Poisonous Rose

Chapter One

Many years passed by... There is a decent and enormous house. Outside of the house's wall is filled with vines and roses. The yard was filled with flowers and there was a fountain. It doesn't have any water left in it. The house looks like it's very ancient and looks like it never touched in many years. A man and a boy walk by this house.

The boy asks,"Papa, who lives there?"

A man says,"Don't speak of this! There is a witch who lives there. We must hurry up." He pulled his son away from the house. The man and a boy left town. Inside the house, there is a beautiful young lady sitting on a gold rose sofa. She looks like a doll. The young lady who looks like a doll, is sleeping. She has very long silky hair. It passed her waist and its color is black like night. Her skin is so white like snow. Her lashes are so natural and long. She is beautiful. Her eyes start to open slowly. She still feels drowsy, but she has to wake up. Her eyes are so red like roses. She starts to stand up slowly and turn around until she spots a window. She walks toward the window and checks it out.

She is thinking,"When will my father come home? I have been waiting for him for a month now." She closes her eyes to fight the tears and frown at the same time.

"My lady, it's time for you to eat your supper." her maid said.

The lady that has very long black hair looked at her maid and said,"Please call me Rose instead. No need to be formal."

Rose's maid bowed gently and said,"I will try, Rose." Rose smiles softly and leaves her quiet room. The maid starts following Rose. Rose and her maid arrived at the dining room as Rose sighed in disappointment. She was hoping that Dr.Darling would come back home from his business. The maid who has been taking care of Rose is setting food for Rose. The food that the maid sets is tomato soup with bread on the side of the plate. Rose sits on her chair and starts eating her food, but she doesn't look so happy. She is just eating slowly and her eyes look down at her food.

Her spirit is fading as her maid asks,"What's wrong, my lady?" Her maid pats Rose's back softly and waits for Rose's response. Rose put her spoon down and looked up to her maid.

She said," I think something bad happened to my father..."

Maid asks,"Why do you think that way? He might just come late or the road closed and he must circle around?"

Rose shook her head and said," He has never been this late since I was a child. He told me he would come home in a week,but That was a month ago..."

The maid started thinking hard and said,"Worry not, I will go to town and ask someone knows what happened to Dr.Darling, but I need to know will you be alright while I'm gone for a couple hours?" Rose nods softly and smiles shortly. Maid smiles and hopes that Rose will be alright and starts walking. Rose is watching her maid get her coat and her bag then her maid looks at Rose one more time before she leaves. Rose waves her hands and the door is closed as her maid is out. Rose sighs softly and starts eating her food.

Rose's maid is walking toward the town. Darling's house disappeared from the maid's sight. That's how a maid gets nervous by leaving Rose that far. Maid has always loved Rose as her own child since the first day she met her.

"Maria Moore! What brings you here? I've never seen you come in the afternoon. You are always busy during the day." A man said.

Maria smiled gently and said,"I'm still working. Rose needed me to be here to find out about what happened to Dr.Darling."

A man asked,"Rose? Is she that witch that Dr.Darling takes care of?" Maria curled her eyebrows and frowned so suddenly.

She said in a gravelly voice,"Why do you say a witch is like a bad thing? She is a beautiful and sweet child unlike everyone who calls her that name."