Chapter 8 Rosaline

Rosaline was in her room finishing her homework. Her stomach growled and she sighed. She got up and walked to her drawers, she took out the bag full of emergency food for occasions like this. After debating with herself a few moments he picked up the dried fruits and opened the ziplock bag eating nuts, pistachios and peanuts which her favorites. But they couldn't compare to traditional home-made meal. Suddenly she was being sucked into the past.

The day when he had asked her.

"No." she had said without hesitation even surprising herself a little because she had thought that she did like him.

"Why not?" he asked hurt invading his voice.

"I am not like them. I am not going to marry off to someone to finance my studies. I can't, I just…I can't, okay?" he looked at her for a long time and said.

"What if you were to marry me temporarily? You could, you could use the money of my parents to pay all your studies and we would get divorced after 3 months after you finish paying for everything you need." She shook her head.

"I am not going to take advantage of you, I am not going to break your heart."

"It would be a pleasure to have my heart broken by you." he mumbled looking down. She recognized that phrase, Agustus Waters had said that to Hazel Grace. She wasn't sure if he had read it or was just saying at as in impromptu.

It didn't matter to her, she wasn't going to be that type of person.

"No. I like you but I don't love you. You know that, right?"

"I am not sure about that." She then did the only physical affection she had shown to someone for a long time. She put her hand under his chin and lifted it.

"Yes I like you and that's why I am not going to do something as horrible as that."

"You wouldn't do it to anyone, even if you had the chance." She stroked his cheekbone with her thumb and she hugged him. Aprubtly, but tightly. He didn't move, he just stood there in shock, she pulled away and for the first time in a very long time she smiled at him. There were tears in her eyes. She did like him but she couldn't do it, she couldn't take advantage of someone she loved like a brother and she couldn't marry him. No, she wasn't ready for something like that. She wanted other things first. Things that she would only find if she went away from home.

But she had to do it on her own.

She sighed and looked around her, the room that she had rented was small, her apartment was old and was even very hard to find. She didn't have enough to pay for all the things she wanted, just the basic things. And then were her textbooks, copybooks, printer and all the other stuff that luckily, she had prepared for her first year. Thank god, she had saved all that money for 2 years. It wasn't much but it had saved her from freaking out. She didn't have for buying new clothes, or electronic devices. Well, it wasn't as if she didn't have money for that but she felt it was better to save it just in case she needed it for something else.

Still she had the chance. The chance to make a dream com true and she was going to give it her all. She finished her ziplock bag of nuts and returned her attention to her homework.

She was far from aware that the wheels of fate were already turning. Some romanticists would argue that in her favor others who were cynical would argue that it was against her. Either way, Rosaline wasn't aware the adventures she would start taking place in her life. The possibilities that would be created for her. Particularly, those concerning acertain silver hired boy.

All for doing what she did. An act of kindness.

.Beep.

Rosaline groaned a tossed. The alarm didn't stop it's infernal beeping. She wanted nothing more than to smash her alarm clock. Stay in her warm, comfortable bed and sleep all day but there were things that needed to be done. She got up shivering from the cold weather that Amoris City had been suffering this season.

She walked, got her creams and walked to the common bathroom that she had claimed as her own. Leo and Alexy usually shared the bathroom that was in the room of Leo btu for some reason Alexy was coming out of the shower using up half of the supply of hot water. She sighed and without saying a word to Alexy she closed the bathroom door. She didn't say anything to Alexy not because she was angry with him but because she was in bad mood in the beginning of the morning and she had warned both boys that they shouldn't talk to her in the morning unless she was in the kitchen. They were always too busy to talk anyways. Alexy and leo usually were worried about their clothes, make-up and their bags whereas Rosie was worried about clean clothes, warm food and her books.

She took a quick hot water shower and applied on her favorite nivea body lotion, her face creams (prescribed by the dermatologist when she was 16, of course) and put on her clothes, this time she was wearing the same black skirt but with a bow-tie shirt, black boots, a silver chain that held her copper ring, gloves, an t-shirt underneath her bow-tie shirt and a fitted v necked sweater. She also wanted to wear a trench coat but she needed to cook breakfast first.

She went into to the kitchen where much to her surprise Alexy had made breakfast, when it was her job to cook the meals. Alexy was just making her favorite, green berry flavored tea and setting it on the kitchen table when he saw her and gave her an uneasy smile.

"Morning?" he said and Rosaline sighed.

"I thought it was my job to make the meals." Alexy bit his lip.

"erm…that is…" she was surprised that Alexy was blushing.

"Lex, I am not angry at you. you didn't have to do this."

"I wanted to make it up to you." he said in a small voice. Rosie then did something that surprised Alexy she hugged him. He was taken aback but then all tension was finally leaving him. It more about Leo than his little fight with Rosie but he couldn't tell her that. She was so innocent. He buried his face on her shoulder. She rubbed his back gently.

"Alexy, this isn't about our fight, right?" he was surprised but not surprised at the same time, it was in the oddest moments when rosie was perceptive.

"Yeah." He didn't want to move he just wanted to hug this girl but that, for some reason made him feel confused.

"Want to talk about it?"

"Wouldn't want to ruin your innocent mind." He murmured. She laughed.

"My mind isn't as innocent as you think it is." At that Alexy laughed and pulled away, his eyes widened and blush creeped on his face when he saw Leo leaning on the doorjamb looking hotter than usual. Fitted dark, white button up shirt (three buttons open), a short navy blazer, polished black shoes and his hair mussed as if he had rolled out of bed or spent 2 hours in front of the mirror to create the sexy, bed hair. Rosie turned around surprised by Alexy's reaction and looked at Leo her eyebrows raised and her eyes widened. After a moment of awkward silence in which Leo lazily checked Alexy out, rosie's eyes narrowed.

"you look very handsome, Leo." His eyes's slid from Alexy to hers and he smiled at her.

"I assume that's your way of saying that I look fucking hot." Rosie rolled her eyes.

"My, how confident."

"I am."

"It's good but remember Leo, that pretending a bit humility isn't going to make you less attractive."

"So you're saying I am hot." Leo said that to piss Alexy off but Alexy obviously wasn't because he knew of the bluntness of Rosie and smiled before she got the words out of her mouth.

"of course you are." She said nonchalantly brushing past him. "I am not blind." She said as she walked to her own room starting to pack her things for the day, which left Alexy and Leo alone for at least 15 minutes. Surely in 15 miniutes they could have express sex right?

"You forgot, didn't you?" said Leo boldly looking at Alexy's lips.

What? That I was supposedly angry at you? that I want o fuck you so hard right now that I'd kneel and beg on my knees?

"Hello? Earth to Alexy?" said Leo waving his hand in front of the blue-haired boy's face before he snapped out of the trance and said in a rather constricted voice.

"What?" leo's lips curled wickedly as if he was satisfied on the effect he was having on Alexy.

"That we had to wear formal clothing for today's lesson." At that all the impropriate thoughts that Alexy was having of Leo came to stop like a cab in new York city. His lips parted and he practically rushed out of the kitchen when Leo stopped him, grabbing him by the shoulders.

"Whoa, calm down there you laid your outfit yesterday remember?" murmured Leo, breath tickling his lips. Alexy tensed as he realized that he was so close, so close that he could have reached Leo's lips and tear them apart with his mouth but fashion was his passion and as much as he wanted to fuck Leo he had other things to worry about. He pushed Leo and sprinted to his room leaving Leo confused and frustrated in the doorway.