Break Free (Gralu Story)

You don't know me

Author's Note: So sorry this chapter is a little long but it's the first one so people are being introduced and backgrounds are being set up but other than that I hope you enjoy. :)

1 year earlier...

Lucy’s pov:

Summer nights…there is something calming about them. Maybe it was the cool warm breeze that blew past my face or maybe the lullaby sung by the evening crickets. I smiled as I stood underneath the luminous moon shinning so bright it lite up the whole sky. I slowly looked down to the single grave that laid at my feet, reading “here lies a beloved mother and wife.” It was time to say goodbye. Time to move on and find my own way. I smiled as a single tear slid down my face, but I quickly wiped it away as I turned around and looked back up at the Heartfilia estate. I could feel my face frowning up.

Lucy: (whispering) sorry, but I need to find out the truth about myself and I can’t do that here with  father…

I turned my back to the place that was once filled with love, laughter, and family. Everyday I would see the same faces, same voices, same point of views. I never got to do anything for myself. It made that once warm house feel so cold, just as cold as the tears that slid down my face as I walked away. As I started my journey to the train station I remembered why I was so glad to be leaving, yet why could I not stop crying? My father could be so evil, but I am crying that I’m sneaking out in the middle of the night to leave and search for who I really am, again a tear slid down, but I shook my head. This was the right decision I was making. All my father ever wanted was to keep me locked up in the old house with him and the servants. He tried to have me feel like everything was perfect and everything was okay. Basically just swallow anything they said, swallow their lies and let my emotions fade, and for a while that's what I did, until i just couldn't do it anymore. He always said it was too protect me, a bunch of bullshit I say. I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself. Hell that’s what all those self-defense, and special combat training classes were for because I didn’t possess special magic powers like all the other kids I would see when I was younger. So in order to protect myself my mother hired people to train me. I shook my head again trying to not focus on the past as I made my way to the train station, but sometimes that’s all I could ever think about. But now I was looking towards my future. I'm done living in black and white, because really this life I live in is full colorful. Full of beautiful things and people, I would see it all the time in the books I read...and now as I walk down this path to my new destination…Magnolia I couldn't help but feel alittle excited. My older brother lives there and I planned on starting my new life there with him. I don't know what lies ahead, and I'm leaving all the fears my father ever placed in my mind behind me.  I sat in my seat anxious. I haven’t seen my brother since he turned 18, my so called father kicked him out once he did turn 18 I was only 15 at the time I begged him not to go but he just smiled and told me once I turned 18 to come and find him. That was the day I began hating my father. I hated him for many other things as I got older. Yet finding out the reason why my father kicked Naruto out was one of the main reasons I can’t stand that man. A loud whistle was let out from the train as we began to move. I sighed, finally I will be able to figure out what my life means on my own. I dozed off and what seemed like 30 minutes of sleep was the whole train ride into my new home. I was woken up by a tap on my shoulder I looked up and it was one of the ushers from the train

Usher: Young Lady we have arrived in Magnolia is this your stop?

I looked out the window, I couldn’t hide my excitement

Lucy: (smiling) yes sir thank you very much for waking me up

I grabbed my bag, as he helped me out of my seat. I walked towards the door that lead out to the train station of Magnolia. As I stepped out of the doorway and onto the train platform it was busy with people everywhere. People rushing to their train trying not to be late. Little boys playing a game of tag. Little girls holding their mothers hands and me…standing in amazement seeing that I had rarely left the Heartfilia estate to the neighboring town, those trips stopped once mother passed away. I was suddenly knocked out of my amazement when I heard a deep yet raspy voice call out to me from behind