Chapter 5
It was a Friday and the bell had just rung signalising the end of school and Rachel was glad to get out of her office, as she'd had a particularly stressful week, however almost as soon as she did her mobile started ringing. She sighed but realised she'd have to answer it In case it was important
Soon she realised it was Lily's teacher, telling her that lily had seemed really unsettled over the last week or so and had finished up getting into trouble quite a lot in lessons for not concentrating and distracting the others . Rachel promised that's she'd talk to her, however as she was driving to pick Rosie up she began to wonder what is was she should actually say as she was worried that something might be going on to make Lily act up and if she told her off it might make her close up to her.
She waited outside of Rosie's school for a while until she eventually came out and got in the usual she had a big smile on her face, she always seemed to whenever she came out of school on a Friday.
"Hiya Rosie did you have a nice day"
"Yeah it was pretty good, I'm so glad it's the weekend though"
"Me too actually, do you have any plans with your friends or are you just stopping in with me"
Recently Rosie had started going out with her friends on at least one of the days in the weekend, and as nice as it was for Rachel to see her mixing in with all the other girls, she couldn't help but wish she could have her to herself just for one weekend.
"No I'm just stopping in"
"Well we'll have to think of something nice to do then won't we?"
"Yep, so how was your day"
"Not too bad, I just had a call from Lily's teacher though"
Rachel thought it was important she told Rosie as sometimes Rosie was good at talking to lily, when lily didn't feel comfortable talking to Rachel or joe.
"Why what did she do?"
"Well apparently she'd been acting up in lessons quite a bit and had seemed a bit unsettled"
"That's weird normally Lily's so good"
"Yeah I know, it all seems a little strange to be honest" Rachel sighed
They drove back home as joe had managed to get go e from work In time to pick lily up.
As soon as Rachel came in lily came in and gave her a hug.
"Hey lily, was school okay" Rachel asked
"Yeah" lily replied but she sounded pretty flat
"rach, come in here a sec i need to talk to you" joe called
"go upstairs lily, i'm going to come up in a second to get you changed"
Lily went upstairs and Rachel went through to the back room to see joe, wondering what had happened
"Rach do you know if anythings gone on with lily she seemed really upset"
"Her teacher called me, turns out she's been getting into trouble in lessons and stuff"
"That doesn't sound like lily"
"I know, I'll go and have a talk with her now"
Rachel then went upstairs and into Lily's room, where she found her sat on her bed looking a little scared.
"Lily can I have a couple of words with you love"
Lily nodded her head but Rachel saw she looked frightened already
"It's just I've had your teacher on the phone to me earlier and ..she said ... Well" Rachel had to pause for a moment as she thought of the best way to put it "she said you seemed a bit unsettled"
"No I dont" lily protested
"Well she told me you were acting up in class a bit"
"She's lying" Lily said instantly
"Are you going to tell me the truth?"
"I have told you the truth, she was lying to you"
"And why would she do that?"
"Because she doesn't like me"
"Well I'm sure that's not the case, but even if it was a doubt very much she would lie"
"Well I didn't do anything bad"
"Okay then, you talk me through why you think she might be a little bit annoyed with you"
"I don't know"'lily mumbled
"It's just she seems to think that you've been very cheeky to lots of your teachers, apparently you refused to do anything at all in your music lesson and sat with your hands over your ears and you've really distracted all the other kids, so is any of that true?"
Lily shook her head vigorously
"So she made it all up?"
"Yes"
"You see lily I don't believe you. I don't think someone would make up everything to me on the phone, I honestly think something did go on at school today"
"It didn't"
"Lily I wouldn't be that cross if you told me the truth, but what I really can't stand is when people lie to me, you'll find that out over the years"
Lily thought for a moment, before whispering "some of it did happen"
"Which parts of it?"
