Rose sat in her chair in her bedroom, she couldn’t live with the pain anymore, she couldn’t live with the hurt. She couldn’t go on like this. Tears rolled down her face. She had been crying for almost an hour. She picked up her knife and looked at it for a while holding it quite far away from her body. Her tears remained falling. Suddenly she dropped the knife on the floor in her bedroom, she heard it bang on the wooden floor she had. She couldn’t go on cutting and hurting herself like this, but she didn’t know how to stop. She wanted to stop, she really did, she’d tried so hard over the past few months, but she kept getting pulled back and back into her hurt and painful self. She knew who to blame, the girl who was once her best friend at school, until the new girl came and took her away. Leaving Rose all alone. Then over the months Rose’s ex-best friend started bullying her and so did the new girl. Rose felt alone and everyone hated her in school now, even all the school geeks didn’t want to know her. Rose’s ex-best friend had turned people against her. Rose’s ex-best friend was called Emma and the new girl was called Debbie. Rose now hated them so much. Emma and Debbie were making Rose’s life a living hell, so 5 months ago Rose was alone at home and she was making herself dinner and she was holding a knife and all of a sudden she wanted to hurt herself and she did cut herself over and over again until the pain was too much and it’s been like that ever since this day. Rose so badly wanted to stop cutting herself, at times now she couldn’t and she was thankful to her mum’s best friends son for that, and he was called Ben, Ben was in a band called A1, Rose had never really met him properly, she was scared, but she really liked Ben a lot and she loved listening to his music, it would calm her down. When she was at school and she was getting bullied she’d just close her eyes and think of Ben and how one day he’d save her. But that day has yet to come, but Rose is still waiting for it to come. Sometimes she loses hope, but she knows she shouldn’t, also she knows she has reasons to lose hope, Ben probably didn’t even know who she was and even that she existed, and why would he save her? He didn’t even know her.

Rose was still sat on her chair which was in her bedroom. She looked at the wooden floor where her knife had landed, no one in her family even knew she cut herself, even though there were cuts on her arms, legs and hands. Rose reached out to pick up the knife but she stopped about 5 centimeters away from it. Loads of thoughts ran through her head like what would everyone say if they found out? What would Ben say? Most important what would her parents say? Why are you doing this to yourself? Cutting yourself doesn’t help and it never will! The thoughts kept going through her mind, but then she put them all to the back and reached down further to pick up the knife, when suddenly she heard.

"Anita, how nice to see you again," Rose heard her mum say. Rose got off the chair and walked over to her bedroom door and quietly opened it so she could listen to the conversation her mum and Ben’s mum were having.

"How is your solo project coming along?" asked Rose’s mum. Rose was confused, why would she ask Anita that. Rose quietly stepped out of the room and peeped a look from the stairs into the hall. She couldn’t see anyone, but she could hear a mans voice speaking. Rose quickly walked back to her room. Maybe she’d misheard her mum. She went back to her chair and looked down at the knife. She picked it up, but then she heard.

"Rose! Come downstairs!" shouted Rose’s mum. Rose walked back to the top of the stairs.

"Why?" asked Rose.

"You need to meet someone," replied Rose’s mum.

"Who?" asked Rose.

"Come down and you’ll find out," replied Rose’s mum. Rose quickly washed her face in the bathroom and then slowly walked downstairs and out into the garden where her mum and Anita were now, but someone else was there. Though he wasn’t facing the door way. Rose looked at Anita.

"Brought this little one with me," said Anita. The boy turned round.

"Mum, I’m not little," replied Ben. Rose didn’t say anything she just stood at the door. Ben smiled at her.

"I’m guessing you know who I am already," said Ben. Rose nodded and Ben laughed.