BlackLynx17: Almost done! One to two more chapters! Thank you Mendy fans for supporting me!
"Well?"
Wendy nose wiggles as she sniffs the air, "it has a nice scent."
"Really?" I start sniffing the air as well making her giggle, "I guess it does. So far, so good."
"Do we have a place to stay? Or are we going to have to find an inn somewhere?"
"I've called ahead and arranged a room for us. We should probably check in first and drop our stuff off, maybe even start exploring tomorrow morning."
"What? But we're finally here!"
"Yeah, after a long day of traveling. Have you forgotten I came straight here after a busy day from school and work? I'm exhausted."
Wendy grins and waves her hands in front of me, casting a spell I believe because the sinking feeling in my stomach disappeared and my back straightened up from slouching.
"There, you should feel more energized. Now come, let's go explore!"
"Fine, but inn first. I'm not draggin these suitcases everywhere around us."
"You should have said something earlier Doranbolt, here." Wendy says casting another smell.
Our two suitcases goes flying into the air and floats around us, Wendy holding her hand in mine as she leads the way.
"I forget you can do that... why didn't you remind me earlier?"
"I don't know... well, let's go!"
She grabs my hand and we start running into the city, her laughing carefree as we start running into people. They look at us like we're strangers, but not unwelcome. Wendy asks for directions and they generously tell us where to go, out inn being a comfy little place located in the heart of the city.
"Wow, it smells nice." Wendy sniffs.
I chuckle and hold the door open for us, grabbing our flying luggage out of the air as I walk to the counter looking for our rooms. Wendy's walking around like crazy looking and bothering every single little thing; if I don't get her out of here soon she's going to break something.
"Come on Wendy, I got our keys." I tell her.
"Hurry up Doranbolt! I'm hungry, I want to go eat!" She cheers heading after me down the hall.
I open up the door to our room and finally we're there; I don't even bother leaving our things somewhere nice and throw them wherever, falling down on my new bed for the week and sighing out.
"Doranbolt? What's this?"
"Our bedroom," I mutter.
She giggles, "no silly."
I groan as she jumps on top of me, "why are there two beds in the room? Don't we usually share one?"
"I didn't want to assume anything, so I got you one by yourself just in case."
"Hehehe, you're so silly Doranbolt. Well? Come on, are you ready to go?"
I roll around and wrap my arms around her, burying her in my chest as I lay on top of her, "five more minutes."
"Doranbolt! You're heavy! Stop that!" She giggles.
I grin and pretend to start snoring.
"DORANBOLT!"
She licks my chin and I pull back at her, leaning down to lick her cheek right back.
"Ew! That's gross!"
"You started it first Wendy!"
"Yeah, but I wasn't expecting you to fight back! Just to jump back and blush like I girl! What happened to my blushing Doranbolt?!"
I cuff her cheek in my hand and smile softly, "he's still here."
She looks at me and her cheeks turn a rosy color, "oh... hi Doranbolt."
"Hi Wendy."
"I... I love you," she mumbles quietly.
I chuckle lightly and lean down, kissing her gently, "I love you too."
"And since I love you... I guess I can let you rest for five minutes. Honestly, I think five minutes will do me some good too." Wendy relaxes.
I lay down next to her and hold her in my arms, pulling her even closer to me. How long have I dreamed about this? Being with her? Having her? Too long it felt. Too many restless dreams of yearning, but now... now I finally have her again and I won't let go until the very last second where she leaves.
"Doranbolt, this is boring." Wendy hums.
"Really? Picking out our new home to live in is boring to you?" I ask.
"Well it wasn't to begin with, but we haven't found anything good so now it is... let's go get some pizza."
"How about a deal? Five more and then I'll get you whatever you want."
"How about one?"
"Five."
"Two."
"We'll meet in the middle, three."
"Fine, but I'm expecting you to buy a lot of souvenirs now for our friends." Wendy pouts at me.
I start laughing, "deal."
"So, what are these three that we're going to look at now?"
"Well, ones up on a hill, one is near the river, and the last one is near the shopping district."
"Is there near the bakery?"
"Um," I look over the ads for apartments, "it could be?"
"If you're going to be dragging me to three more, why not to the best three there is?"
"Wendy, we did go to the best ones I found yesterday; you hated all of them."
"Oh yeah... those were really the best? Well then you must not know me at all! Let me see that newspaper, I'll pick us out the best three." Wendy says taking it from my hands.
