Hey everyone!! So this is my new story I've been working on it for a time now but I took more time to finally upload it because my computer had a problem and I couldn't continue writing it. But lucky me, I got it fixed. I'll try to finish this one the faster I can so I can write the last few chapters for 'The Spotlight'. I know I haven't been able to put the new chapters because I kind of lost interest in it. I didn't like the way it was going but I but all of my ideas in order and I think I will be able to finish it. So I hope you like this one, and I know it's not like it never been seen here, on fanfiction, but I kind of got this idea and I tried to put it on paper. So finally, enjoy this first chapter and PLEASE leave a comment after read it. I will be appreciated a LOT! :D
I don't own any character except a few ones and of course, the story lines.
Fallen / Chapter 1 – The beginning
April 12, 1525
"Now what..."
That was her first though, turning around on her bed so she was lying on her side. She lay still when the knock on the door was repeated."Yes." She mumbled but loud enough so the person on the other side of the thick wood door could hear.
"Good morning, my lady."A young girl around the age of 16 said, doing a curtsy at the same time.
"Marie, how many times have I said to you to call me Speranza?" She said turning around on her bed so she could see the young Marie smiling at her.
"Would you like me to bring you some warm water so you could take a bath?" She asked Speranza while pushing farther back the curtain around the bed.
"Yes, please." She responded, closing her eyes at the sight of the sun evading her room."Is my mother back from her trip?" She asked, putting her robe that Marie was holding for her.
"No, my lady... Speranza." She quickly said, curtsying at her.
"And Vittore is he back?"
"Why do you ask my lady?" A voice said from the entrance of the room, making her to turn around. She smiled at the young handsome man standing against the door frame smiling.
"Vittore !" She said before running toward his waiting arms."I have miss you so much." She said to him, hugging while he turned her around.
"Me too, sister." He said, slowly putting her down.
"How was your trip?" Speranza asked him before following Marie's retrieving form with her eyes.
"It was great. We had the chance to stop in some villages before resuming our track on the road." He said, sitting on the chair near the fire."How about you? How have you been?"
"Dreadful. I have been trapped in these four walls for some time now." She said to him, sitting at her brother's feet so she could rest her head on his knee. Smiling down at her, Vittore took her soft dark hair and started playing with them."And why is that?"
"The weather as been very badly this spring. I had barely walked in the garden because of the rain, so I had to stay in, playing cards or reading poetry!" She looking up at him, making him chuckle.
"Oh sister, poor you." He said, resting a hand on her cheek making her pout. She was about to tell him something when there was a knock on the door.
"Come in." Said Vittore, helping his young sister stand up.
"The water is ready, my lady." An older woman told her, curtsying at them before walking out of the room.
"I will leave you then."He said, giving her a kiss of the forehead before he walked out of the room.
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March 5, 2010
"Hmm.."
She mumbled against her pillow, trying to not pay attention at the constant knock on the door.
"Come in." She said, sitting on her bed. She rubbed her eyes before she opened them, slightly jumping at the sight of Catherine, the housekeeper in front of her bed.
"Good morning Gabriella." She said to her with a smile, to which Gabriella replied with a groan."Come on Gabriella, wake up! You have to get ready before your grandma walks down to the diner room." She said pulling the cover away from Gabriella's body.
"Catherine!" She whined, moving into a fetus position, her eyes still closed.
"Gabriella, this is the last time I say it or I'll go grab a glass of cold-"She started to say but stopped with a smile.
"I'm up!" Gabriella half yelled, jumping out of her bed.
"Good." Replied Catherine before she walked out of her room. Letting out a breath, Gabriella slowly walked toward her window looking outside, spotting some gardeners between the plants of roses. Looking over her shoulder, she nodded slightly before walking into her walk-in-closet, picking out a t-shirt and jeans. Quickly putting her ballerinas, she ran down the stairs and into the diner room only to find Catherine putting the plates down. She was about to tell her something when the voice of grandmother, Lillian, getting closer to the room.
