Every rose has its thorns

"The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed."

[cathleenhayes-deactivated201502]

Cathleen let go of a soft laugh at the girl’s statement. “I love everything with coconut in it, so I just take it from there. I’ve been on several cocktail parties before and then you try a couple while it lasts. If you like you can try it.” She offered. There was no point in ordering a drink if one wasn’t sure what it tasted like and if they would even like it. “North? I never heard that name before, precious sounds not that bad though. After all a baby is precious, so it’s only what comes to mind.” She smiled slightly, wondering if the girl was still in contact with her biological mother. “That would be wonderful if we had bad weather holidays. Although when the weather is actually nice I’d prefer spending it outside instead of in the office.” She shrugged her shoulders a tad, quickly shaking her head. “Oh thank you but I already took something an hour ago so hopefully the headache disappears completely soon. I’m glad to hear that, I don’t want to make a first bad impression by complaining all the time.”

[rosie--hunter]

Rosie listened intently as the girl spoke. She had always wanted to try different cocktails but she never seemed to get the courage to try something new. "Man I wish I could go to cocktail parties! The only one I've been to didn't even serve cocktails, it served champagne. Are you sure? I don't want to make you feel like you have to offer me some." She said seriously, she always felt bad when people offered her stuff just because they felt they had to. "That is also true. Well, then I wish we had holidays all year round but still earn the same amount of money. Now that would be the perfect world. Oh, or maybe a world where money actually grew on trees!" Rosie exclaimed now imagining a world where that was real and how great it would be. "That's alright. I hope for your sake it goes away soon. No, no, you've made a great impression so far! I hope I have too." 

[hol--rose]

Hollie couldn’t help but burst into laughter as the other girl did. “Nope, I don’t think I can ever forgive you for this!” She shook her head, a smile still on her face, “You’re just going to have to help me look after the food baby, aren’t you?” She laughed again, “The saying is always right.” She said with a quick nod of her head. “Oh yeah. I’m Hollie. Pleasure to meet you!” 

[rosie--hunter]

Rosie hung her head and covered her face with her hands pretending to cry at the girls words before peeking through her fingers and laughing. "I think you might just have to if you want to continue growing our food babies." Rosie laughed lowering her hands back to her sides. "I guess I will. We can alternate weeks. I wonder what it will look like. It might come out green, or even orange from vegetables." Rosie nodded solemnly before laughing shaking her head at the weird turn in conversation she had taken. "Great to meet you Hollie my fellow food baby mama. Let's get going so we can eat some more. Now close your eyes and spin around and hold your arm out pointing ahead and when you want to stop you stop and then the direction you're point to is the way we'll go. Sound like a plan?"

[bow-before-zod-deactivated20160]

Xander smiled and shook his head. “Don’t worry. I know most people think of bars of soap when you mention soap and saying there are bits of pummace stone or what have you in it tend to make people thing that even more so. Don’t worry.” He hummed and nodded. “Citrus, then. Anything citrus and acidic will help. Oui, I was born and raised in Paris but I’ve had dual citizenship here with the states since I was five.”

[rosie--hunter]

"Well I'm very glad this soap doesn't have actual stones in it, though I have to ask, where can I get this soap?" She asked biting her lower lip slightly and arching her brows at him slightly. "Okay got it, thank you! No way! C'est tres excellent! Was that even right? I used to learn and study french throughout high school and a bit during college but I haven't had any excuse to speak or put it to good use so it's probably horrible now. You're so lucky though! I wish I was born in Paris. You visit there often?" 

[jacob--grayson-deactivated20160]

"Touch wood right?" she laughed lightly, hoping to avoid causing offence. "Oh that’s the worst! Is she aware that she does it? It might be on purpose, though anyone would do that I don’t know. They aren’t so bad really, but nine hour days minimum is enough time to spend with people". She smiled, holding her glass up and letting the small clink ring out, "to having a break".

[rosie--hunter]

"One step ahead of you." She winked motioning to the wooden bar she'd had her arms resting on the whole time. "I hope to Jesus she isn't doing it on purpose because that would means she's secretly evil. Amen to that! If you think about it we probably spend more time with colleagues at work than we do with friends or family at home." Rosie told the girl nodding her head and pressing her lips together. Smiling Rosie held out her hand for the girl to shake "I'm Rosie by the way. It's nice to meet you." 

