'We're apart but there will always be something that bring us back together again.'
If you could see
That I'm the one
Who understands you,
Been here all along.
So, why can't you see—
You belong with me?
Lucy lazily sat up on her bed. What was disturbing her peaceful sleep? Oh yeah, it's called an alarm. Lucy groaned.
'I hate alarms.'
Standing by and waiting at your backdoor.
All this time how could you not know, baby?
You belong with me,
You belong with me.
Without even looking, she took her phone from the table beside her bed and turned off the alarm. Lucy yawned and stretched. She rubbed her eyes and got out of the bed.
What day was today? Friday, right?
Lucy picked a random T-shirt out of her cupboard and a pair jean. Friday means free clothes.
She headed for the bathroom and took a short bath. When she came out, she glanced at the clock placed neatly on the wall.
'6.30. Still got some time.'
She then sat on her bed and took her phone again.
Lucy sighed. 'The alarm. It's really similar to my life now.' She thought
Lucy then caught a message. She tilted her head. Who would send her a message this early?
She opened it and blushed.
'Natsu…'
Lucy then frowned.
'I shouldn't have slept early yesterday, I could've said good night back!'
Lucy sighed, but then smiled cheerfully.
'At least, I'll be meeting Natsu today!'
Lucy took her backpack. She held her phone and went out of her bedroom heading for the dining room where breakfast will be served.
"Lucy?"
Lucy turned back. Her mother was at the edge of the stairs with her pajamas. Wasn't she supposed to be awake and cooking breakfast right now?
"Yeah mom?" Lucy asked, her voice echoing in silence.
"What are you doing so early?" Layla asked with confusion
Lucy raised an eyebrow. "School?"
Layla's eyes widened. "Lucy! Today's Saturday!"
There was silence. This time, Lucy's the one lost.
"What?"
"What to do? What to do?"
Lucy desperately pushed herself into her bed not knowing what to do. For Lucy, Saturday and Sunday are the most boring days ever, since she can't do anything special like chatting and sharing adventures with friends, except if she has a well known novel on her hands right now. Although every Saturday the newest episode of her favorite anime will be released.
"Argh! I can't even see Natsu today!" Lucy pouted, pursing her lips.
'Should I ask him to hang out with me today?' Lucy thought with a small blush
Lucy abruptly shook her head. 'No! He might think it's a date and I'll be really embarrassed in front of him!'
Lucy turned so that her front body will be facing the ceiling.
'I just can't believe that I fell for Natsu.' Lucy suddenly thought
It's true that they had just met not long ago, but, what would you do if you feel these symptoms:
1. Heart beat racing when you're right beside HIM
2.Blushing a lot when you spend time with HIM
3.Miss HIM even though it was only going to be 2 days of separation
4.Feel jealous when a girl is near HIM
Definitely love right? This is Lucy's first love. That's why she also didn't have any experience of what to do.
Lucy sighed.
'And there's also Lisanna, Natsu's childhood friend. Natsu could even love Lisanna! And… not… me.'
"LUCY! COME DOWN HERE, HONEY!"
Lucy sighed again.
'What did her mother want now?'
"YEAH MOM! COMING!"
Lucy then went out her room and ran downstairs. When she stepped the last step of the stairs, she saw her mother wearing a batik(1) dress that came down to her feet, she was wearing make-up too, beside her was-
"Romeo? What are you doing here?" Lucy asked. Romeo was wearing a normal dark red T-Shirt with blue jeans, he was Lucy's neighbor around 2 houses away from her house.
Layla smiled at her daughter. "Lucy, Romeo's going to stay here today till this evening. I want you to take care of him for me."
"Eh… Why?"
Layla sighed. "Lucy, I can't really explain everything now, so, Romeo-kun…"
Romeo looked up to Layla. "Yeah?"
"Explain to her everything, Lucy's really talkative and wants to know every detail things."
Romeo grinned. "Okay!"
"Bye! Have fun!"
"Wait, where are you going mom?!"
Layla stopped on the way to her car. "A friend's wedding party."
"What? Why didn't you tell me! I could have-"
"BYE!" and Layla sped off to her car and drove away.
'come…' Lucy continued in her mind with narrowed eyes
"So?" Lucy asked Romeo
"So what?" Romeo asked with his tilted head
"Why do you have to stay here and why do I have to take care of you?"
"My father's at work and I can't be left alone at the house." Romeo answered
Lucy raised a questionable eyebrow. "Your father always works on Saturday. Where's Mira-san? She usually takes care of you for extra money right?"
"Mira-san? She has family things, if I'm not wrong, her grandparents were visiting."
'Now that I think of it, Mira looks like Lisanna a LOT! Her hair, eyes, features, are they sisters? Nah! They can't be! I'm just overthinking.' Lucy thought
"How about Wakaba? Doesn't he visit you every weekend?"
Romeo sighed. "Aunt Layla's right, you're talkative."
Lucy's eyes twitched. "Excuse me?!" Lucy said half-screaming
Romeo started sweating. "Sorry, Wakaba-ossan had to work too today, there was a problem at his workplace."
Lucy sighed. "Okay?"
Romeo lowered his head with… what is that red tint on his cheek? A blush?
"Ne, Lucy-san."
Lucy stared at Romeo. She realized that he was embarrassed. "Yeah?"
"Could you, accompany m-me to… S-Sunshine Mall t-today?" Romeo stuttered out, still with a blush
Lucy furrowed her eyebrows. "Why?"
"I kinda asked, a-a girl o-out."
Lucy's eyes widened. "Whaaaaattttt? You asked a girl out? You-You're just like 10!"
