Chapter18

"Thank you so much,"

The pink haired smiled at the man that she was standing in front of the room that she was staying in. She walked inside of the room holding two big mugs holding both of them in her hands as she closed the door behind her. That's right that one had was wrapped in gypsum but the end of it wasn't. She started to walk slowly in the room as she was careful not to drop them on the ground. The blonde haired guy was sitting on the chair and looking at her and when he saw that she was holding the mug with her broken arm, he quickly stood up and took both the mugs forcing her to sit down on the bed.

"Why didn't you tell me that you brought something like that? I should have carried them instead of you."

"It's alright, it's a simple thing. It won't hurt me." Natsumi sat down on the bed as she followed the blonde with her eyes. He put the mugs on the table and went back to sit next to Natsumi once again. He moved his head to look into her eyes as she did the same thing as they kept staring at each other with saying nothing.

"Does it feel weird to stare like that?" the guy said slowly as he kept looking into Natsumi's eyes. The pink haired girl didn't answer immediately as she kept staring too as well. She shook her head slowly saying the answer is no and then opened her mouth to talk.

"It's not weird and I don't feel bored. It's like I want to stare at you more and more." The pink haired said as she stared at the brown chocolate eyes the blonde had.

"I… I feel the same too."

Natsumi took the step of holding the guy's hands as she kept looking at him not wanting to remove her eyes from him. She laughed, "I feel weird being like that. People will think that I'm sick because it's not like me."

Lucas raised her hand to his chest and squeezed her. "I'm not dreaming am I?" he looked down at her hands to feel the warmth that comes out of it and didn't know that it was real or not. Natsumi took his hand that he held to his chest and held them to her chest as she smiled.

"Feel my heartbeats that beat for you only, it will prove that you're not dreaming."

The blonde kept looking at his hand that she held to her chest as she squeezed her hand with his. He felt heartbeats through her chest and how fast they were, he blushed. Actually both of them were drunk in love and were really saying what they were feeling at the moment and nothing else.

After all the problems they faced together they were finally able to overcome them and now they are sitting in front of each other unable to believe that they had finally overcame all the walls to each other's hearts. It was like Lucas's said a dream.

Lucas removed his hand from her chest as he grabbed her shoulders and brought her to his chest wrapping his arms around of her as he wanted to feel more of her warmth and wanted to feel her next to him. He also wanted to stay like that and never leave her go to make sure that it's a reality.

Natsumi blushed as her face touched his chest as she tried to wrap her arms around him but stopped when she remembered that both of them need to drink a warm thing to warm them up in order not to get sick. She pulled back from his chest surprising him.

"I understand the desire that you have to hold me next to you and never leave me again." She said with light red color on her cheeks. "But, I already said to you. I will be glue and I won't leave your side anymore." He didn't answer as he kept staring at her eyes that had fallen from heaven. In this kind of love, you don't need to say anything because your eyes say everything. The blonde followed her with his eyes as she stood up and reached the table to grab one mug with her right hand and gave it to him. She smiled at him, "You must at least drink it to not fall sick like me."

Lucas nodded his head slowly closing the distance between his lips and the mug taking a sip from the hot chocolate that Natsumi asked the kitchen to make for them. He moved his head when he heard Natsumi sits near the bed's head as she rested her back on the bed's board drinking her hot chocolate.

"Are you hungry? We can order food if you want?" Lucas spoke to the girl who was looking at her reflection in the mug. She didn't answer him as she kept staring at the mug to surprise the blonde with a smile. "What's wrong?"

"Doesn't this hot chocolate remind you of something?" she asked with pure a smile making the blonde look at the ceiling thinking and trying to remember what she means.

"… Now you say so."

Flashback

"Are you feeling alright?" Lucas said handing a cup of hot chocolate to the pink haired mage who was sitting on the couch hugging her legs and wrapping a blanket around her. Natsumi nodded slowly with a soft smile. She took the cup closing the distance between it and her lips. She drank a sip from the hot chocolate.

"Umm, it's so nice." She said wrapping the blanket around of her shoulder tightly. The blonde watched her movement slowly and was wondering what happened to the dragon slayer to be like that.

"What's wrong?" he asked making Natsumi pause while drinking from the cup. "It's not like you." He stated softly looking at the dragon slayer with worried eyes.

"I think it's a side of you that wasn't shown to anyone before." He smiled. Natsumi let go of the cup from her hand and hugged the blanket looking at the ground.

"It's just… confusing." She said catching the blonde's attention. "Being a girl is a really a hard thing." She looked at the blonde. Lucas looked at her confused not knowing what he should say in this situation so, he decided to wait until she finishes.

"I realized that the only thing that is important to the people is only how beautiful you are." She stated looking down at the cup, touching the cup softly with her small hands. "They don't care about your character." Lucas looked astonished and asked himself how this kind of person could be that sensitive. He looked down at the couch and let out a sigh.

"You are like a child, Natsumi." Lucas gave her a smile.

Natsumi looked at him, narrowing her eyes while anger started to rise. "And you are also one of these people." She said with anger lifting her hands from the blanket. "You have been treating me differently and you looked at me just when you saw me wearing this dress just like other people." Lucas's eyes widened, she was really that kind of girl after all who was sensitive no doubt. Natsumi stood up as she decided to leave the place. The blonde quickly grabbed the arm of the dragon slayer.

