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Reality Vs Fiction

Chapter – 5

Lost muse

Dec 3nd 2015

"Mr. Dragneel, how does it feel to be the first author ever to be in the Cube for the second time?"

Natsu smiled as he leaned back on his chair. "Awesome." he smirked.

The group of reporters in front of him laughs.

Another raises her hand. She stood up from her chair, to ask her question, her pen and notepad in hand. "It's been five years. Yet 'Angel & Dragon' is still one of the bestselling novels out there. Any thoughts?"

Natsu rubbed his chin slightly, his right leg in top of his left as he thought of the answer. "It's the best felling in the world. One you can't actually explain. When I was writing this story I never thought, ever, that it will be this huge. It's…just feels a like dream. A really really good dream."

The reported nod her head, sitting back on her chair.

Another rises. "You wrote more than five books. But none of them has the same vibe as 'Angel & Dragon'. Any idea why is that?"

Natsu sighs, his lips pushed. "Have you ever been in love?" he asked back.

The reporter raises an eyebrow at him, but nods her head, smiling. He smiles back, rubbing the back of his neck. "It's like first love. You will fall in love again, of course and it will be beautiful. But it won't be like you first love. Because when we fall for the first time, I – you don't expect anything in return. You just want to feel that felling. Its new, it's different. And no one was expecting anything from it, from you in return." He licked his lips, his head down, pink locks hiding his face from the other, his eyes focused on his hands in his lap.

"'Angel & Dragon' was that to me. When I wrote it, I didn't expected anything from it. Though it gave me a lot in return. Writing it was different, it was new. It was a memory. An adventure, you can call it. And," he chuckle to himself, "and it wasn't compared. Now whatever I write, people compare it with 'A & D'. I think that why. That's why it doesn't give you the 'same vibe'." He air coated the words. "Because they aren't the same. And I don't think they will be." He looks at the reported directly as he answers, smiling his 'charming smile' as Gray calls it.

The reporter sat back, her cheeks turning a little pink.

Levy smiled from her side in the corner of the hall. 'His using charm on them', she rolls her brown eyes, typing in to her phone.

A guy in suits stood up next, his long green hair in a pony tail behind his back. "Why is that your other stories are about adventure, mystery, horror but not romance like 'Angel & Dragon'? Did you quite writing romance for us?"

"Thank you Freed." Natsu shook his head, smiling, then he shrugged. "I don't know" the pinkett said truthfully. "I did try to write romance in the past but I just didn't felt it. I just, I can't seem to find my muse back then, I guess."

Freed – one of the few male reporters in a room full of female ones – wasn't happy with that answer he got but he took it anyway and sat back down. He can ask more to Natsu when they are alone in the end.

Another rose her hand, from the back of the hall. Her brown hair in the usual ponytail. She stood. "Mr. Dragneel," she leer, but none noticed. Natsu frowned but quickly removed it by smiling.

Levy shook her head from the side, tucking her phone inside her pocket, she leaned in. 'This is gonna interesting.' She mustered looking at the girl in blue jacket.

"What or who was your muse when you were writing 'Angel & Dragon'? If you share with us maybe we could help you finding it again." she suggested.

A few of the reporters chuckled, but they didn't notice the glaring going on between the two of them.

Natsu leaned back on to his chair, a smirk on his lips. Cana raised her eyebrows. "Miss. Alberona, I got good news for you. For all I think. I actually found my lost muse yesterday." He looked at the other in the hall of the Cube. "So a romance novel might come up sometime in the near future." He shrugged leaning back.

The room busted out in murmurs.

Dec 2nd 2015

Natsu started at her. It had been so long since he last saw her, standing in front of him smiling and real.

Real.

Not in a dream. But real, in flesh and blood.

His mouth open and closed several times, before he understood that he had nothing to say. Because he never had anything to say to her. It was her who used to talk endlessly between the two of them. He would just stare at her for hours, listening and smiling.

"Well," she said. It was that smile in her lips that made his heart beat a little bit faster. It was that smile that made him fall in the first place. It was everything about her that drew him toward her. The very aura that surrounds her. "Oh!" she said suddenly taking a step backward. The smile vanished from her lips. "I didn't knew you were with someone."

Natsu brow frowned as he followed her eyes. He turned slightly, looking at what bothered her. He laughed when he saw Levy staring at them with her jaw open, eyes wide.

Both of girl's eyes on him

He shook his head, throwing some of his hair away from his eyes. He looked back at Lucy with a smile tugging at his lips. "That is Levy McGarden," he said pointing toward the blue haired girl, who still had his mouth open. "she's my manager."

