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WHEN WE WERE KIDS

CHAPTER TWELVE

Natsu grabbed my forearm, unable to take my hand.

"You can tell me. I won't tell anybody else, and you'll always be my best friend. The Lucy I know is my best friend, I don't care about the Lucy other peolpe know. This Lucy will always be the true one for me, my Lucy." He said, the words ran up my spine, and hit my heart at an incredible force. Why do you do that to me? I already love you enough as it is. I thought. He took hold of my cheek, and pressed his forehead gently against mine.

"Just tell me please. I don't want to see you cry." He said. I pulled my head away from his, and gazed, deep into his eyes.

"You know you said I had the same name as the Heartfilia family? It's because I'm there daughter. I am the runaway daughter." I said. Natsu gasped in shock.

"You're the heir to the fortune and business?"

"Yes. And you know about Layla Heartfilia dying, then?"

"Yes, Lucy, I'm sorry-"

"No, it's okay. When she died, father became fixated on work, so he didn't have time for me. He forgot my birthday every year. One thing he didn't forget, was that I was a lady, so I was home schooled, and I never had any friends. All except for one boy. Tristan, he was the son of my teacher. We used to have fun together, after I had my business class. He was funny, he always used to steel food from the kitchen and we'd eat it in my room. But you see, Tristan wasn't a sir. So he wasn't proper company for a lady. Around two months ago, he went to see my father in his office. I didn't know why, so I eavesdropped at the door. Already for Tristan to go and see my father, he would be mad, but then, to ask what he did!" I said, shuddering at the memory.

"What did he ask?" Natsu pushed on.

"These are his exact words. 'Sir Heartfilia. My name is Tristan, I am your daughters friend. In three years, your daughter will be of marrying age, and I would like to become her husband. I would be the happiest man on earth. Would you be willing to let me protect your daughter?' And my father, he was livid. 'Boy, do I know you, are you of a noble family?' He had asked. 'No sir, I am the son of your daughters teacher.' Tristan answered. 'Well then, boy, my daughter has no need of your company, she doesn't need friends of your status, let alone a husband with no money. I shall make sure to get rid of you.' That's what my father answered. That's all I heard, I had already run off to my room and thought about what to do."

"Lucy..." he said, stroking my forearm. I started crying harder.

"You see, I never saw Tristan after that. I don't know what happened to him. But the next day, I was studying in the library, and my teacher came in. He started shouting at me, how it was all my fault. I don't want that to ever happen again. But ever since I've come to love my new friends here in Magnolia, I've been having nightmares, my father, killing the people I love." I cried.

"Tell me."

"What?"

"Tell me what you see in the nightmare. Gramps did this for me when I had nightmares." He said, grinning. His grin...

"I see my father, he says 'Lucy, come home, and then he kills someone."

"What happened tonight?"

"I was in the field, on the mountain, looking up at the sky, and he spoke the words. I turned around and saw him. He was holding you by the hair, lifting you up from the ground. You couldn't breath, because he had a knife to your throat. He pressed it, and it cut a bit, and blood ran down your neck. Then I was on Hyacinth road, and I turned round to see the house, on fire. Out of it, obba-chan came running, she was alight, burning. I wanted to do something, but all I could do was scream her name. Father came and pushed her to the side, and he walked over to me. He started shouting at me, and shaking my shoulders. And then, you woke me up." I said, recalling the painful dream.

"Now look at me." He said. I opened my eyes, wich I had closed, to recall the dream better. "Am I dead?"

"No."

"Do I have blood trickling down my neck?" He asked.

"You have your scarf."

"Exactly, I don't have any blood." He said. I laughed.

"Now come on, Luce. Your father can't get to us. I think that's enough cheesy emotions for one night, C'mere." He said, and pulled me in, giving me a warm strong hug.

"I love you, I love you all." I said.

"We all love you too, your one of us, and we hold our friends dear." He said. I was happy. That's what it was like, saying 'I love you'...

During the day we spent off, we mainly slept. I took my bandages off, to see how the burns were looking. Thanks to an ointment they put on the horrible blistery mess of my hands, all that was left was new, pink skin, with just a few blisters. I hated the sight of them. I looked through my bag, and found what I was looking for, a pair of fingerlss gloves, which came up to my elbows.

