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~Lucy~
My head throbbed as I woke up.
My entire body was in a mess of blankets and pillows. I pushed against my pillow in order to push myself up from my bed. I glanced at the alarm clock and it blinked the time in green lights. It was 6:30 a.m. and school started in an hour and fifteen minutes. I sat up groggily. Great, it was the first day of school. I went to my computer and saw that Levy was on.
LucyKick4: Hey girl. How's it going? :)
LevyBookWorm: Sad. It's now the stupid first day of school. :(
LucyKick4: Wow. Yeah, I know how you feel. That is exactly what I woke up thinking about. Hey, I need to tell you something.
LevyBookWorm: Oooh... did you FINALLY get a crush? O.O
LucyKick4: Is that ALL you think about? No. I did NOT get a crush. -_-
LevyBookWorm: Pooh. Then what is it that you need to tall me?
LucyKick4: So yesterday I was online and some creepy "MayVer1" person started chatting with me. S/he said that I had to make a wish and I did. I didn't wish for anything but they said it would go into "effect" in like hours.
LevyBookWorm: Well that's sort of interesting and strange. Do you think it might have been a prank or something like that?
LucyKick4: Well, that's exactly what I thought, but I figured I'd tell you anyway.
LevyBookWorm: Well, I got to go Michaela. See you later? We can talk about this at school. Ugh… school. :( Bye girl.
LucyKick4: No. I don't want to talk about it and crap, but yeah, see you at school. Bye. :)
We went off chat and I went to go get dressed. After I got dressed, I went to my bathroom. I saw myself in the mirror and frowned. Levy said I was pretty, but I disagreed. My wavy blonde was too thick, and my chest was well... my lips were nice and full, but my eyes were a boring brown. Really, all that I could seriously notice right now was the fact that my hair was not brushed. I quickly solved that little problem.
When I got downstairs, I saw that my mom making pancakes. When she saw me she smiled which created little wrinkles under her eyes. She stared at me and said,
"Why, don't you look lovely my little Miss Sunshine." I smiled at her reference of me and sat down at out small kitchen table. She served me blueberry pancakes and sat on the other side of the table across from me.
"So, are you ready for school?" she asked. I shook my head. She laughed.
"Yes, I suppose after a summer you wouldn't be ready for school." She sighed and kept talking as I bit down in to my pancake.
"A senior! Well, every day you just keep getting older and older. Pretty soon, you'll leave me here alone and go off with your boyfriend or something like that." She smiled sadly.
"So, I bet you can't wait to see all the new boys around. Now, I understand. I was seventeen once too." I just stared at her.
"Now, just make sure that when you do start dating a boy that you are safe and protected. Safety is very important especially when you get involved with boys. You wouldn't want to end up pregnant, now would you?" I pretty much gagged up my pancakes and stared at my mother appalled.
"Oh no! Not "the talk". Nope, nope, and No! Mom! Don't worry! That will not be happening!" She shook her head.
"I read online that almost every teenage girl that says that does wound up being pregnant." She stated calmly. I stood up abruptly. What has she been reading? That's not true at all.
I leaned in close and said,
"Don't worry about that Mom. Even if I do have sex, I will be protected. Now, look at the time! I have to go. Bye Mom! Thanks for the pancakes!" I grabbed my backpack and rushed out the door. I breathed a sigh of relief as I escaped that nightmare. I glanced at my wristwatch and saw I still had twenty minutes until school started. I turned around and slid my backpack off. I grabbed my ipod and started listening to my music. The school was only ten minutes away so I was okay with that.
As I was walking I saw Natsu Dragneel run out of his house and start toward the school. His house was only like five minutes away so he never used his car, which was a dark red mustang.
I envied his car.
Natsu was undoubtedly cute, but he was the most popular kid in school. He was the honor roll student and a quarterback for the football team. He was in student council and he was the president last year. I mean he was the guy that most guys wanted to be. I smiled as I saw him sprinting to school as if he was going to be late. His spiky pink hair swished in the wind, which for some reason I always found highly amusing. Simply because I knew that pink was actually his natural hair color.
He kept running until I could no longer see him, but not like it mattered, because I had finally arrived at this hellhole of a school. I groaned as I walked toward it reluctantly. I saw Levy talking to one of my friends Cana, so I walked over to them.
"Hey," I said when I arrived.
Levy and Cana both said hey in return and kept talking about guys. I sighed. How come almost every girl in high school either talks about guys, makeup, shopping, suicide, and how miserable they are?
At least my friends weren't talking about suicide…
The school bell rang and we all went to our lockers or classes. I headed toward my first class and I wasn't the first one there. Natsu was there and so was his sluttish little girlfriend, Lisanna. I sat sort of by them, which put me in a place where I could hear what they were saying, not that I purposely did that…
"I still can't believe we're over Natsu." I heard Lisanna whine. Natsu shook his head. "Well, based on our little exchange on the computer yesterday, I am actually surprised you haven't got the memo yet. You cheated on me with five guys, Lisanna!"
