Hey everyone! I'm soo~ sorry for the late update! I have a lot of homework to do! Please forgive me! I have lots of assignments rolling in so I won't have that much time to update, but I'll try. Well I hope you enjoy this chapter!

~Previously~

"Hey Luce?"

"Yeah?"

"Why?"

"What?"

Normal POV

Lucy was looking at Natsu with a dumb expression on. Thinking of what he meant by that.

"What I mean is, why don't you quit? Wouldn't someone like you prefer to quit baby-sitting someone like me and just do something else?" asked Natsu with a bored expression on his face.

Lucy looked at Natsu for a few minutes trying understand what he meant. She then balled her fist up and looked down at her kneels while her bangs were covering her eyes. "You won't understand…. No one does… you're so lucky to have at least one of your parents alive, and you can quit anytime you want right? Because you don't have any worry in the world. Pfft no one will understand what I've been through." Lucy said through clenched teeth.

And being the idiot he is, Natsu simply said "Huh?" while having a questioning look on.
Lucy was still looking down at her knees while having her fist balled up. A painful memory was playing in her head.

~Flashback~

*Off tune piano playing*

"Um very good piano playing Lucy-sama. Now um can you please do this line again just a bit better than the last time?" asked the person that was sitting next to a blonde little girl.

The little girl was in fact Lucy Heartfilia when she was at the age of 6. Lucy stood up from her chair and yelled "LIAR! We both know that my melody was off key and that you were hesitating when you said that!" Lucy ran out of the room with big fat tears rolling down her eyes. She ran down a few hall ways while yelling "Mama!"

When she got to the right room she slammed the door opened and stomped her way to her parents. They were sitting down on a couch while looking out of the bedroom window. Layla and Jude Heartfilia.

"Mama! Papa! I don't want to do piano anymore! I quit! I hate piano!" yelled Lucy while still making her way to her parents.

Layla was the first to speak. "Now darling how do you know that you hate piano? You haven't been doing piano for that long yet."

"But mama I don't like piano! It's been like a month and I can't even play 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' yet! I just want to give up!" said Lucy. She gave her parents her best puppy eyes she could do. Her dad looked away and her mum just stared at her.

"Now Lucy it doesn't matter if you can't play that or not, when you fall down you have to get back up. So please don't give up sweetie." Layla said in a calm and sweet voice.

Lucy looked at her mother with glassy eyes, thinking about what her mother said. "But mama! I still don't want to do piano!" whined Lucy.

"Daring you'll get nowhere if you always quit." Layla said in a wise kind of voice.

"How do you know that mama?" asked Lucy.

"Well you see Lucy, when I was young like you I would always complain and say I'll quit doing this and that. But then my mother told me the same thing I'm telling you right now." Said Layla.

"But mama-" began Lucy.

"Lucy you want to become a writer when you grow up right?" asked Layla.

"Yes"

"Well are you going to quit when you have a writer's block?"

"No" Lucy said while looking down.

"So if you get a writer's block you will try again right?"

"Yes"

"Well think of doing piano as writing, because you will never quit writing right?" ask Layla.

"Yes"

"Lucy I would like you to promise me that you will never quit doing something again, for mama and papa's sake?" Said Layla while looking down to her precious child.

"I promise mama." Said Lucy.

"Can you really do it?" asked Jude. He was now looking at Lucy.

"Yes papa I swear! From this day forth I'll try to not quit in anything again." Lucy said while rising her right hand up.

Layla looked at her child, she smiled. She was so proud of her child.

"Now I think I should go back to piano lesson!" Lucy said as she skipped her way to the door. "Thank you mama, papa!" was the last thing Lucy said before she disappeared into the hallway.

~1 week later~

*Lovely piano playing*

"Look mama! Look papa! I can play 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'!" Lucy said with a cheerful voice.

"See Lucy! If you try again and again, you'll get it eventually!" Layla said while clapping. Jude was standing next to Layla while swinging to the rhythm.

From that day on Lucy never quit in doing anything.

"Mama! Papa! Don't leave me please!" Yelled Lucy. She was now standing in front of two grave stones. They both said: RIP LAYLA AND JUDE HEARTFILIA. Lucy was standing all alone in the rain. Everyone that attended the funeral already left. Lucy was the only one left.

"Mama! Papa! Please come back!" Lucy yelled once again. She was trying to convince that this was all a dream. When she finally accepted that this was reality she finally dropped to the ground.

"Mama! Papa! I swear on both of your graves that I will stand strong and that I will never quit doing something!" yelled Lucy before she stood up and ran away with tears running down her face.

From that day on Lucy always tried her best. She would never back down from anything.

~Flashback ends~

Lucy was still sitting in the bathtub; she had tears rolling down her face. She couldn't stop them. When Natsu saw this he stood up from his spot and walked over to Lucy. Lucy was too busy trying to stop the tears she didn't notice Natsu sitting next to her.

"L-luce please don't cry." Said Natsu. "I'm not good with this kind of things."

"I'm sorry, I can't help it." Lucy said, trying to wipe her tears away.

Natsu was kinda panicking now, so~ he did the only thing he could do. He pulled her by her arm and hugged her.

"N-n-natsu w-w-what are y-you d-d-doinh?" asked Lucy. Blood was rushing to her cheeks.

"Look Luce I'm sorry for bringing up something that made you cry. You don't have to tell me if it's going to make you cry." Said Natsu while he was drawing circle on Lucy's back.

Lucy relaxed into Natsu's hug, his body warmth was calming her down. "Thank you Natsu" said Lucy.

~5 minutes later~

Natsu was still holding Lucy in his arms. Lucy was calming down slowing.

*door creaks open*

"Kids? Are you in here?" ask a deep voice as he entered the bathroom. When he turned his head he stopped in his track. "Oh"

"Wait! Igneel! It's not like that!" Lucy tried to say as she pulled away from Natsu.

"Yeah old man, it's not like that." Said Natsu with a bored expression on.

Igneel kept backing up. When he was at the door he turned around and walked out, but not before say something embarrassing. "Make sure you use protection!"

"Igneel I told you it's not like that at all!" Yelled Lucy. She was now following Igneel down the stairs.

Natsu was still sitting in the bathtub.

Natsu POV

Why? Why is my heart beating so fast? Tch. Maybe there's something wrong with me. But why did it hurt when Luce said that it's not what my old man thinks?

Soooo that's the end of the chapter! How was it! I am so sorry for the late update! I really am not happy with this chapter. I really think its shit. It was better in my mind. Oh well~ Please tell me what your think!

Till next time! :)

The Dragneel Family