Strictly Professional

Chapter 2 : Marriage is my ticket out of here!

A/N I'm obsessed help 

Dawn was so tired. Tired of everything really; but she might finally have a way out. Her "family" had been very against the marriage. They didn't want to let her out of their sight for more than a second. It was smothering; under constant watch from both her bodyguard and clingy sisters. (Not siblings in canon but you guys gotta give me slack, this is a whole new universe.) It was unfair; they knew she could defend herself, and Outer would get help the second anything happened to his charge.

Shadow, her older sister, had almost listened. She had always been the closest to Dawn, so it made sense she was sympathetic. She was also the most overprotective, but thanks to her abilities to warp through shadows, just sending a text was good enough. Shadow understood that this lack of freedom was having really unhealthy effects on Dawn's life. She wasn't a kid anymore; she was 23 for goodness sake.

Unfortunately, Tsunami had not been as chill about it. She was the youngest; and when her family and friends had died in an accident she had taken it to heart. She took a full 180 in personality. She went from being a sweet, innocent, and compassionate young girl to being a moody, angry, reckless force of nature. She refused to lose another family member, even though Dawn was plenty strong enough to protect herself even without a bodyguard.

She could only travel through water, and she wasn't as good at it as Shadow. So, to ease her worries, Shadow agreed to stay with both of them. Now, Dawn had no privacy. She was grateful for the bodyguards though. Usually they did their best to give her space. Outer often told the others that they should run errands so Dawn didn't need anything, which often took a long time to reach since the mansion they lived in was in the woods about a mile outside of the city. Still, thanks to warping that wasn't far.

Luckily, their bodyguards insisted that they needed to go with. This usually ended up in car rides to the city. Shadow's bodyguard, Blossom, was a pretty laid back girl. Her personality was very motherly and mixed well with Shadow's more protective and silent side. Shadow often opted to do things like paint, so she stayed out of Dawn's way a lot. It was nice on days Tsunami wasn't there. She loved her little sister, but she was a lot.

Tsunami's bodyguard was quite the character. Eight was a slime person, and loved randomly talking to an audience that wasn't really there. They were kind of chaos incarnate, and she sometimes ended up doing reckless things with Tsunami. For example, they once decided to make a bomb out of lemons. Don't ask anyone how they did it, nobody knew. In addition, Eight was a whole eight feet tall. She often had to squat down to waddle through the doors.

Dawn did have one good friend she could trust though. She had such an affinity for sweets and special drinks, her family had hired a barista. His name was Cappuccino, but they usually called him Ccino. He always took the time to listen to her, and he gave great advice. He was one of the people who had helped advocate for an arranged marriage.

When she was younger, Dawn probably would have dreamed of a fairytale ending, with her perfect prince charming. She didn't want that anymore. She just wanted to make it to a place where her family wasn't always watching her, where she could finally have at least a little bit of privacy. From what she'd heard about Nightmare, he was also trying to escape having attention on him. This meant she could live in a new place, and all of those weirdos who wanted to try and woo her could finally be put to a rest.

Plus, apparently he lived in the city. She could stay in all day and just paint city views. Plus, Nightmare apparently lived in the same building with his brother, and had some floors to house the bodyguards and employees he was close with. She would be living in an area with people who would probably want to meet her; she could finally make a friend other than Ccino! Speaking of, she was definitely going to be taking him with her.