After crying herself to sleep, Lucy had woken up to birds chirping. She recalled what had happened the day before and started to tear up again. "I... I wish yesterday was just a nightmare... I can't believe my story with Sting would end like that." Lucy thought bitterly.
To her, their story had ended too quickly. Their story had ended before it even started. To her, their story ended just like a cliché in romance books. The only thing that lacked when Sting ended it all was rain. It had not been raining dramatically like how it always is in romance books. Lucy laughed bitterly when she thought of that.
Lucy was cut off from her thoughts by some sort of banging noise. It was loud and it annoyed her. She looked around and found the source of her annoyance. Apparently, a certain someone was banging on the window because it was closed shut.
With a loud sigh, Lucy got up from her bed and walked towards her window. She brushed the curtains away and saw Natsu's grinning face. However, his face fell when he took sight of Lucy. The exceed who was carrying him had almost dropped him in shock upon seeing Lucy.
After Lucy opened her window, Natsu climbed in followed by Happy. "Are you alright Luce? You look simply horrible." Natsu stated. "Horrible? Oh come on, I can't be that bad." Lucy retorted. "Lucy,you look like a banshee." Happy said 'innocently'.
Hearing Happy's 'innocent' statement, Lucy's left eye twitched slightly in irritation. She decided to ignore Happy and went to her bathroom to clean took a glance at her mirror when she walked into her bathroom. As she took in her appearance she wasn't too surprised. She knew that she was going to look like this after crying for one whole night. Her eyes were puffy and slightly red. To say her hair was a mess was an understatement. Happy was right, she did resemble a banshee.
After cleaning up, Lucy went to her kitchen only to be greeted with the sight of Natsu rummaging through her fridge. "Luce! You're out of food, by the way." Natsu said when he saw her enter the room from the corner of his eye.
Lucy merely grunted at his statement. This caught Natsu's attention. Something's not right. Normally, after hearing that, Lucy would have wasted no time in kicking him out of the window and he would have to climb back up. Not that he didn't like the change, he just found it unusual. He recalled her state earlier this morning when he barged into her house and tried to put two and two together. One would've been able to see the gears in Natsu's head whirring as his brain tried to process every thing. Unfortunately, due to the fact that Natsu rarely uses his head, all the gears in his head were rusty, and it took him quite a while to realize that there was something wrong with his dear best friend.
Closing the fridge, Natsu asked"Is something wrong Luce? You look upset. It's alright, you can tell me anything."
When Lucy heard that, she broke down into tears once more, recalling what had happened the day before. "Sting... We broke up..." Lucy told him. "What? Why? Where? When?" Natsu asked. Lucy could only laugh bitterly at her best friend's antics. They reminded her so much of a certain someone...
"You heard me, Sting broke up with me. He told me he didn't love me as much as he used to. It happened at his house when he invited me over yesterday." Lucy said, recalling yesterday's events.
"I'm gonna kill that bastard! I can't believe him! He promised...he promised to never hurt you!" Natsu shouted on fury.
"Natsu. Don't. I want him to be happy. If he's happy I'm happy. He loves Yukino now. It's not his fault, I'm sure he never meant for this to happen." Lucy quickly defended Sting.
"Lucy, I don't know how you can be so forgiving, but if you don't want me to do it, I won't." Natsu grumbled.
"Natsu, it's called letting someone go. If I still held on to Sting, it would turn into a love triangle. In every love triangle, someone's bound to get hurt. I don't want that to happen." Lucy told him softly. "But, you're getting hurt now." Natsu whined.
"It's alright Natsu, I'm fine. Let's go to the guild, okay? I'm positive that there's no more food left for me to have breakfast after you raided my fridge. You too, Happy. I know you've been listening behind the couch." Lucy said.
Being unhappy that he had been found, Happy sulked. Seeing him sulking, Lucy sighed and shook her head a little, but an amused smile graced her lips. "I'll give you a fish when we get to the guild," Lucy told him. Hearing that, Happy immediately stopped sulking,"Okay!"
After Happy's little dramatic moment, the trio set foot to the guild.
As Lucy was locking the door, Natsu couldn't help but think,"Luce, I don't know how you do it, but I really admire you for being able to forgive so easily. You really are strong."
Little did he know, his best friend was just putting on an act, on the inside Lucy had felt like dying...
