Hello, I've always wanted to write a story about Edmund as he is my favourite character so I finally decided to give it a go. Please excuse my spelling and grammar errors it is not a strong suit of mine. Please feel free to leave your thoughts, ideas, and criticism it would be very helpful.
I do not own the chronicles of Narnia. I only own my own character Alex.
Alex woke to the sound of Mrs Macreadys moaning and fussing about. "The usual then" Alex thought groaning and rolling out of bed in an un-lady like fashion. Then again she did not care if she was a 'proper lady' as Mrs Macready puts it. She has had the lecture from her dozens of times before saying Alex would need to start being more lady-like as she was growing up, however that never made any impact on Alex she didn't care if she acted like a girl or acted like 'a feral cat' is how she had heard Macready often refer to her as.
She walked to her bathroom, brushed her teeth and combed her hair and dressed. Recently she had been forced to wear skirts which she was not happy with however when she went to her granddad to complain he just laughed and patted her back saying "it could be worse, feel lucky Mrs. Macready didn't make you make a dress" the thought alone made Alex want to throw up so she shut up and left it.
Alex had grown up in the professors house (or should she say mansion since it as so huge) as her parents died when she was young, and therefor she went to live with her granddad (the professor). Since she never remembered her parents she was not hung up over it and was satisfied with the company of her granddad. Mrs Macready, the housekeeper was another story though.
Back to the present she went downstairs to have breakfast where she found her granddad siting at the table with a newspaper and a pipe in his mouth.
"morning, granddad" Alex said as she sat down pouring herself some juice and nibbling on some toast that was there ready for her to eat.
"ah, morning Alex are you looking forward to meeting the children today?" the professor said smiling at her putting down the paper.
He was referring to the fact that 4 children, refugees from the war who were staying with us for a while. Alex was in fact very excited as much as she loved living in this house it was in the middle of the countryside so she didn't have many opportunities to socialise with other children, so Alex could not be happier.
"Of course-"Alex started to say before Mrs Macready walked in and cut her off.
"Alex I thought I told you to make sure the bedding was made for when the guests are arriving?" Macready said staring at Alex angrily.
"dammit" Alex muttered under her breath. Completely forgetting she had to do that. "sorry I forgot" she said smiling sheepishly up at her
"Well?" Macready said raising an eyebrow up at the girl
Alex knowing Macready was implying she needed to go do it, huffed getting up to head up to the rooms to finish the job
"Don't forget were leaving in a couple of hours to pick them up" Macready called after her.
"I won't" she called back to her laughing.
"So the pevensies" Alex said to Macready as she was bored on the journey to picking up the children
"yes, and don't you go filling up their minds with stupid ideas and, causing trouble with them" Macready said to Alex without looking at her
"Now where would you get the idea I would ever do that" Alex said smiling innocently but grinning knowing things were going to get a lot more interesting now.
"because I know you" Macready said coldly
Just then in the distance Alex spotted 4 children in the distance looking around confused and completely alone.
Alex knew it was them and was suddenly very nervous "what if they weren't that friendly? What if they want nothing to do with her?" Alex thought. She shook the thoughts from her head trying to stay positive "surely they won't be like that, right?" she told herself.
"Come on, hup and whoa. Whoa" Macready said to the horses as we finally stopped next to the children.
Alex had the chance to finally observe the children there were 2 boys and 2 girls. The youngest girl looked maybe about 10 with shoulder length brown hair. She looked nervous but had a friendly smile on her face and was staring at Alex. Alex thought she looked nice so she waved subtly at her who made the young girl grin, and wave back. The older girl looked very confused and was staring at Mrs Macready she was very tall, slim and had long brown hair. She looked like the type of person who was more academic and less fun, Alex thought. But she looked nice enough so when the older girl caught her eyes she smiled at her still. The person next to her was the oldest boy he was the tallest of his siblings and golden brown short hair. He looked the most confused of them all. You could tell he was very protective of his siblings so she admired him for that. Wishing she had someone like that.