"Don't be like that, Natsumi." He stated looking at her face. "No one said that I looked at you because of the dress." He forced her to sit down "And it's really true that people in fairy tail loved you and considered you as their friend."

Natsumi looked down at her hands which were on her lap. "You know that the citizens also love you without these petty things you are talking about." He said pausing for a second. "They were only astonished to see you like that." Natsumi started to rethink about the past days when she greeted them and they greeted her back. Anger slowly disappeared but returned when she started to remember how Lucas was ignoring her these past days.

Natsumi looked at the blonde frowning at him giving him a shiver. The blonde looked at her nervous and confused. "Then, why were you ignoring me these past few days?!" she asked him making him more nervous. He was going to answer any questions except this one which he didn't want to hear it. Lucas looked at the ceiling trying to avoid meeting her eyes. "What? Is it a hard question?" she frowned.

"Natsumi," he called her again. "I… there something I want to be sure of." Natsumi looked at him wondering what that thing was. "When I become sure… I will tell you."

End of flashback.

"You are sure now?" Natsumi smiled as she looked down at the bed's sheet remembering what happened a year ago.

"I was sure a long time ago but I never had the courage."

Natsumi took a deep breath through her nose and opening her mouth again. She raised her head to look at him. "We had waited a long time, didn't we?"

"I think if I hadn't stopped myself that day and told you what I wasn't sure of, nothing of this would have happened." She took another breath and looked at Lucas's face. She was still feeling weird around the blonde that her heart was pure towards him now; it still feels a little strange.

"That time, the hardest thing to me was to become a girl." She paused looking inside of her mug at the hot chocolate. "I didn't know that I will be facing harder than it." Lucas looked down at the bed's sheet and sighed slowly. They can't forget their bad memories and they also can't ignore it. He doesn't know what to do.

"Natsumi,"

She laughed, "Imagine that, that time I was so clumsy and so naïve. I can't believe I was like this a year ago." She laughed when she remembered it. Lucas smiled at what she said as he tried to figure what happened to her so suddenly. "I wasn't also caring about my clothes or how they looked. I was even being lectured by Mira and Erza." She continued laughing as well.

"I think you were even pretty in that look."

"Oh, come on Lucas. I was like a wool ball."

"I… liked you as yourself and not because of anything." He caught Natsumi's attention to look at him."Well, I was charmed by that dress you wore that night but it doesn't make you different in my eyes because when I fell in love, I fell in love the wool ball. I love the pink haired girl, the mighty dragon slayer, Natsumi the salamander."

Natsumi kept staring at him as her face started to redden slowly. She lowered her head to look into her lap. Her heartbeats were so fast and she couldn't control over her happiness of hearing such a thing. Suddenly her lips curled into smile as her bangs fell over her face not letting the blonde to see that blush. But because he started discovering her more, he realized that this silence she gave him was showing how happy she was.

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"Take," the couple was sitting on the bed eating snacks and chatting while trying to search for something to watch in the television. The blonde took the chips and buried his hand inside of the bag.

"That time I also realized how sensitive you were and how small you were. Being a mage made you look big in people's eyes but your true self is nothing." He said as he changed the channel surprising the pink haired girl of what he said. She didn't know if she must be happy or sad in what he said.

"Is that supposed to be a compliment?" she raised one eyebrow as she looked at him.

"Yeah, it's. It's showing how great you are to bear such a huge burden while you are really small." He took off his hand off the chips bag and grabbed her small one. "You are really great to make people happy and forgetting about yourself. You even dated Gray because he confessed to you."

She was actually surprised to hear him says that and since he said it, he has to bear the result.

"Well, since you said it." Natsumi started to talk. "I didn't date Gray because he confessed to me. I only dated him because I wanted to forget what you have done to me." She said with a fake forced smile astonishing him.

"Wow, I was really a horrible person."

"Yeah, believe me. But I was also wrong so you are forgiven."

"You were wrong?"

"Yes, I should have talked with you from the start because discussing issues from the start helps later." She said taking the remote and changing the channels. This girl was amazing in Lucas's eyes and he can't talk back to her anymore.

She moved her head to look at him to realize that he was frozen looking at her. "I know it's a hard thing to talk about anything that has to be a secret but, it's better to spell it now or it will cause a disaster later, isn't it?"

"You're actually wise,"

"I believe that there will be more sides of me you didn't see, wait for them." She laughed.

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I was rewriting the flashback thing and I realized how horrible I was back in part 1. I was actually a disaster in grammar and the way I wrote. I want you to go back to read the old chapters and tell me how bad I was and if I improved or not?

Also, writing romance wasn't an easy job to do at all especially these two who fought whenever they had seen each other. Actually as I told you before I never really planned to all this but, I admit that I like this story more than anything and I don't wish for it to end. I wish I could keep on writing but it has to face its end so I'm telling you that the end is near but I don't know when but wait for it.

And also one more thing, I could have ended the story the last chapter because they got finally together but I feel like they deserve love and you also deserve some love too my dear fans. I just realized how deep and dark this story was because since it started, they never told each other anything good and when they went in different ways they were just looking at each other like they want to kill each other XD

I wished for once that this fic had more fans to read but I think after I made it longer and after the whole timeskip thing, a lot of people stopped reading it and felt really bored but, I'm thanking God that there's still some fans that love it.

Thank you so much for all the reviews you write to me sometime I don't answer some of you because I can't answer that's why I'm really sorry for that and thanks once again for enduring me my dear fans, love you all.

Sayonara.