Two days had gone by and Lucy found she was a bit excited to go to school, she was ready to see Natsu and tell him how she felt. She was still hesitant but nonetheless excited. Monday morning came much too slow for the excited brunette. She couldn't believe what she had planned to do that day. She was going to tell Natsu that she accepted him as her soulmate.

Lucy chose a really cute outfit, her favorite pair of jeans, and a cute starry blouse, paired with her favorite converse. She glanced in the mirror as she put her hair up into her signature style, a half side ponytail, leaving the rest of her straight brown hair to fall by her shoulders. She smiled to herself and nodded in approval feeling confident about her choice of clothing and the events to come.

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Levy was surprised that Lucy had gotten up before her alarm. She was even ready to go before Levy was, something that never happened. She watched as her brunette friend smiled when she slid into the cars passenger seat. "Why are you so cheerful today?" Levy questioned.

Lucy shrugged her shoulders with a happy sigh. "I'm going to tell Natsu how I feel," she said with a smile as she glanced over at Levy. Her best friend stared at her with wide eyes, "who are you and what have you done with my best friend?" Levy questioned curiously. Lucy just shrugged her shoulders again and looked out at the scenery as they drove to school.

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Lucy and Levy arrived at school with a lot of time to spare since they had both been ready on time. They met Erza and Juvia by the entrance and sat at their signature table, waiting for the bell to ring. No matter how hard Lucy tried to focus on what the girls were talking about her eyes and mind wandered, looking and thinking about the pink-haired boy.

Her eyes lit up as she saw a familiar head of pink in the crowd. Lucy stood up, causing her friends to look at her confused, but she paid them no mind and started to call out to Natsu. Her voice caught in her throat as she saw Natsu, a white-haired girl clung to his arm as he stared down at her with a smile. She hadn't realized that her hand had gone up until it slowly fell back down to her side.

Levy stood next to her and placed a comforting hand on Lucy's shoulder. 'They're just friend Lu," she said softly, but the blonde shook her head. Turning back to her friends she smiled a fake, light smile and grabbed her bag excusing her from the table before running to the restrooms.

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Natsu sighed, feeling breasts push against his arm as cool arms snaked around his waist. "Hey baby," a voice purred in his ear.

"Hi Lisanna," he said politely as he walked into the school's courtyard. The white-haired girl stared up at him adoringly and he looked down at her, smiling apologetically before pulling his arm away from her.

"Sorry Lisanna, but you know I have a soulmate." He told the girl who pouted her lip and crossed her arms. "Does that really matter?" she purred and grabbed onto his arm again. Natsu shook his head and pushed her away gently not wanting to make a scene.

Lisanna, on the other hand, had other plans and her eyes flashed angrily as she stood in front of the pink-haired boy. "You have got to be joking right!? I mean look at me! Any guy would kill to have me! Soulmate, or not!" Lisanna screeched gesturing over her body suggestively.

Natsu rolled his eyes and shook his head slowly, "not this guy," he said and walked away, leaving the short-haired girl to stare after him in shock. Natsu smirked to himself, pleased with how he had handled the situation and looked around the courtyard to find Lucy.

He had been dying to talk to her all weekend since he had dropped her off after their date. He had sent her a message but wasn't sure if she had read it or not, seeing as it still only said 'delivered,' he may have checked his phone repeatedly that weekend.

He looked for the pretty brunette, spotting her friends at one of the tables nearby and headed over, seeing Levy, who Lucy lived with. 'Surely Levy would know where she's at,' he thought with a grin.

He strolled over to the table and opened his mouth to ask where Lucy was when he was met with fierce stares from all three girls. Natsu shrunk back and blinked in confusion. All the girls looked seriously pissed and he tried to recall anything he might have done to make it this way. "Wha-?" Natsu started, getting cut off by the redhead, Erza if he remembered correctly.

"Natsu, do you enjoy messing with women's feelings?" the angry redhead growled as she stood from her spot at the round table. The pinkette's eyes widened in surprise and he took a step back, shocked at her words.

"What are you talking about?" he said, confusion showing throughout his features as he glanced around the table of glaring teen girls. "We all saw you with Lisanna earlier…" Erza said, her eyes flashing as she spoke, implying more than just the three girls when she said the word 'all.'

Natsu's eyes widened and he cursed under his breath, knowing that the redhead meant that Lucy had seen it to. He clenched his fists and looked pleadingly at Levy, silently asking her where Lucy had gone.

"She's in the-," Levy was cut off by the bell, signaling the start of the school day. Natsu growled in frustration and hurried off, hoping to get to history class in time to pick the seat next to Lucy so he could explain himself.

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Lucy had hidden herself away deep in the back of the library as she cried silently into her drawn up knees. She leaned against one of the back walls, making sure she wasn't noticed while she cried.