"All of it" lily mumbled
"Well do you think it was acceptable?" Rachel asked
Although Rachel didn't want to get angry with lily, she knew she had to learn too so she couldn't exactly just let her get away with it
"No"
"Well neither do I to me it sounds completely unacceptable"
Lily felt as though she was about to cry however she bit her lip and prayed she wouldn't, she'd never been in trouble with Rachel before, not properly anyway, and she was beginning to feel quite anxious.
"Why did you do it?"
Lily shrugged her shoulders
"Lily when I'm talking to you, you answer me okay, so why did you do it"
"I don't know"
"But it really doesn't sound like you" Rachel sighed
"Sorry" lily mumbled
"Well you make sure there isn't a repeat, or they'll be trouble" Rachel said
Lily didn't say anything else, so Rachel sighed and got up, but as she was leaving she began to think maybe she should have stayed and really tried to find out what was going on.
Rachel went down and saw joe was already getting on with tea, which meant she could put her feet up for 5 minutes
She was sat on the lounge in the back room when Rosie suddenly came in
"Hey love"
"Rach did you talk to lily?"
"Yeah I did, she didn't say why she did it or anything"
"Is she okay?"
"She was pretty quiet but I don't think she's too bad, will you do me a favour and go and check on her for me"
Rosie quickly went upstairs and into Lily's room, she was sad when she saw her crying into her pillow
"Lily what's happened?"
"Rachel doesn't like me anymore" lily mumbled
Rosie sighed before going over and sitting next to her on the bed
"I'm sure that's not true, why don't you think she likes you?"
"Because I was really bad in school" lily admitted
"I'm sure you weren't that bad, and even if you were it won't make Rachel not like you anymore"
A few minutes later, Rachel realised Rosie had been up quite a while so decided to go up and check on them.
When she went into Lily's room she saw lily cuddled up to Rosie crying
"Oh lily don't tell me this is all about earlier love" Rachel said instantly feeling really bad
"She thinks you don't like her anymore" Rosie explained
"Hey that isn't one but true lily, don't cry love" Rachel soothed
She then went and sat down next to her
"Come on I wasn't having a go, well not properly anyway, all I said was don't let it happen again"
"I'm really sorry" lily said
"Let's just say no more about it for tonight love"
Rachel stayed with her for a bit longer but lily was still being really quiet and shy, almost like she had been when she first moved in with Rachel.
Eventually Rachel decided it was time to get tea out, so went down and helped joe sort it.
She shouted the girls down and they all sat at the table.
"Lily are you okay?" Joe asked when he saw Lily's tearstained face
Lily just nodded her head, since what happened earlier she was feeling really frightened and upset again
Rachel threw how a look to tell him not to go on.
Rachel, joe and Rosie were chatting while they had there tea but lily stayed quiet the whole time and barely touched her dinner despite it being one of her favourites
"You not feeling well or something?" Joe asked when he started clearing the table
Lily shook her head
A couple of hours passed and lily had just stayed up in her room but now Rachel had her bath ready.
"Lily come and get you bath" she called from the bathroom
Lily went into the bathroom and quickly got undressed and into the bath, but she didn't talk to Rachel like she normally did when she was having her bath.
"Love I meant what I said you know, just put what happened earlier behind you, there's no point getting all upset over it is there?"
"Okay" she mumbled however lily still seemed very upset
When Rachel had finished drying her hair off and getting her into pyjamas she said "do you want to come down and watch some tv with us seeing as it's a Friday or go straight to bed"
"Go to bed"
"Right well go to the bathroom then"
Once lily had brushed her teeth and been for a wee she got into bed
"Night lily, get a good nights sleep my love"
"Night Rachel"
"Try not to worry, once you're feeling better we can have another talk if you want or like I said we can just move on"
"Okay"
Rachel kissed her goodnight before flicking her light off and leaving.
When Rachel had left lily had a little cry, but eventually fell asleep.
At about 12 lily woke up again, she had, had a bit of a bad dream and it didn't take her long to realise she'd ended up wetting the bed, tears began to form in her eyes as she really didn't know how to sort it, it used to happen all the times at her dad's house but since she'd moved in with Rachel it hadn't as she'd felt a lot more safe and secure.
