9 is the property of Shane Acker

30 blonges to me

Chapter 11

A belt (part 3)

"ROSEMARY!" Rosie and 30 jumped their father hardly ever yelled and he never yelled Rosie's full name. That couldn't be good.

Roji slammed open his study door and glared at Rosie "Did you go into the storage door?"

"yes" She answered

"And did you rip a white dress?"

"I didn't rip it I took the white string"

so that's where she got it 30 thought

"Rosemary I am very angry at you" Rosie looked at him with a 'what did I do?' face

"You know your not allowed behind that door and your not allowed to touch anything in it"

"-but"

"Just go to your room. I don't want to see your face right now"

Rosie's eyes pricked with tears that thraeted to fall. She ran to her and her daddy's bedroom.

Roji sat at the dinning room table. An angry look plastered his face.

30 couldn't help but feel sorry for Rosie. Their father had only told them once not to go into the storage door. Rosie being who she was could have easily forgotten and from the looks of the belt she had been given the dress was old and hardly ever worn so what would Rosie have thought, but 'it would be all right to use it' It would make scene to her seven year old brain

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30 climbed up the table with the pulley system she had made months earlier, funny she never thought she'd use it for something like this. She jumped on the table next to her fathers hand.

"oh hello 30 I didn't see you there" He noticed her writing something.

"Rosie didn't know she was getting something for me" He read

"What could she possibly have gotten for you?" He asked in his angry tone

30 pointed to the string around her waist. Roji's eyes seemed to soften for half a second but all too quickly it was gone

"That still doesn't give her an excuse for ripping her mothers dress"

30 grew angry hadn't he been listening at all? That does it!

She began to write:

"you know what, daddy? you never tell us anythIng about mommy and you defIantly never told us about her dresses In the storage door and by the way you only to us once not to go In there. she probably just forgot and this thats no excuse stuff should go double for you. cause your never around to even tell us the rules or about mommy or about whats outsIde that door. so you know what? I don't particularly want to see your face either"

By the time he had finished reading 30 had left

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Roji had stared at the letter so long the ink had started to melt.

Had he really been that harsh? Had he never told them about that stuff? Had he really just been yelled at by 30? Those question buzzed in his head like a broken airplane propeller…He felt guilty. 30 was right… he had only told them once. And Rosie being who she was most likely forgot…..He felt angry for himself for being so angry at wanted to apologize…*Ding* He had an idea.

Roji was a pilot and a mechanic so something that's broken really bothers him like a broken propeller.