[bow-before-zod-deactivated20160]

Xander chuckled and shook her head. “It’s not like that. The soap is a liquid soap and it’s like that girly soap that has the shit in it. Exfoliates or whatever. It’s mostly just a pain in the ass.” He hummed. “I don’t know, garlic isn’t such a ad smell. But since you don’t want that try just plain orange or even lemon. Some kind of citrus scent to get rid of it. I know for a fact that that works. The potato thing is something I heard from my grandmother in paris. Old wives tales and such.”

[rosie--hunter]

Rosie palmed her forehead thinking about how big of an idiot she probably had sounded. "I totally thought you mean actual rocks not exfoliants. The soap now sounds much more appealing." She chuckled, nodding her head.  "It isn't a bad smell, but I don't know- it's just not a smell I'd like to have my hands smell like. Citrus, okay got it. Grandmother in Paris? Are you from Paris or well, France?"

[bow-before-zod-deactivated20160]

"It’s worked for me every time I’ve tried to use it, but it also hurts. It’s meant to scrub off grease and such so it’s got like stones in it or something. I’ve found the garlic works the best if you don’t mind the smell. Which it seems you do." He shrugged as he leaned against the wall. "The only other ideas I have is hand sanitizer or rubbing a raw potato on it. The last one I heard a while back but never tested, so don’t hold that one against me."

[rosie--hunter]

Rosie cringed at the sound of washing her hands with a bar of soap that had rocks in it. "Well I guess if it gets rid of the smell it's worth the pain?" She asked lifting her shoulders up in a shrug,  trying to convince herself on the matter more than him. "Yeah no garlic. I like the garlic in my food not on my hands." She replied laughing. "A raw potato? Potatoes don't even have smells so how would they get rid of the smell? Also where did you get all these ideas from? Give me your secret!" She exclaimed laughing. 

[hol--rose]

Hollie laughed, “I can’t believe you’re going to leave me alone in this! You’re breaking my heart.” She laughed and tugged at her shirt. Hollie had tried to get the baggiest thing that she owned, but even that was irritating the dressing on her rip. “I think that’s a really good idea. You never know what you’re going to find, especially in somewhere like this.” She smiled to the girl and took a step forward, “shall we?” 

[rosie--hunter]

Rosie laughed at the girl's response and placed her hands over her heart frowning. "I'm so sorry, but I had to hide the evidence of all the food." She said solemnly before bursting out laughing covering her mouth with her hand. "Exactly! You always find the best things when you least expect it." Rosie nodded and smiled at the girl taking a step forward and standing next to the girl. "We shall. But first, hi I'm Rosie." 

[felix-boyd-deactivated20190724]

"I’m from the UK, we don’t really have Thanksgiving there so I’m not familiar with the holiday at all", he replied with a shrug. "I have a lot of things to be thankful for, but I won’t force myself to eat turkey for that. In that case I need a name to put under the quote." He inhaled as he heard her talk about the people who had to prepare more than one turkey. "Doesn’t it take hours to cook one turkey? It feels as if it had been easier if you had kept it to chicken or somethin’ like that, what does the turkey even stand for?" he asked, feeling a bit confused. Holiday food never made sense. "Not if you just rub your hands against an orange, but you can use the orange juice to make another scent, kind of like how they make perfume. You need to extract the scent before puttin’ it on your hands, it will just get sticky otherwise. Though it’s a long process and I think you’d be better off with just alcohol or somethin’, I think vodka is good for that sorta things?"

[rosie--hunter]

"Oh yeah I can hear the accent now. I'm horrible at detecting accents. UK huh? When'd you move over to the dark side?" She asked with a light laugh actually being quite curious. She loved knowing people who'd lived or been overseas. Rosie had always wanted to travel the world, but unfortunately that cost money she just didn't have. "You don't like Turkey meat then? Oh I'm so sorry, I didn't even introduce myself. I'm Rosie." She said smiling and holding out her hand for him to shake. "Yeah it takes a really long time to cook them, they're also a pain in the ass to cook. I mean you've got to keep the temperature just right in order for the Turkey to taste perfect. This holiday would be a lot easier if we only had to cook chicken. " She admitted sighing before gnawing on her lower lip as she thought about his question. "I- I actually don't know. Oh my gosh that's so bad of me. I'm a horrible American." She laughed sadly. "So you're telling me to just let my hands soak in orange juice then? Well that's just a waste of vodka though." 