She felt really scared, as she remembered all the things her dad used to do to her when it used to happen, although she couldn't imagine Rachel and joe doing anything like that she still felt terrified all the same.
She grabbed her wet sheet and crept into the bathroom releasing she'd have to wash it. She then started running a bath and out her sheet in.
Rachel had heard someone get up and go to the bathroom and presumed it must be lily as Rosie would use her en suite, so she decided to check on her.
When she got closer, she was sure she heard the bath running, which she thought was extremely odd at this time of night, however it stopped as she got closer so she thought she was just imaging things.
"Lily is that you in there?" Rachel asked
Lily jumped at the sound of Rachel's voice
"yes" she mumbled
"Are you on the toilet?'
"Yes" lily lied however Rachel was sure she could hear her crying
Rachel waited a couple of minutes but when lily still hadn't come out she began to get worried
"Lily can I come in?"
"No go away" lily cried
Hearing this made Rachel even more worried so she opened the door and saw lily resting against the bath and her sheet in the bath
"Hey, what are you doing love?"
"I'm so sorry"
"Why have you got your sheet in the bath" Rachel asked but then it clicked, she crouched down beside her "did you have an accident"
"I didn't mean to"
"Oh love why didn't you come and find me"
"I was scared, I'm really relay sorry"
Rachel sighed and picked the little girl up and sat her in her knee on the toilet seat
"Don't you cry my love" she said getting some toilet role and mopping her face up "hey love, it doesn't matter I promise, you're only 4 years old it's bound to happen sometimes"
"I really didn't mean to" lily cried
"I know you didn't lovie"
"Are you cross"
"I'm not even the tiniest bit cross sweetheart, here's what we're going to do, I'm going to start running a little bath a nice hot one and I'm going to out these in the washing machine"
Rachel then took everything down and chucked it in the wash before going up to see lily who was crying again.
"This baths ready now, in you get"
Lily stepped in still feeling very scared
"Are you really not going to get angry"
"Oh lily I'm not going to get angry over a wet bed, especially when I was probably the one who made it happen in the first place"
"How?"
"Well I should have had a proper talk earlier, especially when I knew how much I'd upset you"
"It wasn't because of you" lily said "my dad used to get really angry with me when it used to happen"
"Did it happen a lot at your dad's?" Rachel asked gently
"Yes" lily mumbled "almost all the time, but when I came here I stopped"
"Well like I said you're only 4, and accidents happen to everyone don't they, so don't ever be afraid of coming to find me and letting me know I'd never ever be cross with you I promise"
Lily began to relax a bit now realising Rachel really wasn't going to shout
She quickly finished bathing her before getting her into some clean pyjamas
"Now how about we go down and have some hot chocolate and a chat"
Lily the got up and followed Rachel downstairs and waited a couple of minutes while Rachel brought her some hot chocolate
When she came back Rachel then sat the little girl on her knee
"I really didn't mean to make you all upset when I spoke to you earlier"
"I know"
"There's nothing serious going on at school is there love? Nothing that's making you feel really unhappy, because if there is we can talk about it you know"
"There's nothing bad, just sometimes I feel really tired at school and I want to be at home"
"I know you do but going to school is just one of them things you've got to get on with even though you probably do wish you could just cuddle up on the sofa and out some tv on"
"I like most of it, it's only sometimes on an afternoon, because I can't have my nap so then I get all tired"
"Well we're really going to work hard to sort out you not going to sleep in the afternoon aren't we?"
"Yes" lily said
Lily then let out a big yawn so Rachel realised she must be really tired which wasn't exactly surprising given the time
"Come on then you, let's go to bed"
"Can I sleep in with you, just for tonight"
"Okay then, just for tonight" Rachel said
The two of them went into Rachel's room and snuggled into bed and before long lily fell sound asleep.