She threw her head back and laughed.
"So? What does that have to do with anything? I mean, who cares? At least I'm not still a virgin!" She scoffed at Natsu. He just sighed.
"I want you to leave me the hell alone and—" He cut off abruptly; he had seen me staring at them. Lisanna turned around slowly and saw me. Her eyes widened and became sharper. She glared at me and snapped,
"Eavesdropping much? God, Lucy! Get a life, so you don't have to listen to other conversations. I mean seriously?" I glared at her and retorted,
"At least I didn't get dumped on my ass and still can't get the "memo"," I told her sharply. She gasped. Natsu laughed. Finally she just shrugged,
"At least I'm not still a virgin. Wait, that's too much for you. At least I've had a boyfriend before," she said in a devilish voice. My jaw tightened.
"Yeah well. You see Lisanna. I don't really want a boyfriend, and even if I did have one I don't think I would be such a bitchy slut who has to go around and does it with every boy who says "yes"." That's when Natsu clapped and laughed. Lisanna gave him a hard glare and stomped out the room. Natsu just turned to me and said,
"High five, Lucy. I thought she would never leave." I smiled at his comment and high-fived him.
Suddenly, students were filing into the room one by one, as they were quickly followed by a tall, lanky looking lady. I assumed she was the teacher. She looked at us, and glared right away. Geesh.
"You two! Apparently these two weren't listening, for if they had been they would have known that we all met in the auditorium!" she declared. I felt my cheeks redden and I noticed Natsu's did as well. She huffed, crossing her arms, as she walked towards the board to write her name down. Apparently, her name was Ms. Aquarius...hm strange name in my opinion. Then, suddenly she was talking about the world and such and why it was so important..blah blah blah, really... I sighed.
This was going to be a long first day...
I felt a tap on my shoulder.
It was Natsu and before I could even react he slipped a note into my lap, before turning his attention back on Ms. Aquarius with an innocent look in his eyes. Okay...?
I opened the note and quickly read it.
Anyways, I didn't really thank you for before. I just gave you a high five, but could I walk you to your next class?
I smirked and wrote my reply before handing it back to him. I had asked him how he knew what my next class would be, which he responded with,
I don't. What is it?
Of course that idiotic response made me giggle, just to receive another sharp look from the teacher who was still talking.
"Something amuses you Miss...ermm...Heartfilia?" she asked me, still giving me that look. My eyes widened and I just shook my head rapidly, trying to avoid any eye contact. She huffed and continued to teach whatever she was teaching. I looked back down at the note and told him my short reply, which was just my class. I handed it back to him, and he smirked.
After writing, he slipped it to me again.
Ha. Looks like my prediction was right. We both have Calculus after this. So, can I walk you?
I just smiled at him in response, with a small nod. He was staring at me, and he gave me another one of his signature smiles.
"You two! Detention after school! No excuses, and if you're late, add three more days to that," Ms. Aquarius suddenly spoke out, pointing at the two of us. The rest of the class snickered, and Natsu just shrugged. I didn't even know how to react, so I just remained silent.
When the bell rang, I grabbed my stuff, and hurried outside to find Natsu already there. He smiled at me.
"Hey," he said, still smiling.
"Hi," I said. His grin widened. We started towards Calculus.
"Thanks for back in there," he told me suddenly. I laughed.
"My, my Mr. Dragneel...yet again another thank you. Should I feel honored?" I asked, teasing him. He chuckled.
"Yes, yes you should," he said. I grinned at him sweetly and he stayed quiet for a minute before he continued on.
"I don't even know why I dated her," he told me out of nowhere. I frowned at his sudden mood change. Bipolar, much? And why was he asking me? I responded though.
"I know why. You dated her because you felt pressured to, even though you never liked her." He stared at me.
"Yeah, you're exactly right. I do know why I dated her. I just can't believe I put up with her for like three years." I smiled. He continued on though before I could respond.
"I'm sorry about detention. I know it's pretty much my fault." I shook my head disagreeing with him.
"No, it really isn't just your fault. It's also mine, and oh Lisanna's. I'm sorry that I was eavesdropping on your conversation though. That was pretty crappy of me. So, sorry." He laughed.
"No problem," he said.
When we arrived at Calculus we both went to the first open seats and sat down right next to each other. I guess it was just out of habit from walking in the hallway...?
That's when an old looking man with a tiny, little mustache walked in. He had a bright smile on his face, and he stood in front of the class still wearing his creepy clown smile.
"Hello class. I hope you get used to your seats because they're going to be your seats for the entire year." After he said that, most of the class groaned and tried to switch places with their friends. However, Mr. Kaby (the teacher) gave them a sharp glare and said,
"Stay put."
