Okay, first off this wouldn't be a oneshot.

Second, this story will not be my primary focus as The Last Scion of House Ordelia is STILL my focus.

Third, this story will be unlike most of my stories in the Three Houses fanbase that has a lot of angst injected in, this will generally be a lighthearted story.

Lastly, I love FelAnnie, this is like my second favorite ship in Three Houses after Bysithea so of course I HAVE TO WRITE something about them as well!

Fodlan, the land rife with strife and betrayal, a land with a bloody history since the beginning of time. Home to the many people that have stood the test of time, tyranny and corruption… it seems like a setting for a dark story set in a fantasy world which it is… actually…

Annette has read the book countless times, it was a best-seller and is still the most popular novel being sold in bookstores, a retelling of the land of Fodlan and its people if there are such things as magic, Crests and demonic beasts, what made it even more popular are the branching storylines it had, the first of its kind before other stories followed.

But that's enough about that book she loves, she had more pressing matters to worry about as she was about to be late for work!

"Oh gosh! Oh gosh!" Annette panicked as she sped out of the subway train after its sliding doors opened, being the first one to come out and bumping into a stranger along the way.

"Hey! Watch it!"

"I'M SORRY!" Annette apologized as she climbed up the stairs, clinging onto her shoulder bag to secure it and its precious contents.

Annette Fantine Dominic, 22 turning 23 soon in the month of the Harpstring Moon, a fresh graduate from the prestigious Garreg Mach University situated in the city of Garreg Mach, the central city of Fodlan where various cultures mixes. She found employment almost immediately in a company as an analyst after graduating, being recommended by Professor Hanneman immediately due to her dedication and hardwork.

"Why did I forget to set up my alarm today of all days?!" Annette murmured to herself, continuing to run towards the huge skyscraper in the city of Garreg Mach, the Fraldarius Corporation's main headquarters, a technological conglomerate that is responsible for the various technology of convenience that the people of Fodlan enjoys ranging from phones to computers and etc.

It was also Annette's workplace, having been employed in the company for almost four months after she graduated along with her roommate, Lysithea.

Annette couldn't blame anyone but herself for her current predicament, because last night, she went to a concert with her childhood friend: Mercedes, it was the concert of the hottest band in Fodlan right now, the Hey Arnaults led by Dorothea Arnault, the current number one singer in the trending charts in Fodlan. She along with Mercedes just couldn't miss the chance to see her idol perform live on stage for the first time.

Now, she's reaping what she has sown as she forgot to set her alarm with all the excitement and exhaustion she felt last night, waking up with barely an hour before her work schedule. What makes her situation worse than it is, is because of the huge presentation she's scheduled to show to the CEO and board of the company, a presentation that she thoroughly finished before the concert day yet it is at risk for her being late.

Entering the corporate building, she was greeted by the guard who inspects and greets anyone who comes in to the building.

"Greetings, Ms. Dominic-"

Annette ignored the guard after flashing her employee ID, opting to rush towards the closing steel doors of the elevator she immediately caught sight on after entering.

"Please hold it!" Annette shouted out at the sole inhabitant of the closing elevator, wishing the person heard her and had the heart to prevent the doors from closing.

Her wish was immediately granted as the elevator doors opened, she breathed out a sigh of relief as she entered the elevator, breathing out a raspy thank you to the man who was considerate enough to hold the door for her.

Feeling the warm sweat rushing down her silky skin, Annette took out a sky blue colored handkerchief from her bag, wiping off any evident sweat from her face and neck to make herself look even more presentable for later as the elevator rose from floor to floor. She also winced in slight pain after feeling the strain on her feet, a consequence for running with her heels on.

Annette then took out her phone, made by the same company she works in, to check the time and smiled triumphantly as she realized she still have five more minutes before the scheduled presentation, that was enough time for her to freshen up and be even more ready.

"Okay Annie, you got this." Annette motivated herself, cheering herself up for the big moment. This wasn't her first presentation after being employed into the company but this has to be her biggest one yet as a representative of the partner company of Fraldarius Corp., Gautier Tech, is present as well.

Annette anxiously waited as the digital display of the elevator shows the floors they are passing by, she wished no one pressed a button to one of the flavors preceding the one she was going to, to prevent any precious second being wasted.