"IT WAS FOR SCHOOL WORK! AND I'M 13!" Romeo shouted with a red face
Lucy giggled. 'Young love. I wish Natsu would ask me on a date sometimes.'
Lucy frowned at this. Would Natsu do that? Ask her out on a date?
"Lucy-san?"
Lucy snapped back and shook her head. She smiled.
"Sure, why not. I would like to go around the mall too." Lucy said agreeing
Romeo's face lit up. "Really?"
Lucy smirked. "But… there's a condition."
Romeo frowned. "What is it?"
Lucy smirked got even scarier. "What's her name?"
Romeo blushed real hard. Silence. 5 seconds… 10 seconds…
"I'm waiting." Lucy said still with that annoying smirk on her face.
Romeo kept silent. Oh, he was embarrassed all right. 30 seconds… 50 seconds…
"Still waiting~"
1 minute…
"W-Wendy, Wendy Marvel."
"Natsu!"
"I'm too lazy!"
"Natsu, if you don't take your sister with you, you won't be seeing the light tomorrow!"
"Just cancel it mom!"
"I can't do that! This is my job, if I don't do it, I'm gonna get fired!"
"Well… Move it to another day!"
"NATSU DRAGNEEL!"
"But mom!"
"No buts!"
Natsu grumbled. "Fine!"
Grandine nodded her head. "I'll be dropping you both in Sunshine Mall later." The killer mom, Natsu and Wendy were currently sitting together in the living room. Wendy had to… meet a friend at Sunshine Mall, and her mom and dad's really busy since Igneel has to work and Grandine has to attend a meeting. And Natsu's the only one free!
Natsu groaned.
Wendy who was sitting beside Natsu, giggled. "It won't be that bad Natsu-nii. Romeo and I will just buy some stuffs, have lunch and we can go home then."
"What kind of stuffs do you wanna buy?" Natsu asked as Grandine went outside to take out her car from the garage.
"Since both of us are the class committee for the Teachers Day next week, we're in charge of the cooking, so we'll be needing, potatos, spinach, onions, banana, apples, baskets, plastic plates, spoons, forks, plastic cups, ketchup, yoghurt, maybe milk, for the other students too, broccolis, tomatos, cucumber, lettuce, there's still a lot but we also need some ribbon for decoration, some glue, oh and-"
"ARGH!"
Wendy blinked. "If you want to see the list," Wendy took out a roll of paper from her jacket pocket.
"I wrote it all here." Wendy finished holding up the paper and the small paper rolls and rolls.
Natsu's eyes widened. He groaned again and bumped his head on a table.
"I just hope I won't get bored."
Wendy giggled again. But for Natsu, it was a giggle of a ghost. "It won't be boring Natsu, Romeo and I are also planning to go to the bookstore and read some books, it will be fun!"
"B-Books?"
"Yup!"
"HELP ME!"
"Where will you guys meet?" Lucy asked Romeo. She was wearing a yellow sundress reach till her knees and a light blue jacket reach till her waist and wrists. They were at Sunshine Mall already, they were already inside. The mall was quite crowded and noisy since it's already 11.
Romeo looked at his phone. "Emm… The West entrance."
Lucy looked to her back and saw the big writing of 'West Entrance'
Lucy grinned. "Well, here we are."
Romeo looked back too. "Oh yeah."
"So where's how is Wendy like?"
Romeo blushed. "W-Well, she has dark blue hair, she usually ties it into two, she has beautiful eyes, she's c-cute and-"
Lucy laughed. "You must really like her! You said that she's cute and has beautiful eyes."
Romeo blushed.
"Romeo!"
Both Lucy and Romeo looked to the source of the voice and saw a blue haired girl running towards them.
"AH! Wendy!" Romeo shouted back
Wendy stopped running in front of them. Lucy looked at Wendy's features. Romeo was right, this girl IS beautiful. She was wearing a blue skirt, white T-shirt covered by a red jacket and she was wearing black flats.
Wendy stared at Lucy. "Hi miss…"
"Lucy, you could just say 'Lucy-nee'" Lucy said smiling sweetly
Wendy smiled. "Hi there Lucy-nee, nice to meet you."
"You must be Wendy right?"
Wendy nodded her head. "Yeah!"
Then the sound of footsteps coming closer was heard
"Wendy! You scared me to death! Don't ever run off like that again!" a familiar voice shouted.
Lucy froze. That voice. The voice that rings music to Lucy's ears.
Lucy looked to a boy. He was wearing a red hoodie with baggy jeans. But what caught Lucy's eye was his hair.
Pink. No, salmon.
Lucy blushed.
"Natsu…"
The boy looked up to the blonde after hearing his name being called. His eyes widened at the discovery of the girl.
"Lucy…?"
Romeo and Wendy watched. They stared at each other and smirked. Each thinking the same thing.
'They llliiikkkkkeeee each other'
(1) Batik; Indonesian clothes which has beautiful motives (want to know more? search in the internet)
You guys might think why I wrote 'Wendy Marvel' although she's Natsu's sister. I only wanted Lucy to NOT know that she's Natsu's sister, so I made Wendy's name as : Wendy Marvel Dragneel. And when Romeo said her name he only said 'Wendy Marvel'
Thank you for your suggestion 'star'. But instead, I made Romeo as Lucy's neighbor. Relax, in the next chapter, there will be RoWen and NaLu! Double couples! It will be like a double date! Kyaa! I'm fainting myself :p
The alarm at the beginning of the chapter is : You Belong With Me, by Taylor Swift
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