Of Anime, Poetry and Falling in Love: Mack and Rose
Disclaimer: #Listens to "Stolen" (Mack and Rose's song) and cries#
Challenge: One Moment
Timeframe: During Behind the Scenes after the interview scene
Summary: In which Rose hates interviews.
Rose buried her face in a pillow on her bed. What she'd just said (on the local morning news, too) was absolutely mortifying. Oh God. What the hell had she been thinking?
"'Oh, you know. Whatever.'" Some child prodigy she turned out to be. Her sister never would have said anything so stupid, which was precisely why Rose was grateful the rest of her family was still in London, far away from San Angeles.
The pink ranger groaned into the pink and red pillow and then rolled over onto her back, glaring up at the white ceiling. It was all Mack's fault, she decided. It was his fault that Rose felt intoxicated by his very presence.
"Knock, knock. Can I come in, Rose?" came the familiar voice of the red ranger. She mumbled a vague response and her door swung open. Mack walked into her bedroom. "You had a book for me?" he prompted. She pointed to the desk and turned over again. Then she sat up.
"You."
"Me?" Mack questioned innocently, looking up from the back of the book. "What about me? What did I do wrong?"
"You made me sound like an idiot," Rose hissed. "You were just sitting there, rubbing your knee against mine and I couldn't think straight. 'Oh, you know. Whatever,'" she quoted.
"You think that's bad? She called me Mackenzie on live TV. Anything you said after that makes you look like the genius I know you are."
"There's nothing wrong with Mackenzie," Rose mumbled. "It's actually kind of cute." She blushed slightly as she said this.
Mack shook his head and then sat down on the edge of Rose's bed. "You didn't have to grow up with it. Do you have any idea what it's like to have your mom drop you off at kindergarten saying 'Play nice with the other kids, Mackenzie!' It's not fun."
"But still…Mack…I feel like an idiot when I'm around you," the pink ranger confessed. Her face was bright red now. "And you just…I don't know anymore." She groaned again.
"Come on Rose. At least you managed to say something. Dax couldn't even remember what his name was." He grinned and Rose shot him a tiny smile in return.