The Lost Rose [COMPLETE]

Eleven: His Past

Rose P.O.V

I was sitting outside with Dan at a park, the breeze was beautiful, so many colors to see, since it was autumn. I was pretty chilly, but Dan gave me his sweater.

He told me he wanted to talk to me about something, so I agreed and now we're at the park. I noticed that he was looking off in the distance, so I nudged his shoulder. He looked over to me. "So what did you want to talk to me about?"

"Well, you remember that day when that man showed up?"

My ears went down a little. "I don't want to remember it but yeah, I do.." His ears went down too.

"You also remember when I said I know what it feels like to be in that moment, right?" I nodded in reply, "Is that what you wanted to talk to me about?" He looked off into the distance again. "Yeah, well it's more of how I know what it feels like..." I felt my ears go back more and my eyes widened a bit. "A-are you sure you want to talk about this?" I asked with concern.

"Of course, you're my best friend Rose, I trust you with anything." He then looked at me and smiled. I smiled back. "So.. what happened?"

"Well," He looked off again.

"It all started when I was young, very young to be exact. I was about 3, somehow I still remember this, but my parents used to f-fight a lot, especially around me and Ben, m-most of the fights were about finances and my mother cheating on my dad, and some fights were just out of my mother's anger issues... Sushi was just born a year ago, so she was a baby when this happened. As the fights continued, my dad came home with a paper, saying that he had cancer..." I saw his eyes water a bit. I scooted a bit closer to him. "...H-he told us first, then he told my mom, and then they probably had about the biggest fight of their l-lives... I was in the hallway crying and Ben was s-standing in front of me, hugging me, t-trying to calm me down... a few months passed and my dad just kept getting worse, and worse... he was becoming pale, s-skinnier, weaker... until he had to go to the hospital, and d-due to his weakened state. He couldn't fight it anymore... Me, Ben, Sushi and our mom were in the r-room until we heard the worst s-sound that anyone could possibly hear... That deafening flatline s-sound that just beeped n-nonstop... and that's when we knew that we would n-never see our dad a-again... I w-was devastated... I-I couldn't move, I couldn't do a-anything...

...Then wh-when it came until after the f-funeral, everything changed... as the years went by, we would get hurt by our mother and she would blame us for all of her problems because our dad wasn't with us anymore... we weren't happy a-at all, we never got to experience happiness after our dad died... our mom beat us when she was d-drunk, but when she invited dudes over to the house, sh-she wouldn't even talk or even acknowledge us... then school c-came around. Me and Sushi were not okay mentally and would have b-breakdowns a lot. Ben would get into a lot of f-fights at school because of the looks everyone gave him, and all of the gossip that was going on, he would come home every day with a new bruise or cut and mom would get mad at him. I never wanted to do anything in school, Sushi had a-a lot of breakdowns and would become a bit aggressive... and this continued on, e-every day...

..Then one year, I fell ill, a-and our mother was never home during the mornings, sometimes all day, so Sushi would s-stay home to take care of me. I was 12, Sushi was 11, and Ben was 13 a-at the time, I was sick for almost a whole month, I was weak, I couldn't go to school because of how contagious it was, I could barely even move. Then one day, our mom got home early and saw that me and Sushi were still home, when w-we were both supposed to be at school, then my mom and Sushi got into a fight, it lasted for an hour, I got up weakly to see if it was ending, and I saw the m-most traumatizing thing I've ever seen, I saw my mom p-push Sushi down the s-stairs, my mom just scoffed and walked outside I started sh-shaking, and then I started screaming and c-crying. The only person who would s-stay home with me and take care of me just got h-hurt... Th-then my mom came back in and said that w-we should go to the doctor, I just dragged Sushi away b-because I was s-so scared and terrified that she would get more hurt... She eventually forced us to go. Over the next f-few weeks it got worse, Ben would get into fights all day now, I would h-have anxiety attacks a lot, and Sushi w-would just fight, b-bite and have a lot of panic a-attacks..." He started crying and buried his head in his hands. I started tearing up.

"Oh my gosh.. I'm so sorry that you've been through all of this Dan..." I leaned over to him and hugged him, he was shaking lightly and was sniffling a lot. "That must of been so hard for you to talk about..."

"I-it's okay... It's okay Rose..." I heard him mumble. He sat up and looked at me, I pulled back a bit, he smiled at me. He pulled back, I put a hand on his shoulder. "You don't need to say anymore Dan, it's okay. I know enough." He just smiled at me.

"...High school came around, we got kicked out of our home and bought our own, which is the house we have now. Everything started to become better for us, we started to feel happiness for the first time in our lives. We met new friends, and I met you. The person who took all of my sorrows away." He smiled again and his ears went back, I lightly shoved him.

"Oh stop, you're gonna make me cry Dan." I smiled at him, "At least I'm making you happy Rose." I looked in his eyes, "And I'm glad I'm making you happy." I hugged him, and he hugged me back.

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WOW 1078 words in this chapter, and this one was pretty hard to write. Dan has gone through a lot in his life, but luckily Rose is there to make him happy :)

See you guys in chapter Twelve!