Almost every student sat down automatically.
"Now I will be your Calculus teacher for the year, but be warned that this advanced placement program will be very difficult. This is no ordinary Calculus class." He then went on to talk about his very "interesting" life. Not.
I tried paying attention, but as soon as he started talking about his cats, he lost me completely. I noticed Natsu take out another sheet of paper, as he quickly scribbled on it before handing it to me.
This teacher is kinda lame in my opinion. I mean, his cat? Seriously? What do you think about him?
I smiled at his note and wrote quickly.
God, I know. That's exactly what I was thinking. I mean who the hell cares about his cat? We're in Calculus class, not the history of cats. Yeah, I just hope he's not like this all year long...wait. Did you get a look at his bow tie?
I passed the note back to him and smiled. He read it quickly and snickered. He wrote a response and passed it back to me.
Oh good. At first I thought I was like hallucinating or something like that. I know. That bow tie is actually starting to creep me out. If you look at it closely you actually see a tiny little face.
I smiled and looked at the big blue bow tie just below Mr. Kaby's neck. I saw how the crinkles in the tie created this tiny little face that had a really creepy smile on it. I laughed aloud, which caused some faces to turn on me. I ducked my head and wrote quickly on the piece of paper.
Yeah! There is a creepy little face on the tie! That's just weird! Oh god...now it's all i'm going to notice for the rest of the day! Thanks a lot you jerk! -_-
I passed the note back to him. He scanned over it and smiled widely. We continued to pass notes for the rest of the period, and at one point we actually almost got caught. By the end of the period, we had used up four pieces of paper. We both laughed at all the pieces of paper we threw away. He walked me to our next class and we talked about so many things that we had to laugh at almost every subject. In the next two classes, Natsu and I had to have passed like twenty notes. When finally, after our fourth period, we parted ways.
"So where are you going?" he asked me casually.
"Um… I'm going to Creative Writing. You?" He shrugged and said,
"I'm heading to Orchestra. I play the cello, you know. First chair." Of course he was first chair. I mean he was pretty much perfect, right? I smiled and responded,
"So, I'll see you later?"
He nodded smiling. "Yeah, I would like that."
My smile grew. How does this boy make me smile more than I had in the last year? We both said bye and headed towards our classes.
When I arrived at my class, I sat down by Levy, who also loved writing. This was the only class I had with her. She saw me and smiled happily. She leaned over and whispered,
"Hey girl. How's it going?" I shrugged.
"Fine."
"Are you okay?" she asked me.
"Fine"
"Are you sure?"
"Fine," I responded once more.
"How come you keep saying your fine? What does fine mean in your vocabulary?" she said, actually getting a little annoyed, which was kind of rare.. I just shook my head. She frowned, but dropped the subject. I looked at my teacher, Mr. Lentos, and he was… well teaching.
When the class bell rang, school was officially over, for today. I rushed out the door and towards my locker. I had to escape this prison. I was pretty much the first one out of the school as I sprinted down the sidewalk. My house was ten minutes away, but sprinting made it like five minutes away.
When I arrived at my house, I breathed a sigh of relief.
I was gone. I walked through the door and I saw my mom reading a book titled, "How to Raise a Teenage Girl". I just stared at it and groaned. My mom looked up and said,
"How was your first day as a senior?" I looked at her, sat down and responded,
"Well, all my teachers are not really "nice" and I have detention after school-" I faltered at my words. "Oh crap!" I said out loud. I stood up suddenly and rushed out the door.
I ran back to school for detention.
When I got back to school, I rushed to the auditorium for my detention, and by some odd miracle I wasn't late, which I guess was a cool thing about living so close to school.
When I arrived, Ms. Aquarius noticed me and said, "Well, she finally arrives. Almost late there, now weren't you Miss Heartfilia? I suggest you organize your time better."
I just nodded. She pointed to a seat far in the back. I went over there and caught my eye with Natsu.
He smiled at me and I smiled back at him, casually. We were seated far apart from each other which made sense, for our talking and giggling was the cause that put us here. He looked at me and winked. I smiled in return. He put up his hands and did some weird movement. He was trying to tell me something. I didn't actually know what he was trying to tell me, so I just nodded acting like I did know. He nodded happily. He was apparently satisfied at my response.
What did he ask me?
I smiled unsurely. He laughed in response. My eyebrows rose and I nodded.
We did this for the entire hour of detention.
Finally, when detention was over, Natsu came straight to me.
"So you can come?" he asked. I stared at him. He just smiled like always and added, "Can you come to my birthday party?"
"When's your birthday?" I asked him. His smile grew very large.
"Well, actually my birthday is today, but my birthday party is this Saturday." I gasped.
