The Pink TuTu - chapter outtakes

August 29th, 2016

Happy New Years 2022, everybody! 🎊🎉

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*Montgomery-Hastings Residence*

Today is a hard day. It is Monday, August 29. Also known as, the day Rosie would have started Kindergarten.

Saturday was the twenty-seventh. Exactly two months since the 5-year-old little girl disappeared.

Spencer and Aria have started wondering some things since Rosie's disappearance two months ago.

Like, what if Rosie picked the park as her birthday treat?

Or, what if they had stayed home, with a bounce house and swim party instead of the Zoo?

And, what if Aria had called Rosie over to put sunscreen on her, like Alison and Emily had called for Taylor and Natalie?

Would she still have gone missing?

Would their little girl be here, instead, running in nearly two hours before she needed to wake up, to excitedly remind them that today she starts Big Kid school!... ?

Would she be excited that she would get to ride the bus home? Or that she gets a Special Class, like Art and Library?

Would she have lost a tooth already, like Spencer, who lost her first tooth the week before Christmas of the year she was in Kindergarten, or would she still have a year and a half left, like Aria, who was halfway through first grade before her smile became gap-toothed?

Monday is hard day for Spencer and Aria.

They stay home from work, drag themselves out of bed even if it plainly for Scottie, and no one else.

They watch videos, ones that have Rosie in them.

They watch for themselves, for Scottie, to make sure he knows who his big sister is. Today, Scottie is 16 months old. He is old enough to, at least, really begin watching home movies.

The first one is one where Aria is pregnant with Scottie, about 6 months, give or take a few days. She had been having some serious cravings, and Rosie wanted to try her latest one.

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**Video begins here:**

Time: November 14 th , 2017 (4 months pregnant)
Location: Rosewood, Pennsylvania

"Mommy!" Rosie comes skipping into the kitchen from her bedroom. She heard the telltale sounds of the blender being used and wanted in on whatever was being made.

"Pease I have one?" The 3-year-old asks without even finding out what is being made in the first place.

Spencer chuckles from where she is, at the counter, using the blender, in order to make her wife a smoothie of her latest craving, – a lemon and banana smoothie, with peanuts sprinkled on top. Aria sits at the kitchen island, eagerly awaiting said smoothie.

"Sure, Rosepetal, you can have one of these. Would you like to know what kind it is?"

"Sure, Mommy, I would love to know!"

"Mamma has asked me to make her a...you ready for this?..." Rosie's eyes widen, her brain trying to figure out what kind of kooky craving, – as her aunties and uncles call it, – her baby brother or sister is causing her Mamma to have this time.