"Lisa Manoban, you are the master of dates."

She really wasn't.

Roseanne was currently helping Lisa give Daisy the elephant a bath with a hose, sponges, and a bucket mixed with bubbles and water.

Lisa pouted. "I've never gone on a date before, don't make fun of me."

How could someone like Lisa Manoban never gone on a date before?

"Seriously? Even I have gone on dates. Albeit, horrible ones. But still dates." Roseanne told her.

Lisa shrugged as grabbed a sponge and started to wash the large animal's side. "I never had time to. I'm always on the move." She told Roseanne.

"Then let me take you on a date." Roseanne offered. "After the show."

Lisa smiled, tilting her head. "You want to take me on a date even after making you give Daisy a bath?"

Roseanne laughed. "Even if you made me give the monkeys a bath."

Lisa looked at her quizzically. "We don't have monkeys."

"Suga and Kook tell me otherwise."

Lisa laughed loudly, throwing her head back and squinting her eyes from laughing so hard. The sight alone made Roseanne's heart flutter. "You are right, but monkeys are smarter than them." She pointed out.

"Possibly, possibly." Roseanne nodded in agreement.

Lisa walked up to Roseanne and poked her nose that was filled with suds, making Roseanne scrunch up her nose and Lisa giggle. "I will gladly go on a date with you." She whispered.

"Even after this?"

Lisa raised an eyebrow. "After what?"

Roseanne smirked before grabbing the hose and spraying Lisa with water from the hose.

"Roseanne!" Lisa squealed as she tried running from Rosé but Rosé laughed as she ran after her and continued spraying her. "Rosie!" she pouted, crossing her arms as she gave in and let Roseanne wet her instead of running.

Roseanne stopped wetting Lisa and giggled, clutching onto her stomach from laughing so hard. "It's awfully hot outside Lis, I thought you needed to cool down." Roseanne said innocently with a smirk.

Lisa raised an eyebrow. "Oh really?" the drenched girl took a step closer to Roseanne.

Roseanne pointed the hose to Lisa like if it was a gun. "Don't come any closer Manoban! I'm armed!"

Lisa only smirked before yelling like a mad person and charging after Roseanne and throwing her over her shoulder.

Roseanne gasped and squeaked. "Lisa!" Roseanne exclaimed. "You're going to drop me!"

"No, I'm getting revenge." Lisa smirked before looking up at Daisy. "Daisy dear, Roseanne here needs some water." The elephant made a trumpeting noise before her trunk was above Roseanne and Roseanne protested and then the water sprayed onto her and drenched her body as well as Lisa's.

Lisa laughed her ass off as Roseanne pouted and Lisa put her down.

Roseanne crossed her arms and looked at Lisa. "Not funny." Roseanne pouted even more.

Lisa giggled and before poking Roseanne's cheek with bubbles and Roseanne right away started to chase her around while Lisa squealed and ran from Roseanne. They probably looked like six year olds but for once, Roseanne didn't care about how people saw her. Because all she saw right now was Lisa and that was more than enough.

Roseanne suddenly tripped over her two feet and fell on her back, laughing up a storm. Lisa laughed as well and stuck her tongue out at Roseanne. "What a clumsy dork." Lisa teased playfully as she lied next to her.

Roseanne stuck her tongue out and rolled her eyes. "I fell with style."

"Sure Rosie." Roseanne pouted and Lisa smiled. "I don't like it when you pout."

"Why?"

"It makes me want to kiss you." Lisa whispered, blushing.

Roseanne blushed pink and smiled. "Well that can wait for later." Roseanne told her, despite her heart screaming to kiss Lisa right then.

This time, Lisa pouted. "Why?" she whined.

"Because you typically kiss your date after the first date. You know, when you leave her at her doorstep." Roseanne told her.

Lisa giggled. "That's so cheesy, but okay. I will respect your cheesy wishes." Lisa kissed her cheek. "Almost."

Roseanne smiled and kissed Lisa's cheek in return. "Perfect." She whispered.

