Let's start slow, let's start from the very beginning.

Here are some insights of their past with each other. =w=

Lucy's Perspective in the Past

It was right after graduating from primary school. Right after the big exam to decide where one should go. Lucy's parents had decided where she would go base on her previous grades. Lucy didn't mind that she was going to go to another school than all her other classmates, after all, she never really felt close to them. Most of her time was spent in the library during break. For the first three years, she had been constantly eating alone in the canteen and then going to the library to find a new storybook. She always liked storybooks, it was magical and adventurous and at the end of the day, it was suppose to teach Lucy moral values, not like she ever listened to it, she liked the plot but that was it. Lucy had came to the library everyday and everyday she would borrow a book back to class. During the times where the teacher was switching classes, she would pull out the book and read, and when she didn't have a book, she would always doodle on her drawing book. She never really went to the library until the 2nd year, in the first year she was still adjusting to the new environment. Her primary school, Fiore Primary, was rather large in numbers so they had to separate into 1 and 2, Lucy being in the second category. Since they were so big, they had to have 2 individual building, which was made finish on Lucy's second year of primary school and even then she still didn't have anyone to talk to but strangely enough there was those that hated her and she didn't know why.

Jenny was one student that disliked Lucy during her first year. Most of the people in Fiore Primary came from Fiore Kindergarten, same as Lucy. However, even though Lucy knew people there, she didn't have anyone she could call as a friend, being that she would always play alone in the corner at the sandbox. Lucy was quiet, she wasn't the talkative type and somehow she grew used to it, being alone at lunch and activities. She didn't understand Jenny, the only time Lucy talked to Jenny was because Lucy wanted to borrow a ruler from her but Lucy got a pinched and a glare in return. It didn't help that she was sitting in front of Lucy, so instead of making a friend first, she had an enemy first. It wasn't until the last year where she finally had some people to talk to. I guess being friendly when talked to did pay off. All of her friends had the common interest in drawing, frankly if it wasn't all the silence times where Lucy was left alone, she would maybe have never made drawing a hobby of hers. Of course her drawing style back then wasn't amazing and was just lines and smiley faces but she had fun drawing games such as drawing your own dream house on other people's drawing book, thus making it a book for apartments and another book for shops where they would draw random outlets that lets you buy anything a 12 year old kid could thought off with of course insane amount of fake money. Lucy had the most fun in the last year, despite having an end term big exam.

Natsu's Perspective in the Past

Natsu was lost, not lost as in unknown area but lost in thought. He's aura has been down since his mother's passing, weeks ago. His family wasn't the same anymore, his father would lock himself in his work and his brother isn't even around most of the time. He once saw his brother at the arcade with his friends that didn't like him much, so without saying hi, he just left. Like most people that came from Fiore Kindergarten, he too went to Fiore Primary. He had friends and he had a casual 7 year old school life. He played, he got into trouble and he had fun. He grew up with his friends, they had been introduced to online games and he eventually grew out of his grief. He had more freedom now that he was older, 12, so he had outings with his friends, played around with them like any 12 year old would. He had not bother with his brother since, he barely talked to him now. His father grew more overprotective towards him, though he has no idea what his brother was doing. Natsu's father made Natsu attended wrestling classes on Sundays and would make sure Natsu would be studying, though after he is out of the room, Natsu goes back to the computer.

At times when he was not too distracted with his chit-chat with his group, his eyes would wander around the cafeteria. His eye's spotted various groups laughing at another table, talking to each other and students squeezing in line to get food. His lone classmate would always stand out among the group talking next to her. She was eating alone in her own dream world, only to come out from her thoughts when the girls next to her would ask her something, in which she would respond with a smile. That girl could have became popular if she had talked to others more, her quiet demeanour and daydream behaviour made others to not interrupt her. Often she would always eat finish first then proceed to get up and walk away with her plate without waiting for anyone. He often found her in the library's story book corner whenever they decided to go to the place, they did have the most comfortable chairs.

