Perfect

Where was my baby?

**Mum's POV**

'Mum...' Rosa stutters 'What is it Rosa, can't you see that we are talking....' I say to Rosa, cant she see that me and Robert were talking? I am so angry with her, she wasn't here at 7:00AM, I was so scared, I almost called the police. 'But mum, Robert, he's the drug dealer off the news!' she whispers in my ear, Robert gives Rosa a suspicious glance, but he shrugs it off. 'Rosa, stop being so annoying, Robert IS NOT A DRUG DEALER. He is a good man. Stop making up silly stories!' I whisper into Rosa's ear. She makes up the silliest of things. I turn back to Robert, he is just sat there texting someone 'Mum, here he is. Here is "Robert" if that even is his real name.' I stare at the picture on my phone. 'Don't be silly, you just found a picture of Robert on the internet. Rosa, if you do not behave I WILL.' I start to whisper, and then I begin to shout out loud. 'What's going on loves, something wrong?' Robert buts in. 'No, actually SOMEONE is wrong, go to bed Rosa, I don't want to see you again until you stop lying.' I threaten. Robert would feel so upset if he knew that my daughter was accusing him of drug dealing Rosa ran up the stairs, then she slammed her door. Some part of me wanted to go up there and talk to her, but the other told me that she needed some alone time. So I left her upstairs.

'I need some rest Robert, do you mind if you....' I gesture towards the door 'Sure, I'll leave you two alone.' he says sounding tired. 'Bye!' I whisper, just in case Rosa was asleep. 'Bye!' Robert called back as he left. I shut the door behind him. Why would Rosa tell a lie about Robert? Maybe she didn't like him yet. But eventually she would, I just knew it. I thought as I climbed the stairs slowly, my body was tired because I had barely got any sleep all week. I opened the door into my bedroom, it was  clean and tidy I changed into my nightdress and I lay down in bed.

'Welcome home!' a cheery Robert greets me and Rosa as we entered his house 'I love it here!' Rosa says with a smile on her face 'I love my new bedroom mum, I love this new house, it is so beautiful!' she grins as she jumps on her bed. 'We will live here Rosa, forever and ever, all of us, together. One big happy family!' I smile as I hug Robert and Rosa. 'Together forever!' Robert agrees 'Together forever!' Rosa laughs. The perfect family.

'Ummmm.....' I moan as my head gets heavier. Light is pouring through the gap in my curtain, it must be morning. I stretch my arms and legs and I get out of bed. I put my slippers and my dressing gown on, I had a brilliant night's sleep. I felt so new and refreshed. I felt like a new me. 'Rosa.....' I whispered as I opened her door. In the night I heard some sort of moan and a bump come from her room, she probably just hit her arm on the bed or something. I look in her bed. 'Rosa?' I called getting really worried. But it wasn't the first time she had left the house without permission. 'ROSA!' I shout around the house multiple times in each room, the bathroom, kitchen, lounge, my bedroom, her bedroom and the spare room and bathroom. No sign of her. I went back into her room. I sat on her bed, and I gazed at the carpet. Is that? No it couldn't be. Blood? No. I look closer, it was definitely blood, not paint. It looked dry. It had been here for some time. How did it get here, in Rosa's bedroom? I needed to know.

Where was my baby? My Rosa?