One Step at a Time
Well, heeellllloooooo to my readers. This is my new drama fic. It's going to be predominantly Leaf x Gary… Actually, I might make it ORS only, just to make things worse for Leaf… But that usually makes for a good plot (at least I think so). But I'm still deciding.
Anyway, this is just a prologue so sorry for its shortness but I still hope you like it.
Prologue
One step forward and two steps backwards.
She sat up straight in her bed; her head glistened with little beads of sweat that ran through her hair and her breathing fast and short. She looked at her alarm clock on the bedside table to her right. At four fifteen in the morning, most girls Leaf's age would be fast asleep on a school night, dreaming about that particular boy in her class with the dreamy blue eyes and the perfect smile.
For Leaf, that ended a year ago. Last year Leaf lost the love of her life, her fiancé, the man who she vowed she would marry one day when they were older than the mere fifteen years old she was when they made that sincere promise; when he gave her that bronze coloured wire skillfully coiled up into a ring with a heart.
The vivid images of him frolicking in the grass with her on a hot summer's day still lingered in her mind even though Leaf desperately tried to escape it by waking up. The memories made Leaf cry, knowing that they were no more, a mere vision of what was.
As soon as the news that a car crash killed her fiancé made its way to Leaf, her grades, social life and mental health started to deteriorate.
And the silver lining to the cloud never came. Things never got better. Leaf became almost zombie like with her actions. There were no emotions of any kind behind anything she did. She didn't eat because she wanted to but because she was made to. Her exterior portrayed nothing but an empty shell that shielded her from everything good or bad. She did not even try to hide her discontent with life.
She worried everyone around her. Her parents, her friends, her family. But one by one, she pushed them away, not wanting to deal with their sympathy that would do nothing but remind her that he is no longer here. Like how she thought she should be.
On the day of her fiancé's death, Leaf should have been in that car sitting next to him. She should have went to his parents' house for the family reunion with him but instead she was at home with the fever. Dying. It was a sign. She was suffering and so was he. Then he wasn't.
The memory still pains Leaf. Two year later she still hasn't moved on. She sometimes wonders if she ever will.
A fresh start. A new beginning. Turning over a new Leaf.
That's what her parents kept hammering on about. Starting over in another town.
Leaf did not protest when they brought it up. She didn't quite comprehend what she has been told. Leave her hometown and move to somewhere new where people she didn't know nor care for would inevitably see her as an introvert. A freak.
"Leaf? Leafy dear?" her mother's gentle voice called out. She had opened the door to her side of the car and was waiting for her to step out of the vehicle.
Leaf looked at her mother "Yes?" she managed to choke out. The combination of new day jitters and flashbacks to her old home bubbling in her stomach were not a good combination.
"We're at your new school." She announced as she handed Leaf her bag once she had stepped out of the car, the car that had driven Leaf and her fiancé back and forth from the same places several times before.
"Thanks." Leaf muttered as she raised her arm to shield her jade green eyes from the glaring rays of the sun.
Her mother stepped in front of her and wrapped her arms around her and pulled the brunette into a tight squeeze. "Have a nice day, sweetie." She said in a cheerful way that seemed false to Leaf, like she was putting it on to disguise the fact that she knew how the day would turn out, and not even in a positive way.
"Thanks." Leaf muttered again as she watched her mother climb back into the driver's seat of the car and wave her goodbye before slowly pulling away and leaving the vulnerable seventeen year old behind.
Leaf turned round again and eyed up the pristine walls that formed her new school, Pallet High School, a private school with the most up-to-date technology and renowned teachers in spacious classrooms. She could tell that the school was posh when she saw clean, slick cars pull up to the drop off area and men dressed in flawless black suits and hats suits step out of the vehicles to open the door for some stuck up rich kid.
She felt the students' eyes burn on her as they stared and walked right past her, not one student offering to help her or welcome her. Her head was held down, watching the gum-free floors that the students walked on, with their heads held high. It needless to say that Leaf felt inferior beside these teenagers.
Leaf watched the students walk into the building, letting them stare at her as they went. She didn't know whether she should go in herself or try to run away from this and back to where she's from. But alas, she came to a decision. One that would make her mother proud.
She inhaled deeply then exhaled, and took her first steps forward.
So, that's the prologue, I like the idea of this fic just now so if you review, I'm likely to update this fairly quickly and I promise future chapters will be longer (my typical chapters are around 2000 words long excluding my wee rambles pre- and post-chapter).
So, yeah, comment please and I'll love you guys forever!