The two lied in silence and simply enjoyed looking at each other with smiles on their faces. The simple pleasure was cut short when suddenly they were sprayed with water by none other than Daisy who started to trumpeting and wiggling her ears making the two girls laugh.

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Roseanne questioned why adults lose their faith in things like magic when they grow older. Were they not children once too? How can you suddenly lose the magical world you created? The one where the impossible was possible and the world screamed in colors.

Roseanne lived in that world once too... she isn't quite sure how she lost it.

But it came back, unexpectedly too.

One day, Roseanne was just hidden in her own personal isolation. The next, Roseanne's starting to come home at three in the morning and her mother is praising her for it.

Roseanne's beginning to think that the secret ingredient to gaining back your childhood magic and imagination is to fall in love.

Not saying Roseanne was in love with Lisa, but... there was something undeniable about her.

Because Lisa made her smile again.

Roseanne started to sing in the shower again. She started to dance around in her room to cheesy music like she use to. She's starting to believe in fairytales and fairy dust and dragons and knights in shining armor and kingdoms and everything she use to spend hours imagining.

Roseanne's beginning to believe that things are going to be all right.

She's starting to believe that not everything's a big, gigantic, stinking mess. There's beauty. Roseanne's sees it.

She sees it through her.

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After the magic of the circus dies down and the only thing remaining are the acts themselves around the red and white tent, Roseanne searched for Lisa in her bus.

Lisa opened the bus door and was changed from her ringmaster costume to a flowing blue dress, like something you'd wear to the beach which made Roseanne wonder if Lisa could read minds. Anything at this point seemed possible with Lisa.

Roseanne smiled. "You look beautiful." Roseanne said softly before presenting Lisa with a bouquet of red roses. Cheesy, but Roseanne couldn't help but want to give Lisa something. She'd give Lisa the world at her feet if she could.

Lisa chuckled and blushed as she took the bouquet, smelling them and humming. "Thanks, I really didn't know what to wear and I don't really own many fancy clothes besides my costumes which I don't think are really appropriate to wear to a first date."

Roseanne smiled and nodded. "Right, well you picked the right outfit. Come on."

Lisa nodded. "Let me just leave the flowers inside." Lisa told her as she placed the flowers by the table in the bus before going back to Roseanne and letting the girl guide her to their date.

"We're going to my special spot. It's not the beach, actually. But it's a lake. No one goes there but me, or I hope only I go." Roseanne told her as she held Lisa's hand. "I went there a lot after a bad day usually."

Lisa turned to her. "What kind of bad days?" she asked softly.

Roseanne shook her head. "I don't really wanna talk about that." She said softly.

"That's fine." Lisa smiled to her before she switched topics and talked about how pretty the moon looked as they walked into a forest, Roseanne turning on the flashlight on her phone to guide them.

"I'm glad you like the moon, because the moon loves the lake. You'll know what I mean right now." Roseanne told her with a smile before they reached the lake. The lake was illuminated by the moon, the water glistening from it. The grass and trees were so green.

"Wow." Lisa breathed out as she looked around curiously. "This place is beautiful Rosie." She whispered.

Roseanne smiled and nodded. "I'm glad you think so." She said as she led Lisa to the small picnic she arranged earlier. "This is probably super cheesy but oh well." She chuckled as she and Lisa sat down on the purple blanket. "And I'm kind of a terrible cook except for sandwiches so... bon appetite."

Lisa chuckled and shook her head. "It's perfect Rosie, I love it." She assured. "No one's ever done something like this for me."

Roseanne blushed and smiled. "Well, I'd do anything for you." She said softly.

Lisa's smile faltered but she quickly smiled again. "So, what'd you make?"

Roseanne took out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and Lisa giggled. "My favorite food Rosie, thanks." Lisa said as she grabbed one and unwrapped it, beginning to eat it. Roseanne only smiled before Lisa spoke up again. "So, you never told me where you're going for college. Or what you're majoring in. Can you tell me?" Lisa asked with a smile.

