Stuck in Runes

Chapter 50

Sophia POV

I wake up in a small room I don't recognize. My hazy eyes blink lazily as I recall what had happen d the night before.

"Right... Mira..." I mumble rubbing my face with my hands and letting them draw back pushing the loose strands of hair out of my face and back into the poof that my hair had become over night. I pull my blanket around me yawning and looking around. A queen bed sat at one end of the room with a small dresser to the right, pushed against the same wall the door exists on. To my left a good sized window sits, a view of a small yard protected by the start of a large forest greets my eyes. Some Birds chirp happily at the rising sun, the sunrise just starting the sky was a hazy pink. I look in front of me, across the room front he bed was a set of chairs with a small table where my bag had been sat.

I put my hands behind me pushing myself out of the cocoon or pillows and blankets I seemed to have created. I raise my arms pulling out the stiffness I gained in my back overnight. I rest my hands down again feeling something strange turning and seeing my hand on Freed's coat. I was grabbing one of the buttons. A soft blush crosses my face, I-I wasn't actually going to sleep with it!!! Mira must have put it in bed with me!!
But wait.... No nightmare! Great! I sigh in relief knowing I would have felt crummy today if I hadn't slept well. I turn to the door seeing it had been pushed open a crack, Mina must already be up, strange for her.

I get up shuffling to the door pulling it open, to be treated by the smell of waffles and fruit. I smile my shuffle quickly shifting to a skip as I travel down the hallway to the main room.

Mira stands behind the kitchen península cutting up some fruits, Mina lays over her shoulder like a a limp noodle watching her hands.

"Good morning sweetness!" Mira smiles cheerfully, Mina looks up also chirping a hello, but only flopping back to watch Mira. "How did you sleep?" She asks looking back down going back to her cutting.

"Wonderfully, thank you!" I smile walking over pulling out one of the stools and taking a seat. "Did you sleep alright?" I ask, covering a yawn.

"I slept quite well, thank you for asking!" She smiles pushing the piles of cut up fruit onto stacks of waffles. "Are you hungry?" She grins.

"Always!" I smiles greedily reaching for a plate. She nods handing it too me and walking around the counter pulling a chair out sitting down herself. Mina hoops off her shoulder sitting in between our plates on the counter.

"I'm really sorry but I don't really remember much from last night..." I confess to Mira, offering a strawberry to Mina who greedily snatches it from my fingers.

"Oh it's ok!" Mira giggles. "You told me about your trip and everything that happened, and when I went to get us fresh tea you crashed, so I carried you to bed. My curiosity must have made me rude, I didn't realize, you must have been exhausted, I mean you had just come home from a pretty big mission." She explains.

"Oh I'm sorry! I didn't mean to be a hassle! You should have just left me on the couch!" I say, embarrassed.

"No no! Don't you worry about it! It was all me,  besides, you got all the way through your story, you explained up to the point where Laxus busted through the door right when you two got back." She smiles, her mouth full of food.

A blush dusts my cheeks remembering the event.

"R-right..." I say shoveling a large bite into my mouth.

"So when do you think your gonna brake and just ask him out?" She asks after swallowing, causing me to choke.

"I'm sorry -cough cough- WHAT?!" I ask pounding my chest, in tempts to stop my gaging.

"Oh, you know. Freed is, well... He is one of those... well some men..." she sighs. "He's a coward. He can fight beasts, he is hell of a fighter, he will talk smarts and more precisely than anyone I have ever met. But he is shyer than a mouse in a room full of cats." She says chomping on her last bite in a mater-of-fact kind of way. 

"That didn't change my what statement...?" I ask not exactly sure what she means at this point. Words are confusing ok?!

"Honey, I don't know if freed has the guts to ask you out. And I want to know when your gonna ask him out. Because, you clearly like him. I mean... you were reaaaalllly tiered last night. You might as well been drunk. A lot of information was shared on that couch." She says taking out plates to the sink, followed by Mina trying to see if she could get scraps, and leaving me to my surprise.

"I didn't um..." I begin looking down at my feet.

"Nothing bad, and even if it was I wouldn't tell a soul." She says coming to me and setting her hand on my shoulder. I nod in relief, not that I really had much that could be considered "bad" but a few things I don't exactly feel comfortable sharing... not yet at least.

"Oh and I'm taking to shopping this morning, I told my sister to go to the guild early for work." She says talking behind me messing with my hair.

"Oh, I don't really have the cash to do that right now... I need to sa-" I get cut off by a finger to my lips.

"My treat, you completed your first mission, joined the guild, and did it while wearing mostly old torn up or bloodied clothes, personally I want to do it, And if you representing the guild, I want you to look and feel good." She says walking into her room, I guess that's end of discussion...

Damn, she and freed must be friends because once they sat their minds to  something not even a boulder can get in their way... I nod in defeat walking back to my room changing into a pair of shorts and a tee shirt. The shirt was pretty old and baggy so I tuck it into the front of my shorts so I didn't have to deal with it touching the front of my thighs.  I make the bed I was in and put Freed's coat into my bag folding it neatly. I step out of my room to find Mina sitting on the back of the couch chirping at Mira, who had a short black dress on with violet sandals that lace up to her knee.

I feel underdressed...

"You look cute!" Mira smiles sweetly.

"You look cutter! Well actually you look hot. But thank you. None the less." I smile. Mira walks behind me, feeling my hair. I can't be bothered to do anything with it. It's that's a lot of effort and time I don't think I have.

"Ya ok, first stop is a spa trip, nails and hair." She says putting on a wide sunhat and taking my hand. Mina changes to a bird and perches on Mira'd sunhat as she closes the door behind us.

I'm not sure what is gonna be longer... almost dying on that mission... or a full on shopping spree... Mira is sweet and all but man that's a lot of people to handle and Mira herself is a lot on her own...

I start being semi forcefully dragged down the street toward town.

Welp... no going back now...

((Hello loves! I don't have much to say today so... just I hoped you enjoyed the chapter!
~<3 El))