Levy – with a lot of struggle – tears down her eyes from the blonde. She looked at Natsu once before giving a cut nod at the blonde.

Lucy smiled almost sheepishly at them. And Natsu ignore the redness on her cheek. 'She is because embarrassment' He told himself.

"I'm Natsu's manager?" Levy said or asked somewhat, meeting Lucy's out stretched hand. "And I love you." she butted out the next.

Natsu did a double take before focusing on Levy's face, who had shut her eyes and biting her lips. But what caught his eyes was color her face had turned in to. Something he had never seen. It was red.

Yup! Gray was missing it.

Lucy smiled, giving her hand a squeeze.

"I didn't mean it like that. I –" Levy started. Lucy stopped her, with a wave of her hand.

"It's ok." the blonde smiled at her, then turned at Natsu, eyes amused and sincere. Natsu give her a toothy smile. "I'm glad to meet you." she told them as her eyes returns back at Levy.

Levy snorted – which she didn't want to do in front of Lucy. This was all going into her bad record book – shaking her head, "Not as much as I'm. I get to meet Lucy Heartfilia!" she almost yelled, stopping herself in the middle.

Lucy laughed. Natsu looked at the blonde, his own grin in his lips. He still loved the sound of her laughter. Sweet and perfect.

She was perfect.

She is.

Levy gestured her to sit and Lucy sat on the chair beside Natsu's. She looked back at him, still smiling.

"So?" Levy asked. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in Ga-luna Island?"

Lucy smiled putting her shades back on just as the waiter came. The red haired man smiled at everyone but his eyes lingered at Levy a little bit longer. The brunette just rolled hers.

"Anything I can get you guys?"

"I would like some –" Lucy started.

"Salted Caramel Mocha Frappuccino." Natsu finished for her. She stared at him from her glasses, her jaws on the floor. Natsu laughed.

The waiter nodded writing down the order.

"You remember.." she breathes, hardly believing it.

Natsu shrugged. "It's easy. Just remember the one name that causes you toothache and that's Lucy's drink." he sipped in to his cold tea.

Lucy rolled her eyes. Natsu knew that, even though he wasn't looking at her. Her smile got a litter bit bigger. It was shame that no one but Levy noticed it.

"I was here to meet with the new director." Lucy said after a sip of her drink.

Behind them the sun was setting slowly. The world in its own pace.

"A new movie? Cat woman finished?" Levy asked, her chin in her hands as she stares at the blonde. She looked star-struck.

Levy probably was.

Lucy shook her head. "No, Cat-woman is still going on, half way though. It's actually for a short film I going to do later as a Pro bono. When Cat-woman's finished."

"Ow." Levy smiled. Natsu just stared at his friend. He had seen Levy angry, mad even silent for days end. But he had never seen Levy swoon. It was…interesting to say the least. "It's so sweet of you." Levy continued. "You're taking a break in 17, so you're gonna be really the next year."

Lucy makes a face, "All I want is to lie around in my bed. Until then it's only work, work and work." She slowly takes a sip of drink. Turning to Natsu she asked, "So what's you are doing here? You live here?"

"No, I actually moved to Magnolia. I left Veronica after college."

Lucy nod, sipping into her drink. "I heard you are a writer now."

Natsu didn't had chance to answer it. Levy was already on it.

"Yeah, a good one too."

Natsu shrugged awkwardly.

"That's good. Great actually." Lucy sounded nervous, a little bit embarrassment. "So, why you are here?"

Again over enthusiastic Levy answered. She was working behalf of Gray today. "We are here for the book signing at the cube." she sounded smug.

Lucy nodded. Took another sip, but then stopped. Her eyes widen. "Wait!" she held up her hand. "You are the writer that doing his second signing in the cube?"

Natsu smile embarrassed, his ears in bright red. "Yeah." he mumbled, hiding himself in this tea cup.

Lucy put down her drink, turned at him. Her whole attention focused at him. Natsu gulped. 'This is not gonna be good' the thought rang in his mind. Remembering the last time she gave him his full attention, she was telling him that she was going to leave Veronica.

"I'm sorry that I didn't knew." she looked guilty, but then smiled. "But I can ask you right?" Natsu nod, unsure. "So what's this book is about?" Lucy asked, sweetly.

Natsu's jaw dropped as well as the cup of tea in his hand.

'Shit!'

I just couldn't stop myself from it.

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