Chapter 1

The only light in the room came from a flickering candle perched upon an old, hardwood desk. The flame emitted a soft light that bounced off every object in the room giving the shadows an almost lifelike figure. A single body, seated at the desk, slowly scratching down ideas onto a journal of some sort.

"Sigh… How did this all happen? One minute I was my normal, careless self and then before I knew it, I was captivated by that blond haired wonder."

As I sat in the darkened room, I began to reminisce about the past week…

"Hey Bard."

I looked up from the mystery meat that I found stewing in the back of the fridge to see Finny leaning against the doorway, looking as if he had just ran a marathon.

"What's wrong Finny?"

The young blond slowly plods forward, exaggerating each step as he goes, until he is a few feet away from me.

"The young master told me to run over here as fast as possible and ask you if dinner was going to be finished before our guest arrived or if he needed to order out once again due to the foods inedible quality."

I smile to myself as my lower eyelid twitches in anger. Oh he did, did he…

"Yeah about that. The only food we have is this"

I held up the mysteriously colored meat before dropping it into the trash.

"Eww! That's not going to do. Why don't you ask Sebastian for help?"

Sigh… Not this again. Sebastian always comes and saves the day, and for once, I want to be able to do something that I am proud of. Something that I can say I did on my own.

"Sigh… Finny, I am not going to ask Sebastian for help because…"

"Because why Bard?" Sebastian mutters aloud as he gracefully slips into the kitchen.

Before I have a chance to answer, the cool butler begins again, this time in an even more demanding tone.

"Why don't you just leave this meal to me, seeing as the young master has a very important guest coming over. How does that sound?"

I stare at the elegant butler, smiling devilishly at me, and muster up enough strength to say, "Well what am I suppose to do then?!"

The cold butler smirks, as if he already knew this was coming.

"Why don't you help finny with the yard work. You could use the help right Finny?"

The quiet, young blond, Silent these past moments, now jumps up with excitement and exclaims, "Oh yes, I do need help. The estate is so big that I don't think I could clean it all by myself. Come on Bard, let's get down to work!" With that, the young boy turns on his heel and walks toward the open door and waits for me like a guard on watch.

I sigh and make my way toward the door and out into the hallway. I look up and expect to see Finny in front of me, but he is nowhere to be seen. I swiftly turn around and collide my forehead with finny's head, propelling us backwards.

"Ughh… Finny, are you okay?", I mutter as I rub the knot forming on my head.

Finny snaps back to reality, and says, "Haha, never better. Now lets get going before Sebastian becomes angered with us for not finishing."

"Oh… Okay…", I stutter. Why was he so close behind me right now? Did he just not see me? Ah well, whatever it is, it was nothing. Right now I have to focus on getting this estate cleaned up so Sebastian doesn't beat us senselessly. With that, I briskly walk to catch up with finny before he disappears.


Author's Note: This is my second story(in-progress) so any reviews would be beneficial to me learning what works or not. Thanks for reading it so far... and i hope you enjoy what is to come ;) ~Sincerely, Starfire32