A loud crashing noise woke me up from my dreamless sleep. I quickly jumped out of the bed and ran downstairs, to find my mother lying on the ground holding an injection in her hand.
"Really?"
I sigh and scratch my neck, while looking around for my dad. Ofcourse he is nowhere to be find, so I gather all my strenght and pick my mum off the ground and drag her to the couch. Laying her on the couch I feel my muscles throbbing, my legs start itching and everything around me is spinning. I stop moving and try to calm myself down. Mom is peacefully sleeping so I leave her be and go to the kitchen. I open one of the cabinets and take out my pills. I quickly swallow them and sit on one of the old chairs.
My body soon calms down so I massage my temples and then get up. I walk back to my room to get ready for school, but as I open door to my room I hear my dad's voice calling me.
"Rosemary, where are my trousers? I left them here yesterday, what did you do with them? Are you fucking deaf or what? Where are they?"
I spin around on my heels and look my at my dad. His blue eyes are swollen and red, his hair is greasy and he reeks of booze. I just simply point at his legs and he finally realises he is wearing his 'lost' trousers. I roll my eyes as I finally walk into my room, as I close the door behind me I can hear him stomping down the stairs.
I get to my bed and lit one of my candles, I connect my phone to one of the speakers and let the music swallow my body. I walk to my bathroom and brush my teeth, as i brush my wild red hair I pick some clothes out of the closet and put it on the bed. I toss the brush on one of the bean bags and put my clothes on. Looking at myself in the reflection I sigh, I take my backpack and leave my room. As I walk down the stairs I can hear my dad trying to wake up mom. Realising the yelling that will come very soon I just quickly put my shoes on and run out fo the house.
As I'm walking to school a black car stops next to me and my friends voice calls out to me.
"Rosyy, hey girl, want a ride?"
I look a my friend and get in the car, once I sit down she steps on the gas and we sped towards the school. The smell of cigaretts hits my nose and I cough. I roll down the window and look at my bestfriend.
"Tar you should't smoke, especially in the car."
"Tsk Rosy you are really a pain in the ass you know that right?"
I laugh and lightly punch her arm. She smiles at me and then puts a hand on my leg. I never really understood this habbit of hers, she always does it. As we were speeding through the neighborhood Taras phone started ringinning, when she didn't pick up for about a minut I took the phone and answered the call.
"What the fuck Tara? Are you deaf? Can't you for once pick up your fucking phone? I'm literally go-"
"It's nice to hear you too Mari."
I said as I interrupted Mari in her rant about picking up calls. I could hear Tara giggling next to me, knowing very well that Mari was about to tell me about her plan on torturing Tar to death.
"Oh, hi babe, I didn't know you picked up the phone. Well it's actually good that you picked up, cause I need to talk to you."
"What's up Mari?"
"Soo I know you aren't really into this kind of thing, but Bentley is celebrating his birthday in Ruby Rose today, and I was wondering if you would like to come and celebrate too, cause you know it's friday and you need to get wasted or laid."
I hummed in response as I slapped Tar across her hand as she began massaging my leg. She laughed and parked the car. The parking lot infront of school was almost full and I almost threw up as i saw the people going to school.
"Okeeey you don't have to drink or finally fuck someone, you can just hangout with me. I will be behind the bar the whole time so I can keep an eye on you if you are worried about that."
"Thanks Mari, but i really don't know, I don't feel to good today."
We got out of the car and I started slowly walking to the school. Tara immediately went next to me, she took my hand and took the phone out of my hand. I shook my head as she put it next to her ear.
"Don't worry Mar I'm gonna get her there, see ya."
Tar ended the call and smiled at me. I wanted to protest, but I knew that there is no need to fight a battle I have already lost. When Tar wants something she always gets it, one way or another. We got into school and went right to our classroom. As we walked in the teacher stopped his ranting and looked at us. We were a bit late so he was pissed at us.
"You two again, I think you really like interrupting my class Taramis, Rosemary."
"Oh no, not at all professor, we just don't want to get stupid from your pointless ranting about Cobra."