She woke up early the next morning, and realised she was in Rachel's bed, suddenly she felt all embarrassed about last night again, and didn't really want to face Rachel yet, so crept out of her bed and decided to go into her sisters room for a cuddle.
When she went in she realised Rosie was already awake, reading her book. This was very unusual as normally Rosie loved a lie in.
"Lily what are you doing in here?" Rosie asked
"Can I come in your bed"
Rosie said yes so lily jumped in next to her, at her dad's she would always snuggle really close to Rosie especially after things got really scary, but it had been a while now since they'd had a cuddle just the two of them.
"How come, you've come in here Rosie?"
"Well I was in Rachel's bed before, but I don't want to talk to her at the moment"
"Why you can't still be upset about her telling you of yesterday?"
"No it's not that" lily said "I had a bit of an accident last night in my bed"
"Oh, did you tell her?"
"Well I tried to sort it but she found me"
"She didn't get angry did she?"
"No she was really nice about it, she just made me a bath and then we went and had some hot chocolate"
"Well that sounds nice, why don't you want to talk to her then"
"It'll be weird talking to her now and it's a bit embarrassing" lily admitted
"Don't be daft"
Lily stayed cuddled up to Rosie for ages and in the end they both finished up falling back to sleep.
Rachel and joe woke up a while later and Rachel got a bit of a shock when she realised lily wasn't in bed with her.
"Joe have you seen lily, she was in here last night"
"Nope I didn't even know she was in here, god you're a sneaky woman the things you do behind my back"
"Oh don't be so daft" Rachel said "I brought her in at about 1 last night, she was quite upset"
"Why what had happened?"
"Well don't say anything because she was really upset about it, but she'd had an accident and I found her in the bathroom, it took ages to calm her down the poor thing"
"Oh bless her, she'd have been really upset over it"
"Yeah it was awful seeing her like that"
"She's such a sensitive little thing it doesn't take much does it, you know to make her all upset"
"No it doesn't, it was awful seeing her so tearful last night"
Rachel and joe stayed chatting for a bit, and then Rachel got up to check lily was okay.
She went into her room but couldn't see her in there so looked all round the first floor. When she hadn't seen her anyway she began to get a bit worried and went up to Rosie's room.
The sight of the two of them cuddled up together made her heart melt.
"Joe come here" Rachel said
Joe came running upstairs and went to join his wife and saw the two girls together.
Lily especially looked really cute with her thump in her mouth snoring very gently
"Get the camera" Rachel whispered
Joe went and got it and took a photo of the two of them thinking it would be a cute memory
Rosie woke up first and saw her sister was still asleep so crept out of bed and went downstairs where she found Rachel and joe in the living room having there morning coffee.
"Can I come in?" Rosie asked
"Course you can love, we don't bite" rachel said laughing
Rosie went and sat down on the sofa with Rachel.
"Is your sister still asleep?" Joe asked
"Yep" Rosie said "she seems really tired, though she must have woke up early she came into my room at about 6:30"
"Well she started off in our room apparently but i didn't know anything about it" joe said
"Yeah she told me what happened last night"
"Does she seem okay now, she was ever so upset last night?"
"I think she'll be fine, she's pretty embarrassed though I think that's why she came into see me so early"
"Well no ones going to say anything about it to her today" Rachel said "the last thing I want is her feeling all uncomfortable"
"Rachel today when joe goes for his football game, can we maybe go shopping"
"Urm why does it need to be when I go for my football, maybe I fancies a bit of dress shopping too" now joked causing them both to laugh
"Shut up you" Rachel said playfully "yeah that sounds like a good idea, we'll go after lunch, do you need anything in particular"
"Well there's this disco thing at school in a few weeks, so I'd quite like something for that"
"Well that sounds like fun, we'll have a look round today, I don't know what we're going to do about lily though, she'll be bored as anything going round the shops"
"She could come to the match with me"
"Oh yeah a 4 year old at a match full of drunk men, chanting a load of crude songs and swearing, yeah sounds the perfect afternoon for a little girl" Rachel said rolling her eyes
"Okay, I was only trying to help" joe said but even he could see it probably wasn't the best idea in the world
"I could see if mum could have her, the two of them get on so well, I'm sure she wouldn't mind looking after her for a few hours"
Rachel then rang her mum who said she'd be happy to look after lily, she was glad this was sorted as it meant she could have a few hours with Rosie without feeling pressurised to get back like she normally did if they took lily with them.
