Hello... This is my first time I published one chapter and this is my first fic too.

Some events in this chapter are based on my childhood events when I was an elementary school student. In this chapter, all the characters are children. As for the romance between Natsu and Lucy might come very slowly because they aren't old enough to learn how to love someone and I actually prefer slow romance. I'll translate this chapter into Bahasa Indonesia but I'm not sure when.

Fairy Tail and its characters only belong to Hiro Mashima :)

Chapter 1 It All Started From Here...

It all started when me and my mom went to the bookstore far from my house, today was Sunday so it was obvious that I met many strangers. Everyone was reading a book, but not all of them were amused by it. Of course, it is a book and you know what it looks like, right? It just a bunch of alphabets that could make such amazing stories written by certain highly creative writers. Some day but not today, I wished I could make such stories, although I'm just a fifth grader and I didn't have such creativity to make an awesome story, even one was hard enough.

Besides that, now I was searching a book with pictures in it a.k.a. A Shoujo manga. I really liked Shoujo manga because it told me a lot about feelings and emotion between a girl and a boy. Especially the boy part, the mangaka made his looks too perfect and his body is... Too slender like a slender man, of course. I thought that the girl is also the lucky one. How could a clueless girl, who often appeared as the main character, made the smart and popular boy fell in love with her within 3 chapters? It doesn't make any sense.

I actually had a crush, and it just a simple crush. Not that complicated anyway. He is my classmate and up until now, I didn't have a chance to talk with him even if we have been in the same class for almost a year. Logically, I actually have talked to him as a friend but I don't have any courage maybe because of this pain in the chest. Come on.. I'm still 11 years old and now I have this kind of pain? Nobody got time for that.

"Lucy.. Have you done yet?" asked my mom and she brought many recipe books for an upcoming dinner. Every mom in this world must be a recipe book maniac like my mom. She likes cooking a lot but not until she got very busy being a housewife. My mom always told me that being a housewife is the same as being...Uhm.. I think I forgot the last part.

"Not yet. I feel confused now" I actually didn't know which manga should I picked. Yet my mom only allowed me to buy manga for every 2 weeks while for me, 2 weeks are like 2 months. And I didn't want to pick a wrong manga anymore. Otherwise, I would repeat the same mistake again. I have this experience when I picked a manga randomly and in the end, my mom caught me red-handed when I was about to read a manga with you know... It had adult themes and I didn't know what that means, I was too young at that time. Then, my mom forbid me to buy a manga anymore until the end of school exam. Do you know how hard it was?

"Well.. It would be better if you read childhood stories, Lucy. Your mom doesn't want you to read that kind of book. You do know how dangerous it was, especially for a girl like you" My mom stood beside me and she gave me a book titled 'My Little Princess'. "I want you to read this one" I received the book and from its cover, I knew that this book doesn't have many pictures.

"But, mom. I would feel bored with this kind of book" I grunted toward my mom.

"Lucy. The first step to being a good writer, you must learn how to read"

"I'm already 11 years old. It took long enough for me to learn how to read"

"But, have you ever made one story on your own?" My mom knew how much I love to write and my writer's block problem-I don't even start one story yet. She cared about me a lot by giving me this book but still... I'm not ready to read this kind of book. It has more letters than the pictures. How I supposed to imagine the story without knowing its picture?

"I haven't made one yet. And... I'm not ready to read this book, mom" I gave the book back to my mom kindly. I just really hate this situation. The moment when your mom giving you an advice, which is actually very beneficial for you, but then you thought it wasn't a good advice and you decided not to follow your mom's advice was a stupid thing to do by a child, of course.

Because someday, you would feel regret for ignoring your mom's advice after bad things happened to you. Sometimes, it can't be helped for me except to following her advice but not for this time. "I'm sorry, mom. I just want to read a Shoujo manga. Do you know how good the mangaka was? I really appreciated their arts, really"

"If that's what you want, just make sure not to pick the wrong one right, okay?" From then on, I could hear how disappointed she was. I think I should be punished for what I have done, but it was too late, because she disappeared very suddenly. She went back to another bookshelf, which is not that far from here, within a minute to put that book to its place. Sometimes, my mom could disappear like a professional magician. But, sadly I don't have that kind of talent, though I wish I had.

"Hm.." I kept staring and staring until my eyes spotted something suspicious, that title attracted my eyes. Then, I picked to make sure how good the synopsis was. "Lovely days? Another new romantic manga?" Judging from its cover, I deduced that this manga was about a girl, whom I thought she must be the clumsy one, fell in love with this short basketball guy, whom I thought he must be the popular one. It sounded cliché to me but it was better than the old one I bought-technically my mom bought it with her money, of course.

Not long after that, my mom went to a cashier while I was drowning in my inner mind. I couldn't stop thinking about that manga. What if the girl isn't what she looks like? What if the drawing wasn't that good? What if it has that forbidden scene and then my mom caught me red-handed again? What if the manga has many volumes? I just bought the first volume and I have this feeling that the second volume will be released for quite some time, even longer than waiting for the film franchise to its end. I really hate waiting especially when it comes to manga. Still... Why did I pick it if I hate waiting? How weird I was.

