Rosalinda by Destiny Broyles (bill gates book recommendations .txt) 📕

that person."
"I feel like you're quaoting a movie, and i dont get it, nor do i find it funny"
Okay, Looks like this is gonna be a long summer for me.. "Sorry, I just..nevermind. how about we go to the mall tomorrow, and then to a movie or something" I offered.
she stood up and smile her angelic smile "Sure, just come over and get me. ill be ready. I gotta go, my dad might be getting worried. bye Lilah, ill see you tomrrow, i hope"
And with that, she leaves, leaving me in confusion and "what the fuck just happened here?" kinda look.
But, now i wanna sleep, because that really just made me even more tired. her just being here. it feels like she drained all the life out of me. A Lot Of things can change overnight..

I wake up in the morning feeling happy And normal. I really forget about Rosalinda and everything strange things that went on yesterday. It was in the past, i should be impressed the she even wants to be my friend. I donthave that many friends, beside Kayla, who rarley talks to me anymore. but when she does, shes either too busy, or shes with her parents in some unknown place. there always traveling. So, i was in desperate need of a new best friend anyways. Rosalinda might just be the answer to it.
I got up, and yawned really big. you know those kind of yawm where you just feel super high and you're about to fall over?  yeah, that type of yawn. The best yawn feeling in the world. I smiled when i heard chris's voice yelling happily. I know a lot of teenagers dont like their younger siblings, but I did. chris was the best 4 year old i knew. he was always so happy. I was jealous of him, but hey, as long as he's the one keeping my mom on her toes. its all good. I guess i should give you some background information about me, since, i havent really talked about me. it would probably be really helpful.
Well, you already Know my name, Lilah. Im sixteen, about to be seventeen in decemeber, I have a boyfriend, who i see a lot. We see each other every othere day, and his name is Robbie. He's 18, and surprisenly, my mom loves him to death, i dont know why, but she does, so thats good. My dad, well, he lives in california with his new wife, claire. I dont like her, cause shes very superficial, and im pretty sure she has an eating disorder, cause the last time i saw her, she was like the corpse bride. But with nice blonde hair and and pretty face. Maybe i was jealous, comparing my chubby like body, and my long thick brown hair that feel down past my back. But thats all really about me.
I grabbed my phone of the nightstand, and walk out of my room, running down the stairs.
"Lahlah" Chris says as he sees me. his face lights up. even with his mouth filled with oatmeal, he's still so cute.
"Hey, buddy. whacha eatin?" I ask him. mom smiles and Looks up at me from behind the book shes reading. I make a gross look. "50 shades of gray?
She blushes."The ladies at work said it was a good book, I thought i would try it out, you know, to get a feel of it"
I nodded. "Yeah..Have fun reading you're porn."
chirs laughed as if he understood the joke i said. "Lahlah, can we go to the park today?"
I frowned. "Not today buddy, I hvae plans with Rosa, maybe i can call Rob, and he can take you for a bit"
He nodded happily, but moms face was different. She looked worried. "you're going out with her? So soon, isnt it?"
"Well.." I started heading towards the cabinet and took out a box of ceral. "You told Me to make friends, and i only did what you said."
"But..Okay. Where we're you two gonna go"
I shurugged." i dunno, the mall maybe, robbie can probably drop us off, and take chris to the park, while we wonder around aimlessly looking at the stuff we want, but cant have. you know, teenage girl stuff."
she looked back down at her book and ontinued reading. I soon forgot whati was doing, and left the box there on the counter. "Im dont even like ceral, what am i doing" i whisper to myself. chirs continues to laugh and dunks his spoon in his oatmeal. My phone rings and i look at the screen. "ooh..Look chirs, its Robbie." I smile big as he does to. It was amazing how much we looked alike.
"Hello" I sing a bit. Chris calms down and waits for me to ask.
"Good Morning, babe, I wanted to ask you something"
"Really? I did to. or well..Chris wants me to. but you go first" i wrapp my finger arouns my hair and wait for him to say something.
"Well..My mom wanted to know if you could work at the daycare for a couple of weeks. she would pay you. Ashley just quit. Again."
I sighed. Ashley, his sister, always quit there. she just didnt like kids, and quit every couple of weeks. so his mom would ask me to fill in every once and a while."Sure, i can do that."
"Okay, Good, now what does chris want from me now?" he says playfully.
"I dunno, ask him yourself" I hamd chris the phone and he takes it from me, holding it up to his ear.
"Robbie, can you take me tew the park. Pweasee"
I snicker to myself, and hears robbies voice asking to out me back on the phone. chris smiles even bigger now.
"hey," I coughed a bit.
"I told him sure. I'll take katie to, and they can play on the slide and do whatever four year olds do"
"i love katie. shes a sweetheart. But i was wondering if you could take me and Rosalinda to the mall?" I bit my bottom lip.
"Rosalinda? Whos that?"
"New neighbor. i told her we could hang out today. we can always walk if you don't want to"
"No, baby, thats fine. I just wanted to kow who she was. I'll be there around..10?"
i look at the clock "thats in half an hour"
"yeah, so, get your ass moving, or im just getting chris" He chuckles depp. I roll my eyes and scoff.
"whatever loser, im gonna go. i Love you"
"Love you to, see you in a bit"
I sigh again and run up back to my room to get ready.

