Chapter25
The man let go of a breath as he opened his eyes to look down at the paper before of him. He became so silent suddenly as he grabbed the paper and stared at it closely. He sighed heavily and let it go out of it once again turning his body as he heard a sudden voice to realize that the pink haired girl was standing in front of him waving her hand with a smile. His face didn't change at all while he saw her in front of him. He just stood up and went to where she stood.
The girl kept her smile on her face as she looked up at him because he was taller than her. Lucas didn't speak; he just looked at her hand and her leg to see that she was alright without gypsum. He smiled and sat down on the bed looking up at her. He stretched his arm out to grasp her right hand.
"I'm so happy you were able to get rid of the gypsum." He stated softly as he tightened his grip on her hand. He walked to where the bed was and sat down still holding her hand. She smiled and sat down beside him as she kept on smiling.
"You see. What do you think about this surprise?" the woman stated as he smiled softly wrapping his arm around of her bringing her to his chest to kiss her forehead. He rested his chin on the top of her head and didn't say anything as he breathed silently. His reaction was a little weird to Natsumi and she couldn't tell what was wrong with him because of not speaking and staying silent like that. She moved her head slowly to look at his face without his realization to realize that he looked a little sad in the eyes and she couldn't actually tell what was wrong with him.
She broke the hug and kept looking at him with worried eyes.
Lucas was surprised of why she was looking at him this way and then moved his body side to face her.
"What's wrong?"
Natsumi asked him as she neared him trying to figure what's wrong. Lucas looked down at the bed's sheet as he sank in his own world.
"Was it obvious?"
"Yeah... a little."
Lucas raised his right arm to rub the back of his head as he kept staring at the bed's sheet. He didn't know what to say. It just seemed a little confusing to talk about it. He let go of his hair as he moved his head slowly to look at the pink haired girl.
"My father… had passed away and I… couldn't even see him." Natsumi's eyes shot wide and she became speechless and didn't find the words to spell as well. She bit her lower lip as she looked at the sad face of her boyfriend and couldn't ease on him asking herself when all these things have happened to him and he didn't even say anything about it.
"We weren't in good terms and we were always fighting." He started looking over his desk to see the frame that held a family photo. "I… even ran of the house because of him." The man stated slowly as he moved his head down to look at the bed one more time squeezing his eyes shut feeling the tightening in his heart.
"I can't believe that actually might have happened to him because of me." He stated silently as he brought his hand to cover half of his face. He didn't know why he was doing that but maybe because he didn't want to show that weak side of him to the girl he loves the most and act all strong and so. He didn't even know why he was telling her those things in the first place.
Moments of silence have passed and the both weren't talking at all. The blonde then let his hand fall down to the bed and moved his head to look at the girl's face. He realized that her reaction wasn't good at all. She was so affected by what he said and that what hurt his heart the most.
"My heart is aching all over but the tears don't want to come down at all, I have no idea why." He continued moving his head to look at the other direction trying to escape that emotional look he got from the mighty dragon slayer. "I'm pathetic." He whispered but she heard him.
Natsumi was waiting him to finish his talking as she became so emotional at that time. Maybe she was having some troubles sometimes showing her feelings but she just can't hear her boyfriend suffers and she ignores it. She just can't bear it anymore.
The woman stretched her arms out as she wrapped them around of his neck and brought his head towards her to rest his forehead on her left shoulder surprising him as well.
"Natsumi…" he whispered slowly as he didn't force himself to break the hug and separate from her warm embrace.
"… W-When I'm next to you, I feel safe." The woman stated slowly as she tightened her grip around of him. "I-I want you to feel safety as well." She continued and then sniffed and he immediately knew that she was crying.
"Idiot, why are you the one crying?" he breathed as he stretched his right arm to grab on her shirt from the back.
