Title: Life of a Turnabout
Rating: PG
Pairing: N/A
Genre: Family/Drama
Desc: Set just after AJ, a story about a girl who has troubles with her home life.

This is my first attempt at a fanfic, and I procrastinate a lot, so please be constructive but nice with your comments. Thankie~
Oh, and I apologise for spelling errors. I'm typing this out on my Wii, you see...

CHAPTER ONE

"Argh! It's too hard!" Trucy put her head on the desk, idly doodling magic hats on the corner of her jotter.

"Um, excuse me···"

Trucy, with incredible effort, turned her head to fix a weary eye on the speaker - a girl - and raised an eyebrow in question, apparently unable to do any more than that.

"The answer is x = -4···"

"What?"

Lifting herself onto her forearms, Trucy took a closer look at her neighbour. She was a small girl, with mousy brown hair that rested on her shoulders, and deep green eyes.

"...The question you're stuck at..."

Ah. Trucy shifted her gaze to the equation that had bested her. There were many rubbings out, smudges, and doodles - the whole page was utterly incomprehensible. Trucy fixed the girl with a look of wonderment on her face.

"And you managed to do this? It's really difficult!"

"Not really. It's quite easy if you start off right - you haven't squared the brackets properly, see?"

"QUIET IN THE BACK!" the teacher yelled, disturbing the hushed classroom. The girl looked absolutely mortified, and continued working, while Trucy just smiled and said, "Sorry sir. Got carried away."

To this he mumbled something incoherent to the effect of 'Youths these days...' or something like that.

Less than 10 seconds passed before Trucy turned to the girl again.

"So what's your name?"

The girl looked shocked, not at the question, but at Trucy's brazenness. She glanced at the teacher, making sure he wasn't listening, and whispered a single word:

"...Maria."

Last edited by Furtzy on Sun Oct 05, 2008 7:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.

This is a great start. I can't wait for the next chapter.

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Random update times are random.



School finished, and Trucy meandered up the road with her new friend. She turned to Maria. "Are you sure it's alright to come to my place?" she asked. "I mean, your parents don't even know me."

"They're fine with it," said Maria, adjusting her backpack slightly. "They trust me."

"Wow, you're so lucky! My Daddy always wants to know what I'm up too. I wish I had parents like yours."

At this, Maria gave a strange little grimace. "No you don't..."

However, Trucy didn't hear this as they had reached her house. Climbing awkwardly off a bright red bicycle was a bright red man with two spikes of hair standing to attention above his rather large forehead.

"POLLY!" squealed Trucy, encasing the lawyer in a rib-crushing hug that no 15 year old girl should be able to accomplish.

"GAK-Trucy, you're choking me!"
"Wimp!"

"Umm..." interrupted Maria. "Is this... your brother?"

They both stared at her blankly for a moment, then burst out simultaneously into laughter. When it had passed, Trucy wiped her eyes with the heels of her hands, and wheezed, "C'mon Mary, Polly, Daddy'll mope if he knows we're having fun without him!"

"Um... Mary...?" ventured Maria.

"Don't worry, you'll get used to it. Maybe." said Apollo as he held open the door for her. "After you!"

Yay! New chapter. *reads it* ... ... ...HOORAY! I CAN'T WAIT TO READ MORE!

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Thankie, lone commenter! :D

Be warned, the fluff and innocence kinda disappears in the next chapter.

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Oh, you're welcome. Fluff and innocence disappearing? Now, I'm even more curious! XD

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