Roseanne shrugged and nodded. "Yeah, sure. I guess." She said softly. "I'm, uh, I'm going to Yale."

Lisa's eyes widened. "Whoa, Yale..." Lisa trailed off. "Well look at you Ms. Ivy League." She smiled. "That's really great."

Roseanne nodded. "Yeah." She smiled softly."

What are you going for?" Lisa asked, tilting her head as she chewed on her sandwich.

"I'm doing English Language and Literature. I want to be a writer. I got a full scholarship from submitting a story I wrote." Roseanne told the girl, blushing as she talked about herself which was something she didn't do often.

Lisa looked incredibly impressed at Roseanne's words. "Wow... a writer. What was your story about?" Lisa asked.

"It wasn't anything that great really—"

"If it got you accepted into Yale on a full scholarship, it must be pretty great." Lisa argued with a smile. "Come on, don't be embarrassed about this. This is freaking awesome, Roseanne! You're going to Yale! Tell me everything."

Roseanne pursed her lips before nodding. "It was a story about... two people. One was a person who lived in a world without color and the other lived in a world with too much color. The person who only saw in black and white viewed the world and society just as that. While the other saw the world splashed in a myriad of colors. They saw good in everything and the possibilities were endless for them..." she trailed off. Lisa seemed to be interested in the story and nodded for Roseanne to continue.

Roseanne took a deep breath and nodded. "So, one day... they meet. The colorful and colorless." She said softly. "And they are both asked by an old man to get him a lemon from the lemon tree. They go. The colorless one just goes straight for the lemon tree and gets a lemon and then comes back because it was a simple task. The colorful one takes longer and comes back with an apple from the apple tree. The colorless tells the colorful they got the wrong thing but the colorful insists they got the right one. They go to the old man and the old man tells them that they both got the wrong thing."

Lisa's eyes widen slightly and tilted her head, wondering herself how the two main characters were wrong.

Roseanne continued. "The old man said to the colorless one, 'You're wrong because you only went for the lemon tree without so much as debating if it was or wasn't. You don't think enough or at all. You let black and white guide you without thinking, because you don't think. Everything just... is.' And then he turned to the colorful one and said, 'You're wrong because you think too much. You don't settle for one possibility. You overthink everything and think there's no limit to the world around you. But there is. The world is not always colorful.' And then he looked at them both and told them 'You need black and white and colorfulness if you expect to understand the world'." Roseanne told Lisa. "So then the colorful one began to see in black and white as well while the colorless one saw color too. That's when they began to acknowledge the points of views the world possessed, when they saw in black and white and color." She finished.

Lisa stared at Roseanne before smiling. "I know why Yale accepted you." She said, eyes wide in shock. "That's an amazing story. You're going to be a great author. I'll buy all your books for sure." She nodded.

Roseanne blushed. "It's okay, I guess." She mumbled.

Lisa hummed. "Why do you make yourself so small? You're an amazing writer Rosie, own it." She told the girl.

Roseanne rubbed her neck. "I-I don't know... people are mean." She mumbled.

"You should listen to the old man's words and see the world in more than one color." Lisa told her. "Nobody's monochromatic, Roseanne. There's more to you than you think."

Roseanne smiled softly. "Maybe." She whispered.

They both switched topics and started talking about anything else but Roseanne's obvious need to hide everything about herself. They moved from the picnic blanket to the dangling their legs and wetting their bare feet as they sat on the old dock, talking about everything and anything their mind could come up with.

"You know how you said I could only kiss you until after the first date?" Roseanne hummed and nodded at Lisa's's question. "Well, I want to kiss you now."

Roseanne felt her cheeks heat up. "Oh."

"Do you not want to kiss me?" Lisa chewed on her lip.

"You leave in four days."

"Then let me kiss you for four days."

Roseanne shuddered when Lisa cupped her cheek and tilted her head, leaning in to press her lips gently against Roseanne's. Roseanne straightened up as soon as she felt the softness of Lisa's lips and held the back of Lisa's neck as she reciprocated the kiss.

That's when Roseanne knew she was in too deep.