Lucy gloated silently as she walked away from the nosy, pink haired, crazy man.

"Was it a break-up?"

His words pierced her heart all over again, and she fought to keep away tears.

Yes, it had been a break-up, and not only her own.

"I'm sorry, Lucy-dear, I just don't love her anymore," Jude Heartfilia tried to explain to her 14-year–old daughter.

"Hello, my name is Nokari, your new mother," Jude's new wife smiled at her.

"But she was my MOTHER," Lucy wrote in her letter.

"Hey, my name's Sting," Lucy felt her 15-year-old heart lift as he smiled at her.

"Will you go out with me?" Lucy was so happy she could cry.

"I love you," She thought their feelings were mutual.

"Hey, Luce, we need to talk," Sting wasn't turning up for their dates for quiet awhile.

"I'm sorry, but there's this other girl, and I think, I love her," The day the 16-year-old's heart wasn't anything but cold ice, and her face a mask.

"But I love to Sing! Please mother," Lucy let her tears slip in front of the lady, clad in gold, silver and rubies.

"I would, but your father has written in his will, you are to be the next head, then marry the man in the Caulos Estate," She smiled sadistically, "You might like him,"

"Leave, now," She growled at the man who pretended he knew her, the Head of the Caulos Estate. She cried into her pillow that night, and fell asleep like that. She cried about her mother, Layla, her dead father, and her love for singing.

Lucy left when she was 17. On her birthday, when she was to be bethrowed to the Caulos man.

Lucy would have cried, after remembering all that. But she didn't have any tears left. As she walked through the streets, she could hear men wolf-whistling at her. She ignored them and tried to find the nearest Inn, she felt hungry.

A guy on a motor-bike started to follow her.

"Hey, Miss, where do you think you're going?" He called, whistling at her.

A group of people surrounded her.

She tried to get out one of her spirits, and then realized she didn't have he keys. And she had no fighting spirit. She would have screamed, until a pink blur jumped on her, in a bear hug.

"What do you, Bas***ds think you're doing to my girl?" He glared at them. Lucy could feel herself going red in his grasp around her frame.

"Scram, you Baka's," He grinned, "or should I make you,"

They caught sight of something on his shoulder, "Ah Sh*t, he's part of Fairy Tail, let's go," then they all fled.

"So, Blondie, are you Ok?" He asked, grinning down at her.

"Thank you," She mumbled into his shirt, then collapsed, because she knew she was safe.

"My name's Lucy, Lucy Heart-," She passed out before giving her full name.

She fell asleep in the hands of a stranger.

Isn't that bad?

But you know what?

It wasn't for her.