The boy as usual sat down on his bed, his eyes dull. He carefully took out a crumbled up piece of paper from a small wooden box. It was a picture of his father; Igneel. He had died a few years back from an accident... He shook his head from the memories he wanted to forget.
He was only 9 at the time, so he didn't really understand why his father wasn't coming back. The last words he said to him were "Don't forget Natsu when I come back I'm going to teach how to play the guitar, I know you always look at it when I'm sleeping on the chair." Igneel winked. The younger version of himself had just laughed, and smiled his last true smile for eternity.
The picture was Igneel and Natsu putting their hands on the guitar, it had a flame design with scales. His father named it the fire dragon king since it looked very much like a dragon. They were smiling, and Igneel made bunny ears with his fingers behind Natsu's head using his other hand. Natsu managed a small chuckle, but it ended quickly.
Natsu folded up the picture again, and put it back into the box as he always did. He walked to the chair his father always sat in. He saw the guitar sitting next to it as it always did. The boy with salmon pink hair and onyx eyes then started to play the song his father would always play for him as a child.
The girl smiled happily, as she ran down the carpeted stairs, holding the railing with her arm that wasn't in a cast. She sees her favorite breakfast on the table. "French Toast!" She yelled, and jumped the last step on the stairs. Lucy sat down on the table, waiting for her parents to come out of the kitchen. She waited 10 minutes, 20, 30... The girl kept smiling through it all until she say a note on the table.
'Lucy, were sorry for not telling you earlier, but we will be gone for a few months. Me and your mother are going to take a little anniversary trip. Please take of yourself. ~From Mama, and Papa' "Oh well... I guess I'll be alone again. Heh they just got back too..." She ate her meal slowly. This wasn't the first time her parents left her alone.
Tomorrow;Monday.
School. No friends. No one to confide in. Not even one living soul that would say hello. Alone. That was the boys daily life, nothing to it really. He just ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time. Someone who shouldn't have even existed in this school. As he walked down the road, there were groups of people laughing, and smiling. But Natsu always walked alone.
When someone one would notice he would always blame the cat. All he wanted was to leave this place called earth. He wanted freedom in the skies. To be with his father. To be a dragon. But a girl stopped the dreams that would have come true. She ruined his life, everyone now knows what he did. He can just see them now. Whispering. Spreading rumors. Everything that could have have happened it had to be this.
Natsu Dragneel the boy who shouldn't have lived. The boy who should have jumped. The one who should have never spoke. Natsu should have never looked in the direction of who stopped the fate that should have been his own. "Hey... Natsu? Is that you?" That soft voice, familiar but so... angering. He whipped his head back to the person that annoyed him the most.
Lucy... "What do you want?" He asked harshly. It was intended to be. The girl that wore the white dress and blue shoes was now standing right in front of him. Except this time. She wore the uniform to his school. What a way to luck out... "Seems we go to the same school." Lucy said nonchalantly.
How does she do it?
How is she always so calm in almost every situation he's seen her in?
The girl with the blonde pigtails stuck out her hand. "We started on a bad note, lets restart the song. I'm Lucy Heartfillia. You?" He rolled his eyes at her gesture. "I'm Natsu Dragneel." He stuck out his hand. They shook. "That wasn't so bad was it?" Lucy giggled at the disgusted face when he shook her hand.
"Don't laugh, just because I can't shake someone's hand..." He crossed his arms, and tilted his head in the other direction. Lucy copied him. Natsu looked over in her direction stifling a snort as he saw her trying to remember how to cross her arms.
How does this girl do that to him?
Make him mad first, then trying not to laugh a second later?
How does she do it?
"Hey, Natsu?" The girl looked at him, her eyes shining brightly. "What is it now?" He asked; in a much nicer tone than before. "Do you wanna be friends?" His eyes widened at the question. He twiddled his thumbs, a habit he had picked up on when he were to answer any hard questions.
What should he say?
He though he hated this girl... Right?
Before his brain could even comprehend the question his mouth moved on it's own. "Sure, why not?" Lucy squeaked and twirled around. He watched her twirling like a little girl. The school came into view, their eyes interlock. Somehow this girl made him smile. Not a fake smile. Not some genuine smile you give someone just because they said 'Hi' to you.
The one that's true.