I wrap my arms around her waist and steer her away from bumping into people as she opens it up and holds it to her face, having this adorable look as she tries to find something.
"What place do you want?"
"Somewhere quiet at night, but noisy during the day. I want to be able to see people, I don't like being completely on my own." She says.
So she's going to want to stay in the inner side of Magnolia, not near the outer walls, and probably a while away from the shopping districts. I know she hates waking up in the morning, so she isn't going to want noisy earlier in the mornings, but more like afternoons. I change our direction and start heading us away from the shopping district.
"It would be great if there was a bakery right next door! I would love living next to that! And also a garden; I mean, I'd want to have a garden in our home, and a pet too. You don't have a thing against cats, right? Ally and Anna came along to you, right?"
"Yeah, I'm fine with animals."
"Good, so it's going to need to be pet friendly. I'm lazy, so hopefully no stairs, but then again if I'm ever too tired you could just carry me up them."
I roll my eyes and snort at her. Magnolia is a really nice place. It's almost like Era... except probably better. The sights, the people, everything is so welcoming, so nice, so... accepting. To mages even, no one blinks an eye at us and there were even street performances with people using their magic. Wendy hasn't complained once about the food, and since she's actually looking for places with me that must mean she wants to live here... with me.
A couple of months ago I was just dreaming about this day, yearning for it to come where I could be with her. I was praying for this moment to happen and now that it's finally here... I can't believe it. She's with me right now, she's in my arms right now with me. These past couple of days have been heaven and I still have a couple of more to share with her before she leaves again. This time she'll have a home to return, a home that will always welcome her, a home that'll have me waiting there for her.
This place has to be perfect. If we're going to start our life together I want it to be perfect. I want it to be a home she'll miss, a home she'll yearn for, a place where she'll actually consider her home away from Fairy Tail. I don't want her settling for anything less, I want her to-
I stop making us walk and blink at the small little cottage right next to me. There's a tree in the middle of the yard with a very old and probably dangerous tire swing on it, poorly painted white fence covering the small light blue cottage with a white shutters and door. Roses are in bloom in front of the porch, red roses, a small stone path leading from the door down to the gate. What's the most interesting thing about this cottage right here, other than a house suddenly appearing in an apartment district, although I see more and more of them appearing if I look down the streets, is the fact that it has a for sale sign own.
"Wendy."
"Hmm?"
"I know we were looking for an apartment, but how does a house sound?"
"A house? Like an actual house here? Are you being serious? We don't even know if we like this place enough to buy a house and do we even have enough money to afford a house? What are you talking about?" She asks me.
"Look over there."
"Over that at wha-" she gasps lightly.
She takes a step forward and stands in front of the gate, her hands hovering over the door like she wants to open it up and get a better look. I look at the for sale sign again hoping it'll have any more information about who to talk to or way to go about buying it.
"This looks exactly like the house I was born in." Wendy whispers.
"Really?" I ask.
"Yeah, I mean I've only seen an old picture of the house I was born in, but it looked small like this with a swing set and garden. My grandma showed me it growing up, I always thought it was pretty cute house to grow up in."
"Then I guess that settles it, come on." I said opening the gate up.
"What? Doranbolt! What are you doing?!" Wendy calls behind me.
"Seeing if anyone is home," I tell her walking up the stone path.
I knock on the door and wait for someone to answer, looking behind me at Wendy still standing at the gate, one foot in, one foot out. I wave over towards her and she frowns, shaking her head. The door opens and face forward again, nodding my head lightly at the young woman who answers the door.
"Hello there miss, I'm sorry to be bothering you. I saw your for sale sign outside and was wondering if you would ask a couple of questions I have about the house and perhaps give me and my girlfriend a tour?" I ask.
"Oh! Yes! Of course! We've had that sign up for two weeks now, but you're the first person who has shown interest in it!"
"Ah! It must be fate then! My name is Doranbolt Gryder Miss and that girl back there is my girlfriend Wendy Marvell. Wendy! I'm going in the house! Are you coming or not?!" I call out to her.
Wendy runs over and hugs my arm, frowning lightly at me before she meets the woman's eyes and smiles.
"Hello Miss."
"Hello. My name is Lany, please come in."
I let Wendy walk in first before I close the door after us. The inside of the house looks even cuter than the outside, greenery decorated everywhere along the walls, as decorations, flowers on nearly every table and stand.
"Don't mind the mess please, I'll make us some tea." Lany says walking into the kitchen.
"It smells amazing in here," Wendy sniffs around.