The last sibling was the younger boy; he looked around her age with short dark brown hair. The first thing she noticed was his imitate scowl he sent her way. She frowned and thought "what did I ever do to him?" she got the feeling he was a sort of troublemaker, like herself but at least she had the common decency to be polite she thought turning away from him.
The older boy suddenly spoke
"Mrs. Macready?" he said as a question.
"I'm afraid so" she answered him.
"Great" she thought "it's the first meeting and Macreadys already scaring them away" she rolled her eyes at Macready and spoke up
"And im Alex, the one and only" she said playfully towards them to ease them up
The younger girl giggled at that. Alex knew she would get along greatly with her
"Is this it then? Haven't you bought anything else" Macready said referring to the tiny amount of luggage they had between them.
"No mam, it's just us" peter said almost sadly.
There was a silence.
"Well at least that makes moving in easy I suppose?" Alex said forcing a laugh to try and break the silence, boy this was getting awkward real fast.
No one said anything but Macready gave Alex a scolding look.
"What?... Right not the right thing to say, got it" Alex said finally
They got on the carriage Alex helped them get on offering a hand to each of them when she pulled the younger boy up she brushed of her hand and said
"I don't need help im strong enough to get on by myself"
Alex snorted at that "yeah, im sure you can" she said chuckling raising her hands in mock surrender.
The younger boy glared at her.
"Lay of it, Ed" the older boy said scolding him
They sat down
"So you guys know who I am but I'd like to put a name to your faces I can't keep referring to you guys as 'the younger girl' or 'the older boy'. She said
"Oh sorry, my name is Susan, this is Lucy, Peter, and Edmund" the girl I now knew as Susan said.
The journey home was filled with chatter mainly peter and Susan explain where they was from and about their mum, when the topic of their dad came up I saw that Edmund had flinched slightly. I could tell the subject of his dad bothered him. So I quickly changed the subject.
He noticed and sent me a grateful look. "Wait I must be imagining things, or did the person who had done nothing but indicate he hates me just send me a look of gratitude" She thought.
When they arrived at the house Macready immediately started to lecture them during the tour. Alex already felt sorry for them.
"-there will be a few rules you need to follow, there will be no shouting, or running. No improper use of the dumbwaiter
Susan reached out to touch something. Alex winced knowing what was going to happen.
"NO TOUCHING OF THE HISTORICAL ARTIFCTS" Susan surprised quickly removed her hands.
Whist saying this I was stood behind her mimicking her exactly and making fun of her.
The others saw and tried to hide their laughs. Macready noticed and turned around and noticed what I was doing.
Macready sighed "the children should not be exposed to you and your troublesome actions"
"aww, but I thought you loved me" you said mockingly pouting at her.
Macready ignored you and continued lecturing the children
"And above all, there shall be no disturbing of the professor".
Macready then left Alex to show them to their rooms
"Here you are, if you need anything im just down the hall to the left. And don't worry about Macready, I don't she's all bark and no bite, you'll get used to it" Alex said reassuringly to them
"Thank you" peter said
"I'll leave you guys to get settled in" she said walking away
Later one the pevensies were in their room getting ready for bed
"You saw outside this place is huge. We can do whatever we want here. Tomorrows going to be great" Peter said to Lucy
"can spend time with Alex" Lucy asked Peter
Peter smiled and said "im sure we can if she doesn't mind" Lucy smiled
"Ugh, why her" Edmund said groaning.
"Don't think we didn't notice how rude you were being to her Edmund, were guests here we have to be nice, besides Alex is very nice you should be polite to her" Susan said
"Fine, but don't expect me to be friends with her Edmund said turning away
Edmund was annoyed, annoyed that he had to go away from home, annoyed that they had to deal with the bossy lady Mrs. Macready, and annoyed that the Alex girl for mocking Edmund earlier. He didn't know what it was about her but when he saw her he immediately felt weird, and angry at her for some reason. So he decided not to trust her.
Hi, sorry if the first chapter wasn't that eventful, the first chapters are always the worst for me to write.
Please RXR I would appreciate it so much to get feedback.
