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Charla couldn't remember the last time she was up like this. She was tired, but she couldn't bring herself to go to sleep. Her eyes burning was a nasty reminder of her lack of rest every time she closed her eyes. But even with the comfort of the sheets beneath her and the warm embrace of the girl next to her she couldn't stop her mind from racing long enough to keep them closed. She wanted to blame her wakeness on the storm that had been going on for the better part of the night, if she was home she wouldn't have hesitated to run to her mothers bed for safety. She would always wake up with Lector and Frosch squeezed between them and Happy fast asleep at the foot of the bed. If her father were here she didn't even have to run to him, he would could climb in her bed and read her stories until she fell asleep, it was a funny thing to wake up to seeing her big strong father covered in princess sheets and surrounded by stuff animals. She always suspected that her father hated thunderstorms too, he always looked as uncomfortable as her when lighting would light up the sky and a crash of thunder would shake the room. But he would never say anything about it, he never scolded her for having such an irrational fear at her age. He assured her she would get over it at her own pace, and until then it was his job to chase her fears away the best he could.

But, right now her father was gone, and she was feeling all alone. She tried to be a big girl, she told herself she wasn't going to cry over something as a little weather and missing her family. The storm would pass eventually, and she could just sleep then. If anyone bothered her in the morning she would just tell them to go away and spend the day hugging the pillow her father left. And missing her family was her own fault, just thinking about it made it feel like she had a heavy weight on her chest, and she had to remind herself for the countless time tonight that she wasn't going to cry. Charla knew she was selfish, a brat even, she knew what people said about her and a lot of the time she was in denial about it. But this time she knew it was all her fault, she was the who begged and pleaded and cried when it was time for her to go home. She wasn't ready to leave the Ice Kingdom yet, she wanted to spend more time with Wendy and Levy, she wasn't done with being treated like a princess and receiving nice things just because she asked for it. She didn't care if it meant she would have to stay here another four months, or that it would be another three until she saw her mother again.

Charla never thought about the fact she would be missing her mothers birthday, or Frosch's first day of school. Or going to the summer festival where Gajeel always won her a stuffed toy and her and Lector would ride the Ferris wheel together. She even missed Happy, he was always so nice to her, even though she found some of the things he did annoying most of the time, she still missed his smiling face. She wasn't crying, it definitely had to be raining inside, she wiped the stray tear off of her face and tried to control her breathing. She didn't want to wake up the girl next to her, especially since it was Charla's fault that she was responsible in the first place. It wasn't until after her father left did Wendy mention that Levy had been really sad lately, she never mentioned why and Charla never even noticed herself until she saw Levy with tears in her eyes one day when she thought no one was looking. Charla felt like an even worse person after that, because she wanted to stay Levy was forced to volunteer to take care of her. She never said she minded, but some days her masked a little more than others and Charla couldn't help to think that it was all of her fault.

If it wasn't for the storm she never would have sneaked into Levy's room, she stood outside her door hugging her fathers pillow debating on what to do until another crash of thunder sent her racing into the other girls room. Even when she was half asleep Levy was still pretty in a way Charla could only wish to be, she hadn't bothered to braid her hair tonight and even in the dark the color of her hair reminded her of a waterfall with the way it pooled on her pillow, and it made Charla want to grow her hair out. She wondered if she would look more like her mother that way, people raved about her mothers beauty all the time, but when it came to Charla they just usually mentioned what a brat she was. Happy thought she was pretty, he told her that all the time, and even Gajeel said she was cute, it was usually when she was yelling at him and he would ruffle her hair and tease her until she was red in the face. But she had never once been called beautiful. Wendy was beautiful, Levy was too, Charla wondered if it was a princess thing.

