A Nutcrackers Tradition (A Christmas Story)

Chapter 2-Nice Rosemary real nice

Chapter 2-Nice Rosemary, real nice

Rosemary's P.O.V.

It took me and Caitlyn an extra five minutes cause we started playing in the snow. It's snowed a lot more than now, and there was still snow left over from the last time it snowed.

We walked into her house giggling like maniacs. It was so fun walking with Caitlyn.

"So, what do you look like at school? I don't think I've really seen you around," Caitlyn said while looking at me. My brown hair was up in a messy bun and I had contacts on instead of my glasses. I don't really want my glasses falling off while I'm dancing.

"I've got glasses, my hair is usually down, I carry books with me everywhere, so you could call me the nerd of the school," I said with a shrug.

"That's cool, I'm average, nothing special about me really," Caitlyn replied in a boring tone. I doubted there was nothing special about this girl, there's something special about everyone.

"That's not true, I believe that there's something special about everyone. Which means there's got to be something special about you and you don't even know it," I replied. We both walked into Caitlyn's house.

Before Caitlyn could even reply we both heard someone snoring down a little hall that passed what looked like a kitchen and lead into a living room.

Caitlyn started shaking her head like she was disappointed, but she also looked like she wanted to laugh her head off.

Caitlyn walked down a different hall and then walked into one of the rooms, I followed her and found myself in her bedroom.

"Don't worry, the snoring was my older brother. He must have fell asleep in front of the TV again. Once he wakes up he's going to freak out and run straight out the door in whatever he's wearing, and I'm not going to stop him cause my parents don't want me walking home by myself," Caitlyn explained to me.

"What's your older brothers name anyway? And how old is he?" I asked Caitlyn while we were both putting our ballet shoes on.

"He's seventeen years old, and his name is Blake, ever heard a name like that?" Caitlyn asked me. My body froze after hearing that name, oh please don't tell me it's the Blake I'm thinking of.

"You mean as in Bad Boy Blake? The one who will not hesitate in punching anyone for no reason?" I asked Caitlyn. She just sighed while fixing her shoes.

"Sadly yea, that's mostly why I don't have any friends. They're always scared of my older brother and leave me in the dark, are you gonna leave knowing who I am now?" Caitlyn asked me with sad eyes. Her emerald eyes were swimming in tears by now.

"Why would I leave you Caitlyn? I've heard bad stuff about your brother, but that doesn't mean it's true, and I shouldn't judge either one of you. I know nothing about you and your brother, it really shouldn't matter who your siblings or parents are, no one should judge you so quickly," I said while looking straight back into her eyes.

A smile appeared on her face after my little speech. She ran up to me and hugged the life out of me. We both took off our pants, leaving us in our shorts that were under them, and then taking off our jackets, leaving us with our tanks that were on.

It might be cold out, but once your inside, dancing heats your body up and makes you hot, so it's actually best to wear something like this when your dancing, unless it's for a show, then you need your costume.

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Caitlyn and I practiced until it started to get a little to dark out, six. We were much better then how we started out at the beggining of class.

I was getting ready to leave until we heard someone run through the halls and slam the front door close. After something fell, Caitlyn and I looked in the living room and saw that the chair was on it's side.

"What did I tell you? My brother will be back in twenty-five minutes and find me here, if my parents don't come home first," Caitlyn informed me. I grabbed my stuff to leave and gave Caitlyn a quick hug.

"I'll see you tomorrow, I hope I see you around in school," I told Caitlyn while I was walking towards her front door.

"Same, bye Rose," Caitlyn replied while waving.

"Bye Cait," I said while walking down her front steps. She shut the front door and I grabbed my arms, trying to warm my body up while it continued to snow. I'm glad I wore my snow boots, the snow was getting higher and higher by the hour.

I was a few blocks away from her street, heading to my house, when someone ran into me. I fell onto the ice on my back while the person that ran into me fell onto me and knocked the air out of my lungs. However, this person is was really fat.

I opened my eyes and was shocked to see who it was, and it wasn't fat, it was all the muscle that person had. Without so much as a goodbye or an are you ok, he left to go back to his house.

My head then started pounding and I fell on the ice, I was lucky enough I wasn't unconcious. Then again, with how bad my head hurt I think I would rather be out cold then feeling all this pain in my head.

I continued my walk home, trying to keep my vision ok everytime it started to get blurry. Today was just not my day, I think I could faint any minute right now. But I wasn't going to give up until I reached my bed.

After another fifteen minutes I was home and I saw Heather on the couch with some soup in her hands. She didn't even turn around when the door opened.

I mostly pulled myself up the steps so I could reach my room. Once I was in my room, I did my best to get my contacts out before taking my boots off.

I think I was only able to get one boot off before I fell onto my bed and let the darkness take me over. I couldn't even hear what Heather was doing anymore. I couldn't hear, darkness was covering my eyes, and my head was pounding like crazy.

Nice Rosemary, real nice.