Nice to meet you, your majesty
The rain ran rapidly down the windows, Angelbelle was looking out at the grey city around the apartment building.
It had been raining constantly for the past week, not that anybody cared. Everyone was busy trying to find out more about the portal that had opened a month ago, on the outskirts of town.
No one really knew where the portal led to, and the government was keeping quite. It was very unnerving, not knowing what was going to happen.
Rumours had it that a creature had walked through the portal, but government officials had taking it to a closed off facility.
These rumours had resulted in people talking about the Others, since no one knew their species name, it just became the Others.
Another living lifeform, we are no longer alone in the universe.
Angelbelle and her friend and roommate Lexi, had shortly talked about the possibility of what issues the portal could lead to, but mostly they had kept away from the topic.
Mason on the other hand had spoken loud and clear about what he thought was going to happen, and to be honest he was probably right.
As far as Mason was concerned the government was going to do the right thing and try and close the portal, if they for some reason couldn’t close it they would most likely start taking a form of taxes for crossing the portal.
Even though there were things Mason didn’t agree with the government about, he like most people trusted them. The government was meant to have the peoples best interest in heart.
The three friends were an odd collection, they didn’t really have anything in common, but had bonded over their mutual had for the stats foster system.
Lexi and Mason couldn’t even be in the same room without arguing, unless Angelbelle was there.
They were always careful around her, she was the most fragile of them. Even though Lexi and Angelbelle were the same age, it was clear that they had had different upbringing in the system.
Lexi was stronger minded, because she was outgoing and knew who to befriend right away.
Angelbelle was more quite and shy, always choosing her words carefully. Her anxiety didn’t help, it was hard making friends when everytime you felt the least bit comfortable you would start panicking.
The door to the small apartment opened and right away you could hear to voices arguing.
Lexi came into the living room first, “guess who the genius is, who forgot his key again?” She was smirking, and clearly happy about seeing Mason embarrassed even if it was only for a short while.
“I might have forgotten my key, but at least I didn’t forget my brain.” Mason shot back instantly, he always had a quick comeback.
Angelbelle looked up at both of them from her seat by the window and gave them a sad smile. Mason who had, from the moment he laid eyes on her, always seemed to think it was his responsibility to protect and keep her happy, walked over and put his arms around her.
“Hey Billy baby what’s the matter?” He said cautiously not wanting to upset her more.
Angelbelle looked away and out at the rain, “it happened again.”
Four little words. Four little words without any significant meaning, unless you knew.
Unless you knew just how speciel Angelbelle really was.
“What happened this time?” Lexi said, and sat down on the floor by Angelbelles feet. “You are not alone anymore Billy, you can tell us.” Lexi gav Billy a small smile, “you can always tell us.”
Being so emotional Billy send, without knowing, a wave of energy through the room and picked up by shear energy several books.
Without ever uttering a word she burst into tears, “it’s getting worse” she sobbed. “I can’t control it anymore.”
She didn’t have to tell them, that it had been worse earlier. They already knew from the way she reacted to pick up the books.
Mason hugged her close to his chest, and kissed her forehead. Lexi held tightly onto one of her hands, a silent promise of never letting go.
Later in the evening, with the rain continuing to fall, Angelbelle went down the street to her work as a bartender.
It was far from the perfect job, but it was the only one she had been able to get.
Mostly working on weekdays and avoiding weekend shifts at all costs, seemed to work okay.
It was easy during the weekdays, not to many people, and the ones that actually were were not interested in talking.
But tonight something seemed different, maybe it was just because the air was so heavy from the rain or maybe it was something else?
But Billy was sure that if she went into the bar tonight, her life was going to change forever.
It started out normally, like any other night. She served the few customers that were beer, and when she could feel her losing control of her powers, she went out back a couple of minutes. The regular customers had gotten used to her weird little quirks by now, so no one batted an eye of her behaviour. That was just Billy.
But when she got back from a specially hard break, a new face had entered the bar. His long black hair covered his eyes, but what Billy could see of his face was beautiful.
She had never seen a man like him before, sure he was handsome and beautiful, like a god, but his whole aura was different from anything she had ever sensed before. Which is why Billy did the only thing she always promised herself she wouldn’t, she reached out her power to try and “read” this stranger.
As if sensing her presence around him, the stranger looked up in her direction.
Billy continued to focus her energy on reading the stranger, but she didn’t understand the information she was given. For the first time in years, Billy wished that she had more practice using her power.
Slowly walking towards the bar, and there by Billy, he moved his hair out of the way of his eyes.
They were the greenest eyes Billy had ever seen, the were the same colour as the forest in spring.
Slowly, as not to scare her, the stranger sat down in one of the barstools.
First he looked around, almost like checking that everything was safe. Then he looked at her, really looked at her.
He reached for one of her hands, lifted it to his lips. But instead of kissing the back of her hand like Billy expected, he turned it over and kissed the inside of her palm. And then he spoke, “Nice to meet you, your majesty.”
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Phew.... wauw ha! Guys this is the first chapter of Neverly, I hope you enjoyed it. The further along with the book I get the more information about Neverly will come up, but for now we will stay on planet earth.
I will also be updating the character list as more and more people are introduced, if they will play a significant role at any point. They will end up on the list.
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Until next time!!
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