Rose "Stiches" Gates
Age-17
Eye color - varies
Hair color- black
Height - 5'5
" I didnt ask for this! This insnt what i wanted!"
" This is all your fault Mark all you ever do is drink
and sleep do you even care about me or your child!!??"
" Ah the hell with you both".. Mark storms off with his wife
Susan close behind them.The sounds of their arguements fill the
dark house.
"Mark what is that what are you doing!?"BANG! Rose awakes
shaking and panting hard. She looks around trying to remember
where she was.It had been the third time that week she had
that dream.She could hear her mothers scream...her fathers yelling
..Standing trying to push the thoughts out of her head she looks around her.
Safe Haven Orphanage wasnt a usual happy place, unlike what you see in
movies and t.v shows. It wasnt a bad place either.It was just a sad place.
"Hey Rose your up!" she hears a little girls voice. Turning around she looked
down and saw it was Sarah.
"Can you please say something today plleasee. I want to hear your
voice." She hadnt spoken a word in 10 years. Not a single word.
When the cops arrived at her house that day, they found her in her room
in the corner.She just sat there. As if she was stuck. Frozen. She softly
smiled at the little girl and went to change her clothes.Why do i keep having that
dream she thought to herself as she washed her face.She looks into the mirror and
notices her hair changing color. It was becoming...darker.She dismissed it as a trick of
the light and leaves the bathroom looking out the window at the kids playing
"Its a shame isnt it"
Rose turned around somewhat suprised. It was James. One of the elders that
ran the orpahnage. Rose looked at him wondering what he wanted.
"All those orphans without a home.Without parents." He stepped towards the window his
green eyes somewhat becoming black. Rose takes a small step back waiting.
" I came by to tell you some good news.There is a family wanting to adopt you."
He smiles at Rose who was looking at him like he was a zombie.
"You leave in two days.Congrats Rose." He walks off leaving her alone with her
thoughts.Is this real? Am i finally getting out? Before she could even answewr herself
some kids walked in.
" Hey fellas look who it is" one of the boys said
"Oh its Stiches haha hey Stiches!" She cringed at that name as the boys left laughing
Stiches is what they called her. All because of her hair. She remebred back when her and her
mother would spend Saturdays together.Her dad, who had missed her birth, was out drinking.
Her mom called it "Girls Day". They would spend all day making flower necklaces,cooking cupcakes
and sewing.Rose had made a pattern one day that she really liked. She had asked her mother to put it
in her hair. When her mother asked her why, She simply said
"So ill always remember this mommy"...
Rose snapped out of her daydream sighing.She felt her hair feeling the pattern.She missed her mother so much.
