Rose Bud
Volume 1 Chapter 4: I'm Going to School?
"Yawn!" Rose stretches herself as she wakes up in bed. She then hears her tummy growl as she stands up. "I'm starving today. I barely ate yesterday after breakfast. I guess I was so worked up yesterday that I forgot to drop by Uncle Shiek's place to get something to eat. I bet he's worried about me." She takes a shower, changes her clothes into sweats and brushes her teeth. "Alright! I'm ready to go get something to eat!" she runs out of the house.
"Uncle Shiek! Don't worry, I'm alright!" She barges through his restaurant door without even looking around. "I'm sorry that I didn't show up yesterday." She sits down on the bar seat. "I got side tracked all day."
"Is that so? Well I'm glad to know that you're alright." Shiek laughs a little in his speech. "I'm sure you're hungry. How about some pancakes this morning?"
"Really?" her eyes sparkle.
"Chu?" Chu's eyes do too. He sits in front of Rose on the counter.
"I bet you're hungry too Chu." Shiek smiles.
"I'm sure he is." Rose laughs. "Hey, wait? CHU!?" she looks at him. "What are you doing here? I thought I told you to go live with that annoying group of people?"
"Who are you calling annoying!?" Rona yells. Rose looks over and sees her sitting two seats down from her, eating a bowl of cereal. "You should know very well that you're way more annoying than I am."
"What is the Rag Mop doing here!?" Rose yells.
"Who are you calling a rag mop!? Rag Doll!" Rona stands up and walks over to her.
"What did you call me?"
"You heard me! You look like a rag doll." Rona says.
"Well, at least I don't have rag mop hair." She folds her arms and grins at her. "If I were I would get a haircut immediately and change my hair stylist."
"The nerve of you!" Rona gets even more agitated. "If I were you I would focus less on my hair and focus more on your beauty. You need to get a whole new makeover."
"GRRRR!" Both of their for head's collide and a bolt of lightning strikes between their eyes as they grind their teeth from side to side.
"Alright," Jessie rolls her wheelchair to them. "That's enough you two. We aren't here for you two to fight like this all the time."
"What are you guys doing here?" Rose asks. "I thought I told you guys to leave me alone and to not come back."
"You did." Rona says. She turns her head and puffs out her lips. "And you said it quite rudely too. If it were up to me I wouldn't even be here. I'm only here because I got to pick my sister up for school."
"That's nice, but why do you need to pick her up here? Shouldn't she be at your house?"
"Rose," Shiek begins. "Jessie is staying here. She's paying for rent. Isn't this great? Now I have two charming young ladies coming here to eat."
"Oh, thank you so much." Jessie says.
"What!? Fine, do whatever you want." She turns around to begin eating her pancakes. "It's none of my concern where you live."
"That's great!" Jessie smiles. "But there's also one other thing that Mr. Shiek forgot to mention to you."
"Huh?" Rose looks at her with her puffed up cheeks.
"How rude to eat like that while someone's talking to you." Rona mumbles to herself as she watches Rose stuff her face full of pancakes.
"I've decided that you're going to go to high school for your junior and senior year. It'll be great for you." her Uncle Shiek says.
"What!?" she spits out pancakes all over Rona's face.
"You're going to pay for that!" Rona yells. Mr. Shiek then hands her a napkin. "Oh, thank you." She wipes the crumbs off.
"No." she stands up. "I'm not going to go to school. I can't go."
"But why not Rose?" Shiek asks.
"It's exactly what you need." Jessie says. "You will make great friends, and it's also a great opportunity for this story to bring in some more characters."
"You know very well why not Uncle Shiek!" she yells. "I'll only cause trouble for everyone there."
"I see." Rona says. "I think that you're too scared to go. I understand very well what that feels like."
"What?" Rose's face becomes scary. "I'm not scared!"
"CHU!" The rabbit shakes in fear.
"Really then." Rona gives her a nasty grin on her face. "Then prove it. I bet you can't even go to school for a day because you're too scared to even go."
"I'm not scared! Even if I was it's only because I know I'll be seeing your scary ass face!"
"What did you say!?" Rona gets agitated. "Fine, if you're not afraid, prove it to me!"
"I will."
Jessie and Shiek begin to laugh to themselves. "They act so much alike." Shiek thinks to himself. "I think these kids are exactly what she needs. I sure hope you will get over your little fear of yours."
"So this is high school?" Rose looks around the hall, watching kids walk around to their lockers and classrooms. "I haven't been in a school for a long time. Let's see; five plus five is ten. I still remember my addition."
"That's nice." Rona smirks. "How about you answer this one? What's five times two?"
"That's easy. It's ten."
"Then how about 5 square + 6 square?"
"Square? Oh…" She rubs her hair. "I never even heard of a problem like that! I think you're just making stuff up."
"As I thought. You're a dumb blond." Rona grins.
"I'm not a dumb blond!" Rose begins getting angry. "You're the loud mouth that I thought you were to begin with. I've never seen anyone with a mouth as big as you! I bet I can fit a car it."
"I would like to see you try!?" Rose's and Jessie's for heads collide and a bolt of lightning flash through each other's eyes as they grind their teeth from side to side.
