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Chapter Two: Hitting a Brick Wall


It was the first day of school, finally my senior year. I had spent my entire summer either playing the piano, thinking about playing the piano or taking random art classes with my mother. So overall, pretty successful.

I stopped at my locker to drop off the books I didn't need until the later half of the day and out of the corner of my eye I caught a glimpse of a tiny girl with blue hair bouncing down the hallway.

"Luuuuuuccccy!" She called giggling as she skipped into my open arms.

"Levy!" I squealed excitedly and hugged her tightly, "How was Greece!"

Levy has been my best friend since early elementary school, she has gone from a child bibliophile to an even more obsessed one. Her hair was short and spiky, and her uniform fit loosely around her body because she has "other things to worry about than fittedness of her clothing".

"Greece was amazing, Lu." She said as she dragged her hands down her face dramatically, "we got to eat the most amazing food and I got to learn so much about Greek Mythology!"

As we continued to walk down the hallway towards our homerooms, I noticed that I didn't grab the right book from my locker.

"Shit." I groaned as I turned on my heel, "Levy I'll see you later, I grabbed the wrong book!" I began to jog down the hallway, already leaving a waving Levy behind when suddenly I hit a.. Brick wall?

Time seemed to slow as I started my backwards descent to the ground, watching my notebooks and bag fly through the air. Time resumed at its normal pace when I landed on my back, slightly knocking the air out of me.

"Jesus, are you okay?" A voice called from above as I propped myself on my elbows, my eyes meeting a pair of legs in fitted black slacks.

"Ha, ow..." Was all I could muster before the apparent "brick wall" was crouching down in front of me.

My eyes worked from the bottom up: His sleeves were rolled up and revealed his slender yet muscular forearms, his black tie was loosened a notch with the top button of his white dress shirt undone. Concern riddled his face, his eyebrows furrowed. He had pink hair that seemed to disagree with each other, causing pieces to stick out every which way. He was absolutely gorgeous and I knew exactly who he was.

He shrugged off the bag that was hanging on his shoulder and began picking up my scattered belongings, which to my luck, was mostly my music theory binder which had come apart in the air.

"You should slow down." He laughed as he shook his head. I moved myself to my knees and avoided eye contact due to my face being as red as a fire ant.

"I'm sorry." I muttered an apology, picking up each paper quickly, desperate to leave the situation.

"Hey.."

I glanced up at him, he held a piece of music and was looking at it, then at me, then… My Hair?

"Do you play piano?" He asked, seeming as though he was solving some sort of puzzle in his mind.

"No, I don't" I lied as I snatched the final page from his hand and got up, "I gotta go, sorry!" I ran back the way I came, my face hot with embarrassment.

I'd just have to do without that book today.


"Why on earth did you lie to him?" Levy snorted as we sat under a tree to eat our lunch.

"I honestly have no clue." I shook my head, opening my lunch box and grabbing my drink. "I was just mortified and flustered."

"Who was mortified and flustered?" I looked up and saw my other bestfriend Erza. She was tall and vibrant, her hair was a brilliant red that caught the attention of many passersby, her skin was soft and pale, she was the perfect image of beauty. More importantly, she was in the elite group of pianists at Magnolia, and the only the one I actually liked.

"Lucy ran into Natsu Dragneel and told him she didn't play piano." Levy sing songed.

"If Lucy Heartfillia doesn't play the piano then I must be fish." Erza joked as she sat down beside me. "Natsu is very handsome, wouldn't you agree?" She giggled popping a grape into her mouth.

"I mean, yeah. But so what? All I did was bump into him, publically embarrassing myself."

"And besides, the captain of the soccer team would nnnneeevvvveerrrrr even notice an extremely gorgeous and talented musician, right?!" Levy threw her hands up giving me the 'you truly are an idiot' face.

I rested my chin in my palm and scrunched my eyebrows, "you know what? You're right… Why hasn't he asked out Erza yet?"

Levy groaned and flopped on her back while Erza shook her head and pointed her half eaten sandwich at me. "Don't sell yourself short, Heartfillia."

"What do you guys think of him?" I asked genuinely curious, today was my first time meeting Natsu (well, if you can call that what we did). We had gone to school together since we were little but we never had a class together and we didn't run in the same crowds.

Levy shrugged, "I don't really know him, he was in my homeroom last year but he only talked to Gray Fullbuster." I looked over at Erza and awaited her reply to which she also shrugged.

"He's nice, constantly laughing and little too obsessed with soccer… So the opposite of you." Ezra joked as I threw my empty drink at her.

Erza dodged the can and cleared her throat, "anyways, did you decide?"

I stuck out my lower lip and shrugged, "Yes, and no. I obviously want to go for the Fiore Musical Conservatory, but it's so expensive my audition would have to be so good that they'd want to pay for all of my schooling plus my entrance exams would have to be perfect." I ended on a defeated tone, glancing up at the sky.

"Lucy you are one of the best pianists in Magnolia, they are going to be fighting to have you!" Levy exclaimed while she punched the air.

Erza nodded in agreement, "she is right you know. You cast a spell over anyone that hears you play."

I smiled warmly, Erza's words wrapping around me like a blanket. Coming from her, that compliment meant a lot.

Erza had began taking lessons when she was 5, two years before I started. She won competition after competition making her bedroom look like a hall of fame museum and the Fiore Musical Conservatory had had their eyes set on her since she was 14. She'd get in no problem.

I, on the other hand, would have to work like my life depended on it and considering my life is music… It does.


After school, I began walking my bike home, thinking about my piano lessons later on in the week when a soccer ball rolled to a stop a little aways from my feet.

I glanced to my left and saw that I was right by the school's soccer field, suddenly I saw a pink haired boy vault over the medium sized chainlink fence with one arm.

Landing with ease, he quickly rose up and jogged over to the soccer ball, finally noticing me.

"Oh, hey." Natsu said coolly.

He was shirtless, with tanned slender muscles like a greek freaking god. I couldn't help but stare at his back as he picked up the ball - his shoulder blades well defined. His cleats were black with flames on one side and his black athletic shorts hung loosely around his waist. I was already blushing fiercely.

"By the way I didn't mean to offend you or anything about playing the piano-" He said as he began to rise again but didn't get to finish because I was already hightailing it away.

I felt his eyes burn into my back and I tucked my head down, already out of earshot. Normally, I wasn't a shy, embarrassed wreck and I was never such an idiot with boys... But for some reason my brain shuts off in front of him so as I saw it, the best course of action is to leave and not humiliate myself any further.

Who am I kidding? I already did. He's probably going to tell all of his soccer buddies about the weird girl that ran away from him twice in one day.


A/N: So all of the characters in the story are slightly OOC, or maybe more toned down than their real selves. I tried to make them more realistic teenagers. Natsu is a quite a bit different, being more considerate and smarter than how he actually is but still has his goofy charm that I think works better for the progression of this story.

(Also if you think it's strange that Natsu and Lucy have never met even though they've gone to the same school forever, don't! I graduated with like 600 kids and still today I meet people that I had no idea were in my class haha)

Anyways, I am super excited to release Chapter 3, it's a long one!

Tell me what you think and thanks for reading:)!