Rose opened her eyes to a cat sitting on her chest "AH! WHO ARE YOU?!" She yelled falling off her bed her long straight black hair hitting the floor. The cat was now staring at her straight in the face "How do you do?" The cat asked putting out his paw and Rose politely shook it as she didn't want to hurt the cat's feeling also she thought she was still dreaming "Hello Mrs. Marigold I am Preston I am a messenger" Rose was a little astonished she pinched herself to see if she was still dreaming. She wasn't. "Hello, Preston please call me Rose I'm not even the woman of the house" She wasn't as confused as many other humans might be. This was only because she had seen a lot weirder things than a talking cat, like the time she was getting bullied and then a red laser shot them in the eye out of nowhere or when she was trying to study for a test and then everything she needed to know was in her head. The cat saw Rose's confused face "Oh am I still a cat?" He said changing into a tall young man. Rose got knocked over half from astonishment and half from the force of the transformation.
"What the hell?" was all she could muster.
Preston put out his hand for Rose to grab to pull her up. She obliged giving him her hand. He pulled her up. Rose dusted off her nightclothes.
"Mrs. Mari-I mean Rose, I have a message for you," Preston said pulling a slip of paper out of his back pocket "You mustn't go on the field trip your school is putting together you will be in grave danger!"
Rose couldn't say anything because he had turned into a bird and flew away. It was still dark out and that gave her time to finish the homework she didn't finish last night because her parents had put together movie night and pizza! She took it out and set it on the table but all she could think about was what just happened and if it connected to the dreams she kept having of a yellow triangle with an eye in the middle of its forehead. She only thought it would connect because they were both magic. She finally started working on her homework but her pink bangs kept getting in the way. They were a pretty big part of her look because without them she just looked like any other girl with straight black hair. They were pink because everyone said it was her color.
She finished her homework without another thought and put it away in her backpack. She looked at her clock 7:00 it read. This was a good time to get ready for the day. She walked into her bathroom and gazed into the mirror and touched the heart-shaped eyepatch on the counter and looked at the eye it was supposed to be covering up. Black that was it no whites no iris just black, it had been like that for as long as she could remember. She grabbed the eyepatch and slid it onto her face. She put on the drastic makeup that she usually wasn't allowed at school but because they were going on a field trip it was allowed. The pink swooped across her face like a bird's wing, she put her hair up into her signature ponytail only the black pulled back and the pink hanging in the front.
She walked out of her bathroom and up to her wardrobe she picked out a black crop top, a black skirt, fishnet stockings, and her favorite pink leather jacket. She looked in her body mirror right beside the wardrobe "Damn I'm hot" she whispered to herself. She thought about what Preston had said again, why shouldn't she go on the field trip it wasn't too like a park it was at a museum? She raced downstairs to see her mother cooking breakfast she grabbed a slice of bread and stuck it into the toaster "What are you doing? I'm making breakfast!" Her mom asked. "I'm going to be late for the field trip I forgot we had to get to school early! Sorry I missed your delicious breakfast mom!" Rose grabbed her toast and her backpack and ran out the door.
She decided that the forest was the best option if she wasn't going to get a chance to take her eyepatch off for the rest of the day. She slowly walked up the path leading into the forest and when she was pretty far in she took her eyepatch off and shoved the black heart into her pocket. The forest was brimming with magic it all fed into her sole it made her more powerful.
"Rideable magic cloud" she whispered and a cloud popped out of nowhere. She hoped on it zooming through the rest of the forest.
The school was just a big red brick building with many, many windows. She dismounted her cloud and put her eyepatch back on, she couldn't risk anyone seeing her magic eye. The cloud disappeared as she walked into the school. She started towards the gym but she got stopped by her best friend Erin "Girl wait for me!" She yelled her lilac hair flowing behind her as she ran towards Rose.
"Hey! Come on we need to get to the gym!" Rose said pulling Erin. The gym was big and full of people but her friends were hard to miss, multicolored hair and badass clothes, they were just a bunch of punk kids. Rose and Erin walked over to their friends said hi to everyone and slumped down on the floor they new it was going to be a long wait.
"Everyone line up in your line! The cone in front should have your grade on it! OK?" One of the coaches yelled 15 minutes later and everyone started shuffling into their lines all of her friends went into the farthest line from them because they were all Seniors. A few moments after that the teachers started leading lines into the busses they were last.
When it was finally there turn Erin clutched to Rose because this was her first time going on a field trip, this was because she was in foster care and was bounced round through different families and this one was nice enough to pay the money for the field trip. They boarded the bus, they had to sit in the front of the already crowded bus because the juniors had the back. Everyone sat down two students per seat, Erin and Rose sat together. The ride was boring and Erin had fallen asleep resting her head on Rose's shoulder this gave Rose time to think. What did he mean by grave danger? It probably wouldn't be to bad because she did have magic powers, then again the shapeshifter man was magic too and he came to warn her. She got lost in her thoughts and she didn't realise that they were almost there.
