How To Fall (In Love)
Prologue
Moving another time. She remembered never staying in the same city for more than a year. She already knew that this time the story would have been the same: a few months, and and she would have moved again. Maybe her mother would have been tired of seeing the same customers every day, or maybe she herself would have done something stupid again, or maybe her younger brother wouldn't have liked the new city… The last hypothesis was quite absurd, as they were returning to the very same city they lived in a year before. They were heading back to Lima, Ohio, and Charlie didn't like it at all. She was pretty sure she would meet someone who would recognize her and would have remembered what happened the year before. How did she come up with the idea of secretly attend a whole-boys school, even dressing up as a boy? She hoped her mother would have never discovered that, but things went very differently.
After several months spent in Seattle, they were moving again. Now, she wouldn't care less: every time they arrived in a new place, they had to pack up again so soon that they wouldn't even have spent some time getting used to the new city. She didn't even remember how many times she had to move, since she was born. Her elder brother was right, when he had run away from home! Now he was far away, travelling, with his new girlfriend, who Charlie didn't really like: that's why she didn't like receiving phone calls by him.
When they arrived in front of their new home, Charlie was relieved, when she discovered that it was far enough from the house they lived in the year before. Maybe no one would have recognized her in that new neighborhood!
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Hi everyone! This story is part of an experiment I did a few years ago, when I imagined how the story would have been like if this character I introduced you in the prologue was there.
Nevertheless, as I continued planning the story in my head, I started to realize I liked this character less and less, so her story will develop in three brief appearances, during the beginning of the second, third and fourth seasons (plus an epilogue, but I still don't know if I'm going to publish it).
I hope you'll like the story anyway, despite all the things I have just told you! :)