"It looks amazing as well. In much better shape than the outside, it will require a little work, but it's not like we're rushing anything. Hmm, looks like the perfect spot to settle down and raise a family in."
Wendy turns around and blushes furiously, punching my in the stomach. I grown and hug myself.
"Wendy-"
"What in the world are you talking about Doranbolt?!" She hisses at me.
"Here we are, I hope everyone likes green tea." Lany says coming back with a tray.
I stumble my way over to the couch and sit down there, Wendy taking the seat all the way furthest from me.
"Can you tell us about the house?" I ask Lany as she hands me a cup of tea, "thank you."
"Sure, no problem. I'd say it's about fifty years old, may parents grew up in this house, my grandfather actually being the one to build it. Yes it's in a bit of rough shape, but it's really a trouper and everything works and runs well. It's the perfect little place for a young starting out couple like yourselves."
Wendy coughs into her tea and I chuckle a little bit to myself.
"Why are you selling the house? You sound like you really love it." Wendy asks.
"Well my husband's work is relocating him and we're going to have to move. Magnolia is such a nice and kind place, but I'm ready to see the other places out there. We both agreed it would be wisest to sell this home, especially since we're trying to start a family of our own."
"Really? Well good luck and congratulations on that!" Wendy cheers.
"Thank you. If you don't mind me asking, what do you two do for a living?"
"Well I work in the Grand Council in Era-"
"Wow, the Grand Council? That's amazing! My husband has gone on trips to Era before, he couldn't believe his eyes on such a successful and well nit community. That must be something to be proud of." Lany interrupts.
"Thanks," I smile at her.
"Why would you ever want to move from a happening place like that to this small little town?"
"Well like you said, I'm ready to see other places. My girlfriend here too isn't much of a big city person. Wendy's apart of a traveling circus of mages called Fairy Tail."
"Oh! I saw there performances once when I was just a little girl! Your circus used to come to Magnolia once a year, oh the memories! I knew that symbol on your shoulder looked familiar." Lany says.
"Really? I've only been in Fairy Tail for a couple of years now and we haven't toured in Magnolia for a while. I'll definitely have to tell the others back home, this place is really cool especially with all the food."
"Oh, you say the exact same things as my husband does! Well, if you two would like I could show you a tour of the place? So you know what you're getting yourselves into, hehehe." Lany giggles.
"That sounds wonderful." I tell her.
"Please and thank you." Wendy nods lightly.
"Well follow me then."
She really tries not to show it, but I can tell Wendy is amazed with everything that is around us. She's such a silly little girl. I have to say I'm interested as well when we get the full tour of the house. I can just imagine Wendy and I living here already. There's three rooms here, which is surprising for this small house, one could be our bedroom, the other a guest, the last one my office for when I decide to work at home. There's a kitchen here I'll be forced to cook all our meals since Wendy trying to good at our hotel ended up in a disaster. With a house we'll be able to have a pet, any type of pet, even a bear since the backyard is enormous. No stairs, no need to carry her up to the second floor, cute living room, the front yard was already amazing...
"We'll take it."
"Huh?"
"What?!" Wendy gaps out.
"I said we'll take the house."
"But- but I haven't even told you the price yet! Or when my husband and I will be moving out, or- or-"
"Minor details, we'll be taking this place. Thank you so much for showing it to us."
"Doranbolt, can I talk with you for a moment?" Wendy asks pulling me aside.
"Yes dear?" I ask her in the privacy of the next room.
"What on earth is going on with you? We haven't discussed anything, or even talked about how we're going to afford this place-"
"We've talked about living together, we came here to Magnolia talking about finding some place to live at, I saw the way your face lit up when she was talking about this place, and as for affording I don't think that concerns you since I'll be the one living here full time while you're off at Fairy Tail only visiting. I don't expect you to pay rent or anything at all like that Wendy."
"But- but- but-"
I leave no room for argument and kiss her forehead, "stop worrying about it. This is for us."
"It feels like you're only doing this for me though," Wendy pouts.
"Hey, I love this house as much as you do. I need a place to stay too, it just so happens I'm getting a place so you'll come back and visit me more often."
Wendy still pouting at me, but a smile is hidden there somewhere. She wraps her arms around me and pulls me close, burying her face in my chest.
"I love you a lot Doranbolt."
"I love you a lot too Wendy."
"Can we paint the house a bright pink though?" She asks me.
I start laughing and shake my head at her, "we'll see."