"Is katie going" chirs asks me as im throwing a blue shirt over his head.
"Yeah, Katie's going. Your little girlfreind" I smile Slyly. He give me a little hit on my shoulder lightly.
"She is not my girlfriend. she has cooties. that's gross"
"Cooties arent real, chirssy, shes a girl. your a guy. make a move on her"
"like how robbie made a move on you. you guys always kiss eachother and lay down with eachother. he doesnt get sick? you dont either?"
I laughed. "No, chris, we dont get cooties from eachother." I pat his pudgy stomach and hear a knock on the door."Must Be robbie"
But to my shock, It was Rosalinda standing there was her hair in a high ponytail, and she wore a small jean skirt with a brightly colored tank top. She looked..different. yesterday i just saw her pouting, and wearing black. now shes in birghtly colored clothing. it really thre me off. why is this girl throwing me off all the time?"Oh..Its you, Rosalinda" She smiles brightly.
"Yeah, who did you think it was?" she walks in univited and looks at chris standing there. his smiles fades and he runs away. She frowns a bit.
"okay.." i whisper to myself. "sorry, he's..Shy?" i even question myself. Chris was never shy around new people.
"Its okay" she seem bothered by it a bit. "you know how kids are, distgusting little things, arent they"
I give her a weird look and shake my head slowly. "No..I dont actually"
she shurgged. "So..who else is coming?"
"My Boyfriend and his little sister, Katie" I shut the door, and run my hand up my arm sleeve. comapared to her, i was in my black skinny jeans and a loose fitting t-shirt. I ahted shirts that were too snig, to my already big chest. I hated when people started at my boobs, so i cover them up as best as i can.
"You..have a boyfriend?" She questioned me. she sounded like one of the snotty means girls being overly surprise that a guy might like me. yeah, i sit on my computer all day, managing my own blog and eat whenever im hungry. but at least someone like me.
"Robbie. His name is robbie, and yes, he is my boyfriend"
"Hmm" She seem disintrested again and i stood their awkwardly, rocking back and fourth on my heels. God, why does she make it so awkward to be around her? on top of that, shes also bitchy.
my phone vibrates in my pocket and i dig it out with my hand. I look at the caller. Robbie.
"Hey, where are you?" I ask.
"sorry, and im here, Katie was throwing a fit cause we couldnt find her favorite shirt"
I laughed."oh, well, let me get chris and we'll go out."
He says okay and hang up. I sigh. "chris! robbie's here. he has katie" I yell.
I hear little footsteps come in running. I smile as i see his brown head turn the corner and goes to open the door. "C'mon, guys, lets goooo"
I move past Rosalinda, and open the door for him. we walk out in the hot sun and see that robbie has gotton out of the car, and let Katie look at the flowers on the side of the house.
Rosalinda follows me and stares Robbie Down. But he didnt let it bother him. he walked over to me, and grabbed Me by the waist, giving me a kiss. Rosa cleared her throat.
"Oh, um, Robbie, This is Rosalinda. Rosalinda, this is..robbie" I smile warm.
"Nice to meet you" he held put his hand and she took it gladly. shaking it quickly then letting go a minute later.
"Katie" I call over to her. She smiles and waves to me. "come on, hun, we're Leaving"
she runs over to me, and grabs my hand. She has always been attachted to me since the first day i met her.
"Um, Rosa, do you mind sitting in the back, with the kids?" Robbie ask her nicely. I looked at her and saw her frown. "Why cant i sit in the front? Just because shes you're girlfreind doesnt mean she gets everything"
"Rosa?!" I say. "its okay, I'll sit in the back."
Robbie looks a bit annoyed, and i feel bad for that. I dont know what rosa's problem was, but she needs to fix it quickly.  She could have least said it nicely.
I go around the car, and into the back seat wth chris and katie who are now helping eachother buckle up.
I lean my head agaisnt the window and see that rosalinda Looks at robbie for a bit, the looks back out the window. I shurgg as robbie looks at me in the review mirror. He sighs as he starts the car and we leave.

When we get to the mall, katie and chris