9 is the property of Shane Acker

30, Rosie, and Roji, belonges to me forgot to mention that but don't steal them!

Chapter 15

'School' I hate it!

30 drew the finishing touches on her latest sketch for a new pulley system; This one would be able to lift heaver loads like a cup or a brick not like her last one.

"I'm home, 30!" Roji called from the door way

30 smiled at him "Welcome home daddy"

"I'm going to assume that was 'welcome home' thanks!"

Without their translator it was hard for 30 to tell her father clearly what she needed to tell him

"She should be home soon" Roji grinned reading her mind

30 smiled. She didn't want to admit it to anyone else but it was lonely without Rosie

"I bet she had a good day" Roji thought aloud

The door opened. Roji and 30 smiled in that direction expecting Rosie to come in smiling and laughing.

Not the child that stood in the door frame; She was covered in red brown clay that coated her pink dress, her hat that she hardly ever took off looked like it'd been stomped on, other parts of her dress were covered in small purple dots, there was a sticky looking thing in her hair, and her eyes were red like she had been crying.

"Rosie? Wha?" Roji stared in shock at the dirt covered child

Rosie sniffed. 30 and Roji were having something of a delayed retain not intirely sure how to react.

Roji brushed his sandy blonde hair out of face and signed

"come here" He sounded kinda sad. Rosie walked in front of him.

Roji hugged Rosie close in a comforting sort of way making Rosie ready to cry again. She looked down and noticed 30 on the table.

30 had a look of sadness and touched Rosie's hand and then hugged her wrist in an attempt to comfort her.

That did it. Fresh tears fell down Rosie's cheeks and she burried her face in her fathers chest

"Now tell me what happened" Roji said after Rosie stopped crying

"I don't like school" She said after a moment

"Why?" 30 asked

"…" Rosie was quiet for a moment

"When daddy dropped me off in the aristocrat area. I was excited to be going to school, but when I entered the door. Someone threw a lizard at me-"

30 growled already hating anyone who would throw something at sweet little Rosie

"-at first I didn't mind I was fascinated by it-"

Typical Rosie they both thought. Rosie was fascinated by creepy crawlers that usually escaped the labs.

"-After the teacher introduced me I sat down and felt someone stick something in my hair-" She held up the red curl that had the strange thing. It was pink and looked really sticky

"-After lunch a girl, the same one that put the sticky in my hair pulled off my hat-" She pointed to the hat that still didn't quite fit her "-They took it and stomped on it when they left they were laughing-"

30 growled not liking the cruel children

"-As I was putting my hat back on… A boy came and poured purple juice all over me…" Rosie got quiet as if trying not to recall. 30 climbed up her arm and on her shoulder. She touched Rosie's cheek silently urging her to continue

"When we where outside for recess they were playing with the chickens water bowl, they were making mud pies….They threw them at me…They laughed and said 'who needs a country bumpkin like you?'"

30 was very angry at these children. She didn't know what a 'country bumpkin' was but it sounded insulting and those children were so rude and cruel…She couldn't stand people like that especially people that hurt other people for no reason especially Rosie who never had a bad thing to say about anybody.

Rosie who had been patently listening came back from the kitchen with a wet rag and whipped the dirt off of Rosie's face

"…"

"Rosie go back to school"

Rosie's eyes widened and 30 glared at him "What!" it was more of a demand than a question from them

"I want you to go for one week and if it's still like this then…I'll home school you"

Rosie looked up at him and nodded 30 nodded to

"Now lets get that gum out of your hair" He pulled a pair of scissor out of nowhere grinning

Rosie gulped