BLACK ROSE: Black Rose: the dark tragic day of black rose

By Marlon Obrien

A fictitious story with fictionalize characters, but yet we all know that these type of occurrence's takes place in urban black cities of America in the realistic world we live in. Growing up in a tough urban area, black rose lived the typical normal life surrounded by loving parents, family, and friends. A mother's only child, in which a mother tried her best to protect and guide, but the awkwardness of violence snatched rose life away and a promising future. She was loved, cared for, and at the end total despair.  Hope you enjoy the reading of black rose.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: Dec 20, 2018
• ISBN: 9783743888128

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black rose

BLACK ROSE

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Black Rose:

The dark tragic day of Black Rose

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Marlon Obrien

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BLACK ROSE

Copyright © 2018 by Marlon Obrien

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CHAPTER ONE

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               GROWING UP IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Rose was a regular teenage youth born and grew up till the age of 16 in the urban neighborhood Of Dorchester Ma. Her mother was black, and her father was a mixture of Indian and black, so Rose looked mixed. Around her area where she grew up, and at school, they called her black Rose. Her friends called her black Rose because she loves talking black consciousness for which she took pride in. Occasionally with her friends, she would get into discussions about the system, black culture, religion, and her outlook on life being a young black teenager. She went to the middle public schools in the area which she loved going and especially meeting up with her friends at school, one in particular which is her bosom friend Linda. They were inseparable. Every morning they will eat breakfast together in the School cafeteria, and also at lunchtime. They truly loved each other, so sometimes they would get together on the weekends, go to the movies, hangout, go downtown to shop, the typical teenage girls’ kind of stuff. Now, Rose comes from a very strict family where there are rules and so on that, she needs to follow or else. Her mother and father were surely the serious type of parents who will not go for any type of foolishness from their daughter, and Rose was their only child, so they were tough on her. They did not want her to pick up into any bad influences or hang around with the wrong friends to be led astray and mess up her life. She was all they had, so they consistently tried their best to keep her out of harm’s way. They would always lecture her about evil vices and friends leading friends astray. The area that they live is a rough rugged section; there are gangs and the common violence that goes on in most urban black neighborhoods of America. As being their one and only daughter, they consistently got their eyes on her, which you can’t scrutinize them especially in these time in some of the urban areas of America, where people just don’t care too much for each other, specifically in the streets. Now, Rose was an upbeat girl always full of life, and just a typical teenager who likes to spend time with her friends and family. She showed them a lot of love, and she received love back from her loved ones also. Her family was Catholic, so every Sunday they would be in church, in which Rose would be there too with them. It seems like she did not like going to church that much, but with her type of parents, she definitely had no other choice. She always did her best to please them as much as she can, due to the fact they were her parents and she loved them. She always tried her best to please them. They always advised her about drugs, alcohol and the typical vices out there. Oh yes, they were strict, but they let her have her little freedom whereas she can go outside and hang out with her friends, go over their houses sometimes, spend the night, and so on. Now, Rose had no brothers or sisters, she was the only child. She had cousins, some of them she was kind of close with and sometimes hang out, so not having other siblings was not too much of a big deal to her. The area where they live was not in a good environment, so her parents always talked about moving out to the suburbs and asked her at times how she felt about moving away to a better area. The situations in her neighborhood were really getting out of hand. The young guys would shoot each other; sell drugs in plain sight without no fear in the world. Now, this was scary to her parents with what was going on in plain sight day after day. They definitely did not want to go on raising their daughter in an environment like this. Some of the guys who sold the drugs in the area, one or two of them had sisters who were friends with Rose, and they were really cool with her. Once in a while, she would go over these same girl’s houses. They attended the same school, were in the same grade, and were in most of the same classes. After school, they would ride the bus back home together, or sometimes just walk the little distance. Once in a while, she and these same girls would end up in confrontations with other girls while on their way from school trying to make it back home. Some of these clashes sometimes would end up being so violent. These girls at times would have knives on them, box cutters and really out there to do serious damage. Her parents always warned her about these situations and runnings with these girls out there on those streets. They just did not want their daughter to be another statistic like the others they see on the news on TV or read in the newspapers. Her parents know out there at times, it can be very dangerous. Now, this was really stressing out her parents to the point where they wanted to see if they could get Rose out of this school and try to get her into a Catholic school, for which they would have to pay a fee every month. Rose was not too happy about that idea, so she would end up in arguments and shouting matches about this and enrolling into a Catholic school. She was not hearing that at all. She would try her best to talk them out of it and promise that she would drop those friends and concentrate on her school work, but they would not believe her. The reason was that they had these same arguments every now and then, and she will feed them the same answers, but never did what she promises. For a week or two she would not deal with them and then after those two weeks there she is again hanging out with the same girls. It was a tough situation on the parents’ end. They really worried a lot about her and they just knew they could not give up on her. Her parents felt the only solution were to move her out the neighborhood or change schools and enroll her in a Catholic school. Now, Linda who she considered her bosom friend was a real decent type of girl. She was the kind of girl who did not give her family problems and did not like getting into trouble or fights. Every now and then Linda would come over Rose house to hang out and play video games, which they loved and really enjoyed. Linda would sometimes give her advice and really look out for her friend. They had a really close bond. She was like that sister who was just from another mother. Linda knew the situation with her friend and the sometimes drama that plays out with her parents. She really felt sorry for her because she knew how she loved her friends, school, and her neighborhood even if the area was kind of bad. Rose was stuck in a distressing position, so it made her stress, depressed because she just could not phantom moving out to a new area. Especially, the suburbs where she would have to make new friends, attend a different school, and all the other changes. It really had her dispirited and feeling