The begining

My name is Lucy Heartfilia and this is my story. From a young age I have always been kept inside my house with my mother, Layla Heartfilia, and my father, Jude Heartfilia. Our house was bigger than usual but always kept clean and furnished because of mama and the helpers in our house. I would sometimes play with their children if I ever got lonely because mama was busy but papa would scold me if I did. He would always tell me that I was too good for them and I should only be with people of my status. At that age I did not know what he meant but when I started my lessons at the age of 6 everything was explained to me.

I soon found out I was not like all the normal children. I was richer, meaning I had more money than them and I was of higher status. I still did not know what that meant but papa told me it meant that I was more important but I think everyone is important. That is what mama taught me.

Everyday was the same I would do the same things over and over. I would get up, eat with mama and papa then attend to my lessons. To put it simply, Life was absolutely boring. The best part of the day for me was when I got to watch the stars with mama. She would teach me all about the constellations. There were twelve of them: Leo, Aries, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Virgo and Libra. My favourite one was Leo. He was the leader of the twelve zodiac and also the strongest. Soon after mama got sick and the lessons stopped but even though she was sick she still help our servants around the house. Fortunately it was just the flu and she soon got better after and my lessons continued.

I started to follow mama everywhere. I was like her shadow. If you did not know where I was look for mama I was there. The servants started to call me a mama's girl. I only laughed and smiled

For my birthday mama had given me a beautiful doll that I named Michelle. She was like my very own little sister and my favourite. She had blonde hair just like mine but unlike my honey brown eyes she had sky blue. I would make clothes for her with any piece of cloth I could find. I would play with here in the garden everyday and mama would look at us with those sparkles in her eyes and smile. Her smile felt like kisses from heaven. Seeing her smile made me smile. That day I made I my priority to make her smile.

One day I was playing in the garden alone with Michelle. Mama was not with us that day because she was busy. We were play beside a Rosemarie bush when i heard voices. I soon realized the sounds were children playing and it was coming just beyond the bushes. Curiosity sparked my interest and I decided to investigate. I parted the bush to take a look and to my surprise I found a hole and to my luck it was just big enough for me to fit through. So I did. I crawled through it and what I saw amazed me. It was children, children actually my age playing. There were about twelve of them and they all stared at me with wonder in their eyes. The next thing I knew one of the girls came up to me. She was truly the description of cute. Her short blue hair reminded me of the sky and her brown eyes of the sweetest honey. They sparkled with excitement.

"Hey my name's Levy, what's yours?" she said with a giggle.

I stared at her surprised and smiled back with the same excitement and said, "My name's Lucy," and that's how i met my first friend

After that day I would sneak out and meet Levy at the same place. We would to various things together like playing with Michelle, have tea parties and read. Oh did we love to read. Any children's book there is you name it we properly read it. Life was bliss. Unfortunately this all came crashing down when papa started to notice my absence when I missed one of my classes and went to investigate. When I saw papa I froze. When he saw me his face went into a state of shock. His eyes burned with fury.

"Lucy Heartfilia what in God's name are you doing here? Have I taught you nothing? You are not to play with peasants!" his words burned, as if acid was being thrown upon me.

"But papa their not peasants, they're my friends," I told him with tears running down my cheeks.

"Be quiet child and stop talking rubbish!" he told me while grabbing my wrist with such extreme force I could feel it bruising.

"Papa stop it! Let go please it hurts!" but he didn't listen to my protests. It carried on like that until we reached home. Mama must of heard me crying outside because she came rushing out.

"Jude what are you doing! Let her go, don't you see your hurting her!" she said grabbing me away from him. I ran into mama's arms as she embraced me.

"We will talk about this later Layla," stated my father and left.

"Mama I left Michelle," I said while more tears ran down. She put my head in the crook of her neck and rubbed smooth circles on my head and back and whispered sweet things in my ear. She smelt of vanilla. It instantly calmed me down and I soon fell asleep.

That night I woke up and was unable to sleep. It just wasn't the same without Michelle. I decided I needed mama so I got up and started to walk towards her room. On my way there I heard shouting coming from papa's study. Curiosity took control as I peeked through the door. It was mama and papa.

"She's just a child. You cannot have her cooped up in the house every single day. She needs be with children her own age," mama shouted at papa

"She needs none of that. What she needs to do is focus on her studies so she can become a fit bride to bear a son and carry on the business," he shouted back at her.

"That's all you ever think about, your god forsaken business. What about your family. What happened to the man I married. The one that would do anything for his family, now you're just cold towards us and treat us as if were nothing to you. You're not the man I married and loved," mama said with disgust in her voice.

The next thing I knew papa struck mama across her face and she fell down to her knees. He dragged her up by her hair in an attempt to hit her again.

"You know you really are pathetic," mama spat in his face as he was about to hit her. She showed no weakness. I ran and pushed papa away from mama before he could hit her again. He stepped back in shock. Mama enveloped me in a hug.

"don't ever talk to me like that again. I am the man of his house and you shall obey me," he spat in mama's face while walking out the room and slammed the door. Mama picked me up and carried me back to my bedroom. She laid me in my bed and snuggled herself next to me.

"Lucy why don't we run away and go on many adventures together. Just the two of us," she whispered in my ear as if it was a sworn secret between the two of us.

"What about papa?" I asked

"Well Lucy, papa doesn't love us anymore," she answered

"Do you think if we show him more love he'll love us back then mama?"

"I'm sorry Lucy but he doesn't have any more love in his heart,"

"Oh well if we have to mama, I guess we could and I really want to go on adventures with you,"

"We'll go on many adventures together and we'll watch the stars every night,"

"Really mama!" I said with excitement sparkling in my eyes

"Of course,"

I snuggled up closer to her and let out a yawn as sleep was coming to me," I love you mama,"

"I love you too baby girl," she said as we both drifted off into a peaceful slumber.

After that night mama started to have a new bruise every week and she and papa's arguments got more and more frequent. I would always ask her if she was okay but she would always reply with 'I'm okay sweetie'. I wanted to believe her so badly but I knew she was lying. You could see right through her smile. Even when she started to cough blood up violently and vomit it was always 'I'm okay sweetie' when her hair started to fall out, 'I'm okay sweetie' when the doctor told her she had cancer 'I'm okay sweetie' even when she was on her death bed. It was the same thing every time. One night mama asked me to take her outside on the wheel chair and I did. We sat down in the grass sprawled out. We started to count the stars and watch them. Suddenly a shooting star went passed.

"I wish for your happiness Lucy, now you make a wish," said mama

"I wish to be with mama forever," I wished

"I love you Lucy, I always will,"

"I love you too mama,"

We never did get to run away and go on our many adventures because that night mama didn't wake up. I shook her over and over harder and harder, I screamed her name at the top of my lungs but she wouldn't wake up. Mama why won't you wake up?

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