Chapter 1- Once upon a memory...
*Rosetta, aged 7, Jacob, aged 9*
"Ro, you know you're my bestest friend in the whole wide England?" Julian asks.
"Um..yeah..?" she replies tentatively.
"And you're the best cupcake maker in the universe?"
"Well, Mummy helps-"
"Can you be my wife?" he mumbles nervously.
"EEEEEW NO! You're a boy! You have.." Romania looks around cautiously to see if the trees are listening and whispers, "..cooties!"
He laughs and gets out a pack of Haribos Starmix and grins in satisfaction as Romania's eyes widen and glaze over: he knows this is her weakness.
"How about now?" he asks cheekily.
She sticks her tongue out and says, "Fine. But I want lots of Haribos."
"Deal." He smiles a knowing smile and slips a Haribo ring on her third finger on her left hand.
"Don't I have to do one as well?" she cocks her head at him whilst taking a Haribo ring.
"Uh, yeah, sure." he murmurs as he looks away shyly. She 's always one step ahead, he thinks.
They sit there on the grass awkwardly for a few moments before Rosetta breaks the silence.
"Well, what do we do now, Jay?"
"Um, I have to kiss the bride. Which is you, I guess?"
Before she can say anything to lower his burst of courage, he presses his lips to hers for less than a second.
She looks at him and blinks with a dazed look on her face.
"EEEEEWWW, JACOB! Are you trying to kill me? Yuck! Oh no, I feel the cooties coming alive on my mouth!"
She wipes her mouth with the back of her hands as if her life depends on it.
Jacob bursts out laughing and pats her on the head.
"Well I guess its time to go home now..RACE YOU THERE, Rosie!" and he races off.
Rosetta is not amused. "Hey, no fair! Cheater!"
They both run off into the distance, not noticing the pair of eyes watching them through a tiny hole in a fence.
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Jacob & Rosetta
Romansa"What do you do when the whole of your family and the people you thought were friends want to do nothing but split you and your other half apart? You fight back, till death do you part. This is our story." When Romania and Julian recognize their fee...