It wasn't like Natsu was stalking the girl because he knew who she was personally. She had once visited his Grandpa Acnologia when he was staying over, apparently he found out his Grandpa Acnologia and her Grandma Anna were friends.. They didn't talk much but she had follow him around, seeing as he was the only other kid besides him, so they played Jenga for the rest of the day. It was new seeing her so loud and expressive whenever the tower fell, she never did get close with anyone. Grandpa Acnologia's house had a cat, Happy, which Lucy was found off. After that day, he would often find her approaching him to ask about Happy. As a 10 year old boy that time, he didn't want others to get the wrong idea so he would always answer simple answers and walked off.

It wasn't until the last year where something really involved her. She had grown since then, not in size but personality wise. Although she did grow taller and was one of the tallest girls in the class, she had became more friendly too. Natsu had been her classmate for the whole primary year. He was bound to notice things that had changed, although he didn't really change much, he just became lazier and for the record the teachers disliked him with a passion, especially the history teacher, Natsu would always sleep in class and get scolded the next minute. Anyway, she was getting more disobedient now, she was always the good girl in class, never turning homework in late and always listened but looks like she was over that now. He knew for a fact she'd sometimes skipped club activities and got caught one day. Since she kept going to the library the teacher made her a librarian for the school. She took advantage of the fact that librarians are able to leave class 5 minutes early when they are on duty. She would sometimes just skip her duties and just went to the corner of her favourite shelf, implying that she was 'arranging' the books. Until now her habit to go to the library after eating hadn't stop but now she had a friend to go with.

Now that wasn't a big deal but her friend was a he, Dan Straight to be precise. He had a reputation to fall in love with girls and then fall out just as soon. He was the same class as them since the second year but he only started hanging out with her in the last year. Apparently, she and him had a common interest in drawing, she had another person to hang with as well, Flare was also another librarian and she too had an interest in drawing. The three could be usually found roaming around the school while eating ice-cream after school. Natsu thought it wasn't until the second half of the first quarter that Dan admitted that he liked Lucy, worst of all everyone knew it. This was because during an assemble, Dan spotted Lucy and Ren, another classmate, talking to each other so Dan, being the 12 year old boy that he is, cried the whole day. Ren was one of Natsu's friends but Ren had similar interest in shows with Lucy. Natsu also secretly knew Ren had a crush on her. In fact Lucy had more admirers than she realised. Well in Natsu's perspective, Lucy wasn't amazingly pretty, she was closer to the cute side but not as cute as a kitten. I guess it was more because Lucy had a fun personality that boys liked her.

But Natsu noticed something, despite the fact that she was pretty sure Lucy didn't liked Dan the way Dan did, how he knows he forgotten. Dan followed Lucy everywhere she went. He helped her pay the things she ate and bought her the things she wanted in the school's bookstore. Lucy was taking advantage of Dan's feelings. Natsu knew the saying 'slave to love' but he didn't think it was directly true. Since Ren was one of his friends, when Natsu went to find him, he would always see Ren with Lucy and Dan. Even though he knew his thoughts were wrong, in the back of his mind, he couldn't help get that nagging feeling that Lucy is using them both. For her personal enjoyment? He may never know because after the big exam, she had already moved on to the next school. Fairy Tail High, the same school as him.

It was early in the morning and the sun shone directly into the windows of a pink apartment in Strawberry Street. The sleeper stirred as light was interrupting her dream. Her dream of a not so cruel reality. It also didn't help that her alarm went off and being the light sleeper she is, she turned and shut the loud box. She grabbed her phone and proceeded to stay in bed the next 10 minutes, scrolling through Facebook to see other people's active lives. After showering and doing her daily routine, she went to collect her mail in fluffy bunny slippers with her fluffy pink robe and her bunny mug filled with coffee in hand.

She opened the mailbox, grabbed the stack of envelopes, went in and threw them on edge of the coffee table. She then proceed to go to her room and dress for the day. The usual business pants, white collar shirt and black jacket. After putting the minimal makeup on and brushing her hair, she looked at the clock, 8:30am. Half an hour left until work started, so she drowned her coffee, got her bag and put on her two inch black heels. Once she checked herself in the mirror, that everything was presentable, she opened the door and started her day just like the usual.

Only as she slammed the door shut, a red envelope flew down the coffee table and onto the floor, with the signature mark of Fairy Tail High.