The baby cooed, playing happily on the doctor's seat.
Her small, blonde tuff of hair sat on her forehead, with a small cherry pin tying it together. The parents only smiled at the child, thinking it was best for the little girl. The Doctor came through the door, only a small container. The parents looked up at him, eyeing the container. The Doctor cleaned his throat.
"We analyzed her blood, and put it into a clock for her soulmate." The Doctor announced. The parents smiled, and looked at the small little baby girl and she stared at them curiously with her big brown eyes. Layla, the mother, went over and picked the baby up, and set her up straight.
"Now this will hurt, but this is all for your happiness," Jude, the father said. Layla looked at her daughter. The Doctor approached the small baby, taking a pink, little blank wrist clock out of the box.
He approached the happy baby girl carefully, and held the baby's wrist. Layla thought in her mind if her daughter really did need this.
"This is all for her happiness, I want her to be happy." Layla thought as the Doctor started to bring the clock to the baby's wrist, little needle-like objects on the bottom of the clock.
"I hope she will meet her soulmate soon." Layla thought as the Doctor attached the clock in the baby's wrist.
Lucy Heartfilia never really understood love.
All the kissing, hugging, cuddling, affection-it just didn't make sense to Lucy Heartfilia. How do you show your love? Sucking on faces? Squeezing your bodies together? Snuggling under a hot blanket? Lucy just didn't believe in love.
In 6th grade, a boy named Ben Gadler kissed her on the lips. There were no sparks. No fireworks. No arrow striking through the heart. No affection. No warmth. No love. Lucy didn't care that her first kiss was taken away by a guy who didn't even like her, that's when she started to doubt love. Ben had moved away to America, and Lucy never saw him ever agin.
In 8th grade, Lucy started dating a boy for a few months. Lucy didn't even like him, she wanted to know what dating actually felt like. It felt like you were in a dark alley. Cold, isolated, with no contact with other people. He was demanding. With all the "affection" they both had broken up eventually, there was literally no warmth. It was just uncomfortable. Lucy had broken up with him on their 4th month anniversary, when he had got her a yarn bracelet from K-mart for three dollars.
It was the stupid SoulClock on her wrist. It remained blank. Every time she dated someone, the numbers on the clock would never show up. Lucy began to lose hope. The doctors said "The numbers haven't started because you aren't near your soulmate." Lucy thought that was absolute crap. Lucy started to begin there was no love, since there were no numbers on the clock. All of her other friends' clocks ticked down to the very moment where they met their soulmate. So why didn't Lucy meet her's?
Finally, in high school, numbers appeared on the clock.
10m18d14h07m06s (10 months, 18 days, 14 hours, 7 minutes, and 6 seconds)
Lucy wasn't over joyed, excited, or even happy when numbers appeared on her SoulClock. Her friends were though. They were jumping for joy, finally, their blonde-haired friend would find her soulmate like some of them did.
"Lucy! You can meet your soulmate now!" Lisanna Strauss exclaimed, hugging Lucy, her SoulClock already blank since she had found her soulmate two months ago. Lucy bet her friends were more excited than her, she wasn't even happy about it.
"So? My SoulClock will probably break or stop at a random number like that," Lucy said, waving off the situation. Her curly, short, blue-haired friend frowned at Lucy.
"Lu-chan, stop being so bitter," Levy McGarden said, sticking out her tounge at the blonde. Lucy rolled her eyes at the bookworm.
"When you meet your soulmate, bring him to me so I can make sure he's right," a scarlet-haired girl said, raising a piece of sushi with her chopsticks. They were all eating lunch together, sitting under a blossoming tree.
"Erza, we might not know if I'm even going to get one," Lucy argued, starting to pack away her bento. The others followed in suit. They all walked together to class, keeping a light conversation about the English Exam coming up in a month. Lucy sighed, not knowing what to feel about the numbers that were on the clock.
Petals flew away from the blossomed tree.
His whole family stared in disbelief as their pink-haired son ran down the stairs, waving his wrist, his red SoulClock shining, but now with numbers.
"Mom, dad, Wendy, look!" The pink-haired boy said, running down the stairs with fresh socks. "Look, there are number-" He slipped on last polished wooden stair, smashing his face into the wall that was presented in front of the stairs. His mom went to see if he was okay, but then he shot up.
"What is it, Natsu?" Grandine said, looking for any bumps on her step-son's head.
Natsu's eyes were full of happiness, and giddy. He held up his wrist, to show that his SoulClock had numbers on it. The family looked at it and was surprised and joyed.
"That's my son!" Igneel yelled, rubbing Natsu's head. Grandine was too busy thinking over that fact that her step-son would actually have a girlfriend, and little Wendy was congratulating Natsu, and how his soulmate would look like.
"Oh, I bet she will have flowy blonde hair! Maybe brown or blue eyes? She would definitely be shorter than Natsu," Wendy tried to guess what Natsu's soulmate would be. Natsu grinned, and patted Wendy.
"Oh really? I wonder when you are going to get a SoulClock and get yourself a soulmate!" Natsu said, indicating to Wendy's empty wrist. Igneel stopped grinning and looked at Wendy.
"Wendy is not going to get a boyfriend. She's going to stay here with Daddy and Mommy," Igneel said in a serious voice. Grandine shot her husband a look.
"She is going to get a soulmate! In fact, I'm going to set up an appointment for her right now," Grandine walked away punching numbers into the home phone, with Igneel following her with protests and complaints.
"I can't wait to meet your soulmate Natsu! I'm sure she'll be very nice," Wendy said, facing Natsu, ignoring their bickering parents. Natsu grinned once again. His cheeks were starting to hurt from all the grins and smiles, but he was just too happy.
"Thanks Wendy. Anyways, let's go to sleep kiddo, it's past your bedtime," Natsu said, ruffling Wendy's long blue hair. Wendy's hands reached instinctively up to her head, scowling and fixing her head.
She walked up the stairs, going into her room while Natsu went into his. He changed into his pajamias, and turned off the light in his room. Natsu twisted and turned in his sleep, just thinking about when he is going to meet his soulmate.
He kept looking at his SoulClock all night.