Chapter 9 – Without words

"You look tired, Lu-chan" Levy McGarden. She is her friend. And she is the one who knew, apart of Bixlow, about her pregnancy. "Have you been sleeping well?"

Lucy sighed. No, she hadn't been sleeping at all. Bixlow hadn't taken very well the news.

"Bixlow hadn't talked to me since I told him about the baby. I knew he was going to hate me and this child." She cried, she had been crying a lot. "I don't know what to do, Levy-chan, I love him so much…"

"Maybe…Maybe you should give this relationship up. You have to worry about your future. And I think Bixlow doesn't fit in it." She didn't want to be so mean or cold, she wanted Lucy to be happy and she was a three months pregnant woman. "You should live in Fairy Hills so we can play together more and more!"

"If I'm going to have this baby I will have to buy a lot of things, I don't have enough money to live in Fairy Hills, Levy-chan"

But she had a point, Lucy should give up. Bixlow hadn't shown his acceptance or negation and it was getting complicated to hide her pregnancy. When she arrived at their house, tears were running down her face and she expected that as usually Bixlow weren't in there. And she was right, there wasn't anyone inside. She had had enough and she started to pack her things. She didn't know if leave a letter or wait for him. Usually Bixlow was there by nine o'clock and it were eight fifteen. She waited. Her luggage wasn't as big as she had expected so she could take everything alone.

"What is that?" It was his first's sentence when he arrived, and it was the first sentence he had said to her in two months.

"I'm leaving, Bixlow. It hadn't any more exits and I'm tired, so…I'm leaving" It wasn't a great speech but it was all she had "I had been waiting for you. So…goodbye"

She didn't kiss him. She just passed him and went out. Bixlow didn't try to follow her, maybe he was too shocked or maybe he agreed with her. Still it hurt too much. Since she hadn't been paying rent she had saved enough money for a simple flat with two bedrooms and a few things for her baby. It was late so she had to go to an inn for the night. And while she was in the bed, she couldn't help but wait for Bixlow to appear and take her with him to their home. How naïve, right?

"Good morning, Lucy" Mirajane said but she wasn't paying attention, she was looking for Bixlow, again she found him with Evergreen and Fried, Laxus was with him too and he smirked to her. Creepy. One week since they had broken off and he hadn't looked for her "Have you found a new flat already?"

"Yes, 50.000 jewels per month and it is big enough for me" It really was, but it wasn't her home…yet. "Now I want to do this mission"

Mira looked the poster, it was 75.000 jewels and it was easy so Lucy could accomplish it perfectly without partners.

"I will be out for three days. See you" And she left without looking behind, right were Bixlow were looking at her.

He wanted to ask Mira for Lucy, but it would be strange if he did because they weren't a couple anymore. Still he was worried, Lucy shouldn't be doing missions, not in her situation. Obviously it wasn't evident yet but he could see how her soul was shining so bright it hurt.

"You shouldn't have leave her" Fried said, Laxus was lost in his thoughts and Evergreen had disappeared "All of us can see how much you want to go with her"

"You're wrong. I was tired of her cries. I need my space and I think I know how to full it" He said, looking at Laki, she was pretty…not excessively but pretty. "Why are you interested now? I thought you had Mirajane"

"He has Mirajane, maybe I try that blondie." His blood boiled with Laxus determination. Since he had arrived to Magnolia he had tried to have Lucy and now she was free, he could have her "Or you have something to say?"

"No. You can have my leftovers." He got up and walked to the bar. He needed another beer. Finally he just walked outside the guild. He was tired of that shit. And he was worried. Why had to get a mission? He could pay for all her needs because even if he didn't like it, she was going to have his child.

"Wha~, Mira-san said Lucy took that mission before us and they had increased the payment" Twin girls exited from the guild very upset "But we wanted it first! It's unfair!"

That…idiot couldn't be in problems, right? Natsu surely would go to save her before she got hurt. Yeah, he was her hero, after all. Not Bixlow, no Loke but Natsu. That shitty flame brain was her hero. But Bixlow was the father of her child. It was going to be Bixlow and not Natsu. He was going to be a father. Bixlow was going to have a child and he was such a coward, he had thrown her away. He had to repair that.

"You two!" The girls looked at him scared "What job took Lucy?"

"Retrieve an artist dream. It was to pose for an artist. It was very simple but Lucy got the work before us and Mira said that the old man is going to pay 150.000 jewels for a nudist model"

He didn't listen to their complaints, he only heard "old man" "nudist model" "pose". His woman was going to pose for a pervert old man! He couldn't allow it!

"Where is the work?"

"We don't know. We have to go now" So, the only one who knew where the job was Mira and if he asked she would start to ask him and he didn't wanted to have to answer.

"Lucy is not my business" He said to himself but that four days would be hell for him. "Not my business"

Still he didn't do anything when Lucy arrived with a big smile and a painting under the arm four days later. She seemed so happy with her work and he let her get another job two days after, because she wasn't his business anymore and she had to pay her bills. It was unfair how Natsu and Gray went out with her and Bixlow was left behind.

There weren't words among them.