Heartbreak Weather | the 100

chapter one

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     "Anyways, I have to go." Maya Vie, one of my closest friends, says with a sigh before giving me a hug and walking off to her shift.

I tie my hair into a high ponytail and grab my favourite reading book, Anna Karenina, from the old dusty bookshelf. Leo, the writer, has such beautiful writing that he has inspired me to write books but I would never. I wouldn't want to ruin the art of a writing like that.

Many people who have read this book have criticised it harshly. I can't fathom how they can react that way when Leo has put such beautiful writings down on the page. His story is so intriguing and—

Someone knocks on the door, disturbing my beautiful monologue about the book. I place the old book down on the light wooden end table that sits beside the couch, with a small lamp on the table. I stand up from the polyester couch and walk over to open the door at the end of the wall.

"Down here." Aaron Emerson says when he notices me looking up at an eye-level to see who knocked, when I'm supposed to be looking down.

"Hi, Aaron." I say with a smile and lower to his height before I give him a light hug. "What are you doing here?"

"I want to play, my dad isn't home yet. He's still outside." Aaron sighs and walks inside my home.

"Hey, that's what happens when your dad is a lieutenant." I shrug. I close the door and follow the younger Emerson with short light brown hair sitting on top of his head. "He'll be back soon and when he is, he'll be better than ever."

"Yeah, I know. Let's play Scrabble." Aaron and I leave the house, shutting the door behind us and make our way over to level 5, where the rumpus room is.

Aaron lives a couple rooms down from where my parents and I live. He lives with his father, Carl Emerson and his other siblings. His siblings are older than him and don't want to hang out with Aaron, and that's just slack. I don't have any sisters or brothers and I wouldn't treat them like that. Aaron is a cute little boy, who just wants to fit in with other younger boys. But, his different and weird. So they say...

I can relate, I don't feel like I fit in with Mount Weather. It's not due to the colour of my hair or anything like that. I don't look like my parents, and some of the older individuals hate me for some reason... it's really rude and I don't know what I've done to them. Dante Wallace loves me and is always thanking me for some weird reason. I mentally shrug annoyed that I always keep thinking that I don't belong here. I know I belong here, just like everyone else does.

"Are you alright?" The youngest of the Emerson's ask during the game of Scrabble. I nod and he shrugs, before asking another question. "Hey, what does Grounder mean?"

"What?" I shake my head confused by he has just asked. Aaron points down to the game and his small finger lightly touches the word Grounder that lies on the board game. "Huh... weird, I didn't even realise I put that in."

Grounder?

I stare at the word, feeling off. How did I add that word, whilst scoring double letters yet, have no clue that I put in the word.

What the fūck...

"Hi guys." A very familiar voice says from behind me. I turn around and find Maya with a smile on her face. I don't remember a time when Maya isn't smiling.

"May!" I cheer and squeeze her in a bone-crushing hug.

"Blair, I have to tell you something." Maya whispers to me. I look over to Aaron and excuse myself before Maya drags me away to a corner, where no one can hear us.

"I have news. A couple of the mountain men caught 48 people who were in the sky. That sounds so weird. I didn't word it right." Maya laughs at herself and I'm quick to join in with my best friend.

"Wait, what? 48 people fell from the sky, and now they're here?" I question.

"Well, technically, yeah." She snickers. "Basically, they lived in the sky and they came down from space to Earth. They can breathe the air from outside."

"Holy shit!" I cheer excitedly. No one can breathe the outside air. I wish I could. From the beautiful drawings that President Dante Wallace creates of Earth, makes the world look so wonderful to live on. The lovely range of different coloured flowers to the feel of the heat from the sun. I've always wanted to know how it feels to touch the ground, to sit on the muddy grass.

"I know! But don't tell anyone. It's a secret for now..." Maya informs me.

I nod and end the night by finishing up the game of Scrabble with Maya and Aaron before taking him back home to his family. Maya left to go to her dad and I went home to my parents who came back from work about an hour ago.

I lie in bed with my current book obsession Anna Karenina.

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welcome to the FIRST chapter of Heartbreak Weather !

I'm so excited for you all to read the next chapter! Chapter 1 was a boring filler chapter but the rest gets better. I have everything planned out for season 2 and how I want the crew and Blair to meet and who she should be friends with.

But, I don't really have a love interest. As the story progresses, I kinda like her with this one person but then I want her to be bi. I want to get out of my comfort zone for this book, but UGH I don't know what to do. Should she even have a love interest? Should it be a girl, or a boy? A love triangle?

I have lots to think about.

Let me know your thoughts on this chapter. Hope you enjoyed it!!