Chapter 2: She.
When Lucy enters the guild, he feels disgusted.
When he walks accidentally by her appartment, it angers him.
When she laughs, he feels like burning the place down.
It'sjustthat,whenheisthere,hewantshertobesomewhereelse.
Lisanna is a completely different story.
When she laughs, he feels happy inside and laughs with her.
When she touches him, his face turns red uncontrolably.
When they accidentally meet, she laughs and takes his arm sweetly and perfectly, walking aimlessly with him.
That's why he decides to go out with Lisanna.
Not with Lucy.
After all, Lucy doesn't need him in her life, so why would he?
They can live without each other. Lucy has all those guys after her that will surely protect her so she doesn't need Natsu anymore, right?
Truth is, she doesn't need either of them! If she doesn't need Natsu to look out for her then neither does she need others to do it; she is pretty grown and strong enough to care for herself. She has always been. And she has always had all these admirers.
But, never had she chosen them over Natsu.
Natsu had eyes only for the blue eyed girl. They would go everywhere together and have fun in the strangest ways. And Natsu would always ignore Lucy, even when she sat right next to him, as if she didn't exist at all.
Even so, Natsu would always take a walk late at night because of his constant lack of sleep... and end up in front of her house and, furious, make his way back immediately.
Except once.
The single time he walked there and decided to enter her house through her window like he used to do, he found her sleeping soundly and peacefully, like a perfect painting, and he stayed there looking at her moving slightly for longer than he expected.
He ended up admiting, only to himself, that she looked beautiful asleep and he sat on her floor, observing her.
Some minutes later, Lucy's face contorted with pain and her movements became more violent.
And then, she cried.
Thick round tears rolled down her face like two water falls and she sobbed and seemed to be coughing for air. She continued to turn, and move, and turn, and sob, and cry loudly, suffering, shouting vowels and incomprehensible things until a name made it's way out of her throat.
"Natsu...!" She whispered in between sobs and breathing heavily. "Don't... leave me alone! Natsu..."
His name continued to burst out of her mouth, burning his ears.
When Lisanna laughs, he laughs.
When she looks for him, it reminds him of their childhood days.
When they kiss... it feels completely wrong!
But with Lucy... When she laughs, it has to be around him or else he will get the feeling that he wants to puke... but both alone, she brings peace to his heart.
When Lucy enters the guild, her scent that he is always following to make sure she actually exists, invades the place and fills him.
And when Lucy cries... he just HAS to be there, no matter what, no matter when, no matter where. He has to. He NEEDS to.
Natsu's fingers delicately dried the girl's tears away and she pulled closer, one hand moving out from under the covers and searching his hand in the darkness of her sleep.
Her thin fingers encountered his arm and wrapped around it, her breathing calming down slowly.
"Natsu..."
Both teens woke up the next morning to find themselves next to each other, sleeping in the same bed with the fingers of one hand intertwined.
"Natsu, what the hell are you doing here."
Never had her voice been so cold and harsh.