"I'm crying because you're not able to," she sniffed again and he smiled lightly. He thought of a funny thing while he was on her shoulder. He thought of how possible the strong salamander cries and it's not even for herself it's for another person. How twisted this world could be? How amazing love could be? Now he regrets a lot of things and wishes if he had done a lot of things a year ago like asking her out. Like telling how much he loved her. He wished that because now he knows that his life would have been more amazing back then and he wouldn't have suffered that much.
But now, he is holding her while hearing her sobs over someone she didn't even meet before. His father that he even barely remember him smiling at him because of that wealthy family he could live in. His father didn't care about him and was always busy in his own business since he was young child and he didn't know why he would do all these things after all. He didn't know why he would be busy for something unstable like business and leaves his own child. But then, he lost his business when he lost his son.
Lucas let go of the girl and returned to his spot as he stared at her face. He forced a smile on his lips and then moved his hand to wipe away the tears that were falling down from her eyes.
"L-Lucas…"
"Come on, wipe those tears away." The man stated slowly as kept his forced smile on his face and she didn't understand at all.
She looked down at her hands and then stretched them out to grab his hands and squeezed them.
"You're not fine, I feel it!" she looked at his face with tears in her eyes. He took a deep breath and let go of her hands. He slid his legs down the bed and looked down on the ground as he took a deep breath.
"After I ran away from home, he didn't even ask for me or anything." He stated silently and didn't move his head away from the ground as the girl kept looking at him as well. "Maybe, I hated him after all… and maybe that's why I can't cry." The man raised his head to look at the ceiling sighing heavily at what he said. Natsumi didn't make any moves as she kept staring at him as well. She couldn't understand why he would hate his father that much that he can't even cry over his death. She doesn't understand anything at all.
"I'm sorry to bother you." He moved his head to look at her beautiful face with the same forced smile. "I shouldn't have bothered you from the start." The blonde said as he forced his eyes away from the pink haired girl to look at the ground. He didn't know if he was escaping her or what but the girl didn't let go of him. Natsumi stretched her hand out to grasp on his shoulder and started patting it with a soft smile on her lips.
"I'm your girlfriend; it's my role as one." She leaned down to rest her head on his chest hearing his heart beats through his skin. She took a deep breath through her nose like she was inhaling his smell and closed her eyes slowly as she felt relived to be next to him. The blonde looked at the top of her head and raised her hand to put on her head and started playing with her hair locks and then leaned down to kiss her head and wrapped his arms to hold her dear to him.
Yes, it was like that. That's right he was sad and all but he just can't ignore her sympathy and white heart because he doesn't know his feelings. She doesn't deserve such a thing after all.
"Lucas…"
The pink haired waited for good minutes and decided to talk once again breaking the ice with her voice. The man opened his closed eyes and moved his head a little to look at her from his position.
"Hmm?"
"I think you should go visit your father's grave." The man didn't react and didn't speak and that made Natsumi drifting away and looks at him in the eyes.
"Lucas,"
"You're going to come along?"
The dragon slayer raised both her brows as she looked at him for a moment surprised with his question.
"You… want me to be with you?"
The man stared at her for seconds as she stared at him in back not knowing what to answer in back. He then nodded his head slowly not sure if it was a good idea for doing such a thing
"Okay," she grasped his hands with hers and smiled. "I'll go with you."
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Hi guys, how is everyone?
First of all, I need to thank everyone who had endured me and my way of writing up until now.
I know that I may be bad at some points and my grammar too but I'm trying to be better. And thanks god I've realized that I got better than my first time I wrote fanfiction in and it was 3 years ago.
But thank you anyway for your opinion and I promise I'll get better and better.
And another thing, I've published a new story. It's not going to be a story it might be two or three shots. Actually I planned it to be a one-shot but unfortunately, the ideas didn't stop popping in my head.
It's Natsumi X Gray fanfiction by the way.
And Natsu is the only genderbent here.
So if you care, you can find it in my profile with the name 'Out of character'
Enjoy, and sayonara!