[scottyinthelab-blog]

He nodded and chuckled at her reaction. “Oh yeah, they have tournaments although it’s more popular in the South.” Then he stuck his hand out for her to shake. “Jordan Kingston, hobby fisher.”

[rosie--hunter]

Rosie's mouth gaped open even more. Closing it she shook her head laughing. "There's tournaments for just sitting there waiting for fish to jump on your lap? Why?"She asked confused but amused at the same time. Laughing she took his hand and shook it. "Nice to meet you Jordan. I'm Rosie Hunter, a horrible, I don't know what I'm doing, fisher." 

[rosie--hunter]

The Hunter Bunch 

Katherine Hunter, 52 - Adoptive Mother (Sally Field)

Riley Hunter, 22 - Adoptive Sister (Rooney Mara)

George Hunter, 56 - Adoptive Father (Jeff Bridges) 

Mia Charlston, 49 - Adoptive Auntie (Tina Fey)

Rosie Hunter, 25 - Adopted (Kate Mara)

Michael Charlston, 47 - Adoptive Uncle (Josh Charles)  

Brandon Charlston, 24 - Adoptive Cousin (Skylar Astin) 

 Kate Beckett, Deceased - Biological Mother (Mireille Enos) 

Bobby, 6 (in dog years) - Family Dog 

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Questionnaire?

What is your funniest memory?

Well since it's the festive season, I may as well tell you about the funniest festive memory of mine. So it was just after Thanksgiving and we were all gathered around the table and all that jazz, when Uncle Mike starts teasing dad about not having put up any of the Christmas decorations yet. So we all join in and tease Dad and then our conversation moves on. About ten minutes later we had finally noticed that Dad had left the room. So we all went around the house calling his name and looking for him when Brandon calls out from outside saying he found Dad. Sure enough we all run outside to find dad stuck on a branch in the tree in the front yard. He'd been climbing it to start putting up the decorations. That's not even the best part! The best part is when he tried to climb back down, which of course he slipped and fell right into a pile of murky, muddy snow and then all the water and left over snow from the branch he'd fallen from and those he'd tried to grab onto on his way down, came toppling down landing on Dad's head. He's now learnt to ask for help when putting lights up and to always use a ladder. 

What was your last argument?

My last argument? With anyone? It was with a woman on Black Friday. We both spotted the same handbag at the same time and we both lunged for it. Safe to say we both came out bloodied but I came out with a handbag and she didn't. 

Any weird family tradition(s)?

Don't know if this is weird or not but every Thanksgiving, my sister and I have to each write a poem about what we are thankful for and the one with the better poem gets a second serving of food. 

Are you competitive?

With some things. I mean yeah, I suppose I am. My sister, Riley, and I have always been competitive against each other. There's always something to fight for or something to win. Even if it were something stupid like who got to hug Mom first. It was always a competition. I guess at work it's the same. It's always a fight to have the most clients, and the best success rates and the best feedback and ratings. It's hard not to be competitive. 

Who is the best looking?

Bobby for sure! I mean he's the most adorable little thing ever. No one can ever say no to him. I mean no one. I bet you couldn't either. 

[v-i-s-a-g-e-s]

[rosie--hunter]

v-i-s-a-g-e-s:

Kate Mara

[tellingpiscitelli]

"Not a big fan of the kitchen?" He asked with a joking hint laced in his voice. Thanksgiving was his holiday. Even when he was living with his parents, he was the one who wanted to help out cooking. In college, he prepared home away from home Thanksgivings. And to this day, he was getting ready for the big day. "Yeah, a year or so in this building. Fifth floor. I thought it’d be better to live closer downtown. Don’t know what I was thinking." He laughed as he headed into the elevator.