All too soon the bell rang, and she debated staying in the library through her first period, but decided against it when she remembered she had a test in history. With a sigh and a wipe of her eyes she stood and stretched slowly. She meandered slowly to her class, wanting to get there right before the bell rang so she wouldn't have to talk to Lucy. She was too upset about seeing him look at Lisanna like that after they had shared such a nice day on Friday.

Lucy stepped through the door just as the bell rang, making most of the students, one in particularly attempted to gain the brunettes attention as she hurried to her seat with her head down and her hair in her face.

"Psst…" someone whispered next to her, she ignored the pinkette and sighed, doodling on the page of her textbook since she had forgotten her reading book. A piece of paper landed on her table and she glanced at it, looking over at Natsu with a glare and a shake of her head before hiding the paper under her notebook without looking at it.

Another paper landed on her desk, this one had the words on the front and she scanned over them, 'Please, let me explain, it's not what it looked like.' She glanced over at Natsu to see him giving her a pleading look and she sighed, shutting her eyes and writing a reply on her own piece of paper before handing it over to him.

'It hurts Natsu, knowing what you do and then throwing it all away for Lisanna, I can't go through something where I get hurt. I know I've hurt you in the past when I didn't accept you as my soulmate at first, but you know why I did what I did.'

Lucy drums her fingers on her desk, unable to stay still as she waited for Natsu to reply. A note flew onto her desk suddenly and she waited a few minutes before opening it up.

'At first? Does that mean you do now?' Lucy looked over to Natsu, her face blooming with red as he stared at her expectantly. Lucy couldn't do anything but nod and smile lightly while dropping her barriers she had built up from Natsu as Natsu's eyes widen.

"Yosh! I'm all fired up now!" Natsu shouted jumping from his seat and threw his hand in the air. Lucy looked shocked as she watched the boy next to her. He was frozen with his hand in the air as he remembered they were in class.

Lucy put her hand to her mouth to hide her grin and keep a laugh at bay as she looked around at all of their shocked classmate's stares. Natsu grinned sheepishly and looked around, scratching the back of his neck in embarrassment as his cheeks tinted red.

"Natsu Dragneel!" Mr. Clive shouted after recovering from the shock of the pink kid's outburst. Natsu stood up straighter, even though Lucy could see he was shaking a bit in fear. She looked down at her desk and realized the notes were still sitting out as Mr. Clive walked closer and she quickly threw her notebook over them, causing one to flutter to the floor in front of the teacher's feet.

Before Lucy could move to grab it, Mr. Clive reached down and picked it up, opening the crumbled piece of paper as he stood up straight again. He didn't even look at it, instead read out loud to the whole class, "It hurts Natsu, knowing what you do and then throwing it all away for Lisanna, I can't go through something where I get hurt. I know I've hurt you in the past when I didn't accept you as my soulmate at first, but you know why I did what I did."

Lucy's entire body felt like it was on fire as she stared down at her desk. The silence in the room was so bad they could hear the teacher next door talking. Natsu was still standing there next to their desks, his face scrunched up in what Lucy could only describe as disbelief and anger. Mr. Clive's looked back up, glancing between the two blushing teens.

"I-I am so sorry," he said quietly so the two students were the only ones that could hear him. Natsu nodded lightly but his eyes still held a bit of anger in them as he started hearing the rest of their classmates start to whisper.

"No way, they're soulmates?" "I thought he was dating Lisanna?" "Who is the freak he's soul marked with?" "She seems so weird." "He deserves so much better." Natsu's fists were clenching tighter in anger as he listened to the whispers of his classmates.

Lucy heard the whispers and shook, making Natsu look down at her with a frown. He stood straighter and stared at the teacher, with a calm voice he growled out, "I think you'll understand if I take my perfect soulmate and leave now."

Guildarts had barely even nodded when Natsu grabbed Lucy's hand and dragged the stunned brunette out of the classroom and into the hallway. As soon as they were in the hallway a few classes down Natsu walked Lucy back into the wall and grabbed her face, pulling her in to kiss her deeply.

Lucy melted into Natsu and wrapped her arms around his neck, kissing him back as their soul marks began to buzz. They pulled away as the sensation on their marks grew and they stared at each other wide eyed. It was clear both of them felt the same warm tingling sensation along their marks by the way they looked at each other. When Lucy lifted her hand, she gasped and stared at the light that shone from her mark. Natsu lifted his shirt sleeve, showing off the same light from his mark. They looked back at each other and smiled softly.

"Guess we really are soulmates," Lucy whispered out loud when Natsu rested his forehead on hers and they shut their eyes.

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Alright you guys sooooo this is it! The end of the story! I just want to say thank you all to the kind words y'all have said about this story and I really hope this was decent enough of an ending. Also, there will be an epilogue, since of course Gruvia must appear C: Have a nice day!

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