The smile was never leaving her face as she brushed her teeth, curled her hair or even painting the nails in pink
Nothing
"Ahh, natsu...that snake left me with a note" she giggles looks at the card on the mirror
"Morning, Belle"
"This is so unlike of him...makes me puke and gush at it the same time" she touches it but doesn't remove it
Her phone ringing out loud over the other side of the room
The ringtone she set it up to that certain member
"I'm not going to spoil my mood" she chants as she walks over to left the call
"Hello?"
"Why does it take so much time to lift the call?"
"But im-"
"Just pack some toiletries and come downstairs in 5"
"You home!?"
"Why are you shouting? I'm outside...I don't know your passcode"
"Give me 10, I have a cake that needs to finish"
"Let it be...your roommates can take care of it"
"Michelle can you be a little clear?" Lucy starts to walk around, wearing her shoes, accessories and coat all the while shuffling things in her hand
"We are flying to the capital for your engagement"
It was like the time stopped at the end of her sentence
The words echoing
How could she forget it?
She was set to marry a guy
Her childhood bestfriend
The guy who fooled Lucy just so she would agree to get married to him
For money
"I'm not coming"
"You're gonna come if you don't want dad to get angry"
The call goes dead, hands dropping to the sides
Levy comes skipping to her
"Lu-chan! We are here!" She sings, hands full of bags
"Where is erza?"
"Erza? Down...gam-"
The blonde runs along to the red head, her mood now spoiled with a phone call
"You woke up?"
"Is that dress new trend?" Juvia says looking at lucy disheveled appearance
"I need to go home, Michelle is waiting for me. Can you teleport? I'll tell you the details later"
Erza agrees, standing up and grabbing Lucy's arm
"Look at me" she says
Bubbling tear filled eyes look at up, hiding herself from juvia "Quickly" she says
"We can help"
"Mom said she will break it...after I graduate"
Lucy just throws stuff into her little suitcase
"But-"
"I just have to endure it for a while...then I will come back home" Lucy hugs erza
"Take care of him?"
"You should talk, you'll be gone for a few days right?"
"Maybe more...I don't know..."
"Dont cry, your strong! Just smack him across the face if anything happens"
It felt like erza was Sending off her daughter to a trip
"Don't bleed" erza says as Lucy holds the door
"Never" Lucy smiles the best she can at erza going out of the door
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.
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"Why is she not lifting my calls?!" Natsu wails
"Its been two days, I get you but this is too much"
"Just worried..." natsu mumbles
"Get out...leave and get some fresh air" erza pushes him out of the sofa as he falls with thud on the floor
"Okay! Okay!" he huffs out like a kid stomping away from the group slamming the door shut
"Should I just call another time and make it 50?"
"Urgh why won't she lift her calls?"
He crouches down trying to rip his hair
Looking at the contact and her picture and the name she saved the contact on the other day
Belle and a heart next to it
"You bad woman"
he calls again but that too goes to voice-mail And this time he leave a message
It wasn't that lucy was ignoring the calls.
She couldn't, her star stickers phone was locked away in a room, with many others.
"Never thought there will be a time like this" Jude says looking at the decoration setting up the venue
"It's a tradition of this place actually...to use nothing of the electronics of the modern time" answers walking next up him
Jude just smiles back at him as they engage in a little more business conversations
Right above them, in one of the huge rooms of the hotel was Lucy dressed in blue tulle gown
Pining her hair into a neat bun, adorned with pins of roses made of diamonds.
It was all about enduring the people, the talking, the fake smiles
Hours later after event, she flopped on the bed not changing the dress
Kicking away the heels that flew across the room
"Ow!"
She sits up hearing the voice "Natsu?"
"Not the welcome I was expecting belle" he walks to her rubbing his head
Lucy bounces off the bed with a huge smile on her face
But without the heels, she steps on the dress tripping into his arms
"Now this is more like it" he smiles as he holds her by the waist
"Why are you here?"
"I missed you"
"And not jealous?" Lucy traces her fingers on his jaw
"Why would I...? Your already mine" he crashes his lips to her, deepening it even more
The routine continues for a couple of minutes, hair messy, lips swollen
Pulling awayan inch apart, breaths moulded but nagsu connects their lips again by a soft couple of pecks to a complete stop
She felt something cold and heavy on her neck, hands moving to touch
She walks to the mirror seeing the silver necklace with a Ruby stone
"And that is to show everyone"