What If...: The Story of What Could Have Been

Another Day Arises

The morning sun rose over again, it's lighting piercing her gossamer bed curtains and shining on her face. Her eyes and mouth scrunched up as she slowly began to wake up. Her upper body rising and her arms going out to stretch. She could only be compared to as a princess majestically waking up from her slumber. After the night's terrible dream, she eventually fell back asleep but unlike her previous dream, she could not remember it. She looked out to the window and got out of bed. Her nightgown flowing behind her like a wave crashing onto the beaches. Once she reached the window, she noticed the milkman arriving at his usual time. He picked up their empty glass bottles and would put down filled ones. Not long after, the paperboy riding down on his bike to give out the daily news at his normal time. Lily smiled as she noticed the boy looking up as he suddenly stopped which threw off their normal schedule. The boy looked pink in the cheeks as he stared at her beauty. Lily waved at him and he waved back awkwardly. He then quickly sped off in hopes to return to his normal schedule. Lily turned away from the window and began to clean herself up for breakfast. She slipped on a nice blue top with a white dress collar and decided to pull out the pair of pants her friends bought her. Once they were buttoned on, she went to admire herself in the mirror. It was a new experience to not feel her own legs but she looked good. Lily then heard the call for her from her mom, saying that breakfast was ready. Lily quickly grabbed a headband from her vanity, slipping it on and went downstairs for breakfast. Once she walked through the doorframe, her father looked up and glared at his daughter.

"Why in the hell are you wearing pants?" He asked his daughter. Lily smiled though.

"Why there were a present from my birthday. My girl friends bought them for me." She explained as she smiled. Her father shook his head.

"Take them off;" He ordered, getting up from the table. Lily shook her head despite the order. "Take them off or you will not be having breakfast." He threatened.

"But dad... they are a fashion trend! Every girl is wearing them." She whined. Her father glared harder and slapped her face.

"You do not make the money in this house. You are nothing without my money. You are not a man nor have any power;" He said and looked at her again. Lily touched her face and looked at him through the long hairs in front of her. "Now go to your room and take those things off and put a dress or skirt on." He ordered. Lily nodded and went to her room. She then pulled out a blue skirt that matched her top, putting a white belt with it. She put her hair down from the headband and went back downstairs, sitting at the table. Her father looked at her outfit and nodding, the newspaper now in his hands. He then opened it and went straight to the stocks part of the paper. Lily looked at her mother who came over with a plate of food for the her daughter and husband. The mother touched her daughter's cheek gently and smiled gently, a ray of sun to the daughter. Soon the three sat down at the table and began to eat their meals quietly. The main sounds were the clicking of utensils against plates, the flipping of newspapers and sips of coffee. It was always like that for their breakfasts since Lily could sit at the table.

Once the plates were cleaned off of food and their glass cups empty, they began to work on cleaning up and taking care of things before Lily's father left for work.

"I will be home soon. I will call if anything changes ok?" He said as he put the plates and mugs from him away. Lily's mother, of course nodded and began to clean the pans she used for the meals. Lily's father then turned and went to his room, beginning to change. Lily sighed and then felt her mother touch her shoulder gently.

"There is a message for you under the calendar. I could not let your father see the note." She confessed to her daughter. Lily ran over and picked it up, seeing it was from Eren and that he desperately wanted to see her immediately. Lily was worried and began to wonder if Eren was going to end things off with her or tell her that he was sentenced to the chair.