Chapter 2
Remember Me?
Me: I don't own Fairy Tail Hiro Mashima does.
Lucy walked to the bakery early in the morning prepared to help with today's baking. On her way she ran into her best friend Levy McGarden, both worked for Mrs. Carter either running errands, watching the shop or baking. "Good morning Lu-chan." Levy greeted her friend. "Good morning Levy." Lucy responded. They walked the brisk morning air biting at their cheeks.
"Good morning Mrs. Carter." They greeted together as they entered the bakery. "Good morning girls Lucy you will be selling these in the market today and Levy you will be helping me bake." Mrs. Carter said giving Lucy a basket of baked goods. Levy usually helped with the baking while Lucy usually was out selling the baked goods it was that way because everyone knew that Lucy loved the marketplace especially since she is always waiting for him to return.
Lucy walked to the marketplace a spring in her step as she walked. She walked around always glancing over to the ocean to see if any ships were coming in. The goods weren't selling very well that day so she had plenty of time to gaze out onto the ocean to see any incoming ships. It was then that her eye caught a ship approaching the port, she hoped it was his ship but didn't let her hopes get to high so that if it wasn't then she wouldn't be disappointed.
The ship soon pulled in and people disembarked it going to gather supplies they might need. Lucy scanned the people to see if he was amongst them but she didn't see his pink hair so she assumed that it wasn't his ship. Since the baked goods weren't selling well she walked over to where the people had disembarked to see if they would like to buy some.
"Hey what's a pretty girl like you doing here selling baked goods?" A man who wore no shirt asked. "It's a part time job I have no family so I need to work, would you like to buy something?" Lucy asked offering him some baked goods. "Sure I'll take that roll, how much?" The man replied pointing to a cinnamon roll. "1.25." Lucy responded. The man pulled out his wallet and gave her two dollars. "Keep the change." He said taking the cinnamon roll and eating it.
Lucy continued to walk amongst the people and a few others bought some things but now she was just standing there with nobody approaching her to buy something. "Excuse me I would like to buy some baked goods." A voice said from behind Lucy. Lucy turned and smiled her eyes closed as she did so. "What would you like?" Lucy asked sweetly opening her eyes. The man looked in the basket and pulled out an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie. "I'll take this how much is it?" The man asked looking at Lucy. "One dollar." Lucy replied.
The man pulled out a dollar and handed it to Lucy, a smile spread across his face his dark green almost black eyes sparkled when he did. Lucy seeing his eyes and smile thought he looked similar to the boy she had met 5 years ago, Natsu Dragneel. Unfortunately he was wearing a bandana that covered his hair so she couldn't see what color it was. "Thanks, miss…" He said searching for her name.
"Lucy." Lucy said in response to his unasked question. "Thanks Lucy, you know you remind me of a girl I met she was just like you her name was Lucy too." He commented taking a bite of his cookie. "Oh really how'd you meet her?" Lucy asked him. "I wasn't paying attention to where I was running and I accidentally ran into her, and she twisted her ankle so I helped her out. I haven't seen her since then." He answered eating his cookie.
"What a coincidence 5 years ago I was ran into and I twisted my ankle and the guy who ran into me helped me out and I haven't seen him since." Lucy said smiling at the coincidence. "Ha ha what if you were the Lucy I ran into all that time ago and I was the guy who ran into you 5 years ago." He joked as he finished his cookie. "That would be funny what's your name maybe we can see if we are." Lucy said jokingly.
"I'm Natsu Dragneel, what's your name?" He said. "I'm Lucy Heartfilia." Lucy responded realizing that she had finally met him again after so long. "Seriously that's cool, wait Lucy?" Natsu asked as if the realization that she was the same person just struck him. "Mm hm it's me Natsu." Lucy said nodding her head trying not to cry tears of joy. Natsu then spontaneously hugged her tightly laughing at how good it was to see her again.
"So Lucy how's your ankle?" Natsu asked after he hugged her. "First that was years ago second it is good." Lucy said twirling as if to prove her point. "Wow you sure grew up I barely recognized you." Natsu commented. "Of course it's been 5 years I'm 17 years old now." Lucy said giggling. "Oh yeah so how is Mrs. Carter?" Natsu asked remembering where she worked. "She's good once I've sold all these I'm going back to the bakery wanna come?" Lucy asked.
"Sure let's hurry." They quickly finished selling the goods and were walking to the bakery. "I'm back." Lucy called as she and Natsu entered the shop. "Lucy what took you so long?" Levy asked coming out of the kitchen. "Sorry it was slow today." Lucy said. "How's that?" Levy asked gesturing to Natsu who had removed his bandana and was standing behind Lucy. "Oh Lucy I'm glad you're back could you…" Mrs. Carter cut herself off when she saw Natsu.
"Hello again Mrs. Carter." Natsu greeted as soon as he saw her. "He returned." Mrs. Carter exclaimed. "Wait he's Natsu Dragneel?" Levy asked knowing that Lucy had been waiting for him to return someday. "Yup." He said smiling. "Wow it's a pleasure to finally meet you Lucy is always talking about you, I'm Levy McGarden Lucy's best friend." Levy said shaking his hand. Lucy blushed when Levy had said she was always talking about him feeling embarrassed.
"So she's always talking about me that's nice." Natsu stated as if it wasn't a big deal. "Wait doesn't that surprise you?" Levy asked shocked at his response. "Of course not I'm a pirate so I'm used to people talking about me." Natsu said shrugging. "Wait you're a pirate?!" Lucy asked shocked. "Yeah so do you wanna come with me?" Natsu asked. "Sure." Lucy said having always wanted to be a pirate. "Wait you can't just leave what about me?" Levy asked after hearing her friend's response.
"You can come too, you guys pack your things and meet me at the port." Natsu said walking out of the shop. "I'm sorry to leave you so suddenly Mrs. Carter but you know how I've always wanted to go with him someday so now's my chance." Lucy said hugging the woman. "Don't worry about it just write and Levy you watch over Lucy for me would you." Mrs. Carter said then hugging Levy. "Oh I will." Levy said after a tearful goodbye the girls went and packed their things and headed to the port to meet Natsu.
