Chapter 1

Lucy's POV

"Welcome, to the Heartfilia Mansion." The mumbled words broke through the door.

"Lucy?" The loud screech of the head maid echoed through the hallway.

My tiny yet great footsteps became heavier. This is my life as a rich family's daughter, escaping maids and butlers, causing destruction throughout the mansion when normal girls my age spent a life smiling and laughing in front of her lord.

While panting and running, I passed maids and butlers who would try to stop me and bring me back to my room. As I turn the final corner to this maze like manor, my eyes lit up as I saw the floral design of the back door. A smile stretched on my blushing cheeks as I burst through the barrier to the heaven like rose garden my mother left behind. Each rose was the new birth to an earl in this world. Each thorn bush was the death to each of those earls.

Slowly I closed the door behind me, making sure not to make a sound so that the Heartfilia servants wouldn't find out.

I giggled as I twirled around. Rose petals flew around me as if they too were dancing with me.

Natsu's POV

She burst through the door as if her lifetime dream were behind it. My eyes widened as the scenery captured me. Rose petals flew around her, like the maiden herself was secretly a rose. Her eyes glistened in the radiant sunlight. Her hair scattered like a nest around her head when she lied down upon the grass. Her smile itself warms your heart, enough to shame the sun.

I wanted to talk to her. I can't erase her image from my mind. Her beautiful face was sketched into my heart.

She opened her eyes from her rest. Her arm was outstretched into the endless sky, her hand made the movement like she wanted to grasp something. This was the moment, the moment to talk to her.

I ran quietly to her making sure she was concentrated in her fantasy. Then I held her hand, our hands moulded together perfectly. Her eyes widened, she scrambled to her knees and stood in front of me with her head lowered.

Lucy's POV

"M-my Lord!" I was at a loss for words. This was the earl to the Dragneel Family. I look at our hands that were glued together. Gently I slipped my hand out of his grasp, then regretted immediately as the cold air shot at my fragile skin.

"You can lift your head now." His warm voice reached into the depths of my heart, he wasn't cold hearted. His grin was… So calm, he didn't have a fake smile that hid his pain and all his grief. My eyes darted to his hair, pink hair?

Still stuck in my thoughts he interrupted, "I'm Natsu Dragneel, earl of the Dragneel family, and you are?"

"My lord, I am Lucy Heartfilia." I held my dress and bowed.

"Just call me Natsu" Again he gave his signature grin.

A sudden booming voice washed over us like cold water that had ruined the moment, "Natsu Dragneel! We are to head back to our estate now!" His father stood against the door, with the same cheeky grin.

He grabbed my hands and held them in his. "Listen, let's meet tomorrow! I'll send a carriage here that'll bring you to our manor, don't disappoint me, my lady." He said cheerfully with a wink then rushed off to his father. Once he reached the doorstep his father whispered something to him while pointing to me. Natsu turned around and waved while smiling at me.

The two left me dumbfounded in the rose garden. My maid Virgo appeared, "My lady, it is time for you to head in." She said while bowing.

"Take me to father." I ordered, I must tell father of Natsu I grinned on the way.

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