When lily woke up she realised rosie must already be up, although she didn't really fancy seeing everyone, she knew if she didn't come now Rachel would just come and get her
She shuffled downstairs and into the kitchen
"Hiya darling, we've all had breakfast but would you like me to get you something"
"Yes please" lily mumbled
"What do you fancy"
Lily just shrugged her shoulders
"Will pancakes do?" Joe asked knowing it was her favourite
Lily nodded her head in response to this
"Come and sit down love" Rachel said smiling
Lily gingerly took a seat at the table next to Rosie but was biting her nails, normally Rachel would gently tell her off for this but she decided to leave it for now.
"I got a bit of a shock when you weren't in bed this morning" Rachel said
"Sorry" lily said
"It's alright I got a lovely photo of the two of you cuddled up, I'll have to show you later"
Lily remained pretty quiet through all of breakfast, Rachel knew this would probably because she was still a bit worried about last night, so decoded to have a little chat with her later.
"Why don't you start getting dressed love, I'll be up soon" Rachel said
"Okay" lily said before going upstairs
A couple of minutes later Rachel went up after her
"Hey" she said walking into her room
"Hi"
"Are you okay, you seemed a bit quiet at breakfast" Rachel asked
"Yeah I'm okay" lily said however her voice was pretty unconvincing and before long her bottom lip started to wobble and she started crying
"Oh dear, come and sit down" Rachel said sitting her in her knee "is this because you're still feeling a bit upset"
Lily nodded her head
"Well don't let it make you feel all shy darling, honestly it's not a big deal"
"but everyone will think I'm a baby"
"Sweetheart you're 4 years old, no one will think anything of it I promise okay"
"Okay" lily mumbled before cuddling into Rachel "thankyou"
"What for love?"
"Being nice to me last night and not getting angry"
"It'll take a lot more than that to make me angry at you trust me, now are you going to get forget all about it and get dressed for me"
"Yeah" lily said before taking off her pyjamas and getting into her clothes
Rachel smiled at her before making up her bed
"You'll be going to my mums later is that okay with you"
"Yeah that's good, I like your mum"
"Well that's good because from what I've heard she likes you a lot too"
"Do you like her?" Lily asked
"Yeah we get on really well now, didn't always though"
"Why?"
"Well like most mums and daughters we used to fight quite a bit, especially when I was a teenager, beed to be quite naughty at times"
"Did she used to hit you?"
"No darling she didn't" Rachel said,
she knew she needed to get this idea out of Lily's head that it was normal for parents to hurt their kids, as it was something she brought up quite a lot
", not even if you were really naughty"
"Nope, like I've said before there are better ways to sort things than hitting people because that makes others really upset and hurt,which most people really don't want."
"Oh" lily said
"Anyway should we go down now"
Lily nodded her head so Rachel took her hand and lead her down.
Both girls then went off and did there own thing for a bit, so Rachel had a coffee with joe, however they hadn't been sat down long when there was a knock on the door and when Rachel answered it she realised it was joes friend come to pick him up ready for the game, although it wasn't till the afternoon they wanted to get there early so they could go for lunch in the pub before hand.
When joe had gone Rachel felt a bit lost as there was no house work that really needed doing as she'd done most of it through the week, she saw the girls school bags so decided to have a look through them, in case they'd forgotten to give her any letters or something.
She went through Lily's bag first and didn't find anything particularly important except a few little letters.
