Roses Point of View
I did not want to leave the shower. It was old and the water pressure was knackered, but honestly it was the best shower I'd ever taken.
Whilst I stood under the trickling water trying to get my hair damp enough to shampoo, I thought about the events of the last six years of my life. Now that I was fully functioning without drugs, I realised that I had been sleep walking through all of my teenage years. When I thought about all the beatings I'd taken and the insults that I had never argued with, I recognised that I would never have stood for it for all those years. The Rose now, was not the Rose of old. This Rose would have told Lisa and Stacey to f**k off the first time they ever fat shamed me. I wouldn't have cowered in the corner when they cut my hair, and I
