Perfect life, living hell
Farra Matani is a women who lives an ideal life. She has a big apartment, a perfect job, and a great family to share it with. But as Farra will learn the hard way, nothing stays perfect...
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Hello readers, i want to let you know that this is my first Fanfic so please send comments on each chapter as the story unfolds before you.
All paranoia agent fans i hope you all enjoy my story and that it'll do the show justice, please comment.
(Also i'd like to state that i do not own the anime show "Paranoia Agent" i do not own little slugger or any of the other original characters, but i did make up the other characters in the story you are about to read.)
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chapter 1: Begining
Farra sat in her car waiting to pick up her darling children from school. It was a cool fall evening and the city sky was an enlightening color, a mixture of orange, purple, and red with a splash of pink. Every side walk was lined with trees that looked as if they were engulfed with delicate flames that danced grace fully in the breeze. As much as she loved her life in its comforting simplicity she enjoyed moments like this, just sitting back and soaking in the city streets calm state before rush hour.
She has been sitting in her car for a while enjoying this silent moment away. For about a half an hour she slipped in and out of a drousy sleepy state. After some time she allowed herself to fall into a light nap. A dream she usually has of faint scenes of her life and people she knew played in her head, its usually a cheery dream of happy memories. But this time it was more along the lines of a horrid nightmare of terrible things, that she couldnt remember ever happening. She saw her shop getting demolished with her husband screaming through the window. Then a blurred out figure appeared at the scene for a second and as fast as it came it was gone. This vision of horror replayed in her head three times before the figure rolled away.
At that moment she heard a faint pounding in the distance getting louder as the horrible scene grew fainter. She soon came back to full consciousness, but the punding was still heard. Her kids were standing outside of her car knocking on the window. opening the door she looked at the clock to see that forty five minutes or so had passed since she fell asleep. She couldnt believe the dream she had, it was horrifying to see her husband with such a look of fear in his eyes.
"what happened mom you never fall asleep waiting for us to get out of school",her youngest daughter Lee questioned.
" Im a little tired today for some reason, but not to worry im fine", Farra responded. Not able to think of anything else but the horrible dream she just had.
"I cant wait to go to the shop to day I want to work on the book of the week display",her other daughter Jen commented.
"You did it last week, its my turn", Lee argued.
"Girls whats so special about this weeks book to get you to want to do that job. You usually hate doing the book displays" Farah questioned her daughters exitement.
" This week my favorite authors new book is coming out. Ben Gerale, he wrote a new book about the life of girl whos parents died and their murderer is after her because she saw his face the night he killed them, and how she gets away from him. Its called 'Remembering a Face' and i have to read it",Jen explained.
"And its not that I like that job, its just better than writing the deli specials",Lee reasoned.
"Okay how about this, Jen does the book display, Lee lights up the jewlery counter and I will write the deli specials", Farra concluded.
As they reached their store, her comforting feeling grew back to the state of joy she reached when she sat in the car earlier that day. the three piled out of the car, and Farra opened the door to the store and turned on the lights. Every one got on their jobs right as they walked in.
Jen quickly got started on the book display in the window area. Her heart jumped when she picked up a copy of the book she has been waiting half of a year to get. She sat to the side of the display, and started on the first chapter of the story.
Lee went behind the dull lighten jewlery area, and dissapeared behind the counter for about five minutes. and finally reached the light controlls. Something made a loud click and the entire counter light up. She whent down to the cuboards and came back up with a box filled with decorative jewls and beaded neclaces. She started to dress the jewlery holders with the breath taking rings, bracelets, and neclaces.
As farra started to write the specials she heard the chimes in the front of the store. She set down her marker and walked to the front of the store.
"Welcome to our humble little store may we help you with anything", she said to the man who walked in. He was a tall plump man in a slightly wrinkled black siut with a red neck tie that was slightly loosened. Seeing this man walk in to their little shop made jen move quickly and swiftly twoard the back of the store. He gave her chills when he entered the door way.
"Good day, my name is John Tigra, im here to confront you with business concerning the ownership of the store. My employer Louis silvering has bough out your shop and now is in ownership", He said as he walked out the door.
"Excuse me sir but this cant be true. This store has been in my family for generations, and my accuntants assured me that it will stay in my family long enough for my daughter's children to run it" Farra said.
"I'm sorry to say that my boss has bought it out "John said in a voice that revealed how not sorry he was ", But im even more sad to have to tell you what he plans to do to your shop, he is planning to demolish this shop in order to put in a parking lot", his tone had not changed since before he handed Farra a copy of the ownership papers, then he left without another word.
Hearing this horrible news made her remember the dream she had earlier that day the scene replayed in her head. The sadness of her husband and the horrible sight of her shop she worked so hard on over the years getting chrushed into gravel.
"Mom are you okay, what did that man want?", Lee questioned as she walked up the stores man aisle.
Farra snapped back to reality, and looked around the room seeing the shop in its glory. Did that really just happen is it possible that her beloved store, the family business, was going to be taken away from her, from her family, and how was she going to tell her kids let alone her husband the news.
" I think we should go home early today we need to have a family meeting", she calmly announced heading for the door. As they left the phone began to ring. "Let the answering machine get it I want to just get home today i have something to tell you all", she announced in a sad tone.
as they left the store she whinced at the sight of bull dozers parked outside the store.