However when she went through Rosie's she realised that she'd actually got a letter that looked quite important. When Rachel read it through she realised it was about how much Rosie seemed to be struggling with some of the things in school at the moment and they were thinking of putting her in a special progress group as they thought It would help her catch up, Rachel sighed realising that Rosie must have hid it from her.
She wanted to talk to Rosie about it straight away as she wanted her to know she wasn't angry or anything like that.
When she went looking for her she realised that she was in the living room with lily watching a film.
"Rosie, can I have a couple of words please love"
"Yeah okay" Rosie said a little confused
Rosie didn't get up from where she was sitting but just paused the film
"No I mean in private, come through here" Rachel said
Rosie then got up and followed Rachel through to the kitchen
"Let's go upstairs a minute"
The two of them went up to Rosie's room and Rachel shut the door behind her.
Once they were in there, Rachel and Rosie both sat down on the bed however by now Rosie was feeling quite worried about what It was Rachel was going to say.
"Darling, I was going through your school bag earlier and I found a letter, about ...well about how some of you teachers think you're struggling in some of your classes a bit"
"Oh that" Rosie said feeling a bit worried as she wasn't sure how Rachel was going to react to it
"Why didn't you give it to me?" She asked gently
"Well because I forgot i had it"
"Okay" Rachel said not believing her for one second
"Yeah I just got it yesterday but I barely looked at it, so I forgot about it" Rosie lied
"And the real reason?"
"That is the real reason"
"Well I don't believe you, because I know you Rosie and I know you'd have been worrying about it all day and it certainly wouldn't have been something you'd have forgot about, so I can only imagine that it wasn't something you wanted me to see"
"I'm going to the toilet" Rosie said not really wanting to talk about it
She quickly got up off her bed and went into her en suite however when she did she suddenly found herself crying, though she wasn't sure why, it wasn't as though Rachel seemed particularly angry or even disappointed about it, she just sometimes felt like she was really stupid.
Rosie hoped Rachel would go away however from experience she knew this was highly unlikely.
When Rosie hadn't come out after a couple of minutes Rachel knocked on the door
"Rosie come out love I just want to talk that's all, I'm not angry with you or anything I promise"
Reluctantly Rosie opened the bathroom door and came out and Rachel saw her tearstained face
"Have you been crying?" She asked sounding worried
"No"
"Daft question and answer really, I can see you have come and sit down love, come on"
Rachel sat back on Rosie's bed and put her arm around Rosie, Rosie couldn't seem to help herself cuddling up to Rachel and having a good cry into her.
"I'm sorry love, maybe I shouldn't have brought it up I didn't mean to upset you, I wasn't bothered at all by what the letter actually said I was just a bit worried about why you hadn't shown me it"
"I don't even know why I'm crying, I'm just being silly"
"Oh Rosie you're not being silly"
"No I am, I just didn't want to show you it in case you thought I was stupid"
"You know I didn't think that Rosie, you're a very clever girl"
"No I'm not if I was I wouldn't be getting put in a class full of morons would I?"
"Hey don't say that, there's no need for it" Rachel said suddenly sounding a bit stricter as she always hated that word being used "and thats certainly not the case, all it means is there going to give you a bit more support in some subjects, darling you missed about 5 or 6 years of school pretty much, it's remarkable you're anywhere near catching up with the others, but by the sound of it you are"
"What do you mean"
"Well I look through your books and from what I see you're english is excellent, you seem really talented at it"
"Why do you look through my books?" Rosie asked not entirely sure she was happy with Rachel going through her school books without her knowing about it
"Well so I can see how you're doing"
"You could have told me, maybe there's stuff in there I don't want you to see"
Rachel could actually see where Rosie was coming from with this and did start to feel a bit bad about going through her books, though she had been doing it a lot over The past few weeks and hadn't really thought anything of it, however when she came to think of it, it probably did seem a bit sneaky
"Ok fair point, I won't do it again I promise" Rachel said " the letter said there mainly going to focus on bringing your maths up to speed"
"I hate maths"
"Don't tell anyone I said this but so do I, it was my worst subject at school" Rachel said
"I thought you'd have been good at everything"
"Nope not at all, I was far from a model student I can assure you"
"Really"
"Absolutely" she said smiling slightly "so what I'm saying is, don't give up because you're doing really well, and I'm expecting good things of you because I know how much you'll be able to achieve when you out your mind to it"
"Thanks Rachel" Rosie said before giving her another cuddle
It felt so nice for Rosie to have someone who actually cared about her school and how well she was Doing, it was something she'd never experienced before.