"Let's go, Lucy. It's time for us to go home" said my mom.

"Okay, mom"

Now, it is the right time for me to read that manga before the school starts tomorrow, I never had a wish that Sunday could be positioned besides Monday, but sadly, I have to prepare things for school first. From my school uniform to books that I should bring according to the schedule. I'm so happy that tomorrow I will have an art class and it was the only subject in which I don't need to use a calculator-It is an art subject not a math.

But, it doesn't mean I hate math. I just don't have a good connection with that subject. When I thought the answer was this one, it's actually very different. And I also hate the moment when you thought your answer was true and it actually false, though you have done so many things only to answer that simple question. It's just a simple question and you got it wrong? Nobody got time for that!

Finally, I have done it and now I just need to read this manga before I went back to another dream world with my other imaginary friends, some of them are based on my friends at school like Natsu Dragneel, that pink haired boy who annoyed me a lot especially when he cooperated with his blue cat named Happy. I don't even understand how come Happy has a blue fur while the owner named Natsu has a pink color for his hair? Is he an alien or something?

Besides his annoying attitudes, Natsu is a very good friend of mine although sometimes we fought a lot since he has been my seatmate since the fifth year of elementary school. He often borrowed my pen and he never gave it back. I'm used to it anyway but someday, I wish he had stopped that bad habit. I don't want to lose any pens again! It is hard for me to write what I really want to write without a pen, especially the black one. The black pen is the best for from all kinds of pens.

After reading it for more than twenty pages, I started not to stop reading it. It just so twisted for an amateur reader like me. The main character named Sakura Nakahara fell in love with her childhood friend named Take, I forgot his long name. And he is the basketball guy and many girls admired him including Sakura who is actually very clumsy and stupid, sorry for that. But, she has this cute face and long hair. I'm jealous. I have this blonde hair and it is short. Short hair doesn't look very appealing. And this girl has this long hair and it is straight which reminds me of Sadako, well, Sakura's hair isn't black and her hair's length isn't that long. Okay, could I just stop thinking about the hair issues? Sakura is just a fictional character and I'm the one who actually lived not her. Why did I even bother?

This girl also has a best friend named Mikarin and she fell in love with Sakura's seatmate named Yuki who also a basketball player with short height and he appeared in the main cover of manga's first volume along with Sakura. Is it just my feeling or Sakura might fall in love toward Yuki instead of Take? If it is true, but why and how? Both Sakura and Yuki have the same routine as I and Natsu too. Should they just keep being friend like me and Natsu?

I might not know how if I stopped reading it.

Soon I finally finished the first volume less than an hour.

"So.. That's the story huh?" I brought myself to bed and staring the lamp above me. I never thought that Sakura does love Yuki because she was treated as his slave in a week while Take never does anything for her except by making a distance toward her as if he was afraid of rejection and couldn't see the oblivious. As if the mangaka made the story her way.

Besides that, I have found something interesting from the manga. And I wonder if it works for me. I couldn't wait for tomorrow. But, there's one thing bothered me, I wonder whether Natsu would come to school or not. Because if he did, I have to hide my pen before he borrowed it again. Then, I turned off the lamp and went back to my dream world along with my imaginary friends. I hoped that tonight, Natsu wouldn't appear in my dream again. Because facing him in the real world was very tiring and I don't want to wake up with drained energy after facing him in the dream world.

I hurriedly woke up and then did certain morning activities such as taking a cold shower, wearing school uniform which is very stylish especially the skirt, it has a dark blue color and the skirt's style resembles a lot like Sailor Moon's uniform. Besides that, my school uniform also consists of a dark blue tie and this dark blue vest. I feel like a flight attendant, at least for now.

"Lucy! It's time for breakfast"

My mom screamed my name when I was going to admire myself in front of the mirror. She also knew that I like to spend my 15 minutes only for a mirror. There's always a time when a kid like me does care about appearance especially for her secret crush. Before I went downstairs, I combed my hair and then I wore this butterfly hair clip. It was given by my mom as for my 4th birthday present. This hair clip was the most precious thing I had in my life.

"What's today's breakfast, mom?" I asked as I sat on the chair while my dad... He wasn't here. Maybe because of his job as a CEO drained his energy. I knew how busy my dad was, I didn't have a chance to say "Good morning, dad. I love you" even for a day. Even on holiday, he disappeared like a dust. I felt like he wasn't even existed in this house anymore. I wished he wasn't a CEO then I would said "Good morning, dad. I love you" every day and every morning like a happy father and daughter relationship.

"Today's your mom made an Italian food for you"

"Italian food? Are you making a lasagna?"

"No, honey. It is a risotto" She put the big bowl in front of me. And then I saw this white thing which reminds me of a chicken porridge instead of a lasagna. "A risotto? But, it looks a lot like a chicken porridge" I took the risotto to my plate and it was a bit sticky but it smelled good. Even better than a decent porridge I used to eat when I was in a hospital.

"Chicken porridge and a risotto are different, Lucy"

"But, how?"

