The Girl Who Lived Next Floor
Leo/Emma AU
The Tiny GIrl In The Big Sweater
Leo Roth remembers the day he met the 'Girl Next Floor' , not anything like the girls he had dated in his life. Maybe it was because she knew him as more than the sports star. He was at the library at school during lunch on one strange day. He had a test following lunch and knew if he didn't pass the test then he couldn't play soccer. He was sitting in a table hidden in the endless shelves of books hoping no one would find him and start distracting him from his work. Focusing on a book on the roaring twenties,he never even heard the sound of someone shuffling through the books trying to find the book they desired.
Focused on the pages filled with stories of people who lived in the era followed by pictures of extravagance of people emerged in their happiness and cheer. Looking like they belonged in a story like 'The Great Gatsby' or some bullshit like that. Reading the captions beneath the photos Leo studied the names of the people and their actions. Flipping the page he stopped at a page composed with one photo that read the names of the two people who looked completely immersed in eachothers presence The woman had short straight dark looking hair and a flapper dress on with a smile plastered on her face and the man was smiling back looking like he walked out of an old school gangster movie. Leo smiled at the picture of the two of them hoping that they made it through the Great Depression with a look of love still on their faces and in their eyes. Not that he was sentimental or anything but when you come from a loveless home it is nice to hope for others to have a joy you never experienced .
"Excuse me." Leo heard from behind him and he turned to see a tiny girl with big brown eyes and long straight brown looked like the black and white striped sweater on her was almost swallowing her body being at least three sizes too big on her. Leo had never seen her around before but he knew the reason was probably because she was an underclassman and had a majority of her classes on the fourth floor of the school as opposed to him who was a senior and had all of his classes on the first and second floors.
"Can I help you with something?" Leo asked her giving her a look before returning to his books shutting the book in his hands and going back to the little study time he had left. Leo put the book down and opened the history book he should have been reading in his study time.
"Yeah I need that book you are reading, I have a project due on the book next week and I need it for research." She spoke in a rushed tone and Leo studied the tone in her looked at the book that was laying on the table.
"Uh, alright" Leo said grabbing the book on the table and extending it to her and as she went to grab the book from his hand he brought it back closer to his body. "On one condition. You tell me why you really want it. "
The girl huffed in with an annoyed look on her face. She looked around for a moment before shoving her hands into her large sweater pockets and looking down at the ground before mumbling.
"I just really like to look at the pictures alright?"
Leo thought for a second and then he extended the book to her again and as he watched her reach for it. Her arm was skinny and get wrist was as frail looking as the rest of her arm. The moment seemed to pause for the both of them. When she saw him looking at her exposed arm. Frantically she took the book from him she muttered a small thank you and without introducing herself or asking his name she walked away. That was the moment he labeled her as the Girl Next Floor.
Just a different take on the characters. This is going to be AU but deal wIth some issues on the show . If there are some errors I am sorry. I wrote this on my phone in Starbucks so done errors are expected. I would like 5 positive reviews before I continue this please. Thanks for reading!