Concrete Angel
She walks to school with a lunch she packed nobody knows what she's holding back. Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday she hides the bruises with the linen and lace. The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask. It's hard to see the pain behind the mask.
Five months later the band was back in LA again. Rosalina's dad was finally getting married. Rosalina was very happy because she was finally getting a mom. Rosalina stood beside her dad at the altar and watched her new mother walk down the isle.
Later that same day Rosalina's dad said "Rosebud I'm thinking about moving back to New York. Your mom used to live in our old house and wants to move back there."
Rosalina said "that's great dad! When do you think you'll be back up?"
Rosalina's dad said "I don't know Rosebud. I'd say best case is we'll be back in New York in four weeks.
Four weeks later Nat noticed a change in Rosalina. She was always wearing the same dress and when ever he put his arm around her she would shy away. One afternoon Rosalina's teacher noticed something was wrong with her. Rosalina sat by herself and wouldn't talk to anyone.
At lunch the next day Nat sat beside Rosalina and asked "is something bothering you?"
Rosalina sighed and said "it's nothing Nat. I promise nothing is bothering me."
Nat shrugged his shoulders he knew something was bothering Rosalina. He spoke gently and said "I can see right through your mask. Other people can't see your pain because you hide it but I know you too well."
Bearing the burden of a secret storm sometimes she wishes she was never born. Somebody cries in the middle of the night. The neighbors hear but they turn out the light. A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate when morning comes it will be too late.
Rosalina dreaded going home and the band knew it but they didn't know why. Rosalina's new stepmother was abusive. The reason the band didn't know was whenever they were around she was kind and treated Rosalina like her own daughter.
Rosalina kept it a secret from everyone and sometimes she wished that she had never been born but she didn't want to worry Nat. One night Mr. Wolf heard someone crying. It made him nervous so he just ignored it and turned out the light after checking on Nat and Alex.
Rosalina's step mother's beating had been worse than usual that night and she had a feeling she wouldn't live to see the morning sun come through her window. She took a piece of paper out of her notebook after her stepmother had left the room and wrote a note to Nat and another one to her dad.
In the morning Nat went to walk with Rosalina to school and heard her dad crying. He went inside and saw that her dad was kneeling in front of Rosalina's lifeless body. Nat stifled a scream and tried hard not to cry.
Rosalina's dad handed him a note written Rosalina's hand. The note read "Nat I love you so much you've made my dreams come true. By the time you read this I will most likely be dead. My stepmother killed me tonight and as I lie here on the floor writing this I know this will be a peaceful end and I will finally be loved."
A statue stands in a sheltered place an angel girl with an upturned face. Her name is written on a polished rock a broken heart that the world forgot. Through the wind and the rain it stands hard as a stone. In a world that she can't raise above but her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she's loved concrete angle.
Two days after Rosalina's death Nat and the rest of the band stood in a place sheltered by trees and the sun was just setting behind the hill. Nat however wasn't thinking about the beauty he was thinking about why they were there. The band was there to bury Rosalina. Nat stood up and asked Rosalina's dad if he could speak.
Rosalina's dad sadly said "Rosalina would want you to say a few words."
Nat sighed and said "Rosalina you were strong and brave. Sometimes you were too strong and tried to take on more then you could handle. We all miss you even Tomas cried a little when I told him. I guess what I'm trying to say is we all love you and you were unfairly pulled away from us too soon. Rest in peace my beautiful concrete angel."