I had terrible writers block while working on "Something New" so i started this story, this chapters super short but the other ones will be longer. And I can't make promises about how frequent the updates will be. But works slowing down so I'll have more type time.

For some reason she always hated the snow, from the way it froze her fingertips, to the way it turned her nose red when she was outside for too long. Maybe it was because when she had to walk through it, it came up as high as her knees so she chose to stay in doors this time of year. She was small for her age, and she could never seem to get herself warm enough in winter. She would end up fully dressed with a blanket around her shoulders and sitting near the fire all winter long, it was why she picked up reading. A book helped her pass the time on days it was too cold to go out, and the children of her kingdom loved story time with her every week. Many of them learned to read from her, she knew her kingdom was poor, and when she found out not many parents had the time or the money to school their children she took it upon herself to help. Now that would be over, would anyone take her place when she was gone? That was probably the hundredth thing she added to her list of things to worry about today. She had less than a year to get everything together, but all she had done today was stare out the window and mope.

Her younger sister Wendy was fast asleep in her bed, dawn was already approaching but Levy hadn't moved from this spot all day. Wendy brought her dinner to her room since she was worried about Levy skipping lunch. She didn't have much of an appetite today, how could she? Less than an hour after breakfast her brother summoned her to the throne room, and told her that it would be for the better. She didn't understand at first, Jellal wasn't usually cruel but he was short with her when she tried to object to his decision. Her brother rarely yelled at her, but the moment she started to whine he responded with. "It's already done, and you will do what you're told." He dismissed her immediately after, Laki had to guide her back to her room and she hadn't left since.

She forgot that most people found snow beautiful, for the first time since she was a child she saw the beauty in it. Most mornings she found it almost impossible to escape the warmth of her bed, she usually just ended up doing all of her work from under the covers, and she didn't have a lot of visitors so it wasn't a problem. When she absolutely had to get up, she would run to a warm bath and then have the same trouble leaving until the water turned cold. It stopped snowing hours ago,but she sat up all day and most of the night watching it blanket the town. The way it looked on the roofs of houses and on the branches of trees took her breathe away. The way it fell from the sky was something magical, she read in a book somewhere that each snowflake was unique. She spent hours as a kid trying to find two of them that looked the same, but her mother explained to her that snowflakes were a lot like people. From afar they were all pretty similar, but it wasn't until you get close enough did you see just how beautiful they really were.

If she wouldn't have spent the whole day crying, thinking about her mother would have made her start up again. She was too dehydrated for tears, and it didn't help that she skipped both lunch and only nibbled on dinner today. Wendy was so sweet, she knew Levy was upset but she didn't pry, she just sat there and read her favorite book to her while Levy sat in her window seat and cried. Wendy was so much like her mother, it made her sad. She died giving birth to Wendy and Wendy never got a chance to meet her, but she had her mothers soul. She really missed her mother, most days were bearable, having Wendy made her miss her a little less, but it wasn't the same. But a lot of times Levy just wished she could ask her mothers advice. She knew her mother wouldn't approve of her current behavior, at one point the cold air froze her tears to her lashes and she felt like she was being punished for crying. She still hadn't told Wendy what was wrong, she couldn't bring herself to tell her younger sister that she would be leaving her. Levy had only been seventeen a few months, and Wendy had just turned twelve, they recently lost their father a few years before and Jellal had taken the throne when he turned twenty-one. It had been a rough couple of years and Levy just felt like everything was falling apart for a while, but they always made it through.

They had another sister named Juvia who left two years ago, she ran away in the middle of the night, and Levy always wondered why. Did Jellal try to do the same thing to her? Like herself, did he tell Juvia that she was getting married to a stranger and there was nothing she could do about it? Levy just wished that Wendy would never have to suffer the same. Juvia would be nineteen now, she hoped her older sister was still alive and well. They searched for her the first year hoping to find her and bring her home. Levy prayed for a letter or a sign that she was alright but she had given up hope halfway through the second year. She didn't want to keep breaking Wendy's heart so they just didn't talk about her anymore. She hoped Juvia was somewhere happy and warm like Levy always wanted to be. Juvia was hard to miss, she had bright blue hair ,all of them did, and that was only something that was known of in the north. They were a small part of the bigger, richer Ice Kingdom, and in comparison her kingdom was a scrap of farmland.

Levy knew she could continue to sit in her room and be depressed about things, or she could try to take her mind off of it. She could have continued being angry at her brother, or sad about missing her mother. She could whine and cry about life not being fair, but she knew it all fell on death ears. She had ten months until her wedding, which meant she had ten months for the situation to change, if not this was going to be her last winter with snow, she needed to at least try and enjoy it. So she put on her warmest coat and went to play in the snow.