Lap of Luxury
By: Mizu-Bara
Near a small lake about midday a young girl leaned on her window sill, admiring the scenery. She had thought several times about jumping from her window into the lake, but 3 floors wasn't exactly as sensible a trip as she would have hoped. She had always wondered what it was like to swim. Since her family was so wealthy she was always 'not in the proper clothing' for such things.
"Um… miss?" A small voice was heard. The girl whipped her head round in time to see a young lady that appeared to be a maid standing in her doorway. "Someone has requested an audience with you."
What? I'm the least important member of the whole family, why would someone need to speak to me?
Her questions were soon answered. After a few moments of silence a girl no older than herself walked into the room and stood before her with a nervous-looking posture. The two girls stared at each other, examining the other's different features.
-What strange characteristics.
-Whoa! Check out her get-up!
"Hello! My name is Lea! I'm really glad I could meet you, your grace!" The new girl gave a slight curtsy and smiled warmly.
She eyed the odd girl and noticed just how different they were. Lea had very blonde, very straight hair that reached only to her shoulders and exuberant green eyes. She had a medium skin tone that appeared to be natural since it was the same on her face as anywhere else she saw. She wore a long-sleeved shirt under a cute spaghetti-strapped dress with flowers embedded onto the fabric on her knee-length skirt.
She looked at herself again and thought how elegant she must seem to Lea, all neat and fresh. Her hair was pulled back with a lace bow and fell beautifully in ringlets past her shoulders possibly to her elbows. Her dress flowed gracefully to the ground which had ruffles on the mid-point, cuffs, and neck of it. A small, exquisite gem was placed in the middle of the dress, on the verge of her breast line.
"Pleasure, I'm Sophie. Please don' feel the need to be so formal. I'm not of the noble sort, only my father." She smiled and put out her hand. When Lea looked at it questionably she grabbed her hand and placed it in her own. "Now we shake." She shook her arm and encouraged Lea to do the same.
"Weird, I've never greeted someone that way before."
"Really," Sophie was pretty surprised by this. "That's how I'm always introduced to my parent's friends and company."
The maid that had come in earlier was still hovering over the girls as they talked; she smiled at how cute they looked. She decided to excuse herself and let them continue to get better acquainted. "I'll just be going now," She announced, though she knew they probably weren't listening anyways. "Oh! By the way Lady Sophie, Lea is the daughter of the head chef so your father thought you could become friends since she'll be staying here with us."
Sophie felt her heart skip a beat.
A real friend? To play with and talk to, to share secrets with? A real kid her own age?
These thoughts hit her with such a force she actually stumbled back a bit. Lea noticed this and thought to ask, but figured it was probably some long, boring story Sophie wouldn't feel like telling; nor would she feel like listening to for that matter. Acacia, the maid, was long gone by now. The name kind of concerned Sophie since she knew what it meant but she thought better of it than to frighten her new friend this soon. She looked at her guest and saw she was still staring at her strangely.
"Oh, sorry about that," Sophia apologized. "I'm just not really used to having any friends…you know, my own age." She looked shyly at the floor.
"That's awfully sad. Well then, you know what that means," Lea put her arm around Sophie's shoulder and gave her a slight squeeze. "I'll just have to make up for 11, almost twelve years!"
Sophie smiled and was in total agreement with her, until she thought for a moment.
"'Eleven, almost twelve'? What's your date of birth?"
"Well mine is the fourth day of the seventh month, yours?"
"It's the same…" She was in complete shock, which soon turned into joy. She had just made a new best friend and they even had the same birthday!
-I can tell this is going to be interesting, if nothing else.
-This is gonna get real fun, real fast! I can tell!
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Just to let people know this is still a yuri fanfic. These characters are the ones that I put together. The nest few chapters will be lemon, or maybe just some romance. I just felt like I needed the first chapter to explain more about the characters and how they met. Please review, I don't care if you flame as long as you tell me where I went wrong, otherwise I could care less! Thanks you for reading! And I'll have the next chapter up very soon, that is if people actually want me to have it up.