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Baccano! Fanfiction Chapter 1

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Baccano! Fanfic
Author's Note:
Baccano! Is perhaps one of the most interesting animes I have ever seen, and it deserves more love. I dedicate this story to my closest friends, Danielle Fresquez and Sarah White. You two are the best friends I've ever had, I hope you enjoy this story!
~ Erika Serrato

Chapter 1:
Summer, 1930
The sun shone brilliantly across the blue skies of California, clouds hung delicately by the gentle breeze, and the beams poured out its warmth over the desert. The house we lived in was painted white and had an adobe colored roof, which made it look similar to a Spanish hacienda. There were several corridors, and plentiful space too, but not anything to boast about. It was not grand or ordained with fine decorations like those you'd see in the films. Our house was humble, though it had an appearance of something more elegant. Asides from our house there was nothing but barren desert, and the only green which grew was our small garden that we struggled to maintain in the dry environment. It was mediocre at best.
Three of us lived in the hacienda. First was the owner of the house, Sarah Black. She came from a wealthy family, but found little interest in money. The next was my best friend Danielle LeClaire who came from a poor immigrant family, but she managed to make a better living for herself. Finally there was me, Erika Montoya. Like Danielle, I also came from an immigrant family, but unlike Danielle I was born in California, whereas she spent her early childhood in France. The three of us met through high school, which during that time, few people were able to attend, much less immigrants. Sarah was enrolled because of family interests, and Danielle and I somehow got lucky enough to attend, though we had to work hard for it. Still, it was a trifle for the two of us and we both became successful. Danielle became a small-time artist and I became a writer or a graphic novelist more specifically.
We sat at a small table outside observing the beautiful mass of nothing which we called the desert. Sarah's hand propped her head up and she held onto a small glass of wine in the other. She twirled the glass around her hand almost as if she was expecting something to be inside it. Danielle was drawing out a new landscape picture of the desert for the tenth time already, but she completely enveloped in her work all the same. I sat opposite to Sarah reading the local newspaper, it was dead silent besides the breeze blowing by occasionally.
"I'm bored." Sarah mumbled out loud, pointing out the obvious. Danielle and I paused what we were doing for a moment and glanced at each other before awkwardly returning to our activities. Sarah stood up from her seat, made her way behind me, placed her hands on my shoulders and shook me. I instantly lost my place where I was reading and retaliated with a loud "Hey!". Sarah stopped, but she was not satisfied.
"Oh come on! Don't you feel it too? It's boring out here!" She made her way toward Danielle and pulled the blue pastel from her hand. Danielle turned around and tried to get back the pastel shouting repeatedly "Sarah, stop!" only to be welcomed by the sounds of Sarah's giggles.
"You see? This is the only entertainment we have out here in the middle of nowhere." Danielle obtained the pastel after Sarah said this. "We need to do something fun." I placed my newspaper flat on the table looking at Sarah. It was apparent that this time she was truly bored, I saw no glimmer in her blue eyes, but also I her eyes there was a kind of seriousness. Perhaps it was…
"Well, what do you suggest we do, Sarah?" I asked her while I placed my long bangs to the side of my face. Sarah thought to herself for a moment and in an instant came up with an idea.
"We should go travel somewhere!" "Go where though?" Danielle asked after putting her pastels away. I looked at Danielle and asked her "How about Los Angeles?" "No! There's nothing good to do here in California, besides the beaches. Even then it's still bland!" Sarah quickly responded back. She stood out in the sunlight which illuminated her flowery dress and sighed deeply, looking into the distance. We all stayed lost in thought. After all, Sarah did have a point, there was literally nothing to do in this state that we haven't already tried --by this of course I mean, drinking, reading, and drawing desert landscapes. Finally, after what seemed like eternity, Danielle came up with a new suggestion.
"How about we go to New York City?" Sarah and I processed the idea for a moment, but we had different reactions. "Yeah! We should do that! Oh, we could go by train!" Sarah exclaimed joyfully. I grew a bit uneasy at the idea of being so far away from home, up until that point the furthest away I had been from home was when we took a trip to San Francisco. I made a strange face due to my discomfort. Sarah pulled me up from my seat and swayed my arms back and forth.
"Please Erika, you have to. It's so dull and boring out here, not to mention your issues here. It'll be fun! It's better than staying here~" Danielle quickly followed suit and reinforced what Sarah had just said. "Please, Eeka~? We'll have fun." Both of them looked at me with pleading eyes, and I could tell that my attendance was essential and mandatory.
This is the first installment to our Baccano! Fanfiction. It's kinda a boring chapter, I know. But I have to put an introductory chapter so you understand who the OCs are, so yeah.. I'm sorry? I've worked pretty hard to make this fan fiction as well written and interesting as the actual Baccano! anime and light novels, so I hope you enjoy it!

WARNING: I have not read the light novels (only few exerpts), so I'm writing this purely based on the anime, which as I understand is not completely accurate to the book (no surprise there), so I apologize in advanced for this. Also there will be some changes in the original story, and yes, there will be killing off some characters. Again, I'm truly sorry. ;_; READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! If you decide to show mercy upon my soul for destroying this beautiful series, I hope you will look upon me with kindness and enjoy the fanfic (at least before you kill me).
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