Rose's Pov;
My life is really hard to enjoy, I'm the middle child of 5 kids sometimes I feel like I'm a better mother then my own mother. Moneys always been the down fall in our household, even though my parents work my two older sister's work and I'm going to start working it's still not enough. For a family with low income I still have everything I want so I'm not complaining that much. My two older sister's Macy, and Jessica are 20/19 they should already be out of the house doing there own thing but my mom babies them to much. The only reason why I love them still living with us is that I get to wear there clothes as well. My mother works a lot she has two jobs a day and night shift, her day job is a clerk at a local story in the mall her night shift she's a security for a hospital not to far from where I live, and she still manages to leave dinner ready my moms goes the extra mile but I know all she wants is to see us happy. My dad he works for a big company and doesn't come home till 10, because the traffic is horrible. Even though I love my life, I wouldn't want to be struggling in my future like we are now.
5:30 am my waking call, I'm the one who has to wake up everyone in the house from my dad to my younger sister's Amy and Claire. 'Come on guys! You guys have to get up, we can't miss another day of school' I bang on everyone's door. I quickly, finished my job and I quickly ran to the bathroom. I get in the shower, and turn the knob on "Fuck!" I jump towards the closets wall. "Damn, it there's no warm water I have to make this quick". I quickly jump back into the water, and scrub myself self quickly. I quickly get out of the shower, and start washing myself with some strawberry flavored face wash. As I open the door to the bathroom I stumble over some of my sister's toys "Fuck". I slam my bedroom door close, and I look myself in the mirror and all I can see is a girl who's tired of the same routine everyday. I put my hair into a quickly up bun mostly, because my hair is still wet and I don't have the energy to do anything with it at the moment. I quickly put on my everyday makeup (Like mascara, eyeliner, blush, and a pale lip) I head towards my closet, and I'm not pleased with anything so I quickly make a run for it to my sister's room and I found a outfit that caught my eye I ran towards my room as I see my family still trying to get up and do there routines I'm almost done with mine. I slipped on the high wasted floral skirt, put on the black sweetheart crop top, and through on the white cardigan. I looked at the mirror and I wasn't disappointed I let down my long auburn hair quickly started brushing it looed at the time; it was time were the own family eats breakfast before rushing out. I headed down stairs, and my 19 year old sister Jessica looked at me "That outfit looks familiar?" she says as she's eyeing me " It looks familiar, because everyone's wearing them now" I give her a big smile as she just mad dogs me. I quickly pour myself a bowl of Fruit Loops as I head back to my room to put my shoes on and get my backpack. 'Kay guys It's time to go' yells out my mom. The way we go to school is my dad goes with the younger girls, and my mom goes with me and my two older sisters. I get dropped out first then it's my mom and my sister's take a drive before they even go to work.
Arriving to school my skirt got stuck to the car door, Jessica started laughing ''That's what you get for stealing my clothes from today", "I'm just wearing it for one day does it matter?", "Alright, I'll let you go but is there someone you're trying to impress?", "No, are you crazy? Moms going to be late for work so you guys have to go" I speak as I start to walk off not remembering my skirt is still stuck to the car door "Come one, I'm beginning serious I don't like anyone I just want to look nice", Jessica smirks and opens the car door "See you later, I want my clothes disinfected when I get home". I take a deep breathe, and I continue walking towards the school as I am walking everyone's saying hello to me. I' not popular I just get along with a lot of people, I walk down the halls and I see a group of freshmen looking right at me I give them a big smile and wave at them once I had done that they quickly looked away like they weren't looking. I walk towards my locker, and there I see my best friend Emma I smile as I walk towards her "Hey Em" I give her a big hug, "Wow, Em you look really nice today. Why is that?" I looked at her with my eye brown lifted. She was wearing a nice simple black dress that suits her well, a light blue jean jacket without any sleeves, some dark brown boots with heels, some nice light makeup, and she let her curly hair down. She was looking cute. "Umm, no reason I just wanted to dress nice today. Speaking of dressing nice you look beautiful" gently push her "Thanks Em! So, what did you do when I wasn't here yesterday? All alone?", she has this big smile on her face "Actually I hanged out with Jason Scott and Barrett", I punch her on her shoulder "What with guys, and attractive guys I hate you" Emma starts laughing "Oh shut up last time you ditch my for a sophomore what's his name .. ? Jimmy" I looked at her annoyingly "Jimmy ? It's Jake by the way", "How are things going with that ?" Emma says with a smile on her face. "He's sweet, I don't know well see where it goes", "You do now that he's two years younger then you?". I didn't really care if he was two years younger then me he was still sweeter then any of the douche bags that are our age or older then us. I quickly look at her "Actually no, there's no age or boundary when it comes to love". Emma starts laughing "yes, there is if he's in relationship there's your boundary", "Emma do you want to tell me something?", Emma looks at me weird "of course not! Oh, look at the time I have to get to the fourth floor bye". "Bye freak". I can tell when Emma's lying we've been friends since we were younger so I know when she's telling the truth.
