Between The Pages

Chapter 2

The next day when Juvia came home from school she went right over the her next door neighbor's house. She wasn't sure what Mr. and Mrs. Fullbuster were like in fact she had never seen them before. She only knew them by name but according to her mother they were both very nice people. Upon arriving at their house she gave their front door a very polite knock. In three seconds exact the door was opened by a woman in her mid thirties, a very pretty woman with long raven black hair that shimmered in the sunlight. She gave Juvia a smile but her eyes were filled with an incredible sadness.

"You must be Grandeeney's daughter, she told me that you were coming over to help me." She said sweetly. "Come inside."

Juvia did as she was told and followed Mrs. Fullbuster inside.

"I can't tell you how much I appreciate you coming over to help me." She said.

"It's not a problem Mrs. Fullbuster."

"Oh please call me Mika."

In the attic there were plenty of boxes that had stuff packed inside of them. Some of the stuff in the boxes she was planning on either selling it in a yard sale or donating to charity. The two of them moved the boxes into two sections: Items to keep and items to get rid of. It didn't take nearly as long as Juvia thought it would take and when they were finished Mika offered Juvia some tea.

"I can't thank you enough for helping me. Normally my husband would be doing this but he's been working later than usual."

"What does your husband do?"

"Well he's a pianist and he typically works at night clubs so he spends most the evenings at work and most of the day time at home resting."

"Oh he plays piano? I'd love to hear him perform some time that is if he wouldn't mind playing for me."

"I'm sure he would be glad to."

"What do you do?"

"Me? Well I started out wanting to be a novelist but it didn't work out for me so now I work as a catalog writer which means I pretty much work from home."

"So one of you is in the performing arts and one of you is into the literary arts. Just like my parents."

"Really? I never thought Igneel and Grandeeney as the performing and literary arts type."

"Oh no um...I guess my mother never mentioned it but I'm adopted. My birth parents died in a car accident when I was a kid, my birth father was a writer and my birth mother was an actress."

"Oh that's awful...Not your father being a writer and your mother being actress, the fact that they passed away while you were still young. I'm very sorry."

"It's alright."

"So tell me what kind of shows was your mother in?"

"Typically romantic ones, she was so wonderful."

"I've never actually seen a play."

"You haven't?"

"I don't really get out much and despite what people say about me and my husband we don't like to be alone. We would like to make friends with other people."

"How come you haven't?"

"We just...Never get around to it."

Juvia glanced over at the old grandfather clock that stood in the corner and saw that it was almost six meaning her mother would be back from her appointment soon.

"I have to leave now."

"Alright then. Have a good evening and say hello to your mother for me."