"Oh! I didn't know! I'm so sorry! Happy birthday Natsu! How old are you now?" He laughed.
"I'm now an eighteen year old." That's when I laughed. He had said it so proudly that it was funny.
"Sweet. I'm turning eighteen in like three weeks." I said. He looked genuinely surprised.
"You are? That's cool." I laughed again.
"Well, I got to go. See you later," I said. He looked hurt.
"Can I at least walk you home? You live near me, right?" I nodded. We walked to the front of the school, and we were on our way. He shook his head.
"You know Lucy. Today was a really great birthday, so I need to thank you." I just nodded and teased,
"Wow. Another thank you from the great Natsu Dragneel...geez, I really am honored, aren't I?"
He laughed, just nodding, but after that we said nothing else.
We walked together in silence, and when we arrived at his house, he said bye to me and let me walk on my own.
I walked as silent as the wind. When I arrived at my house once more, I went inside to do my usual boring routine which was eat dinner, finish my homework, talk on the phone with Levy for a while, and then sit down and watch some movies. Everything was perfect. I went to sleep on the couch, and once again it was only 6:00 in the evening.
~Natsu~
As I walked through the door that led inside my house, my father looked up.
"Where have you been Natsu?" he asked me, sharply. I looked at him and responded by saying,
"In detention." My mom got up then and interrupted my dad.
"What! Detention? On the first day of school, and on your birthday?"
I just sighed. My father looked at me with judgmental eyes and asked with a bored voice,
"How did you get in to detention?" I shrugged.
"I was talking with a girl." He looked more interested in that.
"You were? Which girl? Do I know her?" I shrugged once more.
"Well, yeah. I guess you sort of do. You know Lucy? It was her I was talking to." He actually looked quite surprised.
"Lucy Heartfilia? Yes, I know her mother. She was on the PTA at your junior high school. She's quite an opinionative woman, that Layla. Do you like Lucy?" he asked.
I nodded.
"Yeah, I do like her, but not like a crush. I mean I could like her as more than a friend, but right now she's just a friend." He just nodded as my mother gasped and said,
"Well, I hope you aren't leading that poor Lucy on. If she gets the wrong idea about you two, and if she gets her heart crushed then don't come crying to me!" She seemed quite mad at this, but soon calmed down. My mother was a very mood-changing mother, which made my life sort of interesting.
I just stared at her amazed. My dad opened his mouth to say something, but I scurried off to the living room. Romeo was playing some idiotic zombie video game as Wendy watched.
I smirked at the sight. When I went upstairs to my bedroom, I went to my bed and sat down. I started thinking about so much until I remembered that weird conversation I had with that mysterious person yesterday. I went to my computer and went online for chat.
No one was online, which struck me as odd, because I always have at least one friend online. I just shrugged and moved on. I sat there patiently waiting for someone to start talking to me, but still no one was online. I frowned suspiciously as I closed my computer. How come no one was online? I mean, what's going on? I lied down on my bed and thought about this for a while. I shut my eyes to try and relax, but I soon found myself drifting away into a pitch-black darkness.
Pretty soon I knew for sure that I was asleep, but my dream was as vivid as real life.
I was in a dark room with only one small candle.
The candle was in the middle of the room on a small round table.
The candle wasn't burning, but I somehow knew I had to light it, but I didn't know how.
All I knew was that if I didn't light this candle, it would continue to be dark for the rest of its existence.
I just stared at the candle and let it continue to be dark.
I tried to move toward it, but every step that I took put me farther and farther away from it.
I screamed out in frustration. I had to light this candle, but something or someone was preventing me.
I kept trying to light it, but I just couldn't.
I sat down and cried, for I have failed.
That poor little candle would continue to be dark, for I couldn't light it.
As I cried and cried, I was moving towards the candle unintentionally.
I didn't know why, but I didn't even know what I was doing.
I was finally besides the small table and I smiled out of happiness.
I grabbed a lighter that had suddenly appeared.
I studied the lighter and saw that it had a tiny pink daisy decorated on the side.
I smiled happily.
I lit the lighter and leaned forward to light the candle.
The candle flared quietly and silently at first, but then it grew.
It grew into a real fire that was very powerful.
I felt the heat take over my body as the fire engulfed me.
I screamed painfully.
The fire was killing me, and I couldn't stop it.
I felt the fire peel of my skin and transform it into ash.
I knew then that I was dead, and I knew then that I was different.
*Haha yeah I know. Two chapters in one day? And this one totaling at 4,225 words alone? Geez...I need to go write in my others, right? Haha actually, like I said before I'm basically only switching a few paragraphs around, and the names, as well as some conversations. I have around forty-five pages of this book already written, but I'm not uploading all of them at once. :/ Well keep reading and review? Also, take my poll, pwetty. pwetty, pwease? o.O
-DiAnna44 :)