Levy's hair was blowing in her eyes. Her hairband usually kept it out her eyes, but she wasn't wearing it today. Not that she cared.
"Morning Lu-chan!" Levy smiled. Her face was turning red in the wind's harshly cool temperatures. She sat herself down on the dewy grass, wetting her dress, but that didn't really bother her. Levy pushed her hair behind her ears by reflex and tried to settle into a comfortable sitting position. She knew that she was going to be there a while, after all, Lucy had missed a whole year.
"Nice to see such a beautiful day!" the blue haired mage said, despite the fact that the day was certainly not beautiful. The skies were an angry gray and a soft rumbling could be heard in the distance.
"Hey Lu-chan, do you remember that mission that you took with Natsu last year?" Levy began, moving slightly so she was resting her weight on her wrist and knees. "Remember how the guild freaked out when you came in with Natsu and Happy?"
Levy didn't feel any sense of nostalgia at this, only a pulling pull at her heart strings. Levy ignored this and continued to tell the story.
"Mira was the first to notice something was wrong. When she realized what she ended up dropping the glass she had been cleaning. The rest of the guild noticed too and stopped what they were doing."
Levy hesitated for a moment to remember her exact feelings at that moment. She unknowingly began to clench her little hands into a fist so tight that the knuckles turned white.
"I was the first one to run over to you. I didn't touch you, though, I just stood back and held back tears. Natsu rushed you to the infirmary and Jet bolted out the door to get Porlyusica."
Levy shifted slightly, hoping that the tightness in her chest was due to the way she was sitting or the turbulent air that encompassed her. The sky was turning darker with every passing second.
"Natsu laid you in one of the beds and Wendy came dashing in as quickly as her little legs would carry her. She started to try to heal you for a good twenty minutes before she realized that the injuries just wouldn't heal. I've never seen such an expression on someone so young."
The solid script mage realized that it was about to rain at any minute. A single drop of rain fell right on her forehead. More began to follow, drenching her to her very bones in a matter of moments, not that she noticed.
"Natsu and Happy refused to let Wendy stop trying, though. Happy even yelled at Charle when she said that it was no use. I don't think that he's forgiven her for that yet. Natsu started to say stuff to you, like, "Lucy, you promised that you'd stay." and "It's more fun when we're together!". He was shouting at the top of his lungs before he finally stopped. But at that point, his voice was cracking so badly it was hard to tell what he was even saying."
Levy's eyes began to cloud with tears or rainwater. She couldn't really tell, but she didn't want to know. Her hair was sticking flat against her face and neck due to the water. She knew that she would get sick if she stayed in this type of weather for too long, but she didn't care.
"I'd never seen Natsu like that, until then. I didn't know what to do. Erza did, though. She grabbed Natsu and hugged him. Not one of her knock-out hugs, but a hug that you'd give to someone that had just lost their most important thing. She was crying."
Levy noticed how the tears, actual tears and not raindrops, were falling down her cheeks. She tried to wipe them away, but her sleeve was just as wet as the rest of her so she only managed to smear her vision even more than the tears were.
"The entire guild was in the infirmary. We all saw Natsu break down. He let go of Erza and grabbed Happy instead, not that Happy wasn't already holding onto him before. He held Happy like a lifeline like it was the only thing he had left. He sobbed so hard that he began to dry heave. Porlyusica came, but left as soon as she saw how the guild was reacting."
The sky was nothing but pure black now, the clouds blocking any possible sun that tried to escape. The rain was relentless, like Levy's tears, which seemed to be endless.
"It's already been a year," she said. calming down and standing up. "I can't believe how much's changed since you left us." She turned away from the grave she had been talking to. She set off down the stone trail in front of her.
"Goodbye, Lu-chan. I'll see you tomorrow."