"Ok you two." Jessie rolls her wheelchair into the building. "That's enough. Just so you know I'm two classes below you, Rona happens to be in your class, and your future boyfriend, Genji, is a senior." She chuckles when mentioning her brother's name.
"M… My boyfriend?" Rose's face turns red. "He's not going to be my future boyfriend."
"What the hell are you talking about Jessie?" Rona stomps her foot. "There's no way that that would happen because our brother is too good for her."
"Maybe I'm too good for him." Rose says.
"What are you talking about? Everyone is too good for you!" Their for heads collide and a bolt of lightning flash through each other's eyes as they grind their teeth from side to side.
"Well anyways Rose, Rona is to escort you around the school since you both happen to take the same exact classes. I'll be seeing you around." Jessie waves goodbye before she rolls her wheelchair away.
"Ok, goodbye I guess." Rose mumbles.
"We have a new student with us here today." Mr. Susana says. "Her name is Rose Dalila. I would like everyone to give their fullest attention to her as she introduces herself."
"Well," Rose looks at the classroom and begins to feel nervous. "I'm Rose Dalila. This is the first time I have been to school in a long time. The last time I was at school was way back when my family was still alive."
"Your family died?" someone yelled out. "What happened?"
"Well, it's kind of a long story that I really don't like to talk about." Rose rubs the back of her head with her right hand.
"Well, that should be enough Rose. You can sit right over there next to Rona." Mr. Susana points at the empty desk. "It has all the books that you need for this class."
"Ok, thanks." Rose walks over to her seat and sits down.
"You didn't have to say stuff about your private life." Rona says to her when she sits down. "That's usually something you mention when someone else asks you privately or not at all if you don't want them to know."
"Sorry, I didn't mean to. I was kind of nervous up there."
"Yea, well that's what you can expect from a dumb blond." The girl next to her, Tina, looks at Rose with a strange face. She then focuses back at the Mr. Susana as he begins starting his class.
In the other world, the lady in the black cloak waters the field of flowers with a watering can. "The red rose is dying." She says as she looks back at it that's still in the vase. The first pedal is halfway black and dried up. "I wonder how she'll take the first challenge. Will she collapse from pain and the world will end, or will she be able to get back up? Those friends she just made are mighty interesting, especially the blind one."
"So, how do you like it so far?" Jessie asks Rose when they sit down for lunch in the lunch room.
"It brings back so much memories." Rose mumbles as she chews on her food. "It's actually pretty exciting, but I'm a bit lost in the math. I really don't understand anything that's going on. What are sine, cosine and tangent?"
"Stop talking with your mouth full dumb blond!" Rona yells after getting spit on by her food. "It's really disgusting."
"Oh, sorry, but don't call me a dumb blond anymore!" she yells and spits more food on her face. "Oh, sorry for that too." She spits again.
"Just stop talking."
"Rose!" Genji yells. He walks over and sits between her and Rona. "How's your first day at school? I hope everyone's treating you fairly."
"G… Genji!?" Rose almost chokes on her food. "I uh… didn't I tell you to leave me alone?"
"What do you think you're doing!?" Tina comes barging in at them. "Genji, your seat is over here with me." She grabs ahold of his arm and tries to pull him.
"Excuse me!" Rona yells. "But he doesn't belong over anywhere near you!"
"Oh yea!" Tina's and Rona's for heads collide and a bolt of lightning flashes through each other's eyes as they grind their teeth back and forth. "We're lovers and there's nothing that's going to separate us from each other."
"You two are lovers?" Rose points at her and Genji. "Who exactly are you?"
"Oh I'm sorry. My name is Tina and this here is my boyfriend."
"Boyfriend?" Genji says. "I'm sorry, but I'm still single. I don't have a girlfriend and right now I don't even want one."
Rose begins to crack up laughing. "What is so funny to you?" Tina looks over at her. "Do I look like a clown to you?"
"Well," Rona begins to say. "From my perspective…"
"No one asked you!"
"It's just," Rose begins saying as she starts to calm down on her laughing. "You make me think of a little kid with your attitude. Always going after a guy that's not interested in you and claim he's yours." Tina's face begins to light up.
"That's it!" she yells. "I won't tolerate this anymore. I challenge you to a game right here and now. If I win Genji will by my boyfriend, and if you win he'll be yours, but I won't guarantee I will give up on him if you do happen to win." She mumbles.
"A challenge?" Rose looks at her in confusion. "What do you mean by a challenge?"
"You're such a dumb blond." Rona mumbles. "She's asking you to participate in some sort of game to decide a winner. Honestly, I don't think you should be doing something like this when you barely know anything about school life."
"I never heard anything about challenging other kids in school before." Rose mumbles.
"Technically no one challenges people randomly." Rona adds. "It's just that she feels like she'll win over my brother's heart if she wins. I don't accept these agreements." She says to Tina.
"Actually Rona," Jessie says. "I think that a challenge will be great for her."
"But I don't like the terms." Genji mumbles. "I don't want to be anyone's boyfriend?" he's being ignored by all the other girls.
"Do you accept or don't accept, Rose?" Tina looks at her with a grin. "Are you too scared to accept something like this because you know that you'll lose?"
"Me? Scared?" Rose stands straight up. "Of course not! I'll show you that I'm not scared and I'll beat you at whatever game you chose."
"That's fine with me." Tina smiles.