[rosie--hunter]

"No it's not that. I just don't do well under pressure when cooking and there's always pressure to cook the most perfect turkey for Thanksgiving, so I'd rather just skip all of that altogether." She explained shrugging slightly. Rosie wasn't one to deal well under pressure, it was why she always seemed to do better on essays and papers than in exams. There was just something about meeting or exceeding expectations that freaked her out so she tried to stay as far away from things like that as possible. "No way! Me too. Except I'm on the top floor. Thought I'd splurge and get the penthouse. Though I'm starting to find the big space of it a bit intimidating and quite sad because it's so empty. Oh you don't like living downtown?" She asked tilting her head to the side slightly. 

[hol--rose]

Hollie shrugged her shoulders, ” I guess it’s because it’s the thing we touch last before it all goes into the oven so it just seems to stay.” She laughed, not  really knowing why the smell seemed to stay. “Oh please you’re fine.” She laughed, “C’mon, we’ll go and find the best food that we can, yeah?”

[rosie--hunter]

Rosie thought about her answers and nodded. "That makes a lot of sense." She replied pressing her lips together before smiling. "Oh no, see I was smart and wore a larger sweater so I can hide my food baby." Rosie replied with a wink before laughing. "Oh I'm in! I reckon we should just walk and get lost, because I swear that's when you find the best places to eat. Like the ones hidden away in alleyways or in a totally different part of town you never go to." 

[the-kativiper]

Katia chuckled and nodded, bouncing a bit excitedly on her toes. “Yes! Think about how awesome it would be. We could make the villain the hero in the end and the hero could be the villain for judging them?”

[rosie--hunter]

Rosie laughed seeing how excited the girl was getting, her herself getting more and more excited by the idea. "Yes! And throughout the book you find out more and more about the villain's backstory and the hero's one and see how media and such twisted them and made each to seem something they are not. Why isn't this already a book?"

[felix-boyd-deactivated20190724]

Felix’s eyes grew wider as he heard her words, not sure if he should laugh at her response or not. “No, I have not. I don’t celebrate Thanksgiving so I’m darn lucky I don’t have to stick my hand up a dead animal’s ass. I guess I should celebrate that part instead durin’ today. I need that on a shirt.” He let out a light chuckle, feeling slightly sorry for the girl. “Yikes, better not overdo it in that case. Maybe you can cover the smell with a cream? Or another smell? I wish I was better at this.” 

[rosie--hunter]

Rosie's brows furrowed in confusion. "Why don't you celebrate Thanksgiving if you don't mind me asking? You should totally celebrate that! But if you get it on a shirt you've got to give me credit for it." Rosie said narrowing an eye at him as if she were serious before laughing. "I'm kidding." She said lightly smiling all the while. "I'm so lucky I only have to stuff one turkey. I've heard of people who cook like two or three meaning they have to stuff all of them, so I don't envy what their hands smell like." She laughed scrunching her face up in disgust. "Oh cream! Didn't think of that one. Another smell huh? If I rub an orange on my hands do you think they'll smell like oranges?" She asked wondering. "Don't worry you're doing great. You've got more ideas than me." 

[bow-before-zod-deactivated20160]

Xander laughed as he looked over at the girl. “Orange soap. Or try cutting up or rubbing garlic on your fingers. They’ll smell like garlic for days but it should fix the smell of stuffing.”

[rosie--hunter]

"Orange soap? Does that really work?" She asked turning to the man speaking to her and raising a brow. "Ha, no thank you. Having hands smell like stuffing is bad enough. I don't want to mix the smell of stuffing with garlic, but thanks for the idea." She laughed looking at her hands and turning them over. "You got any more ideas? I mean you have more than me already so maybe you have the answer I need." 

[jacob--grayson-deactivated20160]

Kiyomi smiled but shook her head, “it’s alright, I don’t know their phone number off the top of my head anyway. It’s when most phones go missing, I don’t like risking it. Not sure about boring, but when you spend all day with the same people everyday of the week, well sometimes you just need a break of some sort”. 

[rosie--hunter]

"Ah okay." Rosie replied nodding pressing her lips together. "It's pretty smart. Thankfully my phone's never been stolen. I probably just jinxed it though." She laughed sighing and pouting slightly. "That is so true! I have this girl in my office and she had the most annoying high pitched voice that I cannot stand and spending a day with her is hard enough, I don't think I could spend a night with her either. Well hey, here's to having a break." She laughed holding her drink up for the girl to clink.