I keep cheating... adding chapters. Rose (Rosie) and Eden (Ed) Odair(: Awhhh so cute! hahaha OKAYYY hope you like it!
Rose laughed and rolled her eyes. "No Eden"
"No?"
"No…"
"Will you consider?"
"I will not"
"Not ever?"
"Maybe"
"Someday?"
"Sure…"
"You don't seem sure"
"Eden we're great friends"
"Yeah…"
"I don't want to ruin that" Eden Odair sighs audibly and sinks onto his porch steps.
"One"
"One what?"
"One date- and if it doesn't work out then we forget it ever happened" Rose sits next to him gazing up into his sea green eyes.
"Fine" He smiles and offers to take her home but she refuses.
"I'm fine- it's only a few houses away and I'll see you in a little bit anyway" Rose takes her time on the way home. Her mind was all over the place. She liked Eden… as a friend. They did everything together. She knew girls loved him. She knew all his previous girlfriends. Why did he want to date her? Rose never got the guy. Her friends would step in and take them or she would think they were interested when they weren't. Then her mind played flash back. Here she goes again not getting the guy because she refused to go on a date with him. She is so hopeless. She reaches her house, trudging up the steps and through the open front door. Her mother is sitting in a chair reading. "Hey Mom"
"Hi Rose- what's wrong?" Madge puts her book back onto the shelf and smoothes her daughter's hair back. Rose has her thinking face on so Madge waits patiently.
"Ed asked me out"
"What's so bad about that?" The pleasant smile gathers on her mother's face.
"When did you and Dad start dating?" Madge sighs. They never went out… not like most people go out. Gale had her since she arrived at 13.
"We had been through a lot. So when we finally saw each other after everything happened- it clicked for him" Rose studies her mother's pained face "I had liked him since I was a little girl"
"That's right" The strong husky sound lights the room. Madge turns from Rose. Gale walks up to his two girls. His smile spreads across his face like its Christmas day. The smile he only saves for Madge and his family. Madge smiles a little then looks back at Rose.
"Does that help?" she wonders staring at the thirteen year old girl. Rose doesn't answer.
"Is it ok to go out with him?" Gale's eyes widen and he quickly leaves the room.
"Why wouldn't it be?" Madge wonders
"We're friends"
"So?"
"I don't want to ruin that"
"You're father and I weren't friends- actually before 13 we didn't exactly get along" Rose laughs.
"Alright, one date then" She hurries upstairs and into her room. She pulls out a lavender dress. She slips into in after a few seconds and twirls feeling the air around her legs. Her golden hair is pulled into a high pony-tail. Little daisy shaped earrings are inserted into her small lobes and she smiles a little pulling the lip balm over her lips. She casually pulls on little white shoes and hops down the stairs.
"You look pretty!" Emma smiles, after seeing her from the kitchen. She's sitting with Bryce at the table taking cookies off a platter in front of them.
"Thanks" Rose grins back. Eden Odair strides into the house, just as Rose reaches out to take a frosted cookie off the platter. Her hand drops away from it when Eden says her name.
"Rosie?" His eye brows are raised and his eyes give her a look over.
"Ed?" She blushes at his surprised expression. What did he expect her to come in a t-shirt and shorts?
"Err. Ready?" He looks nervous and she beams, taking his arm. Her fingers pull him out the door.
"I'm so glad you talked me into this" He laughs and pulls her into a hug.
"Me too"
(Eden: 14 Rose: 13 Emma: 11 Bryce: 11 Maysille: 7)
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Erin