught the attention of many boys at Hogwarts and many men later on. They seemed to be attracted to her red hair – the colour of fire – her matching personality and the confidence she brought everywhere she went.
It was as though she knew she was attractive and would tease the men as they fell at her feet.
Well, that was how people had once seen it and many had envied her. The girls would ask her how to talk to boys and how to know the boys liked them back.
Rose would always tell them the same thing: Just be yourself. You'll know if they like you.
They seemed to be under the impression that she had been in many relationships in her short life, that she knew everything there was to know about the opposite gender.
It wasn't true, of course. Rose had only been in two relationships in her twenty years and both had ended badly.
But as she sat in the cold, dark room, nursing the bruises he had caused, she found herself remembering her first kiss.
What on earth had she gotten herself into?
This is going to be a seven chapter story (including the prologue). Each chapter title will be for the Book Title Challenge, where I was given six chapter prompts. These are all from the same book, so credit to the title and chapter titles go to the author of that book. I have never written anything so dark before, so please bear with me. Thanks to cherryredxx for betaing this for me. Chapters will be relatively short, but longer than the prologue. This WILL consist of dark themes such as abuse, so if you are not comfortable in reading that, of course, I'm not expecting you to.
But, if you are, your reviews would be lovely :)