Her wish was once again granted but there was something much worse that awaited Annette's fate in that moment., the price to pay for two wishes being granted.

The elevator abruptly stopped, Annette keeled over to the control panel of the elevator while the man with her was lucky enough to lean his back on the elevator's metallic walls as the lights of the elevator turned off, encasing them in complete darkness.

Annette managed to recover, touching her hip that hit the wall hard.

"Oww…" She moaned in pain before the man with her in the elevator turned on the flashlight of his phone and flashed it at her.

"You alright?" Said a cool and collected voice as he continued flashing the light towards Annette, the girl blinked repeatedly due to the brightness of the light which the man immediately shifted down his phone.

"Sorry." He apologized before offering her a hand to stand up, Annette still couldn't see through the darkness who her mysterious aider for two times now, looks like.

Annette shook her head as her only source of light pointed down at the elevator floor.

"It's alright and thank you."

Despite having no visibility, she could feel that the man nodded at her thanks.

"Looks like power went off." The voice pointed out the obvious. "What a bother." He sighed irritably.

But Annette had a more pressing matter to worry about, she was beginning to panic.

"Oh no… this can't be happening… this can't be happening…" She repeated, getting more and more frantic.

"Calm down, they'll turn on the backup generators soon." The voice tried to assure her but Annette wasn't having any of it.

"Easy for you to say!" She snapped at the man. "I have an important presentation for Mr. Fraldarius and the representative of Gautier Tech! Oh, if only I didn't forget to set my alarm after all that excitement from watching the Hey Arnaults live!- I could lose my job!"

The voice sighed in exasperation at the panicked girl.

"Look, even if you did get on that meeting in time, you won't be able to present anything due to the power running out-" The voice paused for a while before shrugging in the darkness. "You know what? Panic all you want, I'll just listen in to my music rather than listen to you prattle incessantly."

With the limited lighting, Annette could see the man took out his earphones from his pants' pockets before attaching them to his phone, he promptly turned off the flashlight of his phone before pressing on the remote controls in his earphones to play something to block out any noise.

Annette sighed, trying to calm herself down from her dilemma, she considered the man's words to her, weighing down the logic before composing herself.

"Alright Annie, calm down… just remember what to do when you're in a dilemma." She murmured to herself, eyeing the man behind her who she could see scrolling down at his phone's screen with his thumb, still listening to his own music while ignoring her.

The bubbly girl decided to perform her own confidence boosting ritual she came up with, singing any song that comes to mind to channel out any negative emotion and in some way, reassure herself everything would be fine.

Annette took a deep breath before beginning a soft hum.

"Today's dinner is steak and then a cake that's yummy yum... Now it's time to fill my tummy tummy tum…" Annette sang with her left hand on her chest.

"Oh, this mountain of sweets, and treats that I long to eats…" She continued singing the bizarre lyrics she came up with by herself. "Oh, stacks of steaks and cakes and crumbs and yums…!"

Annette released a satisfied sigh, her ritual worked, she felt more at ease now compared to earlier, she gained her confidence back like she always does and she could feel like she could take on anything that comes her way.

"You know…" Annette froze as the man behind her suddenly spoke. "You have a nice voice but your lyrics are… for lack of a better term, weird."

Like ice, Annette felt like she was shattered by a strong blow after realizing that the man she was stuck with in the total darkness of the elevator heard everything she just sang.

"B-But I-I thought you were l-listeni-"

"My earphones were busted." The man responded as if knowing what the girl was trying to say.

"Still though, nice voice." The man complimented, unaware of the various levels of red color that was rising up in Annette's face. "Not as beautiful as the Hey Arnaults but still quite soothing… the lyrics… I cannot actually say… I like steaks but I can't say the same for those cakes you mentioned, stacks of them apparently."

Annette stared at the darkness at where the man is supposedly at, her mouth agape with shock as waves upon waves of emotions washed over here, the feeling of humiliation being the chief one.

"Are you alright?"

"YOU'RE EVIL!"

Just as she shouted at the man, the lights in the elevator turned on and the elevator began to function as it was, Annette finally saw who the mystery man was as the light shined on him.

