"Lucy, we need to talk." Gray grabbed Lucy's arm one morning, "now."
Lucy closed her locker before she lets him take her. "Why?" She asked, surprised that he's interacting with her in public. Everyone's looking at them.
He dragged her to an empty hall. "Don't do this to me, Luce. I tell you about my breakup with Juvia and you send me a love letter?"
"I didn't send you a love letter," her eyes widen, "wait, what love letter?"
"Don't mess with me!" Gray barks as he waved a red envelope and recites. "Dear Gray, I still haven't forgotten about my first kiss. It broke my heart when I found out that you and Juvia are da-"
"Stop, stop!" Lucy covered her ears from further embarrassment. "How'd you get that letter? No one's supposed to know about it, not even you!"
"I received the letter yesterday, with a stamp, your name and address—everything. This is from you! How am I supposed to feel about this?"
"I-I... You..." Lucy tried to recollect her thoughts. "Ugh, look Gray, that was a letter I wrote a long time ago. By long time ago, I meant middle school time. You were never supposed to receive that. It was a good-bye love letter when we all stopped being friends with each other."
"So you didn't send it?"
Lucy tightened her ponytail in frustration. "No! I would never send it!"
Gray was taken back. "Then who sent it?"
"I don't know okay?" Lucy shrieked. "But whoever it was, it's done. Oh... oh no..."
"What? What oh no?"
If Gray received his letter then there's a possibility that Natsu...
"You said you received the letter yesterday right?" She asked and Gray nodded.
"If the letter got to you then that means it was sent to him too," Lucy's heart dropped.
"There's another guy? There were other guys?"
"Just one other guy." Lucy turned to him. "Can I have the letter back?"
"Why would you want the letter back?"
"So I could burn it," Lucy instructed and held her hands out. "I should have done that a long time ago."
"What? No!" Gray slapped her hands away. "Good thing I got it. I'm safe-keeping it."
"Gray, come on!"
"No. I'm keeping it." He hesitated before asking, "Did you really think I was handsome?"
Lucy turned full red. "...I-... back then yes."
"How about now?"
"Maybe." Lucy began walking away. "There's no use talking to you out of that letter, I'm leaving."
"Wait, do you really want this back?"
Lucy spun. She could feel her heart beat rapidly. "Yes."
"Then okay." Gray chuckled returning the letter and raised his hands in surrender when she snatches it away. "Geez! Cat woman claws."
Lucy stared at the red envelope and started to shake, the letter shook in her hands.
"Luce... Listen, I don't want you to think I stole your first kiss. It wasn't my intention—"
"Apology accepted! What happened was like... ancient history!" Then she bolted after faking a laugh.
She ran faster than she had ever run her whole entire life. At least she felt like it was. She ran all the way to the girl's bathroom and locked herself in one of the stalls.
How could this happen? How did this even happen? She breathed in heavily and glanced at the letter once more. It wasn't a dream. There was nothing left for Lucy to do. She takes the letter out of the envelope and reads it. She cringes as she read the letter then gets into the middle:
Everyone loves you, including me. But it's alright, I don't love you anymore. You kissed me, and that was my first kiss. You kissed me for no reason. Thanks to you my first kiss was as nowhere near special as a kiss was supposed to be. The worst part is, Juvia said you were the most handsome guy and I agreed. But you know what? There are plenty of people that are good looking.
And that wasn't the end of it.
Natsu was curious why Lucy acted strange on the way home. With the jokes he threw during the ride home, Lucy assumed that he hadn't received the letter yet. Mirajane and Elfman weren't home so she dashed into her room and opened her mirror closet in search for her vintage box, which wasn't there.
"No, no, no..." Lucy said, moving boxes around. "It has to be here."
After an hour of inspection, Lucy's search came to an end. Not only were the two love letters gone, the letters to her mom were also gone. Who could have sent them? Mirajane and Elfman don't know anything about the letters. The only person who knew about the box was her dad.
Dad... He said he wanted to stay in my room a little longer on Saturday!
She dialed her dad's number as fast as she could. He answers, "Lucy, I'm in the middle of a meeting."
"Dad, no, don't hang up! This is important. Did you take the box with you to Edolas?"
"No..." Jude's voice sounded confused. "Why would I bring it? You had tons of letters for your mom. I can't carry it with me on the plane."
"Are you sure?"
"Lucy, I'm sure. What happened? Is it missing?"
"Did you look inside when I was gone?"
"Yes, but I didn't read the letters." Jude swore with his heart. "I recall two red envelopes in there but I didn't inspect it."
"Did you send those? Do you swear you didn't?"
"No. And yes I swear, Lucy. Ask Mirajane and Elfman, or Natsu."
"No! Natsu is my biggest problem!"
"What? Did he do something to you?"
"No, he didn't. It's just, with the letters gone there could be—" Trouble. "Thanks dad. Go back to the meeting, bye!"
"Wait, Lucy—" and she ends the line.
How can Lucy face the rest of her life anticipating Natsu receiving the letter? That would be bad... really bad.