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You carried me with you

Summary:

(Name) and her family moved to the beautiful town of New Mushroomton to start a new chapter in their lives. As humans, they were not too welcome in their old town and hoped to make a fresh start there. In various situations, the young woman accidentally keeps meeting Barley, an elf boy. Is it the will of fate to bring the two closer together?

Chapter 1: Prolog

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

New Mushroomton was a wonderful city. It was huge, yet manageable, located near the coast and surrounded by high mountains. The modern city center was dotted with skyscrapers and numerous green parks invited every creature to linger. In the quiet suburbs there was a beautiful neighborhood where the houses looked like mushrooms - that's why it was called mushroom neighborhood. Most people would give anything to live here. After all, it was one of the best cities in the country!

And this is where we meet (First Name) (Last Name). She‘s a 19-year-old girl from Fairyburgh and currently moving to New Mushroomton with her family to start a new life. Well, not a whole new life, but a new chapter. 

Close in front of them drove the moving truck that was just turning into the driveway of their new house. (Name) wiped a strand of hair from her face as she looked out the car window. The sun was slowly setting and the sky looked pink under the bright, glowing sun. The young woman blinked rapidly as she was blinded.

"I guess we're finally here!" Camilla exclaimed joyfully. She was 14 and the younger sister of our protagonist. Despite her still childlike nature, she already possessed an unusual maturity that radiated calm and level-headedness. She was truly a ray of sunshine. “Yes,“ (Name) smiled at her and looked towards the house they‘d be moving in. 

She could hardly wait for this new chapter in her life. Whereas the old one has been so terrible.

Let alone that it was actually the whole reason the family moved in the first place.

Notes:

Author‘s Note: Hello to everyone who has gotten this far! This is my sixth published fanfiction here on Ao3. Onward has somewhat become a comfort-movie for me and I love its humour and genius inventions with all my heart. Barley is a character I‘ve grown to like a lot (but tbh, who doesn't like him?) and I haven‘t seen that much (or any) mid-long x reader stories with him. So, please, if you always wanted to read something like that - here it is! :)

About the OCs: Personally, I highly dislike having OCs in a story. But since Reader-chan isn‘t able to move out yet and I want something to drive the story, she has a younger sister called Camilla (and her parents, but they won’t appear too often). I know that‘s something not everyone will be able to relate to (I have an older brother myself), but it‘s rather important for the story. I hope you understand.

And I‘ll admit, this story is going to be a bit cliché at some points, but I want to write something easy-going once in a while…

This is also my first story going to be in American and not British English, so I apologize for any mistakes in advance!