Disclaimer: I own nothing except for Allie. Everything else is C.S. Lewis's.
Note: Everyone's older in this story. Lucy is fourteen, Edmund is sixteen, Susan is seventeen and Peter is eighteen.
My firstfic…Here goes!
Once Upon a Depression
Shouts rang out from the first floor of a large colonial house. A husband and wife were yelling at each other, filling the house with cursing and screaming. The argument had started over a small dent in the car and had bloomed to a shouting match, both now angry because of two different things.
15-year-old Alexis Scottson quietly closed the bathroom door and locked it. She hated when her parents argued with each other, which was more often that not. She had no doubt that they would soon be divorced, and she would be bouncing between two different lives.
Allie turned on the faucet in the tub and let it fill up with hot water. She could still hear her parents through the door, even over the running faucet.
While the bathtub was filling up, she leaned against the sink and stared at her reflection in the mirror. She was nothing special. Wavy brown hair that reached her mid-back was pulled into a pony-tail and her large brown eyes, thin, pale lips and fairly large and pointy nose added to her plain-looking appearance. She was average height for her age and was a bit gangly. Her parents always told her that she was beautiful, but of course they would say that; they were her parents. Parents tell you stuff like that to boost your self-esteem. Not that Allie had very high self-esteem anyway.
She desperately wished she had a sibling. Preferably a sister. Someone to talk to whenever she needed it, someone to give her advice and comfort, someone to help her through problems. She never dared to ask her parents for anything, because they always seemed to get worked up about things and were always stressed out.
What I would give to get away from this world, she thought miserably.
Turning off the water, she slipped into the bathtub without getting undressed. Closing her eyes, she dunked her head under the water and attempted to wash away all her troubles, all her problems, all her sins.