p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Saturday night, Rosa's favourite night of the week; family game night. Her, her parents and two sisters all sit round, get competitive and play games. It is great there is no small talk, just competition. Saturday is one of the few times Rosa wears a smile for more than a minute, even if she loses, she just enjoys the family time. Being away from school was great; she could play with her weapons all day, there were no teachers or pointless work, less expectations to live up to and less pressure. Although her parents were very strict during the school year, they did ease up over summer with their disapproving comments. Rosa had started to have interests outside of her acrobatics, fighting skills and weapons; ballet and jewelry making had brought her some new satisfaction. She would never tell any of her friends about it, they already knew too much about her. Rosa had begged her parents to move after her 6th birthday party when the squad came round, but Oscar and Julia Diaz didn't see people knowing their address as an issue, much to Rosa's annoyance./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"As game night began the smiles crossed faces and competitive spirit rose. Her Dad won Monopoly and her mother won /"Rosa, elbows off the table," Julia scolded as she brought out /Rosa sighed but complied, channelling her annoyance into her determination to win Scrabble. Her younger sisters had got tired and gone to bed, so it was just her and her parents battling it out. Soon the board was filled with words, after each was placed Oscar grabbed a dictionary to check it was valid. The draw bag was slowly emptying. Rosa was down to her last few letters. The draw bag was empty, it was now down to whoever used up all their letters first. On her turn Rosa saw her chance, placing her remaining tiles on the board to form the word "wheezily".br /"Ha, I win," Rosa /"No wheezily is spelt with an ely," Oscar /"No it is not, look it up," Rosa /"I don't need to; I know!" Oscar declared, then grabbing his remaining tiles and forming a /"But Dad, that's not fair, I won!" Rosa /"No you didn't because I won!" Oscar /"Rosa listen to your father!" Julia /"But he's wrong!" She shouted standing /"Rosa, go to your room, you are 6 years old, we are the ones who know how to spell not you!" Her mother /"I hate you!" Rosa bellowed, stomping off to her /She returned to the feeling she knew so well, wishing she had a different family, wishing they could just appreciate her and wishing she was with her friends. Rosa was too angry to go to bed, so pulled on her ballet slippers and began perfecting her moves, to a standard her parents would approve of. It was hours before Rosa finally stopped dancing and went to sleep./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"It was 10:30 the next morning and Rosa still hadn't woken up from her late /"Rosa, your friends are here!" Her mother called, Rosa didn't register this statement until it was too late. She bolted upright in her bed as she heard the footsteps in the hall and then the door /"Good morning!" Jake said happily, plonking himself down in Rosa's /Rosa sat wide eyed in her bed and looked around her room, she hadn't had time to hide things. The ballet slippers were discarded on the floor, her jewellery making stuff all set up on her dresser and her makeup and nail polish, right by Jake's /"Who are you and what have you done with Rosa?" Gina /"Shut up, why didn't you call me before coming!" She said through gritted /"You told us you didn't have a phone and that even if you did, you wouldn't give the number to us," Jake explained as his eyes wandered around all the My Little Pony /"So you do ballet?" Gina asked, she had already put on the slippers and was dancing around the /"Yes," Rosa reluctantly /"And you make jewelry and play with My Little Pony while you paint your nails," Jake said /"Shut up Jake," Rosa /"Aww Ro-Ro, I'm not scared of you, you're actually a big softie," He /Rosa snapped. She launched at Jake and got him in a headlock, he struggled and tried to fight /"Woah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry," He protested as Rosa punched him in the /"That's the Rosa I know," Gina said as she watched on, ignoring Jake's cries for /Rosa continued to beat Jake /"Okay Rosa, maybe ease off him a little bit, his Mom will be annoyed if she finds out I let im get hurt, just 3 more hits," Gina said, getting bored of watching and starting to put on the /Rosa finally released Jake, who looked terrified. He had tears in his eyes, but quickly wiped them away /"You take it back?" Rosa /"Yes, yes, yes, I take it back, you're a badass" Jake said /Rosa smiled and stood back up and sat on her /"So why'd you