A New Member! (Fairy Tail FanFic)

Ch. 1

"Now this here is the perfect angle I was just telling you about." Mr. Cornwall said enthusiastically as he pulled his sagging pants up for the millionth time that day. I sighed and bent lower in my desk pretending to take notes when in reality I was reading the first and only volume of Fairy Tail I had with me. I had just gotten to the end when the bell rang signaling the end of the day and the beginning of a long Thanksgiving break.

"Don't forget to do your homework!" Mr. Cornwall yelled as students hustled past him ignoring their teacher as they left. Standing up I placed my treasured book into my bag and carefully extracted three pages of homework he had assigned us yesterday.

"Here Mr. Cornwall," I said softly setting the homework on his desk as I was leaving. Once out of the classroom I hurried to my locker to put my textbooks away hoping I would be able to catch the bus home.

"So what are your plans for break?" I heard people asking their friends as I rushed by. I mentally sighed to myself as people began to drift away until I was finally alone at my locker.

"Hey look it's the freak." I heard someone whisper as I shut my locker door and picked up the lighter bag. I turned to leave but tripped over someone's foot falling and making everyone laugh, I scrambled to my feet and kept my head down using my long blue-black hair as a curtain as I ran out of the school only to see my bus drive away without me.

I sighed and started walking down the road to my parents'' house wondering silently if they were home. If they were I was going to get another beating but if they weren't I might be able to grab some food and hide it away for the break. I smiled at my plan, even though it was pitiful it was all I had because after a year of trying to tell someone about the beatings and run away I had slowly learned there were only two ways of escape from my family; death and books.

BUZZBUZZ

I looked down at my cheap flip phone to see one of the two phone numbers I had grown to hate with my very being.

"Hello?" I asked my voice cracking and betraying the fear I tried to hide from them.

"Where you at?" My father's voice rang out from the other end of the call as my bruises from two days before began to announce their presence.

"I-I just left school," I stuttered out as I heard a loud radio in the background while stepping into a nearby shadow cast by a tree.

"Don't come home tonight." My mother's voice slurred out at me from the phone proving what I already knew. She was drunk and they were both at another party, probably getting high.

"For that matter don't come home till we call you, you ungrateful piece of shit." My mother screeched before I could respond and the line went dead. I had just narrowly avoided a beating by going home and there was no way I was going to deny myself a small moment of freedom.

Standing back up I shifted my bag until I was comfortable and began walking into the woods beside the road looking for the familiar trail I had made several months ago. After walking for probably twenty minutes I came into a fairly large clearing near a stream with a small little shack near the trees. The shack had been there long before I showed up, but with a few weeks of slow work, it had become a sign of my hard earned peace. About seven or eight feet away it was a small drop off into a large stream that was big and deep enough to wash and swim in. I sighed feeling myself relax as I caught sight of the crude Fairy Tail mark I had spray painted onto my shed with a few different cans and a very long day.

"I'm home!" I called out and walked inside the shed to see a small fireplace, a stack of firewood, a small bed made of old wooden boards, several dozen broken candles, spare clothes, a stack of broken plates, a few more Fairy Tail books, and a long metal rod that had been mashed flat. I sighed and set my bag on my bed before walking over to the fireplace and setting a new fire.