As I am walking down the hall, I feel two wimpy arms around my waist "Guess who!" he whispers into my ear, "Jimmy?" I say as I start laughing, "Who's Jimmy?" as he lets go questioning me. "Ah, Jake I'm only kidding know when to take a joke for crying out loud". He smiles at me as he kisses my lips, as he kissed me our lips gliding over each others smoothly, and I also felt his palm grabbing my ass as soon as I felt that I pushed him away but I'm not going to lie I kind of enjoyed it. "What did I tell you about personal space?", He pulled me closer "What can say, I love everything about you Rosie". He loves everything about me. When he said that I tried not to smile or blush I just kept looking at the floor. "Jake, look I really have to go to class. I can't be late like last time", He gives me a quick grin and lets me go. As I walk away from him I feel confused, but also this warm feeling inside. I only felt like this once, and that was with my 2 year boyfriend Henry. I started dating Henry when I was a sophomore and he was a junior, I was really happy in that relationship he treated me just find but when he was a senior he started going out on his own, applying to colleges. I remember the night of prom we were dancing to our song and that's when he gave me a promise ring telling me that he promises even if he'll be in college he'll still make time for me, that was a big lie we both realized it wasn't working out so be both came to an agreement that we should stop seeing each other. Henry was my first love, of course I'm always going to try and compare him to any other guy I date or even like. Till this day Henry and I still speak, we still talk about the past and all the stupid romantic things we used to do; I get happy when we talk about those things but I know we're never going to go back to what we were before only sometimes I wish it did.
That's why I don't like getting to caught up with Jake, he's a sweet guy but I'll be doing the same thing Henry did to me leave him when I get out of high school in a couple of months.
School went by extremely fast, all that really happened today was getting my missing assignments catching up with Emma and her new friends, hanging out with Jake. Waiting for my sister to come pick me up, I turn around and I see Jake with some girls that looks her age and she's adorable I can see that she doing all the moves so he can find her cute, but he's to distracted looking at me. Oh no, I'm ruining someone else chances with being with someone who can actually care for them more than I can. I see that he totally just walked away from her, wen she was trying to talk to him. He walked away to come talk to me, I can see the hate and the pain the girl has. "Hey babe!", "Hey, who's the girl you were talking to ?" "Ah, babe don't get jealous", I looked at him "I'm not jealous I just want to know who the girl is ?", he smiled "Her names Jessica, almost all the sophomore guys liked her except me because I got a mighty fine one here" he winks at me. I pretend to laugh, "Alright my sister's here so I'll talk to you later". I walk away without giving him a hug or kiss I can tell he was bothered with that. I got into the car, and I can see my sister's face "How cute, he's your boyfriend?", I looked at her "No, he's a guy that likes me but I don't like him at all". I had to lie to my sister's or they would be bothering the crap out of me the whole ride home.
The day went by super fast today got home, ate dinner, showered, and now I'm working on some homework. I was finally on my math homework, something I can do in a heartbeat. As my pencil touched the paper, I heard the phone ring I answered it thinking it was Jake. "Hello" I answered aggressively, "Wow, is this bad time to call?" I drop my pencil and my heart starts skipping a beat "Henry! Oh my, I'm so sorry I didn't mean to answer like that. I thought you were somebody else", I heard him laugh "It's alright Rosie, don't worry I just wanted to know how you were doing", "I'm alright, I just started doing my math homework. How are you?", "I'm doing fine actually". Wen I heard him say that I thought he was going to brag about how he has an amazing life, and an amazing new girlfriend or something like that but instead he said this "One things missing though you". Right when I was going to say something back my other line rang it was Jake, "Hey, Henry just hold up a second I have someone on the other line", "All right, I'll be waiting". I answer my other line "Hello?", "Hey babe what are you doing?", "I'm just-" *Someone knocks on my window* "Yeah, Jake hold up". I head towards the window, and I move the curtains and my eyes can't believe what they are seeing. It's Henry. I open up the window, and there we are starring into each other eyes. I'm in shock, why is he here? Why does he want to see me? I look at my phone, and I'm still on the line talking to Jake. "Jake, I have to call you back" I say as I quickly hang up. There we were just looking at each other "What are you doing here?" I try to pull myself together. "I'm here to do this". He walks towards me, and presses his lips onto mine. My hands wrap around his neck, and his around my waist. I don't know why I let him kiss, me or why was I still kissing him. I remember it's, because I still love him.
