"You really can't hang out tonight?" Derek sighed as him, Bastian and Rosella walked to school.
Rosella rolled her eyes "I know.. Aunt Elsa is having a dinner party tonight and I have to be there to serve drinks and Bastian has math homework I need to help him with."
"Oh yeah.. my parents are going.." he sighed and laughed at Rosella "You never know when to have fun do you." Rosella pushed him playfully as they walked to the school. Bastian turned the corner to go to the middle school, before he was stopped in front of Rosella "Now, if those bullies pick on you again, what did I tell you to do.."
"Ignore them." Bastian said proudly.
"Right." Rosella nodded "Have a good day." She sent him on his way. Derek smiled as Rosella watched him walk into the gate "He's fine Rosella!"
"I have to worry.. ever since he skipped two grades those kids haven't laid back on him.." her lip bunched together "If I was in that school I'd.."
"Easy tiger.. He's gonna be fine.. I know I would with you as my sister." He stumbled his words "I mean not that I want you as my sister, your just really tough.." he stumbled on the dirt road "Not that you look tough, I'm sure your really soft." He saw her face twist in confusion "Not that soft!" he rose up and dusted himself off, Rosella stopped him "Derek, we're here." They made it to the main hallway of the school and the lockers. Rosella headed to her locker and grumbled to herself as she heard loud noises coming from the end of the hallway "Here comes the jerks.. I mean- Jocks.." she playfully winked at Derek who laughed in return.
The jocks of course had a very rotten reputation of being the most popular, mesmerizingly stupid, most handsome boys on campus. Not only was the Martin Lake High most known for their football team, but most known for their jocks reputation. One of them, a tall brunette with dark brown eyes named Daniel, was the least stupid out of all of them. He was an egocentric jerk, but somehow every woman wanted to be with him, and every man wanted to be him… everyone except Derek and Rosella. Daniel made his way across the hallway and stopped in front of Rosella's locker "Hey princess, what are you up to this weekend?"
"Nothing with you Daniel." She simply said as he leaned closer "Well lucky for you I don't have a date to the dance, do you know who will be going with me?"
"Your mom?" Derek answered back, earning a smile from Rosella, but an annoyed glance from the crowned prince of the jocks. "Rosella I'll pick you up at eight."
"Well sorry to tell you I'm not going.. I have things to do." She slammed her locker shut and attempted to walk away, the boys started to murmur amounst themselves when Daniel grabbed her arm "You don't understand, I talked to your lovely aunt about going and she said it was okay."
Rosella started "She doesn't tell me how to live my life. Now let me go."
He gripped tighter and pulled her close to him "Rosella you don't understand, I said-"
Derek intervened "She said. Let. Her. Go."
"Cool it Mooney.. I'm trying to get a date."
"It looks like you're hurting her, now let her go." The bell rang, dismissing the fight, Daniel let go of the girl and marched up to the boy "You better watch your back Mooney.. you'll regret the day you messed with someone like me. Me and my boys can really mess you up." he cracked his knuckles and walked with the boys the opposite way. Derek turned to Rosella who was rubbing her arm "Are you ok?"
"Yeah, he just gripped to tight.. really Derek, you shouldn't mess with him."
He waved his hands in the air "Oooo I'm so scared.. did it ever occur to you he's just a big jerk?" he grabbed his books and shut his locker "Brains always beats brawn Ro.. let's be honest."
By the time school was over, Rosella and Derek walked down the dirt path to the middle school down the road. She saw Bastian trudge to her and bury his head into her as they met "Bastian? Bastian?" she picked up his head and saw a black eye on the left side of his face "Bastian? What happened?"
The little boy quivered and answered his sister "I did what you said.. and Bailey kept bugging me.. he pushed me and said 'Disney movies are for babies' so I tackled him and he punched me.." he sniffled "I just want to go home and watch Hercules again.." Derek patted him on the shoulder "I thought that was very brave of you Bastian."
Rosella looked at him in annoyance and whispered "What about brain and brawn?"
He ignored her "Bastian I'm nineteen years old.. do you think I'm a baby?"
"No! you're the coolest guy I know!"
"Yeah! And I love Disney!" he patted the boy on the back "Now never forget who you really are Bastian, and you'll be just fine." He smiled as the boy ran ahead to their home. Rosella followed him up the fence to their house, waving goodbye to Derek, who lived next door.
They began their cleaning, Bastian would do the dusting as Rosella would vacumme. Rosella took out the vacumme out of the closet, as the other stuff toppled over. "Bastian! I told you to push the cleaning supplies to the back of the closet!" she sighed and started to clean the bottles and rags, she noticed a rag in the back of the closet was stuck to something as Bastian headed down the stairs. "Bastian help me pull this!" he grabbed onto her waist as they pulled. The rag broke free and suddenly the floor busted open, like a locked door. It was a small opening, big enough for two people to walk through, Bastian started to walk down the stairs as Rosella stopped him "Bastian!"
"Ro, come on.. this is the most fun we've had in this house!" with a huff, they headed down the steps into a large room, covered with books and boxes, an old piano and other knick knacks. Bastian explored around while Rosella gently looked through a pile of pictures, noticing some of mom and dad "Bastian look!" she turned and noticed that Bastian had found an explores hat he adorned on his head, he buried through things until he found a small, tatterd brown paper bag. He handed it to Rosella "It says it's for Anna.. that's mom's name." she opened the paper and quirked an eyebrow, it was a gold charm shaped like a flower, the petals were crystal emerald gems, while the center was a small ruby. The gold chain glimmered in her eyes as she heard Aunt Elsa's car pull up.
"We'd better go…" she consciously pulled the necklace over her neck and tucked it into her grey sweatshirt. They quickly hurried up the steps, ready to prepare for tonight's party.