He had navy blue hair tied upwards into a short ponytail, his sharp-shaped copper colored eyes stared at her wide blue eyes and lastly, there were notable crease lines on the area between his eye sockets and nose. He looked very similar to someone she knew, yet different at the same time.

The man raised an eyebrow at the sudden label being thrown at him.

"And you're shouting."

"You think you're so funny? Eavesdropping on someone singing? Mocking my singing?!" Annette ranted out as she lost all semblance of control to the feeling of embarrassment that is now overwhelming every aspect of her body.

"I wasn't eavesdropping… you just started singing in an enclosed area with someone else and you expect he wouldn't hear it? You have quite the logic there."

Just before anything else is said and done, the elevator's digital bell rung to signal Annette that she has reached her floor.

"YOU ARE THE WORST!" Annette shouted out at him before taking her leave, nearly stumbling due to her heels as she exited the elevator, leaving her companion in the elevator all by his lonesome.

"Huh. What was that about?"

Annette desperately tried to erase the recent embarrassing memory in her mind as she went to the conference room where she would hold her presentation with the most important people in the company, she couldn't afford such a setback to constantly bother her.

She needed to succeed in this presentation in order to boost her performance in the company and she didn't want to disappoint Mr. Fraldarius.

"Oh Annette! Come in!" Rodrigue Achille Fraldarius, CEO and majority shareholder of Fraldarius Corp. greeted her with a smile.

Annette gave him a nod before coming near the projector screen that was prepared at the center just a distance away from the long table that seated the most important people in the company as well as the representative sent by Gautier Tech.

"Were you alright? The power went out for a bit earlier." Rodrigue asked Annette out of concern which the latter smiled at him.

"I'm quite alright Mr. Fraldarius, I was just worried earlier that I might be late due to getting stuck in the elevator." Annette reassured the older man.

Rodrigue smiled at the girl once more. "We will begin shortly, come and get the presentation ready."

Annette did what her boss told her to do so with an enthusiastic smile, retaining her usual enthusiasm that Rodrigue appreciated as she felt relieved that her worries of being late earlier were for naught.

As Annette prepared, she didn't notice the conference room acquired another inhabitant that Rodrigue welcomed in, the latest entry sat down at the farthest chair in the long table just beside Rodrigue's seat as Annette turned around to face the CEO, the board of directors and the Gautier Tech representative with her cheerful and enthusiastic smile.

Only for her trademark smile to falter when she realized that the man from the elevator earlier was inside the room and eyeing her with those copper eyes of his.

"Annette? Are you alright?"

Annette snapped out of her stupor when Rodrigue worriedly called out for her.

"O-Oh! I-I'm sorry about t-that!" She stuttered an apology as she finally began her presentation.

To say that she delivered the presentation well in front of the most important people in the company was an overstatement, she kept stuttering as she presented her well-researched and thought out data towards the people by the long table, she kept stealing glances at the man she was with in the elevator who silently watched her with a solemn expression.

"I will relay what I learned to Mr. Gautier, Mr. Fraldarius. I am confident he would find such a project to be satisfactory." The representative of Gautier Tech affirmed his words with a handshake with Rodrigue before being the last one to leave the room before Annette and Rodrigue.

"Annette."

Annette squeaked out in surprise at Rodrigue's call, she immediately turned around to face her boss before bowing down repeatedly.

"I-I'm sorry Mr. Fraldarius!" She immediately apologized.

Rodrigue raised an eyebrow before smiling at the bowing girl.

"Annette, it's quite alright. You don't have to apologize-"

"I p-panicked when I shouldn't have! I could have delivered that far better than I should have yet I-I- ooooh I ruined it didn't I?" Annette frantically explained as Rodrigue looked on in concern.

"Annette!" Rodrigue exclaimed, exerting his voice of authority before placing a hand on Annette's shoulder to reassure her better.

"I told you it is alright, the representative found it to his liking and I have you and your analysis to thank for that. Now, no more of your perceived failure… alright?"

Annette looked up to see the CEO of Fraldarius Corp. smiling warmly at her, assuring her and calming her nerves down as Rodrigue withdrew his hand from her shoulder.