guys come round?" She /"Oh yeah, do you wanna come to the waterpark with us next month?" Gina /"Yeah sure, who's taking us?" Rosa /"Gina's Mom or my Mom and then probably Charles' dad and then one of Amy's parents I think," Jake /"Cool, I'll come," Rosa /"Noice," Jake said /Soon after that Rosa made them leave, Jake was too scared to argue and Gina was bored anyways. Once they had gone Rosa sat in her room smiling, it wasn't all bad. She spent the rest of the day dancing, making jewellery and playing with her My Little Pony Toys, oh and being a badass./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"As game night began the smiles crossed faces and competitive spirit rose. Her Dad won Monopoly and her mother won /"Rosa, elbows off the table," Julia scolded as she brought out /Rosa sighed but complied, channelling her annoyance into her determination to win Scrabble. Her younger sisters had got tired and gone to bed, so it was just her and her parents battling it out. Soon the board was filled with words, after each was placed Oscar grabbed a dictionary to check it was valid. The draw bag was slowly emptying. Rosa was down to her last few letters. The draw bag was empty, it was now down to whoever used up all their letters first. On her turn Rosa saw her chance, placing her remaining tiles on the board to form the word "wheezily".br /"Ha, I win," Rosa /"No wheezily is spelt with an ely," Oscar /"No it is not, look it up," Rosa /"I don't need to; I know!" Oscar declared, then grabbing his remaining tiles and forming a /"But Dad, that's not fair, I won!" Rosa /"No you didn't because I won!" Oscar /"Rosa listen to your father!" Julia /"But he's wrong!" She shouted standing /"Rosa, go to your room, you are 6 years old, we are the ones who know how to spell not you!" Her mother /"I hate you!" Rosa bellowed, stomping off to her /She returned to the feeling she knew so well, wishing she had a different family, wishing they could just appreciate her and wishing she was with her friends. Rosa was too angry to go to bed, so pulled on her ballet slippers and began perfecting her moves, to a standard her parents would approve of. It was hours before Rosa finally stopped dancing and went to sleep./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"It was 10:30 the next morning and Rosa still hadn't woken up from her late /"Rosa, your friends are here!" Her mother called, Rosa didn't register this statement until it was too late. She bolted upright in her bed as she heard the footsteps in the hall and then the door /"Good morning!" Jake said happily, plonking himself down in Rosa's /Rosa sat wide eyed in her bed and looked around her room, she hadn't had time to hide things. The ballet slippers were discarded on the floor, her jewellery making stuff all set up on her dresser and her makeup and nail polish, right by Jake's /"Who are you and what have you done with Rosa?" Gina /"Shut up, why didn't you call me before coming!" She said through gritted /"You told us you didn't have a phone and that even if you did, you wouldn't give the number to us," Jake explained as his eyes wandered around all the My Little Pony /"So you do ballet?" Gina asked, she had already put on the slippers and was dancing around the /"Yes," Rosa reluctantly /"And you make jewelry and play with My Little Pony while you paint your nails," Jake said /"Shut up Jake," Rosa /"Aww Ro-Ro, I'm not scared of you, you're actually a big softie," He /Rosa snapped. She launched at Jake and got him in a headlock, he struggled and tried to fight /"Woah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry," He protested as Rosa punched him in the /"That's the Rosa I know," Gina said as she watched on, ignoring Jake's cries for /Rosa continued to beat Jake /"Okay Rosa, maybe ease off him a little bit, his Mom will be annoyed if she finds out I let im get hurt, just 3 more hits," Gina said, getting bored of watching and starting to put on the /Rosa finally released Jake, who looked terrified. He had tears in his eyes, but quickly wiped them away /"You take it back?" Rosa /"Yes, yes, yes, I take it back, you're a badass" Jake said /Rosa smiled and stood back up and sat on her /"So why'd you guys come round?" She /"Oh yeah, do you wanna come to the waterpark with us next month?" Gina /"Yeah sure, who's taking us?" Rosa /"Gina's Mom or my Mom and then probably Charles' dad and then one of Amy's parents I think," Jake /"Cool, I'll come," Rosa /"Noice," Jake said /Soon after that Rosa made them leave, Jake was too scared to argue and Gina was bored anyways. Once they had gone Rosa sat in her room smiling, it wasn't all bad. She spent the rest of the day dancing, making jewellery and playing with her My Little Pony Toys, oh and being a badass./p