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Chapter 1. Solid Ground

Rose Lawliet sat cross-legged in her bedroom, math book on her lap. This was her best subject, but not neccesarily her favorite. It took her aboout five and a half minutes to finish the algebra assignment, and immediatley she was lying on her stomache with her nose in her favorite book; The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. She had already read that love story about a million times, but this was just her favorite tear-jerker. Well, anything by Nicholas was a "tear-jerker", really, but this was the best. She was just a sap for those romantics with the extremely tragic, yet at the same time, smile inducing endings, the good kind that left you all numb and sober-ish after you've finished crying your guts out.

She was just getting to the part where Allie and Noah were playing fate by teasing the traffic lights in the road, and getting the crap scared out of them when they nearly get hit by a car when her mom called up the stairs, "Rose! It's Mai! She wants to know if you could go to a movie tonight. I'm sending her up now," she called. With a sigh, Rose shut the book and tucked it under her pillow; it was the perfect place to hide a book for flashlight reading after bed.

The unmistakable sound of heels clacking against stairs filled Rose's ears as Amaia Yagami prancd into the room, declaring in a sing-song voice: "Mai-Mai got us a date with a plasma flatscreen!" She hopped on the bed, sitting up straight and proud. Just like her momma, Rose thought with a grin. Everybody knows that Amaia's mother was the famous idol, Misa Amani- now Yagami- and Mai was proud to show it; she had Misa's hair, and face shape, but from the pictures Rose had seen of her father, an extremely handsome, cute, and boyish looking man, she clearly took Light's deep chocolate eyes. Rose swore she had his lips, too, but the world insisted on making her as much like Misa as she could, so that was pretty much it. People saw what they wanted to see, she guessed.

With a sigh, Rose got up and stalked to her closet. If Mai was serious about going to a movie, at least she wouldn't be outdone in clothing. When it came to looks, Mai took the cake. Compared to her own raven black hair, dark eyes, pale skin, and habit of tracing her lip with her thumb, Mai was practically an idol. Not surprising, though; when you put her mother's history into account, it's not surprising to think of Mai as an actor or model. She even had some serious pipes, so singing wasn't out of the career choice, either.

"What are you doing, Rose?" Mai said impaitently. "Mai-Mai said we were going to a movie; hence, my house?" She had her hand on her hips. Well, if she was going to be that way... Screw the dress, she was going to wear a simple jacket and jeans. Her favorite pairing of clothes.

Rose let out a secret sigh of relief. At least they weren't going shopping, ugh. Because when Mai said "night on the Town," she really meant "Stop breathing, stop what you're doing, and look at me because I want to shop til I drop and YOU'RE coming with ME, regardless of your plans." Yep, she definitely took after Misa.

Suddenly, something Mai said registered in her head a little too late. "Wait.. Mai-Mai, if we're going to a movie, how are we going to your house...?" Uh oh. Was Mai planning on turning Rose into a dress up doll? Oh please, God, no!

Mai smirked. "Well.." She stuck her hand under Rose's pillow and fished out The Notebook, a smug smile on her face. She knew all of Rose's secret hiding places, which would later prove to be fatal. "Mai-Mai knows how you love this book, and I thought if I could find the one DVD you didn't have..."

"You're kidding!" Rose exclaimed. "No way! I've been looking EVERYWHERE for that DVD! Where..?" She stammered, not believing Mai's words, wanting proof.

"The secret black market that Mom gets her hair dye from. Turns out they have entertainment stuff, too, not just beauty supplies. And besides. As an early sweet sixteen.." she pulled out a sleek, shiny black credit card. "Mom got me this!" She was practically jumping for joy.

"Shink; sparkle sparkle!" Rose added a sound effect for good measure.

In terms of Amaia's past, she had never really met her father. At least, she had never spoken to him. Nine years ago, Light was given the title of "L", best detective in the world. One year later, Mai was born. It would make sence for him to be too busy to meet her, what with the KIra investegations going on. But Rose knew it pained Mai more than she let on. Seven years ago, Light was murdered by KIra, and his death was enough evedence to capture a Teru Mikami for being "Kira". Mai did not attend the funeral. As if that weren't enough, Misa was being controlled for a short period of time, and was possessed by Kira. This was a particurlarly raw subject.

As for her own father... Rose had never met him. He was a cop, and he died in the field when her Mom was two months pregnant with Rose. Stranger still, she never saw any pictures of her Dad except.. except one. She didn't even know his name. Although, people she knew who also knew her father would often say things like "Your skintone matches his perfectly," or "You have his eyes," or "You look so much like your fathr when you smile!" and sometimes "You have the same bed-head, Rose!" And she guessed it was true; it was hard to compare yourself with a person you've never met.

She herself had large, obsidian black eyes, raven black hair and bangs that covered the most part of the top of her face. She was extremely self concious of her light skin, which was currently walking the line between "extremely pale" and "Translucent". Her mother told her that her dad always nibbled on and traced his lip with his thumb, just like she did. Her mom also said that the reason why Rose always sat cross-legged, and felt uncomfortable with her legs down and sitting normal, was because her father sat on the balls of his feet with his knees pulled to his chin when he was thinking. Once she had tried sitting like this, and found she could think clearer, sans the numbing of her right foot. She would have to get used to it... But once she tried this in class, she had earned a detention, mainly because she didn't have shoes on.

So she smiled as she glomped Mai and had her into a bear hug; and the two took the stairs two at a time and headed for Mai's house to watch a heartwarming movie.

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