Rosé POV
I woke up to the sound of my alarm. I looked at the demon, and read it was 5:30AM. I looked around, the pink tinted walls that were so unfamiliar to me. It finally seemed to feel like home. I looked around, searching for my schedule that I lost already. I walk over to my door, and saw my ironed uniform. I pick it up, and change quickly. I picked up my books, and stuffed them in my bag, and walked downstairs. The air roamed with the smell of pancakes. My stomach growled, letting me know it was time to eat. I noticed my mother was stirring up the yellow yolks on the pan to create delicious eggs.
"Annyeong, mother."
"Rosé dear, can you please pass out the plates on the table please?"
"Yes mother."
I walk to my kitchen, and walk to the cabinet across the sink. The silver knob was glinting in the light, as if it was laughing at me. I stretched, on my tip-toes, to reach the darn knob, but I just couldn't. I could hear my mother laughing behind me. I got frustrated, and grabbed the chair from our brown-rounded table. I finally reached the silver round knob, and pulled it back. It revealed white plates, decorated with a rim of flowers, roses to be exact.
"Here mom."
"Thanks sweetheart."
I start to walk back to my chair and then my mother suddenly grabs my wrist.
"Honey, you forgot something on the tables after dinner yesterday."
She hands me my schedule, full of scribbles. I take the paper, and fold it nicely into squares, and shove it into my pocket. I begin to dig into my breakfast, until I checked my watch and noticed school starts in 40 minutes.
"Thanks mom, for the food and my schedule."
"Anytime dear."
I grab my bag, and start my way to school. I sit on my step, separating the entrance and the main house, and take off my slippers, and put on my school shoes. I grab my gym shoes, and put them in my bag.
"Goodbye mom!"
My mother peeks through the tainted blue door.
"Have a nice day on your first day of school!"
I smile at my mother, and adjust my bag, and walk to the station. I passed various signs and shops. I really enjoyed the sights South Korea had to offer me. The noisy cafes, the busy people, and the loud cars. I saw many people biking or skating pass me, and I just couldn't wait for my own bike.
I put my wallet up to the subway scanner, and hear a beep along with a green light flashing. I walk through, and find my train. I hear train tracks screeching in glee, echoing amongst the subway walls. I grab a blue seat and pull out my earphones. While listening to my favorite boys, Big Bang, I saw a woman hanging onto a yellow pole, trying to keep her balance. I figured she was having a baby, due to her stomach growing. I got up, and took my earphones out.
"Ajumma, please, take my seat."
She gave me an eye-winkled smile full of appreciation.
"Thank you dear."
I smiled, and plugged my earphones into my ears, getting pulled back into my own world. The train finally reached my stop. I pulled out my schedule. I walked through the double doors, that would either lead me through hell, or a pretty decent year.
I open the doors and hear the doors squeak. The hallway is filled with many boys and girls. I don't look like them. I mean, I am Korean but I was born in Australia. My mother was worried that the kids would laugh at my accent. Many of them started to look at me. I mean I can understand, majority of the them probably thought I looked weird.
I walked past many of the girls, with no expression. I hear all the chatter of the students die down as I walk through the hallways. I find my classroom and slowly open the door. As I slide the door open, many students looked at me. I quickly find an open seat in the corner.
"Annyeong class." My teacher says as she approaches her stand. She places her papers on the wooden stand.
"Today we have a new student here with us today."
I looked around knowing that everyone was looking at me with those eyes. I hid my face with my red hair.
"Rosé, please introduce yourself."
I get up in front of the class. I hear anonymous whispers, that are whistling in my ear.
"Hello my name is-"
There was a loud bang, as our classroom door was closed. I looked to my left and noticed a girl. She was tall, with blond hair.
"Lisa, why are you late this morning?"
My teacher gave this girl named Lisa a questioning look, as if she was curious why she was late. Lisa didn't respond and went to her desk, or should I say, the desk I chose. The teacher gave me a look, and I knew it was a signal to go to my desk. I stood there, wondering what I should do. I looked at Lisa, and she was looking outside the window. I ignored the class, and moved to the sit next to Lisa, as it was the only spot open left.
