Flowinder Flora

prologue: bud of disaster

I wake up to the morning light that blinds my sensitive eyes. I look around to see my bedroom covered in red, white, and pink roses. I open my red curtains and open the window to see the morning blue sky and the sea glimmering like glitter. The light hurts my sensitive eyes, though. As I look into the mirror, I see my horrid, white tangled hair and red eyes.
"Did I sleep wrong?" I thought, I went to take a bath and was greeted by my mother, "good morning rosemary!" As my mother said, my name was my name. "My dear, you look terrible." Mom said while I sarcastically said,"I know." I walked to the bathroom and took off my pajamas and took a bath. I got out of the bathroom wearing a towel dress and went back to my room to get ready for the day. I brush my white hair, put my red lipstick on to match my makeup, and wore a red dress with red roses with red shoes. I come downstairs to greet my family, but I have forgotten one more person, I go back to the second floor and knock on my twin sister's door. "Rosetta! Wake up! You'll be late!" I exclaimed, yet she did not answer.
She always does this, and it annoys me.
Finally, she wakes up and comes out of her room to go take a bath and get ready for our business. I ate breakfast and Rosetta came in late for breakfast, luckily, my dad said we work at 8:00 in the morning. I woke up at 6:30, I guess I woke up too early. We go outside to sell our famous rose wine, and as I noticed my surroundings, the world is advancing, and there is new technology and new music that I hear as well.
Me and my sister finally took a break while our parents took over, and we went for a walk. Suddenly, I heard a little boy scream which alarmed me and rosetta, "What was that!?" I said but rosetta suggested I stay here but instead I went with her. We saw a little aster boy getting picked on by a bunch of petunia people. We distracted the petunias so that the aster could run away, but now we were in trouble. We embrace each other, but rosetta protects me the most until a lady in white who wore a white mask came to our rescue, standing Infont of us.
One of the petunias yelled, "Who the hell are you!?" But the masked lady did not answer but simply just said,"Who do you think you are bossing around someone who you shouldn't pick on?"
"Excuse me!?" He exclaimed and ordered the petunias to attack her.
The first one was about to hit her, but she dodged. The second one missed, so they tried to hit her again, but she kicked them away, making them fall onto the floor. The third one was about to hit the masked lady with a bat, but the masked lady grabbed the bat and threw her to the wall. She looked at the last petunia, and he pulled out a gun and started to shoot at her.
She dodged all of them and ran to him to apprehend him and steal his gun and point at his head. The petunia started to cry and plead for mercy, so the masked lady let the group of petunias go. She asked if we were okay, and we replied, "That was amazing!! Thank you!!" The masked woman smiled and disappeared. We returned to our parents to see the worried so we explained everything. We went back home and ate dinner, after I was done eating I went upstairs to wash my make up off and change clothes, I couldn't sleep at all, I was thinking about that masked woman that saved us earlier.
My mom knocked on my bedroom door, and I let her in.
She came in with an apple rose tart, and I got excited because it was my favorite desert. "I'm sorry we couldn't celebrate your birthday last week, Happy birthday." My mother said as I said "don't worry! You were busy, that's all!" My mother gave out a sweet smile. She was always like this. "I can't believe you're 18 now!" Said my mom, and I laughed a little. I ate my apple Rose Tart, and mom and I talked about things and reminisce about my element school years with rosetta and joked about my dad.
I watched my mom leave my room and close the door, and I fell asleep. But then I woke up to my sister waking me up in tears covered in blood. I instantly felt cold and yelled what had happened. My sister took me to the entrance door, and outside was my mother's body drenched in a pool of blood lying on the stairs. I couldn't think, and I tell myself she's not dead.
I went to her but rosetta stopped me. "Don't.. I felt her pulse.. I tried everything, s-she's dead." She said as her words tremble with tears in her eyes. I fall on my knees and put my head down. I never thought it would be the last time I talked to mom. We were just laughing this night. I started to yell and cry, and rosetta hugged me tight as she cried silently.
Dad later woke up and discovered mom. We came to comfort him too as he cried, and we called the police and detectives to find anything, yet we found nothing. We later planned her funeral and it was time. Everyone who knew her surrounded her to grieve. Me and rosetta talked a little, but then I caught a glimpse from the corner of my eye.
A person in a cape stole something from my mother's casket, and rosetta went to catch her. The guards went after the person, which in hand, had mother's eye. Why would they steal my mother's eye? My dad murmur to himself, "This is bad... Rosalyn would not like this.." as if the eye was actually important. I went in the same direction as my sister went, but one of the guards stopped me and said that we lost sight of their and rosetta.
After that incident, I asked why the thief would steal mother's eye. He started to get nervous, but reluctantly, he answered, "It's a family curse, you have an ancestor named "rosalina" who shared the same eyes as you and your mother, she was the pink rose who was friends with the deadly nightshade." I asked who the deadly nightshade was. "The witch who casted a young prince to sleep over a hundred years, some say she is still alive today, others think she might've been dead, or that she could be a myth." He explained, but I asked."What does a fairytale have to do with this curse!?" My father then answered "the deadly nightshade put the prince to sleep because he could've possibly destroy the world, yet rosalina was inlove with the young prince so she sacrificed her eye to feed it to him so he could wake up, but the deadly night shade destroyed the eye and cursed her and our generations of misfortune" But if the eye can make anyone wake up and fall inlove, and if the prince wakes up to destroy the world, why did the theif take the eye? But it was answered, "in the end the deadly nightshade, who was rumored to be an evil witch isn't the bad guy of the story and was trying to keep the world safe, but that's what I believe." He said.
I didn't understand, I didn't understand it all. We went home, and it has been confirmed that rosetta went missing.