Robert Irwin & I

A friendship's beginning and the scream

Rosa's eyes fluttered open. She was laying down. Something very comfortable beneath her. Where were she?

As soon as Robert saw Rosa's eyes opening, he quickly ran over to her and knelt down beside the sofa. He had been worried sick, when Rosa fell into his arms in the middle of the zoo.

He ran as quickly as a lion, who has set its eyes on its prey, to a nearby place, where she could lay down, have some water, and get some rest. Coincidentally his home, which was in the middle of the zoo, was the house nearest by. People had turned heads along the way as they saw the unusual sight of a boy, and even the one and only Robert Irwin, speeding through thick and thin with an unconscious girl in his arms.

Oh well, now they were here. Rosa's first thought, when she fully had awakened was: "wtf, am I in Robert Irwin's house? Sweet!" Rosa's mission was almost already accomplished, and it was still her first day in Australia!

A sharp sting of pain hit her in the head, and she dramatically screamed. Robert was at this point worried out of his mind and quickly - but gently, laid her back down on the couch.

"Gosh, I'm so sorry if the tarantula scared you! I feel awful," he said, and shook his head in self loathing. Rosa felt bad at this point. It wasn't Robert's fault that he didn't know, she was scared of big, hairy, scary spiders. He couldn't have known that. They had just met!

"You don't have to apologize, Robert. What you have done already is more than enough," Rosa smiled at him, and his face was only a few inches away. It didn't seem to bother them, how close they were to each other, and how deeply they were looking into each other's blue eyes in the comfortable silence until the front door to the house opened. They both snapped out of their infatuation, and Robert quickly stood up and dusted himself off like nothing had ever happened.

Into the living room came Bindi and Terri Irwin, both clad in khaki shirts, just like Robert. At first they didn't notice her on the couch, too excited to talk about the supposedly, exciting turtle release they had done today. Bindi's eyes glistened while she talked about it. It was obvious, how passionate they were about wildlife and animal conservation. Rosa admired them greatly.

Suddenly Terri's eyes traveled down to the sofa and screamed of surprise, when she saw Rosa lay there. Rosa also screamed because Terri were, and then Bindi screamed because Terri and Rosa screamed. Robert was startled and shouted, "calm down everyone!"

"Robert, who is that girl!?" Terri half shouted. "It's - wait what's your name?" He whispered in Rosa's direction. "Rosa," she whispered back. "It's Rosa. I was showing her around the zoo today, but then she fainted, so I decided to take her back here, so she could get some rest."

"Oh... Okay," Terri said, seeming relieved that it wasn't some crazy girl laying in their sofa. Only if they knew how much Rosa had stalked their tv show back home in Denmark...

"So... Rosa?" Bindi started to ask. "What brings you here all alone?"

Robert hadn't seemed to think of that yet, and now everyone were looking down at her with a confused look.

Oh shoot... what was Rosa supposed to answer?