April 30th, 12:04 p.m

"Oh, son of a bitch, not again." Rose slowly straightened up from the bent over position she had been in for nearly two hours as she'd gardened and weeded the back yard.

She hissed through her teeth as the pain snuck its way from her lower back, all the way up her spine. Doing as best as she could not to jolt her spine too much to not make anything worse, she slipped her gardening gloves off slowly then began to carefully rub her back with her right hand.

She jerked a little at how the pain surged through her with the slightest touch, careful not to rub her back any further nor let anything bump against it. She made her way inside at a slow pace, reaching for her keys that lay on the kitchen counter.

It took her minutes to finally reach her car, moving ever so slowly into the position she needed to be in to drive to her destination and biting on her lip to stifle the cry of pain that was desperate to escape with the movement.

"Thank God Dimitri is just down the road."

Lucky for her, her dear Dimitri worked there at the nearby chiropractors office, and he was always allowed to take walk-ins at any time when it was a close family member or friend.

She drove the short three minutes to the clinic, breathing a sigh of relief when she saw the lack of people there . . . certain people for that matter. Living in a small town everyone knew everyone, and with this being the only chiropractors' clinic within the seven closest counties, the people you disliked, and tried hard to avoid, would often end up at the same place you would be, to your annoyance.

Using the same slow movements to climb out of her car as she did to climb in, she awkwardly walked across the parking lot and up the few stairs to the double doors. Thankfully, someone leaving was there to hold the door open for her.

"Thank you," she said, smiling to the kind gentleman who nodded politely, waiting until she'd fully entered the reception area before letting the door close and going on his merry way.

Rose smirked as Lissa sat at the reception desk, the office phone held between her ear and cheek as she talked. She had a nail file in her right hand as she manicured the left. Lissa finally noticed Rose's presence, returning a similar smirk before hanging up the phone.

"Rose, throw out your back again? You need to lay off the gardening."

Rose rolled her eyes, ignoring Lissa's mocking tone.

"Just let me see Dimitri. . ."