The Nightmare

There Are Better Days Ch3

Roses POV

Earlier that day, I wake up to the sound of birds singing a song and a breeze as soft as a cat's fur blowing through the window, I take a deep breath and get out of bed, I throw on a pair of sweatpants and a flower T-shirt, what I normally wear on the weekends, and get my usual breakfast. After I eat I turn on some music and do the dishes, I also do the laundry. It's 9:00 am and my stomach growls telling me to make something to eat other then toast. I decided that I want to make some dubble chocolate chip cookies and start baking. A little while later, I pull the cookies out of the oven and smell the sweet scent of melted chocolate. I take a cookie and bite it, the chocolate is so hot that it burns the roof of my mouth. I take the cookies of the pan with a spatula and put them on a drying rack, I'll put them away later. I take my hoodie and tie it around my waist, just in case it gets cold and go for a walk. I'm walking down a forested trail, the leaves rattling and making everything feel as though nothing bad could happen today, but I jinxed myself. As I thought about how good today was I come to a clearing, the caw of a raven peirces the air around me, and I hear talking behind me. I recognize the voices, it's Rachel and her friends. I stop in my tracks when I hear one of them call my name. I can hear them getting closer, I want to run but I can't move my feet are stuck like a tree rooted to the ground. One of them grab my shoulder and spin me around to face them,
"Hey I was right it is her!" One of them yell in a confident voice, they all laugh.
"Whats a useless pice of trash like you doing on such a good walking trail?" Rachel asks, but I know it's a rhetoracal question.
"You'll ruin the trail just by being here." The shorter blond on her right stated. Rachel has short brown hair that reaches to the middle of her neck and curls in at the tips. Freckles dot her face and shinny green marbles fo eyes, I'd say she's average hight for our age. "Why don't you just leave? No one will miss you when your gone." The blond retorts. The three circle around me and start pushing me around, I hit the ground and something scares them away. I get up and walk to the clearing and sit on a log that was sticking out of the ground, a cloud covers the sun causing everything to darken just a bit. As I was sitting there what they had said ran through my mind, "No one will miss you when your gone". She was right, there's no one to miss me,
"Rose?" I hear someone say my name softly and snap me out of my thoughts. I look up and see korralil, I'm relived to see that it's her and not someone else. "What're you doing sitting on a log? Are you ok?" She asks worried tone. I nod my head,
"Yeah I'm fine, just wanted to sit for a bit." I lie, I guess I've done it so much I just comes naturally.
"Ok, Hey I was just going to get jordan and we were going to so to the pool. You wanna join?" She asks hopefully, seeing her like that just makes it so I can't say no.
"Sure, I'll come." I say plainly as I start to stand up I'm tackled with a hug and a thousand thank yous. I can't help but laugh at her because of how happy she is, I envy her. I hug her back and we walk to Jordans house. When we get their Jordan's already wearing his swim shorts and a baggy shirt.
"Oh, hi Rose your comming with us, Where's your swim stuff?" I drop my head and start to panic.
"That's kind of my fault, I didn't let her go get her stuff when I invited her."
"Oh well it's getting pritty windy anyway we can just play games inside." He shrugs it off I goes back inside,
"But you have no games here. What'll we play?" Korralil asks with a hint of sass in her voice, I get an idea.
"I have boardgames and some multiplayer video games at my house, we can go there and play them." I say and the other two nod in sync.
"Sounds like a plan." States jordan I'm happy I can help. I take them to my house and Korralil convinces us to play monopoly with us. For the next week those two come over after school everyday. I like having them around, but I won't tell them about the bullies no mater how many times they ask.