"That will be all William." She said entering the room with her head held high.
"Yes, madam." William said, before he stepped back, out of the room.
"Good morning grandmother." Gabriella said, holding the back of her chair.
"Good morning granddaughter." She said, smiling slightly at Gabriella, before sitting down at the head of the table.
"How did you sleep?" Gabriella asked her, like very morning while she sat down on her chair, at Lillian's left.
"Pretty well, thank you. How about yourself, my dear?"
"Good. Thank you." She replies, looking down at the bowl of cereal that Catherine just placed in front of her.
"Thank you." She mumbled to her before she picked her spoon up to her mouth.
Gabriella has been living with Lillian since the day she turned 14, when her parents died in a car accident. Being her, the only family left, she had to go live with her after Lillian asked and got her full custody of her. Now, at the age of 17, she was still leaving with her.
"Gabriella? Are you listening to me?" She heard Lillian voice said.
"I beg your pardon, grandmother?" She quickly said, looking at Lillian. Since the day she arrived there, Lillian started to teach her the good manners a young woman of her age should have, like she said to her quite a few times. Lillian looked at her before she once again spoke.
"Are you going out today?"
"Maybe. I don't quite know...yet." She said putting her spoon down.
"And why is that?" Lillian said, bringing her glass of fresh orange juice to her lips.
"If..."Gabriella said, biting the inside of her cheek.
"If?"
"If I feel like it."She quickly said, closing her eyes, waiting for her grandmother reply.
"Good enough. William will take you to the mall and you'll have to buy something and once you get home, you'll come show it to me." She said to her before she stood up.
"Take my coffee to my office. Good day, granddaughter." She said to her before she walked out of the room. Letting out a breath, Gabriella turned her spoon against the table before she stood up, walking up the stairs toward her room to get ready.
"Thanks Will." She said to the driver.
"Call me when you're ready, okay. I'll be here in a few minutes."
"Thanks." She said to him, with a side smile before she turned around and made her way to the entrance of the big mall, clutching her small Chanel bag. Pushing her sunglasses up, she turned to the left and quickly made her first stop in Macy's.
"What to buy..." She mumbled to herself, looking around, smiling at the young couples walking around the shop.
"Mom! Come see these shoes! They're amazing." She heard a girl said on her left, pulling her mother toward the shoes department.
"Shoes... A girl always needs shoes." Gabriella whispered to herself before she started walking toward the shoes racks.
After picking a few pairs of shoes, she walked out of the shop with 3 bags, mentally rolling her eyes, thinking about what her grandmother was able to make her do. She walked a few meters before she stopped near a bench, where she put her bags down for a moment while she called William.
"Are you ready?" She heard his voice say.
"Yeah."
"Okay, then. I'll be right there."
"Okay but I'll stop in a book store for a second."
"Don't worry. Take your time and I'll be waiting for you where I left you off."
"Okay. See ya." She said before pushing 'end call' button on her cell phone. Grabbing the bags she walked toward the book store and smiled at a few employers who smiled back at her.
"Hi!" Said one of the girls that were walking around the shop."Are you looking for something?"
"No, thanks. I'm just looking around."
"Perfect, just call me when you need information." She said before walking away from her.
Gabriella quickly walked toward the novel section and browse the racks full of books until she found 'Pride and Prejudice' between two books.
"Got it!" She said with a smile before she almost ran toward the cashier.
"What did you get?" William, asked her once he saw her walk toward the car."Here let me take those." He said taking all of her bags.
"Thanks. Just some shoes and a book but please don't tell Lillian!" She quickly said to him.
"About what? The shoes or the book?" He said to her with a smile.
"The book! Will. The book!" She said to her before she entered to the car, leaving a laughing William outside.
"You know I don't tell her when you go off buying books." He said to her, once he got inside the car.
"You better be." She said to him before she opened her new book and started reading the first page.
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