The Rose mask

Forced to Socialize

Just as I finished unpacking my things and setting up my room I heard a knock at the door. "Come in." I said as I straighted out my bed. The door creaked open and my mom peaked in. "Rose! Your father said you need to go and make some friends and meet the neighbors! And he said you should wear that nice new dress I got for you!" I rolled my eyes then muttered "again with the 'your father said' always making dad the bad guy... I doubt he cares." She glared slightly but still tried to keep a happy tone "what was that?". "Nothing mom. I'll go." She smiled then walked out of the room and I dug through my closet finding the short-ish blue flowey dress and sighed. I looked around my room then in my closet and saw a small box and I shoved the dress inside then slid the box back on a shelf in the closet and sat a few more boxes in front of it making it not visible. I picked out some nice jeans and a T-shirt with my white converse covered in doodles and friends names and went out my door running down the stairs almost out the door until I hear mom yell "ah! Where's the dress?!". "I couldn't find it but at least I'm wearing a decent outfit sorry mom gotta go make friends tell dad I said I love him and I love you!" I yelled quickly as I ran outside shutting the door behind me. I sighed as I walked out onto the sidewalk and glanced both ways deciding which way to go first. I decided to go right and I was walking aimlessly looking around I bumped into this guy being clumsy awkward me I fell back on my ass and he just stood there. I freaked out before even looking at the guy "oh! I'm so sorry I was just being dumb and I wasn't watching where I was going I'm so sorry I-" "hey its fine! Need help up?" He cut me off and I looked up at him. A boy with curly brown hair and beautiful green eyes stood over me with his hand outstretched. "N-no. I'm fine." I quickly got up. "I just moved here today and my moms forcing me to meet new people and bleh..." I said quickly, slightly nervous. He laughed "bleh?" And I laughed lightly "just bleh.". We sat the for a moment
smiling at each other then I awkwardly realized I was just starring at him. "Oh well um I better get going! I-uh I'll see ya later!" I said quickly. "Oh well maybe we could hang out some ti-" I was already quickly walking the other way to meet the neighbors on the other side of the house just to get it over with. I started walking a bit slower until someone jumped in front of me. It was a shorter boy with longer brown hair and dark brown eyes. He wore a grey jacket and camo shorts with old white shoes. "Hey! The names Jace!" I jumped back a bit. "Um... Hi. I'm Rose." He was acting all cool and had his arms crossed and he was smiling and he opened his mouth to say something then a football game flying out of nowhere and smacked him in the head. Then I noticed an older similar looking boy laughing "nice catch dweeb!" He shouted. Jace stood back up straight then snapped his head around "I swear I'm gonna kill you!!!" He yelled as he ran towards the older boy and they both ran into the house and several sounds followed such as dogs barking cats hissing crashes and yelling until a mans voice yelled for them to stop horsing around. I stood there for a moment then turned around. Well I can already tell this is gonna be fun.