A New Life

I was falling, and I didn't know why. What had happened? Where was I? I couldn't see anything! It was just darkness. I could feel the air rushing around me as I plummeted down to who knows where. Something near me was making a flapping sound. I was scared to find out what it was.

Suddenly my body was sinking down into freezing cold water, making my eyes fly open. The first thing I saw was a starry night sky. I could feel myself start to shiver but I couldn't stop staring at the sky in its unhindered glory. I don't know how long I stared for but I soon noticed that I was very cold. In my foggy mind it made sense to start swimming in a random direction, there was no moon to help guide me. I swam and swam until the beautiful night sky turned in to a lovely sunrise. I must have passed out because when I woke up I was on a beach, alone, and no idea where I was or what to do. I could only sit there until someone came walking along the beach towards me. I, without knowing what was happening, scrambled about trying to find a place to hide from the foreign being in front of me.

"Are you alright little one?" He smiled kindly down at me. I didn't know what to say so I just stared at him blankly.

"Not much of a talker, are you, hmm? Well, would you like to come home with me for now?" Again I only gave a blank stare, apparently he took it as a yes though as he picked me up in one scooping sweep of his arms. "You'll like my house I two grandsons that are about your age that I bet you'll get along just fine with." He smiled and talked on and on about his grandsons and his house the entire way there.

The entire house, if you could call it that, it was more of a mansion really, gave off a sense of money and in an odd sense safety. He led me inside and brought me to what could be described as a play room. It had a vaulted ceiling and huge windows that stretched from floor to just before the ceiling curved. The windows were partially covered by velvet curtains of a rich purple color. The walls were covered in mosaics and paintings of different scenes from all over the known world. One boy was sitting on a couch the color of a cloud in the afternoon. He had a book in his hands and was lying down with his foot hanging off the edge of the couch and swinging lightly. Another bot was sitting in front of the windows with an easel in front of him. He looked up when the man and I walked in and rushed over to give the man a hug, which made the one on the couch look up. I quickly hid behind the man, but it wasn't fast enough as the two boys looked around the man to look at me.

"Ah! Grandpa, who is that behind you!" The one with the easel asked staring at me with wonder. The boy had a slightly high voice and could have almost passed for a girl if his hair was longer and he wore a dress. I immediately liked him.

"Her? I found her on the beach earlier just sitting there with no one around. So I asked if she wanted to come with me, I didn't really get an answer though, she just sort of stared at me." The man put a hand to the back of his head and gave a little laugh when the boy with the book glared at him.

"Why would you bring a little girl home with you? Are we not enough for you now, huh?" His voice deep than his brother's, they were obviously brothers since they looked almost identical except for the one with the book had darker hair, his voice was deeper and he had a worse attitude than his brother. I didn't like this boy much. He seemed really rude and mean.

"What do you mean, Lovi? He was only being nice since she was obviously lost." I liked the one with the easel more and more he was so kind.

"You know how he is! He only cares about what he wants!" The one with the book, Lovi, was shouting now and getting red in the face from the amount of air he was using.

"Now, now, Lovi, don't be mean in front of our guest you're scaring her." The man put one had on top of each of the boys heads and rubbed them, messing up whatever hair style they had, had.

"S-sorry… but you could have said something before just waltzing in with a strange girl in toe!" I hid behind the man a little bit more, grabbing onto his clothes and shaking slightly.

"Lovi…" The man's voice changed and became serious and gave Lovi a stern look.

"Sorry." Lovi said it grudgingly in my direction.

"Come on out little one." The man pulls you out from behind him and the brothers get there first good look at you.

"Grandpa, she's really pretty! I wonder why her family wasn't out looking for her." The easel boy asked turning his head to the side. "Do you know where your parents are?"

I shook my head in the negative.

"Do you know how to talk?" The easel boy asked me.

I thought about what I wanted to say, "I-I guess so?" but it came out as more of a question than a statement.

"Oh, you're so cute! I can't believe that anyone would forget about you!" the man said excitedly.

"I… I don't… have…a…" my voice trailed off, not that it was very loud to start with, to nothing as the three stared at me in bewilderment. The easel boy and the man rushed over hugging me and crying as they babbled on about how they would be my family now.

"So do you have a name at least?" Lovi asked. He was the only one that hadn't gone completely emotional like his brother and grandfather and managed to pull me out of the smotherings that the two were trying to kill me with.

"I-I don't think so. I can't think of one, but I don't really remember anything before I was found on the beach." I looked at Lovi with a sad expression on my face.

"Oh! Hey, I forgot to tell you my name! I'm Feliciano and this is my brother Lovino and our grandpa. I guess we'll have to make a name for you!" Feliciano said as he bounced around and made his brother yell at him when he grabbed his arm and started to try to drag Lovino around with him. I couldn't help but smile at how funny the whole scene was.

"That's the first time I've seen you smile! You have such a cute smile!" right then was when your stomach decided to make a guest appearance and advertise your hunger for the other three to hear.

"Ha-ha, you must be awfully hungry. What would you like to eat?" Grandpa said, he told me to call him that as well.

"I don't know, whatever you feel like making I guess?" I didn't want to make myself feel like a nuisance to them.

"Grandpa could we have your special pasta, then?" Feliciano and Lovino both asked with sparkles in their eyes.

"Sure! It's a special event after all!" And that was that. We were going to have pasta for dinner and then my name would be decided. The pasta was delicious! I had never, in my limited memory, had something so good. We went to another room and sat down.

"I was thinking how… about… Maria?" we all thought it over in our heads.

"I like it. I think it's perfect for her." I smiled at the three of them in approval.