A little sneak peek of the newest story I’m trying out, thinking about calling it A Web of Flames. tell me what you think.
Gently, Lucy had shut her door behind her after getting home from school. Knowing that if she slammed it, her father might scream at her again. After losing some business moving here from Acalypha just a few months ago, her father was swamped with meeting after meeting trying to make that business up.
His attitude as getting worse and worse by the day.
Her escape was her laptop, letting the small device load up on her bed, she got herself comfortable in some pajamas; consisting of grey sweatpants with a pink stripe running down them and a pink tank top that hugged her curves but was still fully comfortable.
Seeing the home screen of her laptop gave her a slight bit of happiness. Clicking on the internet icon, it loaded to the same page she always visited, Fumblr. It was her main page she posted her stories, there were others, like fanficstory.net. she had to place them in other sites so more people see them.
Her brown eyes widened when she saw the many, many notes from people reblogging and commenting on their love for her newest chapter. She literally sat cross-legged on her bed and clapped in excitement, maybe even let out a quiet squeak.
Going to the search and typing in her favorite hashtag, Fairy Tail. It was her most favorite anime that is almost done with the English version of the anime. She wished it didn’t end so soon but it has been going on so long. Hopefully, she can find a new anime or manga to read.
That’s when her curser scrolled down to see some amazing art and funny incorrect quotes from the anime. Taking her time, she looked over some awesome one-shots of different ships and some not so great ones, you know not everyone can write but still, it’s what they want to do. Then she saw his name or his username.
Firedragonslayer.
He did these amazing drawings and edits of manga strips that just look so artsy and just…amazing. He was also very funny when he posted any status update or yelling at some other users like icedevilslayer and scarlettrequipmage and so many others. She even knew his name, which he has in his bio, Natsu. Well, she hoped that it was his real name.
It made her laugh and she, oh so, wanted to join in their banter but she was just so self-conscious of herself and what she might say to everyone. She wasn’t even following him because she was just so scared that he would find her weird.
“Lucy!” she heard a shout from the ground floor of her home.
Her blonde hair pulled up in a bun at the top of her head, almost falling out when she cautiously walked down the stairs to see her father standing at the front door with his business luggage with his hands in his pockets.
“Yes, father?” she quietly with her hands collected behind her back as she stood straighter as she has been told to do over the years.
He checked the time on his watch as he grabbed his bag with his other hand, “I’m going on a business trip for the next week. Stay home and just go to school. No friends over and no going anywhere else,” he stated, already trying to leave as he told her. Also, she didn’t even have friends to hang out with or have over.
She only nodded when he left out the door without a hug or a goodbye. Lucy let out a sigh and slugged her shoulders, slowly walking up the stairs back to her room. Her laptop in the same place on the page of Fumblr but saw a new note in her notifications.
Clicking on it, seeing that firedragonslayer had commented on one of her stories, which had never happened before; saying ‘first fanfic I read, and it is actually good’. Lucy squealed and wiggled her feet on her bed, causing her laptop to bounce and almost close if she didn’t catch it in time.
Lucy reblogged it with a short ‘Thank you so much, I really appreciate that’, and she really was. It really made her day and momentarily forgetting her father just left her alone for a week, at least she wouldn’t hear any yelling for a week.
She spent the rest of the day looking on Fumblr and trying to write a new one-shot at the same time. Lucy had her back leaning against the wall by her bed and her laptop laying her on her legs, per usual on a school night or any night for that matter. Then she got a private message from her favorite person on this site because she really felt like she could actually become real-life friends.
Her username was scriptmage, but her name was Levy. They talked occasionally about Fairy Tail and so many other animes, they even collabed on a story together. That was one of her most commented story on this site. Sometimes they would even text after they talked about giving each other each other’s number.
“Lu, you didn’t tell me that firedragonslayer commented on your story!” Levy told her with a picture of a girl screaming.
The blonde had to laugh, “It only happened like an hour ago, Lev! I’m still trying to comprehend that he even did,”
“Are you going to talk to him more?”
Her toes curled under her blanket in anxiety, she had told Levy about her small, tiny crush on Natsu and she doesn’t even know what he looks like but he’s just so funny and talented with art, it just made her heart jolt in her chest, “Isn’t that weird? I mean he didn’t make conversation with me at all,”
“Girl, you need to talk to him. I’ve heard he’s not that bad of a guy in real life,”
Lucy had tilted her head, “How do you know that?”
It was only a few moments of silence when she finally received a message from her, “I may be talking to his cousin,” and Lucy let out a slight chuckle, wondering how she even knew that this guy was Natsu’s cousin.
Her fingers typed up a message while still trying to contain her laughter, “Lev, I never knew you had a boyfriend,” she typed with winking emoji.
She could hear the slight gasp from the other side of her laptop even if they couldn’t see each other as Lucy opened up the message that simply read, “Lucy!” then a second message, “Guess dinner’s ready, I’ll talk to you tomorrow Lu!”
Now she was alone, in her house and in her social life. It made her upset that she only had one friend in real life and online. She only groaned while shutting her laptop and dropping herself under her covers, hopefully, she could make new friends at this new academy school. She tried to argue with her father about going to an all-girls’ school, but he wouldn’t have it, telling her that he didn’t want her around boys at all.
Well, maybe she was just destined to be alone for the rest of her life, just like her father wanted.
Covering herself to the tip of her nose with her wool blanket, she sighed through her nose and promptly fell asleep in her dark room in a dark and lonely house.
