Chapter 1 Cherry Springs State Park, Pennsylvania

 

Chapter 1

Cherry Springs State Park, Pennsylvania

           

One dark day in Cherry Springs State Park, Pennsylvania, Rose White was walking home by herself. Rose was a tall, skinny, and beautiful girl. But the one thing she hated was her red eyes. Her parents said that they named her Rose because of her red eyes. She was 12 years old and her birthday was on January 1. Rose always felt alone when she was young. Her parents never understood her and now she is old enough to understand that no one will ever understand her.

Her parents always fight and always make her pick one side, she hates that. Because of all the pain she keeps inside she started to hate life and turned goth. But the worst part is that her parents did not even care, they were too busy fighting. Rose always feels like she is different, even Alyson tells her that. She only has one friend in middle school because everybody thinks Rose is weird. Her name is Alyson and she is very perky. She is like Rose’s opposite twin but they were best friends ever since the first day of pre-k. After school Rose tries as hard as she can not come home before 4:30 because her mom goes to work at that time. Beside the fact that Rose is goth, she writes beautiful poems and stories. And in school because she does not have a lot of friends, she has a lot of time to work and study so she gets very good grades.

It was Friday the day Rose loves the most. But on the weekends, two days being with her parents is suicidal. Fridays are a good day for Rose because she has 4 hours of poetry class after school that she loves, and most of all it’s free. While Rose was walking home after her poetry class she was listening to her IPod. Her favorite kind music is rock so she put on “Vampires will Never Hurt You” by My Chemical Romance.

 It took her thirty minutes to get to the library where she does her homework every day. Today she only had two assignments so she was done in a couple of minutes. By the time she came home it was 7:30. Perfect time, she is alone the rest of the day and night, because for some strange reason she does not sleep at night. When she came home she put her books down and changed into her blood red pjs that match her eyes. Then she put on some music that she borrowed from the library. The music was hard rock so she put it on loud and started cleaning the house like always does because her mom never has any time during the day, because her dad was home arguing with her.

She did the dishes, made her parents bed, put away all the food, vacuumed a little, and then organized her room. After she finished it was around 8:30 pm. Then Rose heard “Killer likes Candy”, her ringtone so she picked up the phone.

“Hello?” Rose asked.

“Hey goth girl! It’s me Alyson. What’s up? Do you have anything planned this weekend?” She asked.

“Well nothing really.” Rose said as she turned off the music from the CD.

 “You’re serious?! So you have nothing planned out for your birthday?! You and me better have a sleepover on Saturday ok? And you better come, I’ll talk to you later bye!” and Alyson ended the conversation.

After the conversation Rose was a little annoyed because she wanted to spend her birthday alone.

“Ugh! Another sleepless night.” Rose said to herself when she sat on the computer. She went on Google and researched “red eyes”. She only found out that vampires have red eyes and that’s it, because the rest were about brown eyes. She researched red eyes until about 12:00. At 12 o’clock her eyes started hurting so she got off the computer. When she got off the computer she went to the bathroom to wash her face. When she looked up at the mirror she saw a different person. Was that her? It looked like Rose but her eyes were…. brown!

 

Reviews

[LetiStoned]

wow.... this sounds very familliar.....u know wat i mean....
but it's very very good!!
gud job imma read the rest i have a feeling it's gonna be better!!

[Jemma]

i gotta tell you. You changed the spelling of her best friend again. In one part when your describing her you spell it Alyson and in the other part when Rose is on the phone to her you spell it Alison. Other then that I liked the changes you made. You introduced the reader to Alyson/Alison earlier on and it helped when Rose got the phone call. You added a lot more detail as well. It seems to be imporoving and coming along very well. Nice write and again can't wait to see what changes you have made to the other chapters.