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My universe without you.

Prologue.

As the lonely figure stands on top of the hill, awaiting the moment the sun sheds its lights onto the crowded city, he lets his eyes focus on the horizon. He let the warmth wash over his body, the soft breeze bringing his messy hair into more of a mess, but this all didn't matter to him. His thoughts were only filled with memories from long ago. From the moment she first shed light into his life to the moment her warmth disappeared like the sun does each and every nightfall. He inhaled the smell of his surroundings deeply, everywhere he went smelt like her, every corner of the world, reminded him of her. There was no place in this world nor in his heart where he could forget about her. He lifted his arm and reached out for the sunrays, trying to grab them, but the warmth that he felt for a brief moment quickly faded away as he brought his arm back to his side. The sun reminded him of her; but as the sun would rise every single day again, why wouldn't she appear? Why hadn't she come back and filled his life with her warmth again? Not even the birds who were witnesses of his sadness would be able to tell this broken man.

He couldn't understand and he wouldn't ever understand. The people he had held the most dear disappeared so quickly from his life. First it had been his father, that as young and ignorant as he had been, had always had his arms open for him, embracing him with fatherly love, teaching him about all the different meanings of life, letting the little boy decide for his own about what he thought of it. His days seemed to last forever, until his shadow one day vanished and left the little boy to wander around alone with an empty heart. Then he had met her, that little white haired girl who seemed at first so extremely annoying. He was a boy, of course, girls didn't seem at all that normal to him. But as time had gone by, he had gotten used to feeling her presence beside him. It had become a part of his existence and slowly but surely had she also become someone dear to him. Someone who could support him when the emptiness in his heart had become too much for him to bear. He could forget about his aching pain for a bit whenever she was with him. But as quickly as she had entered his life, as fast had she left it again, making the emptiness in his heart even bigger. Even the mention of her name made him run away in frustration, reminding him of the unbearable pain in his chest.

All the grief that he had felt from losing the ones he loved most, was suddenly born into the form of a new kind of love...

... And that's when she had come...

She, that as bright and warm as the sun, had suddenly shed some light into his life. She, that from their very first meeting had managed to errase the darkness of his past whenever he felt her presence. She, the blonde, busty girl that loved to talk so much, making him feel annoyed, but at the same time so strangely fulfilled. She, Lucy Heartfilia, had become a much more important part of his life than he could have ever imagined her to be. Wherever he went was with her at his side, and wherever she went was with him at her side. They were like two lost parts of a puzzle that had finally found each other after what had seemed an eternity. They were finally together and there was no way they would and could ever be separated from each other.

There had always been this need from him to always stay by her side, if he wasn't he would feel as if the emptiness that once resided in his heart, would come back at him in full power. But whenever he felt like breaking down in sorrow, she was there to fill his heart with joy. Days seemed to last for an eternity, and he didn't want to ever let go of her. After some time had passed he started noticing a new feeling that bubbled up deep within him whenever she was around. A feeling that shut out all of his senses, making him vulnerable and weak against her. A feeling that made him all tingly and warm inside. He decided he didn't mind it at all, and after that he even wished to see her more and more often.

It was not until he had lost her that he had realized that what he felt for her was the strongest and deepest feeling of all, love.


I hope you liked it! This is just the introduction to the story, the following chapters will be longer than this one ;p

See you a next time!