Levy wasn't the first princess she met, Gajeel usually recruited her on whatever date he was forced to go on, and they were usually so snotty and bratty that Gajeel would be so annoyed that he would end up ignoring the girl and hanging out with Charla until it was over. Levy was the first princess she met that was actually like the ones in stories, she liked to read books like Belle and it made Charla laugh when she imagined her and Gajeel as Beauty and the Beast. She was nice to everyone she met and Charla wondered if Levy actually learned how to be a Princess from the same books she read as a child. Levy didn't hesitate to wrap her arms around Charla when she climbed into her bed, Charla noticed the pillow they were laying on was wet but she never said anything about it. She was already intruding into Levy's room and her life, it really wasn't her right to ask her how long she had been crying herself to sleep or why.

Charla was almost asleep when she felt the bed dip behind her, Levy had rolled to the other end of the bed hours ago, and Charla was glad that Levy had a bed big enough to fit the three of them comfortably. "You couldn't sleep either?" She hadn't told anyone about her fear of thunderstorms but Charla didn't think she hid it well, one time her and Wendy were out on a picnic and Charla ended up putting her hands over her ears until she was safe in her fathers arms. She knew Wendy wasn't afraid of such of thing, it stormed like this in the Ice Kingdom often this time of year and she witnessed Levy and Wendy playing in the rain until they soaked through their dresses and Jellal made them come in. "Is she asleep?" Charla nodded she wasn't the best at whispering and she was doing her best not to wake Levy up a second time. Wendy slid in beside her and as if she could read her mind she wrapped her arms around Charla and told her it will be alright. " I'm glad you're still here Charla, you're my best friend, and I would have been really sad if you would have had to leave so soon."

Charla couldn't help but smile at that, she didn't have many friends at home and girls her age didn't like her. "I love you too Wendy. And I wish you could come home with me. We would spend every day together like we do now, you could meet my mom, I'm sure she would like you a lot. And Happy, and Lector, and Frosch. Even Gajeel will love you since he's going to be your new brother and we could go to school together and have fun. You wouldn't even have to miss Levy, I would share my room with you and we could visit the palace as much as we want."

"I would like that a lot."

Levy wasn't eavesdropping, it wasn't her fault the two younger girls decided to have this conversation in her bed in the middle of the night. She woke up the minute she felt Wendy crawl in her bed and it was hard to sleep with all of their giggles, but she didn't mind listening to their hopes for the future. Levy never planned on leaving Wendy here, she loved her brother but she didn't think she could leave her baby sister all alone. She didn't remember much about when Wendy was born, but she knew she had been taking care of her as long as she could remember, teaching her to walk and talk and read. Now she was almost as tall as Levy, but she still didn't think she could live without her for the rest of her life. Levy had already cried herself out tonight, if it wasn't for Charla she probably would have done it until she gave herself a headache, but comforting the younger girl helped make her feel a little bit better. "You and the prince are friends right? Will you tell me what he's like?" The question made a lump form in her throat, she had purposely been avoiding every conversation about her fiance because knowing about him would make things feel real. But, she couldn't exactly run out of her room in the middle of the night when she was pretending to be asleep. Levy did her best to keep her breathing steady when Charla started talking.

"Well, there's actually four of them. Sting and Rogue are the youngest, even though they're twins they don't look alike. They're around our age and they love to cause trouble. They like to hang out with Lector and Frosch so they're always at my house, but they thing girls are gross so they don't really spend that much time with me." Levy knew she was gaining three brothers, but she didn't know much about them, she didn't even know that the youngest two were twins, but apparently they were going to be a handful and she wondered if they were going to dislike her just because she was a girl. Not to mention the fact she was marrying their brother, she was just going to assume there was going to be pranks involved and was hoping for the best of things. She recognized the names of two of the children Lily mentioned he had been fostering over the years, he said him and his wife were having a hard time adopting them because they didn't have records and there was still a chance that someone would come looking for them one day.