"It is unusual though…" A man resembling Rodrigue but on a younger scale said as he approached the two, the resemblance of the man to Rodrigue was uncanny besides the slightly shorter wavy hair and the lack of facial hair that graced the area beside Rodrigue's mouth.

"You aren't the type to lose your composure considering how you have been nothing but stellar in your presentations in the past." The man bearing most of Rodrigue's image continued.

Annette bowed down in apology.

"Mr. Fraldarius, I-"

"Glenn. I told you to call me by my name in my father's presence, it gets confusing when you refer to us both as Mr. Fraldarius." Glenn reminded her.

"S-Sorry ummm… G-Glenn." She stuttered, feeling that calling her boss' son and the president of the company so casually, inappropriate.

Glenn Fraldarius slightly smiled at her.

"Again, as the old man said." Rodrigue gave his son a look on how he referred to him but Glenn ignored him.

"You did well regardless. Pat yourself on the back from time to time." Glenn finished which had the intended effect of cheering up the promising rookie employee.

Annette found her trademark smile returning, much to Rodrigue and Glenn's relief, both were concerned for Annette's unusual behavior more than the presentation itself when she began, seeing the smile that she is known for by others returning was a welcome sight.

Rodrigue then clapped his arms together. "Now that's out of the way, I want to introduce you to someone."

Annette raised her eyebrows in question but before she can ask, Glenn moved to his side to reveal the man in the elevator earlier, standing behind him and Rodrigue all this time.

"Annette, I would like you to meet my second son, Felix Hugo Fraldarius." Rodrigue presented Felix, Annette's eyes widened more and more than it could ever do as the revelation dawned on her.

Glenn smirked at his little brother and ruffled his ponytailed hair with his left hand.

"He's a bit rough, cold and callous but he's a good boy." Glenn remarked as he continued ruffling his brother's hair before Felix shoved his hand away in annoyance.

"Once you get to know him, he's just like a kitten who'll stick by you."

Contrary to how Glenn described him, Felix snarled irritably at his older brother for how he treated him in front of Annette, reminding the girl of a hissing cat upon witnessing the exchange.

Rodrigue sighed at his two sons before facing Annette.

"He'll be your supervisor starting today and as such, will report to him. I do hope you two will get along as you do with most." Rodrigue said with confidence after witnessing how the rookie was a team player as well as the office sweetheart of the department she's part of.

Annette felt like her world started to crash down. Did she hear right? Did Rodrigue just say that this man, Felix, would be her direct superior?

"Do get along with him, will you Annette? He'll start purring at you in no time." Glenn teased as Felix shoved Glenn away from him.

Rodrigue took a deep breath once again. "I'll leave you two to get acquainted. Glenn, I want to talk to you about-"

Glenn and Rodrigue's exchange faded as they left the conference room together to leave Felix and Annette alone in the room together, mirroring nearly the same situation they had in the elevator earlier.

Felix watched as his father and brother left his sight, Annette could only stare at Felix with wide eyes and her mouth hanging open as the horrible new reality slowly dawned on her.

Annette tensed as Felix finally shifted his gaze to her, seeing her stupefied face replaced the irritated scowl he previously had with that of a smug smirk almost immediately.

"Now… who were you calling evil back in the elevator… Ms. Dominic?"

Annette wanted to scream in that moment.

And with that, this story is my personal palate cleanser for the angst-filled stories I write from time to time. I need my fix of fluff (why does that sound like a drug?) too and reading other stories isn't enough to rid me of my self-inflicted pain in writing stories like Forlorn Feelings!

I do hope you guys enjoy this light-hearted story!

Now for the credits:

Huge thanks again to Lazy Raichu and Ruri for helping me out with my ideas!

Huge thanks to the people of the FelAnnie discord for also giving me ideas and their thoughts when I present concepts and stuff in the channel!

Thanks to Reem for allowing me to borrow her stuck in an elevator modern AU prompt that she shared in the server, without her, this story wouldn't have been conceived!

Thanks to Si67 for suggesting the title of this story!

Thanks to Bia for helping out with helping me figure out how Glenn would look like!

And finally, huge thanks to Kroissant for being my inspiration in writing this fluff story about FelAnnie and for her contribution to the pairing!

Love you guys! Stay cool!