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CHAPTER~2
Lucy Heartfilia, 17
Wind blows hard on a stormy autumn day with trees standing naked, their leaves all fallen with the change of season. Everything is a hazy grey, like the buildings. Between two parallel lines of buildings and trees stretches a train track, with rails that are on the verge of rusting. The sounds of the train's horns, however faint, indicate the train's arrival even before it is visible. The train comes with the earsplitting sound of the horns and the wheels, which gets normal for its continuity after some time and stands in the station, waiting for the passengers to get off and on before it proceeds on another journey. The crowd is huge, rushing for their own business and among them, much insignificant, stands a kid of about 10 holding his small backpack which carries some of his and his mother's belongings, who passed away recently. He looks wildly around, searching for a person who had him come here. He doesn't particularly know where he has to go, but he clutches a piece of paper in his right hand, with an address scribbled on it in a formal writing, like those used in important documents by a calligraphist:
The Biwhak Station,
Vrond
Search for a man with a maroon armband and a maroon hat.
Happy Journey.
He found this on his mother's coffin, after her funeral, inside an envelope with a trademark sign of a pig flying, or at least that's what it looked like. The envelope had a ticket to this place too. He gets off the train slowly, his eyes wandering, and taking in every detail of the station. It was more magnificent and bigger than any place he has ever been to. Now that he was here, he could not find anyone with a maroon hat and armband, although he should be visible uniquely because almost everyone was wearing black in the compartment. With constant searching, he spotted him, leaning to a pillar supporting the ceiling, easily a place which the eyes would fail to notice and went to him. "Hello, Gray Fullbuster. It's really a pleasure to finally meet you in person." They shook hands.
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It was almost midnight when the party came to an end. It was a lot of fun, Cana came in drunk and saying, "It's like some other world pushing me on to keep drinking!", while no one had any idea how she was standing perfectly straight, while not being sober. We came across Lisanna and almost pushed her into Natsu when he went away, flushed. He doesn't want to force her into anything. And we just kept on having fun the rest of the night. I bumped into Gray a few times unintentionally. There was this once when I accidently spilled my drink over Juvia.
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"Lu-chan!" Levy says with a grin as she gets into the car to go to school. Levy is my best buddy. She is the one who experiences everything with me, hates everyone I hate, likes everyone I like in general. It's like we are soul sisters. Also we are the studious people in our class, or at least, that's how we seem.
Her eyes look tired, almost like she will doze off any moment now. Well, she will have plenty of time during history lessons for that. "Hi Levy-chan!" I say. The tone of my voice made me realize I, too, am tired, more tired than I assumed I am, at least. We reach school, at around quarter to 8. Levy and I have to go to different classes so we part in the first corridor. I go straight for the Physics class and she turns for Math. I reach the door and get in. Natsu is there waving at me with his trademark grin plastered on his face on the third seat to the left. Without glancing at anyone, I just go and sit in the chair next to his. Lisanna sits in front of Natsu talking to a pink haired girl I don't know. I have seen her. I never bothered to ask her name. I take out my textbooks as the teacher enters. He starts taking the attendance after gingerly sitting on his chair. He adjusts his glasses, "Alzack Connel," he calls in a low but loud voice, "Present Sir!" , "Bisca Mulan," the list goes on and just as I stop paying attention until I hear, "Gray Fullbuster," and then I hear, "Present sir" just to my right. I turn, incredulous. Was I just sitting right next to him all this time?
He catches my eyes and smirks. I turn to look at the teacher who is now teaching a topic, trying to hide my look of shock. He chuckles and I try to ignore him. The bell rings. I pack my bag, smile at Natsu and get going because the feeling that he is there got me slightly conscious of my movements and I don't particularly like myself this way. As soon as I get out I hear a male voice saying, "Luuuuuuuucy, hmm…" with a creepy drone. I turn, and see Ichiya. He looks like a middle aged person and I don't even know what he's still doing in high school. Probably cleaning toilets. "Hey Ichiya, I-I gotta go to my next class so…" I rushed away to my locker.
Suddenly I hear a melodious laughter behind me. I turn to look at Gray. Wait. MELODIOUS? What is wrong with me! He starts walking towards me. His pace is smooth, like he might have to run any moment. He has a smirk as he looks at me. He has a handsome arrogance contradicted with great time of pain, like my grandfather's, who survived the great war of Magestica and Vrond and still cries occassionaly for the loss that it caused him. Wait, pain? Okay, maybe my instincts and behavioral judgment are wrong. What could have caused Gray pain? He has been Natsu's best friend since middle school. It's not my place to judge anyway, what do I know of him?
"Hey Lucy,"
"Hello, Gray," I say, "Uhm…Fullbuster, if I'm not wrong," I say.
"Right. Heartfilia, if I'm not wrong," He smiles and offers me his hand to shake. I gladly accept it smiling back.
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