She hates him. No really, she does. She's never met him, doesn't even know what he looks like, but by god she loathes him with all herself.

The directors rave about him. Go on and on during classes, he's a prodigy, I swear, and he's what every young musician should aspire to be, and on and on. Lucy has no problem with intensive conversation about up and coming musicians, but on at 8am on a monday, Natsu is about the last thing she wants to talk about.

For her second semester performance she chooses goes back to basics with a Bach piece. Her professor says that she missed the story in the music. Lucy doesn't understand what he means. He makes several more comments, but she tunes them out after she hears the phrase, one of your peers, Natsu, leave his mouth. She decides she hates the professor too.

It's nearing the end of her freshman year and she's settled into life in the conservatory. She has two goals: make it into her city's symphony orchestra, and never cross paths with Natsu Dragneel.

An: So here's another Au, music stylez. Stuff will actually start happening in the next chapter.