At about 1 Rachel and Rosie decided it was time they headed off on there shopping trip so they got in the car with lily.
"Rachel how long will you be gone for"
"A couple of hours, you make sure you're a good girl though while we're gone"
"I'll be good I promise" lily said
"That's what I like to hear"
Once they'd dropped lily off they headed off for the town.
"Where do you want to go first?" Rachel asked once they'd parked up
"I'm not bothered, you can choose" Rosie said
The truth was Rosie hadn't been shopping properly before, her dad would just get the cheapest stuff he could find, so she didn't know any of the shops.
Rachel took her into new look first and together they found a few dresses that Rosie really liked so she went to try them on, in the changing rooms.
Rosie tried the first one on but when she saw her reflection tears came to her eyes, it didn't hang on her properly at all, she didn't really have a figure yet, however if was the type of dress that was meant to be figure hugging so in her eyes it just made her lot like a boy.
Thinking Rosie had been quite a while, Rachel pulled back the curtain and went into the changing room as it was pretty big so they could both fit in there.
"What's up love?" Rachel asked when she realised Rosie was crying, Rachel had noticed she'd been doing quite a lot of crying over the last few days and had seemed really emotional over really small things and couldn't help but think maybe it was just that Rosie was getting a bit hormonal.
"I look like a nine year old boy" Rosie sobbed
"Oh love no you don't, I think that dress is just a bit grown up for you"
"I bet it wouldn't be too grown up for all the other girls in my year" Rosie sobbed
"What makes you say that"
"Well because they all look much older than me"
"Yeah and you want to know why that is? Because they cover themselves I make up, wear ridiculously short skirts and wear bras 5 sizes too big for them and stuff them with tissue"
"Well maybe I should I try that, it'd be an improvement"
"Oh sweetheart" Rachel sighed "you are a very beautiful young girl, and don't you dare tell me otherwise"
It was true Rosie was a very pretty girl however she always had looked quite young for her age, just like,lily did.
Rosie sat down on the little bench and put her head in her hands
"You feeling a bit teary today love?"
"Yeah and I don't even know why"
"It's just your age love, you're hormones are everywhere"
Rosie sighed before standing up and giving Rachel a quick cuddle
"Now why don't you try this one, I think it'll really suit you"
Rosie took off the dress she was wearing and tried on the one Rachel was holding and when she saw herself she was very pleasantly surprised
"I love it"
"You look gorgeous in it darling"
In the end they decided to buy the dress, as Rosie did really like it.
They carried on doing a little bit more shopping before stopping for a drink and a snack
"Rachel can I please ask you something, though I think it might sound weird"
"Go for it"
"Well you know you told me about periods and stuff"
"Yeah"
"How old were you?"
"Oh erm ... Come to think of it I was probably about your age what makes you ask?"
"I was just wondering that's all because one of my friends started yesterday at school"
"Oh did she, that can't have been very nice, starting at school"
"She was really shocked, they called her mum though to take her home"
"Probably for the best if she's that upset, you just make sure you tell me when it does happen okay?"
"When do you think I'll get mine?"
"Oh love I really don't know, it could be next week, could be next year or maybe not till a couple of years, there's no knowing really"
"I hope it's not soon"
"Well it's one thing you can't control I'm afraid" Rachel said "anyway should we carry on with some more shopping"
They went round a few more shops and both of them managed to pick out some really nice things, and it was nice to have a bit of girly time just the two of them for a change.
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