hello ^^'
well this is slightly awkward :P
anyway. i posted this chapter a couple of days ago. i started writing it in the middle of the night and completed it in two or so hours. and being the idiot that i am, i uploaded it here immediately -_-
i reread it a yesterday and in not liking a couple of thing there,namely gildarts as daddy dearest because..i have no idea what the hell i was thinking :P please forgive any confusion i'm about to create but gildarts must be replaced with an OC :3 also please forget that juvia was ever mentioned in this chapter. ihave other things planned for her :3
Disclaimer: fairytail isn't mine, bro. you should know that already -_-
Thank you for reading! :D
Chapter 1
The sunlight filtering through the glass warmed levy's slightly chilled body where it was perched on her bay window. Her dripping tresses sent an occasional shiver down her spine as her eyes darted across the pages of the book placed on her bent knees. She wasn't reading, rather she was watching the feathery shadow of the rustling leafs outside her window casted upon the pages by the sun.
The girl heart was heavy, as it often was, at the thought of her distant future and that of her present life. Unsatisfying, is the word that come to mind every time she thought of her life so far and that, she know, is how it would stay if she went of doing what she has been thus far. Which of course was nothing but she had already made up her mind, four months ago on her seventeenth birthday that she would not sit idly by as her life was dictated for her.
An attempt or two had been made in the last few months to talk it out with her half brother and her father about a twinge more freedom and about getting to make her own decisions. Nothing too big, just things like picking out a university of her choice and dating whomever she desired, but it hadn't gone too well. In fact they didn't even seem to be listening.
She snapped out of her trance and flung her book across the room. Cringing immediately as it land at an awkward angle on her queen sized canopy bed. She apologized inwardly to one of her constant companions and went to right it's position. Returning to her seat, she drew legs to her chest once again after placing the worn copy of Leaves Of Grass on its rightful place on the shelf. She trained her gaze on the corner of the street and waited. It was 2:45 on a Wednesday afternoon and it had become a ritual of sorts for levy to sit here and wait for the formidable looking man with the piercing to show up at 3 O'clock on the dot.
A few more minutes of waiting and there he was appearing at the beginning of the lane. He was early today and levy didn't mind that one bit. She watched him with a strange sort of curiosity and fascination as he sat down on the park bench a little way across the street from her house. Even in the way he sat she could tell that he must be a real rebel. Did what he wanted and lived by his own rules. She admired that. She wanted that. Of course she wasn't so naïve to believe that he had a great live either. Sometimes when levy could stay up long enough, she'd see him finding his way back to the same bench in the dead of night and laying down to get some rest for the night. She didn't think he homeless though, because for one he didn't look homeless in his leather jacket and well kempt waist long black air. He looked like a gang member, sure, but not homeless. Often she wondered what his story was and sometime she even considered the possibility that maybe they could help each other out. Maybe he could give her some advice on how to be tougher and more rebellious in exchange for money which she could tell he was in need of; she had a lot of that.
It was a little before 3:30 when somewhat familiar stranger walked into her line of sight. He was a tall man, more so than the stranger with the piercing, dark of skin and hair. And as it happened every Wednesday they spoke for a bit before the taller man handed him something levy couldn't make out at this distance and then they both went their separate ways.
She sighed as she watched them leave wishing she had the courage to run out and catch up to the man to present her offer. Instead she donned her flipflops and wandered out of the room her. Her house was the biggest in her entire neighborhood, at least twice as big and was very, very empty. In all honesty she didn't like it one bit. The only ones to keep her company were of her book and for the past year an Au pair going by the name of Mirajane Strauss. The older of the members of the Mcgarden household, half brother Jet and father David where away every day except the weekends from 8am to 8pm seeing to the workings of the printing press that their family owned and in their absence levy had grown closer and closer to the older girl.
The girl made her way down the stairs and knocked once on the door of the only bedroom on the first floor.
"Come on in, sweetie!" Came Mira's ever cheery voice from the inside of the room. Without a second's pause she swung the door open. Mira was a lying on the carpeted floor of her room with her chin propped up on a cushion with thick book related to her major littered around in an arch in front of her. She didn't look up as levy shut the door behind her and she didn't move in inch when she felt the slight weight of levy's head rest on the small of her back.
The girls treated each other like sisters and as such no word were needed to fill the comfortable silence between them. That is until the wetness of levy's hair began to seep into Mira's shirt.
