I DO NOT OWN ANY CHARACTERS! THEY ALL BELONG TO HIRO MASHIMA!
Lucy was enraged as she watched the challenger take down his last opponent. How dare he come back after being gone for a year and treat his absence like it was nothing. She was lonely for an entire year, crying herself to sleep every night hoping that she would see one of her friends again. Now that one was here though, she just wanted him to leave again. He left her a note. He didn't even tell her in person that he was leaving. Left her all alone, distraught over the guild disbanding and losing Aquarius.
Lucy felt a tear escape one of her eyes as Natsu turned to face her. He was grinning his signature grin. Acting like everything was normal. Acting like he didn't break her heart, stomping on it over and over again until it was reduced to dust. Acting like the old Natsu. He wasn't the old Natsu though. The old Natsu would've been there for her. The man standing before her was just a shadow of the man he once was.
"Hey, good to see ya Lucy. How's it going?" Natsu said with a smile. It was all too much too fast. The same smile, same voice, same face, different Natsu. It was like looking into a mirror that shows the past. Only Lucy didn't want to see the past. All she wanted to see was a future without Natsu. She couldn't be having him hurt her again. Not with how much it hurt the first time. She's put up walls since then, and she wasn't planning on taking them down with just one appearance from a ghost.
When Lucy looked back at Natsu to see he still had the smile on his face, only a slightly confused expression to go along with it, she turned around and sprinted towards her house. Away from Natsu, away from the world. She ran as fast as she could, ignoring the pedestrians shocked and confused faces. She sprinted until she found herself lying on her bed, holding Aquarius's broken key to her chest. One look at the tracking grid on her wall and that was all it took.
She broke.
Sorry it's so short, just wanted a good first chapter before launching off into the story!