"You may know it later, Lucy. You better eat it before it's too late for school"

I stared at the clock behind me and it showed that I only have 15 minutes to finish my breakfast. Just 15 minutes to go.

"Have you done your homework?" asked the bluenette named Levy McGarden, she is my classmate too and she is in charge as the class' treasurer. Now, both of us were walking side by side inside the school area and the other students, especially the boys, were playing soccer in the school yard. We only needed few steps before arriving the class. Since this morning weather wasn't that hot, we decided to walk around the school first. I actually have different reason too, I wanted to make sure whether he came to school or not.

And I just couldn't keep searching him through my eyes.

"Lucy!" Levy waved her right hand in front of me as if I was hypnotized by certain creatures. "Were you daydreaming again?" she looked a bit annoyed now. But, It couldn't be helped, I desperately wanted to see him even if just for a second. "I'm sorry, Levy. I was curious which team would win the soccer" I lied to her as usual.

"Lucy, I know you lied to me. You want to see him, don't you?"

"Your guess is right. I wonder how come you know that?"

"Because you always does that, Lucy. There's a time where you should focus on one thing only. Anyway, have you done your homework?" asked Levy again and she stared at me like a furious cat. "Wait.. What homework?" Seems like I forgot something very important.

"You forgot it again?! It's a math homework!"

My mind was in the middle of buffering. It took a long enough for me to remember it. And then I tried to check my books but I couldn't do that because we weren't in the classroom. "What if we go to the classroom first?"

While on the dreadful journey toward the classroom, I walked carefully and a bit faster than usual so that I wouldn't be pranked by Natsu, again, if I arrived earlier than him. For Natsu always comes earlier than everyone (It is actually a surprising fact). He always came to school earlier than everybody including the school's security guard yet he often made pranks inside the class and I was his second target, the first one was Gray. Come to think of it, both Natsu and Gray are very different creatures. They couldn't stop fighting like a cat and a mouse except when Erza came to the class.

As the senior student, Erza had this psycho aura which made Natsu and Gray are afraid of her. And logically, the junior students must obey the senior student, because if they don't, I wonder when they could survive at school within a day, especially if they made Erza angry. Do you know how scary Erza was? She could shake the universe with her bare hands! Just with bare hands!. Besides that, Erza was actually a very good friend of mine too. She was so dependable when it comes to the bullies, yeah.. Most of the bullies in my school are boys, they like to make a prank toward the girls for unknown reasons, and Erza was their main threat. Erza was also a smart student with high-intelligence. Very high intelligence.

"Weird. I didn't see anything suspicious inside the class"

Inside the classroom, I saw nothing suspicious other than my classmates were busy copying their homework, it was their daily routine and I used to be one of them too. There was Natsu and... He was playing with his friend's cell phone, I think. "Good morning, Luce. How was your day?" asked the pink haired boy and he didn't even glare at his seatmate because he needed to concentrate. He must finish this game with a new high score.

"Did you borrow Loke's cellphone again?"

"As his friend, I can borrow his cell phone any time I want" Logically, for Natsu, a friend resembles a Doraemon's bag. He could borrow everything from his friends and he really likes this fact. And when it comes to Lucy, the blonde girl beside him who likes English subject a lot, she was more than a Doraemon's bag. She was two times more than a Doraemon's bag. "But, not with my pen, Natsu. Where is it?" I asked him about the location of my missing pen.

"What is it?" He kept avoiding my question. As if he just pretended not to remember anything. Well, I'm sure he remembered it!

"My pen, you idiot!" I took Loke's cell phone before Natsu finally beat the game.

"Hey! I almost finished the game! Just give it back, you... Weirdo!"

"I'm not a weirdo! I'm Lucy! And I demand you to give me back my pen first! If you don't, I will press the 'exit' button" I showed him who's the boss now.

"Oh yeah?! I doubt you would do that"

"Is that so?" Finally, I did what he had never expected. I pressed the 'exit' button. "Look, the game is over" I grinned mischievously.

"Why you-?!"

Why in the world I ended up chased by Natsu? Oh yeah.. My pen. I wanted it back. Desperately wanted it back by pressing the 'exit' button only for my missing pen. I had stepped back before both me and Natsu ran around the classroom, like a professional athlete, while Levy, who just finished organizing the money, decided not to ask the homework issues anymore because she knew it would be hopeless. She knew that both of us were also like a cat and a mouse. She was also glad that Gray wasn't arrived yet, if he did, the situation might get any worse. And calling Erza might be the only choice she had.

But, from then on, I never expected that Natsu would surrender too soon. Because he gave up suddenly when the teacher came. Yeah... Thanks teacher.. For making me stop chasing this unacceptable classmate named Natsu. Though, I still couldn't get my pen back. And I felt very exhausted after running and climbing the unoccupied tables and chairs along with Natsu.

So, this is the end of the first chapter as the author is busy finding more ideas for upcoming chapter. The upcoming chapter might be released before November or more than that. Making one chapter is hard enough for me. I did some re-writing and re-checking for many times. Sometimes I got a huge writer's block and it is a creepy thing for all writers.

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