After the lunch bell rung, my teacher left the classroom, and I watched her leave. I opened my bag, and got out my food for the day. I put in my earphones to tone out the world. I started singing 'Without you' by GDragon and some other girl. I must've gotten carried away because someone tapped my shoulder.
"Hi there! I'm Jisoo!"
I looked up, while taking out my white earphones, and saw a girl my age, with brown eyes, and black hair. She looked like a model, and she should definitely belong in many model agencies everywhere.
"Hello, my name is Rosé."
She smiled and sat down next to me. She pulled out her lunch as well. I looked at her and smiled.
"I am sorry if I am making you feel awkward. I was just hoping we could be friends."
She looked at me, while smiling. I couldn't help but smile back.
"Yeah, I would love that."
"Hey Rosé, you have a nice voice, I was wondering if you wanted to join the show choir?"
I looked at her for a second and swallowed my food down.
"I would love to, but I am very shy."
"Oh don't worry, we will be together. I think singing together, we would sound great!"
"Okay, Ill try it out.
After all the classes where done, I grabbed my bag, and started to walk out. I was the last one to leave the classroom so I closed the door. I turned around and Jisoo was waiting for me, and of course with her smile. I smiled and we walked in the hallway to go home.
"Do you want to walk together home everyday?"
I looked at her, and nodded not sure how to really respond. As we were nearing the end of the white and narrow hallway, I heard people yelling. I turned the corner towards the noise, away from the entrance.
"Rosé where are you going?"
I looked at her and motioned her to follow me.
We came to a big crowd. The crowd seemed to be surrounding something, or to be precise, someone. I pushed my way through the crowd and saw Lisa and some other girl.
"Hey Jennie, let's show these girls how to dance, shall we?
The shorter brunette girl nodded to Lisa, whom I assumed was Jennie. Jennie started to dancing, hitting her hips with her hands, and doing a walkway up the stairs on Lisa's chest down to her leg. I watched in awe. Lisa then started to do some body roll. I was memorized. The movements were something I have never seen before. They were very good at dancing. Once Lisa and Jennie stopped dancing, two other girls stepped up. Both gave Lisa and Jennie smirks. They started to dance, and one with blue hair even did the splits. Nothing was special about their performance. They stopped dancing and no one cheered for them like they did previously for Lisa and Jennie. Jennie laughed, and Lisa smirked.
"Sorry girls, you don't get to make the team with those moves."
Lisa laughed and walked out of the crowd. She walked straight for me, and bumped my shoulder really hard. She stopped and looked at me.
"Watch where you are going."
Jennie caught up with Lisa, looking at Jisoo and I with pity, but continued with Lisa anyways. I looked at Jisoo and frowned at her.
"Oh, you must not know them, the tall blonde one is Lisa. She is the popular one at this school. She is really good at dancing, hence why she is captain of the dance team"
"Her best friend is Jennie Kim. She is her co-captain I guess you could say. They have been dancing ever since they were little."
I nodded in response. I wonder why Lisa was so mean, but Jennie was a bit less aggressive.
Jisoo and I turned around and headed home. Jisoo and I parted our ways, and I continued through the narrow streets back to the subway. I scanned my wallet again, and the light blinked at me in response that I was good to go. I walked past the gates and entered the train. I read on the train on the way back instead, because its dark and I want to be wary of my surroundings. I am not familiar with the neighborhood, so I was very uncomfortable. The train screeched to a stop.
"Last stop, Last stop."
I walked out of the train and walk to my house, up the hill. The hill was killing my heels but I didn't mind, I was almost there.
"Hey there miss."
I turned around really fast. Behind me was a man. He had soju in his hand. It was empty, so in conclusion, I knew he was drunk and was not in the right state of mind. I started to turn around slowly and walk faster. Suddenly I was grabbed by the waist. I screamed really loud.
"No! No! Stop! Someone help!
"Let go of her!"
A flash of blonde went past. I heard groans and the man was suddenly on the ground. My waist was let go of, and now was in someone's hand. I looked up and was breathing hard. Lisa was standing in front of me.