Erin woke up "Rose? Are you ok?" She said seeing the look on Rose's face, Rose snapped out of her thoughts "Yeah Erin I'm fine!" She said as the bus came to a hult in front of the museum.
"Everyone file out of the bus in an orderly fashion, no pushing people over or running!" The supervising teacher said as she dismissed the first row she kept doing that till all of the people were out of the bus and it there grade level lines. The tour guides took one line each Rose's line got a pretty young lady. "Ok everyone follow me!" She said cheerfully, everyone was just following around her looking at paintings and sculptures Erin was having the time of her life, she loved art so this was so cool to her.
"Ok everyone here's the bathrooms if you need to use them you can right now!" The tour guide said cheerfully Rose thought she was way to cheerful. She walked into the bathroom and into a stall. She took off her eyepatch this place was brimming with magical activity almost as much as the forest she needed to try something. She concentrated very hard and she found the place it was coming from it was one of the exhibits that they hadn't gone in yet.
"Invisible" she muttered under her her breath so no one else in the bathroom would here her. She did turn invisible so she snuck out of the bathroom and towards the exhibit. The front had a guint triangle on it, it kind of looked like the one from her dream she walked in still invisible she saw another picture of the triangle and a notebook underneath labeled-4. Was this notebook what was magical? She reached out to touch it but then she saw the littlest sliver of her hand she hid behind one of the boxes when she wasn't invisible anymore she came out from her hiding place. Then she ran for the door she needed to get back to the group! Then she banged into someone she hadn't see befor. She fell over while he still stood up. He put out his hand. Rose took it and he pulled her up just then she got a good look at his features, he had golden hair, and an eyepatch over the same eye as hers, He looked like he was the same age as her. He also look a lot like her.
The were both confused then he stuck out his hand "Hi I'm William, but you can call me Bill!" Rose shook his hand "Rose Marigold" She said looking at the strange markings on his hand they looked like the triangle that she kept seeing today. Bill walked away straight for the journal she could tell that it was magic now and she could tell he was to. She ran up and asked "Hey what are you doing here? Are you from my school?" Bill looked confused "Umm I just came here on my own time, I'm homeschooled." Rose nodded she was the only thing standing between him and the journal she couldn't let him have it she wanted it so that she could study it and see why it was admitting magic into the air.
Bill checked his watch "Oh um I have to go! Maybe see you around!" He said and ran off.
Well that was strange she thought she took of her eyepatch for a second and conjured up a fake of the journal and took the real one and replace it with the new one.
Rose ran back to her class, the journal in her backpack "There she is! Its Rose!" Erin yelled and ran up and hugged her "OMG we were about to go send out a search party for you!" Rose was blushing half from the embarrassment and half because she had a crush on Erin.
"Oh I just go lost and stumbled into that exhibit over there" she pointed at the Dinosaur exhibit.
The rest of the field trip was a blur until she was back on the bus. Rose was connecting the dots "That dude was the triangle guy and the shapeshifter man was trying to warn me of him because he could have hurt me" She muttered under her breath. Erin was asleep again so Rose opened the notebook and read through one sentence really got her attention it said,
Rose Cipher twin sister of William (Bill) Cipher was cast out of the castle at a young age and put up for adoption. She was adopted by the Marigolds a loving family in New York. We need to keep her away from Bill or she will go down the wrong path. If this plan works by the time she is 18 she should have at least one of the journals preferably this one. She should defeat Bill once and for all because she is the only one who can match his power. There family symbol the triangle as many of us know. Bill will try to talk to her in dreams or even try to hurt her. But in the end she needs to win or weirdmageddon will inso!
This made her even more confused this made sense but why did she need to stop him, who are "us" and was that boy that she met in the triangle Bill Cipher, is she related to him? Well first she needed to read more into this journal. She decided not to tell her "parents" this was to confusing she didn't want them in her mess.
Rose walked in the door at home, plopped her backpack down on the table, went to the freezer and grabbed the ice cream. After the day she just had she thought it would be ok if she had some. She opened the notebook to see if there were any more things that would catch her eye. Then her mom walked in the door "Hi sweety" she said as she hung her purse on the coat rack.
"Mom! How was your day?" Rose asked as to not raise any suspicions. She closed the journal and slid it into her backpack.
"Oh, it was great I go to meet the new employees!" Her mom answered almost squealing. Her job was to meet with new people and talk to them, she was good with words. "How was your day?" She asked Rose after calming down a bit. "It was enlightening," Rose answered, "I have to go to my room, I want to change." She grabbed her backpack and made her way up the stairs. Once in her she heard her mom yelling "What about the ice cream" Rose rolled her eyes she new her mom would figure it out.
She did come into her room to change, the fishnets were driving her mad. A comfy tee and sweatpants would do! She laid down on her bed and pulled her eyepatch off closed her eyes, she didn't notice but all of her furniture and crap all over her floor were floating until she opened her eyes and everything fell back down "Omph, did I do that?" She needed to research Bill more.