"You should really dry your hair better after a shower, levy. This is why you always have a dripping nose." She reprimanded like the mother hen that she was.
"Hey! My nose doesn't drip." Levy retorted feeling her cheeks warm a little.
"Yeah, that's what you say."
And there was silence again. A short lived one that levy broke.
"Hey, Mira?"
"Hmm?"
A nervous lump rose to levy's throat at the thought of bringing up the topic but she went on anyway.
"You know… about Laxus coming to visit next week right?"
A mischievous laugh escaped Mira's lips, "it's about time I meet this boyfriend of yours. Mr. Mcgarden had nothing but praises from him."
Levy furrowed her brows, "of course he does. He's the one how picked him, not me." She said bitterly
The smile evaporated from Mira's face and she began to shift. Levy lifted her head and repositioned it on Mira's lap as she sat up.
"I know it's not fair, hon."
"Not at all."
"Maybe it won't be that bad." She tried to seem optimistic about the situation, "he's definitely not bad to look at."
"Not bad at all." Levy agreed, "and he's a gentlemen, smart, well mannered, has a good family background." She stated
"Great family background!" Mira agreed
"But he… he's so… I don't know." A look of frustration crossed her features, "he's a rock. I've never seen any sincere display of emotions on his face and it's so unsettling! I don't want to be with him!" she click her mouth shut once she realized how loud she had gotten and then added in a much calmer tone, "besides he's 23. I'm pretty sure this is illegal."
"That's why we're waiting." Mira added with a sheepish smile.
Now levy was angry but the look on Mira's face was priceless. A bout of laughter tore from her lips and Mira just watched her with a confused expression and it went on for a while. A sigh signified the end of her temporary hysteria. She sat up and her back slumped immediately in a defeated manner.
"Maybe it won't be so bad." She said as she got up to leave.
"You should talk to your dad!" Mira called abruptly as the door was about to swing shut.
Levy halted for a second before nodding, "I will." And then she was gone.
She retreaded to her room for the rest of the day until it was time for dinner. She dragged her feet down the stairs one more time and made her way to the kitchen. She peered in from the side to find Mirajane at the stove. She walking into the dining room and found the table already set so she sat down to begin her wait.
It was 8:30 by the time Jet join her, "how's it going kiddo?" asked her as he took the seat across from her.
She smiled at her brother, "I've been doing what I do every day. Lucy is coming over tomorrow and then we're going to go to the movies with Natsu, Gray and Erza."
"Why can't you just watch a movie in the house?" her smile dropped immediately when her father seated himself beside her at the head of the table.
"I just wanted to go out for a bit, dad." She muttered. Now she loved her father but he was just a tad bit overbearing. She knew he had his reasons but it was just too much for her sometime. A lot of the times.
Mira walked in with a steaming pot of something or the other in her hands. She set in on the table in slipped into her place beside levy with a bright smile, "I trust everyone had a good day?"
There was some nodding and then everyone started on their dinner. Levy push the contents of her plate around nibbling at it every once in a while for the first fifteen minutes before david finally set his spoon down to address her.
"What's wrong?" the clutter of spoons and knifes died down almost immediately and levy froze. Her eyes remained fixed on the table cloth as she debated in her head whether or not now was a good time to talk thing through with her father.
"What's the matter?" he tried again softly and instantly levy looked up to meet his eye and words came pouring out of her mouth without her control.
"I don't want to be with laxus. I don't want to go to law school. I want more freedom and to be able to decide for myself where my life goes. I don't want you to dictate my life an-" a loud clank cut her off mid sentence. Someone had just dropped a spoon.
There was a tense moment of silence and then tension in the room was thick and then just like that it dissolved. david returned to his meal and after a few seconds of more staring so did Jet. Mira left to get herself a new spoon. No one was listening to her now and she was left staring at her father's direction. Hot tears of frustrating blurred her vision but she blinked them back. "You never expressed any objections before." david commented casually. Levy gritted her teeth, "you must not have been listening." He sighed, "I'm only doing what's best for you, levy. You will go to law school but you can also get a minor in English if you want. And you will not dismiss laxus before you've had a chance to get to know him properly. He's a fine young man." That was it levy slammed her fist down on the table and stood up so abruptly that her chair nearly toppled over. No one tried to stop her as she stalked away to her room.
