Somewhere Here on Earth

6

I sat on the edge of the bed while Roze slept next to me. I was angry about what happened, but I knew that this was in no way, shape, or form about me. I just wanted to make sure Gary suffered for what he did, and I knew that the police wouldn't do anything about it. I turned my head to see Roze's sleeping face and gently stroked her temple with the back of my fingers. There was a soft knock on the door and I turned my head to see her father looking at me with a smile. I smiled back and he shut the door. I wasn't really sure how to speak to her parents, and from the sounds of it, her mother wasn't too fond of me. Or anything really. I thought she liked me, but I think she hated me for not being there to protect Roze.

I leaned down and kissed her cheek before getting dressed in layers and walking outside. There was A LOT of snow around my house and I smiled big slipping my shades on before stepping through it with my snow boots on. I squatted down looking at it and even though I had seen snow so many many times, I wanted to show Roze. It was the most recorded snow in twenty years. I smiled and stood before feeling something cold hit me in the ass. I turned around to see Roze bundled up and giggling. "Hey! How did you get out here so fast?" I asked her. She giggled some more before pulling another snowball from behind her back and hitting me.

It was good to see her smile. I wanted her to be happy after what she had just gone through. "You gonna get off of the front step or are you going to chase me?" She kept giggling and I decided to make a snowball and throw it at her but she dodged it. I took into account of her baby steps that she was taking and she looked down. "Are you wearing snow boots?" She asked. "Yeah! I'm not letting my good heels get messed up. Come here." I held my hand out to her. "No! You're gonna hit me with a snowball!" She shouted before giggling some more.

I laughed. "No I won't, baby. Come here." I walked closer to her and took her hands which were ice cold even through my gloves. "Don't you ever get sick of the cold?" Roze asked me. I shrugged. "Sometimes." She carefully sat on the snow like it was nothing, but maybe it was soothing to her. I knew she was incredibly sore, and I saw the bruises and bite marks on her breasts and shoulders. I wanted to get the thoughts of what he possibly did to her to make those marks, but it was impossible. That's why I wanted to see her smile. I knew that if I ever saw her frown or cry I knew she would be reliving it. Her words interrupted my thoughts. "I've never seen this before. Does it always snow this much?" "Always. Every year. Just this year it's snowed the most it has in a long time. We need to get you some gloves. You're gonna get frostbite out here." Roze yawned and rubbed her eyes as I knelt down in the snow to start balling it up for the base of the snowman.

She looked so cute when she first woke up and now she was helping me ball the snowman up. "We should make him taller than us." She said. I laughed. "We're gonna need a stool or something." I told her. Her hands were trembling as we were making the base and I turned around to see Claude standing there watching us. "Children." He said playfully with a laugh. "Claude, come help us!" Roze said. Claude laughed and shook his head. "I'll be making stew and hot cocoa. You two have fun." He said. I smiled and continued making our snowman with Roze. "Hold on." I said as I stood up and walked around the house looking for the snow shovel and dragged it to Roze.

"Wait, you're gonna shovel snow?" "Yeah, I used to do it when I lived with Andre's parents. Now, C'mon. I can't feel my dick anymore." She giggled and took the shovel. "I can do it." I took it from her. I didn't want her hurting herself. "No, no. You keep patting it and making him nice and round and I'll get some more snow." I started shoveling snow and she laughed. "Prince Rogers Nelson doing manual work. I never thought I'd see the day." I rolled my eyes playfully. "You really don't believe that I did this when I was younger?" I asked as I dumped a pile of snow by her. "I do, I just...I don't know. It's funny is all. You were wearing a hoodie last night." I kept shoveling some more until I knew we had enough.