Chapter 1

No One's There

Lucy woke up to the sounds of silence. No one had broken into her house overnight. She smiled at this, and took in the smell of her freedom.

"I don't think the smell of freedom smells like this..." She thought. Lucy followed the smell, pinching her nose to keep the stench from entering her lungs, toward the strawberry cheese cake she left for Erza on the table in the kitchen. She had left ice for Gray, but by now it was all melted. Happy's fish had rotted overnight, and Natsu's match box, well, it was still there, untouched, though she doubted that he even knew how to use them. Grunting in disgust, Lucy took the cheesecake and rotten fish and tossed them into her trashcan, cleaned up the mess the melted ice had made, and replaced the match box in her kitchen cupboard. After having done that, Lucy took a quick shower and got dressed. She was wearing a light pink shirt with a black belt, a blue skirt, thigh-high white socks, and long black boots. Lucy clipped her keys to her belt and smiled, before walked out the door towards the guild that she knew as home.

At The Guild

Lucy's P.o.v

"Morning!" I screamed at the foot of the door waving a hand to the people in the guild. There weren't that many people here. The people here though were either drinking or fighting. I started to walk toward the bar where our lovely bar maid Mira Jane was.

"Hey, Mira!" I said, reaching into the pocket of my skirt for some money and putting it out onto the table in front of the white-haired barmaid.

"Hey,Lucy. What can I get for you today?" She asked, her kind voice ringing through my ears. A bright smile was glued to her beautiful face and a light blush covered them in the cutest way.

"Um, a strawberry smoothie is fine." I smiled back.

"Alright, I'll be right back." She commented upon my choice, and walked over to the kitchen.

"Okay." I said before she disappeared. I sighed looking at everyone. They were pretty much the same. Cana was drinking beer as always, Elfman was saying "Man" and flirting with Evergreen, Levy was sitting on Gajeel's lap reading her book and kicking her legs back and forth, Gajeel was just drinking and looking over her shoulder. Jet and Droy weren't here, and that was a little bit weird. Neither were Happy, Carla, Wendy, Natsu, Gray, Erza, or Lisanna. Weird. Team Natsu probably went to a mission with Lisanna instead of me. I sighed as the barmaid came back.

"Here you go Lucy." She said with a smile. I caught a glimpse of Mira fiddling around with her fingers as if she was troubled by something, but I just brushed off the thought.

"Thanks Mira." I said taking a sip. "Where is everyone?"

Mira frowned and continued to fiddle with her fingers.

"Um... T-Team N-Natsu wanted m-me t-." she began stuttering out. I stopped her.

"Team Natsu wanted you to tell me what?" I asked.

"They're kicking you out and replacing you with Lisanna." Mira said, suddenly finding an interest in the floor.

"Oh..." I sighed, looking down at the floor with her. I could hear sniffles and quiet sobs coming from ahead of me. I looked up for just a second, and Mira was crying. Then I started to cry along with her. I banged my head on the table, then just rested it there. At least I can get rent money without cutting it to fix the damage. I smiled a bit, but still cried a bit too. I got up, slide the money over to Mira, and walked out the door. Before I walked out, I turned around as Mira looked at me with a red face. I smiled my cherry smile with big, fat, warm tears running down my face. Then I left without a good-bye. More tears ran down my porcelain cheeks as memories of the two of us pushed their way into my head.

And to think that I had ever loved him... I hate him, I just hate him...

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