"Natsu is the second oldest, he's a little bit older than Levy, but a lot of the time he acts like a little kid. He's really nice, but a lot of people think he's kinda stupid. My dad says he only acts like that, and he's actually really smart. He has a lot of friends and he's always doing something he shouldn't but Hess best friends with Happy even though Hess older than him. Natsu has pink hair, and its natural, he used to get into a lot of fights when he was younger because people would make fun of it. But Gajeel would beat them up and tell them how stupid they were when Natsu wasn't around, one year Gajeel dyed his hair pink to match Natsu's and everyone was too afraid to make fun of Gajeel so they stopped." Levy heard Wendy giggle, but she wasn't sure how she felt about that. It was obvious that Gajeel really cared about his brother to go through lengths like that, but also solving your problems wasn't the best thing, but it got the job done. It made her think of Juvia, her sister never hesitated to slap anyone who said something about her or Wendy. Juvia was a passionate person and Levy wondered if Gajeel was going to remind her of Juvia.

"Gajeel's one of my best friends. A lot of people think he's mean because he's kind of quiet, but he's only ever been nice to me." Levy listened to the story of how Gajeel bought Charla every rose in the Kingdom for her birthday, or how he was always sneaking her gifts when she was sad, and Levy was happy to hear that Gajeel at least sounded like a good person. "He kind of has a bad temper though, he gets mad pretty easily, but a lot of the stuff that makes him mad would upset me too." Levy wasn't sure what to think about that either, would he lose his temper with her a lot? She hoped not, on paper Levy knew how to be a wife, but in execution she couldn't help but think she would fail. Hopefully he would be patient with her in the beginning, she was a fast learner and hopefully Charla could convince him to be nice, even though she would never ask her for that.

"He's really protective of the people he loves, one time there was a Princess from another Kingdom and she was really mean to me. Gajeel always invites me to hangout when he has company because he says they're boring, but she really didn't like me being there. So she said a lot of mean things when Gajeel wasn't looking to try to make me go away. But Gajeel wanted me to stay so I did, she got mad that I was holding his hand and he wouldn't hold hers. She was really jealous of me because Gajeel was giving me all of his attention, but all Jenny wanted to talk about is like money and clothes and how pretty she was so we both got really bored." Levy could understand how boring it could be getting stuck entertaining a person who only had an interest in your title, she couldn't even count all the dinners she had went to where the men either talked about her becoming one of their many wives. Or they just talked to her about material things because Jellal was busy and they thought she was stupid. Levy would occasionally get bored enough to correct their numbers on the figures they were talking about, or listen to them talk about her in a language they thought she didn't know. At the end of their conversation she would excuse herself fluently in whatever language they were speaking and smile to herself about how white they turned.

"When Gajeel went to go get us food, Jenny stomped on my tail and told me if I didn't go away she would deport my family when she was Queen. I wanted to claw her eyes out, but Gajeel wouldn't let me. Other girls had been mean to me before because they wanted to get close to Gajeel, but not as bad as her. Gajeel told her she had one chance to apologize, but she pretended like she didn't know what he was talking about and called me a lying brat. So he stepped on the back of her dress and made her fall in a fountain." Levy could hear both girls giggle about Gajeel's version of justice, and she could imagine that it was a sight to see. Being a princess, you were dressed in your finest clothes during outings and if she was doing her best to try and impress Gajeel she must have been dressed to the nines. Most of the times the dresses were so heavy it was hard to walk, and her ending up soaked had to be miserable. "It was so funny! She looked like a wet dog, and all of her makeup started to melt off and it took three guards to pull her out. Gajeel's mom was really mad about it, but he just winked at me and told me I was the most important girl in his life." Levy could only wonder which Gajeel she was going to meet, the sweet one who loved Charle and took care of his brothers, or the temper-mental who took justice into his own hands whenever he felt the need. She fell asleep wondering what their first meeting would be like, she just really hoped that he wouldn't get the urge to push her into a fountain.

There was another part to this chapter, but its twice as long, and I'm lazy and don't want to edit it. So I'm just making it a whole new one. Sorry for the wait, and thank you for reading. -Love Chesxca

Also if you follow me on Tumblr I will be stitching over to a new one soon, It's Chesxca-c instead of Chesxca now and Idk how long I'm going to have access to the old one.