Our teacher really loved talking about Cobra, so we always showed up a bit later, so we didn't have to listen to it.
"Tsk in that case sit down ladies and enjoy, because today is all about Cobra."
"Fuck."
I cursed under my breath and went to my seat. As I sat down Mr. Kowalski started his lesson and I knew just from his first word that this will be a long day.
"Cobra, our King is a leader of a very big mafia group that controls the land from Salisbury to Cambridge to Dever. He is one of the three Kings of England. As you all know, the 23rd of February is King Cobras day, we celebrate his deeds and his kindnes towards us. Cobra is the only King in the history to rule over a land for more than 50 years, which makes him the oldest King and thanks to that he is chosen to host the King meetings every 5 years. Today we have the honor of watching the documentary that was filmed a year ago. So everybody be quiet and listen."
After his last word I fell asleep.
**********
"Rose, Rose wake up! It's time to get lunch, I'm hungry."
I opened my eyes as Tara screamed into my ear and stood up from the very uncomfortable chair. I take my backapack and slowly walk to the cafeteria, I yawn and rub my eyes. Tar is closly behind me, making sure to catch me if needed. My body feels tired so when I reach the cafeteria I sit down on the first chair I see. Tar gives me her bag and makes her way to buy some food. My head feels heavy so i reach in my backpack and take out some of my pills and swallow them. I rest my head on the table.
As Tar comes back i look at her and accept the sandwich she bought. I trie to open it but my fingers are too weak to do so. Tar laughs at my attemps and opens the sandwich for me. I smile at her and start eating. My stomach soon feels full so I stop eating and put the sandwich in my bag, planning to eat it later. I feel better so I look at Tar and smile at her to soothe her fear for my well being.
"How is Rob doing?"
"You mean Rob or Rob."
"I mean Rob, I heard he won in the last match."
"Oh yeah, he did pretty good, I mean not like he could ever be bad at anything."
Tara is a bit of a player, she is dating two guys at this moment and occasionally fucking with another one, but everyone knows it about her. Most of the guys like it, they are trying to win against the other dudes she is with, and Rob is her favourite. They are together for almost three years now. He is really good in sports and is one of the popular dudes in school.
As I was listening to Tar I saw some guys arguing, when I turned my attention to them Tar stopped talking and looked at them too. Two rambo looking guys were arguing while some girl was trying to break them apart. I rolled my eyes and got up. I wasn't in the mood to listen to this shit. I walked up to them and coughed to attract their attention. They looked at me and I crossed my arms and felt Tars hand around my stomach.
"Can you quiet down?"
I asked trying to be polite, but my tolerance was almost gone so i knew that one bad word from them will den me on a rampage and I will most likely eat them alive.
"Are you blind or what bitch? Men are talking, so-"
He couldn't even finish his sentence because my fist was in his ugly face. The impact send him on the floor and as his girfriend kneeled next to him, I turned to the other dude. The other one was most likely smarter, because he just stood there not making a sound. Tar behind me laughed and walked to the rambo on the floor. As Tar started poking him in the face, his girfriend stood up and stomped her way to me, pointing her thin finger at me.
"Who do you think you are? Don't you dare ever lay your finger on my boyfriend ever again!"
"Don't worry you bimbo, I wasn't thinking about doing it ever again."
I turned away from her and went to our table. I took our bags and walked out of the cafeteria. Tara was just behind me as I got out of the school and we went to the car. As we got in Tara started laughing.
"You really got him good, he was totally out. I knew that you still had it in you."
I shook my head, but smiled at her. When I was younger I trained judo and box so I knew how to punch. That is actually how I met Tar we went boxing together, we talked and fought, and at the end became friends.
"Hey Rosy let's go to my house, put some nice clothes on and go party. Mari and I will make sure you enjoy every second of it, I promise."
I looked at Tar and smiled, I knew they always had my back. We were friends for a long time and always had each others backs. They knew about all my flaws and pros and loved me through the rough times, I felt like I owed them, but they never want anything from me in return. That is why I trusted them and why I went out with them, I knew they wouldn't let anyone hurt me.
"Let's do it Tar."