We went to see obba-chan. She was lying in a bed, with half her face bandaged up, and a mask, just like I had on. She was asleep, so we stayed in her room a bit, changed the flowers, and went back out. We arrived back at his house, and I slept some more.

I got woken up by a knock on the door, so I got up, my hair dishevled and my skirt all messed up. Natsu came out of his room, he was the same.

"Were you sleeping to?" I asked him. He nodded. We both went to the door, and he opened it.

"Hey guys! Jeez, why do you look like you've been dragged through a hedge backwards?" Cana asked.

"Morning." Natsu said.

"It's the afternoon, baka." Gray answered. He walked out from behind Cana.

"Gray, why are you on this road again?" I asked.

"Homework." He said again, looking away, and blushing. Definitly suspicous...

"Anyway, we came with some work, the scripts for the play, and your role. Mira was casting." Cana said, coming in. We grogily followed her. She sat down on one of the chairs around the table in the kitchen, and when we sat down, we both put our heads between our arms.

"Gray, are you coming?" Cana shouted.

"Normally I wouldn't, but I want to see their reactions when they realise that Mira was casting." He said. I heard that last part, and sat up bolt straight.

"What? Mira was casting, oh no..." I complained, and put my head back down.

"Okay, we have, Juliette, no surprises there, huh Lucy? You'll have to dress up in a frilly dress, haha!" She said. I lifted my heap up slightly, and saw Natsu doing the same thing, we shared a glance, both thinking the same thing. Well that won't be a first.

"And, with a giant surprise, that made Sting not very happy, he's taken a liking to Lucy, we have, Romeo as renowned actor Natsu Dragneel!"

"What!?" He said, lifting his head up.

"Duh, Mira was casting." I said.

"Whatever. Where are the lines, I have the main part! In your face, Gray! Hahaha! I'm happy! I beat Gray!" He said, laughing like a madman.

"That does mean you have to kiss Lucy and tell her you love her and cry over her dead body." Cana said.

"Whatever, I've already kissed her, and telling her I love her will be acting, and I would cry over her dead bady anyway if she died." He said.

"Tell her, go on, tell her you love her then." Cana said.

"Cana!" I said, glowering at her. Natsu looked at me, with a straight face.

"I love you, Lucy." He said, staring at me straight in the eyes. I felt my heart flutter.

"Now you say it, Lucy." Cana ordered.

"I love you Natsu." I said, and my heart fluttered again, I wonder if he felt the same...

"See? Acting." Natsu said, crossing his arms smugly.

"And now I'm going to kill you Cana." I said.

"If it was acting, why did you say her name?" Gray asked him.

"Huh?" He said.

"You said her name. If you were acting, you would of called her Juliette, same goes for you Lucy. It's not Natsu that you love, it's Romeo." He said.

"Whatever Gray, you're squishing my brain cells just by speaking to me." He said.

"And she was your first kiss." He said.

"What? I thought you had a kissing lesson or something?" I said.

"Yeah, I did, but I got chucked of the play for destroying a whole set." He said, with a very light shade of pink dusting his cheeks.

"Isn't that so cute, you were both each others first kiss. And Lucy is blushing! I bet it'll be like that when you loose the big V..." Cana mocked.

"Cana! I will visit you while you are sleeping and impail your heart with a fifteen inch kitchen knife!" I threatened. She was tiring me. "Say that to Gray. Say you love him, and then we will see if you blush!" I ordered. She raised an eyebrow, got up of her seat, and walked over to him.

"I love you, Gray." She said, and kissed him. Not just a peck, but a drawn out smooch. Gray just stood there, not really bothered. Cana pulled away, and smiled smugly down at me. She wasn't blushing.

"Do that without blushing, and then I'll believe you don't have the hots for Natsu." She said, as I gaped up at her, like a little bird frozen as the snake takes a bite. "Same goes for you." She told him.

"Eeew, you kissed Gray, that's gross." Natsu said.

"Natsu, if you kiss Lucy right this second, with tongues, I will be your slave for a day." Gray said, an evil smile forming. "I'm doing you a favor, you'll be doing it for the play."

"Lucy, it's not like this will kill us." He said, before grabbing my face and kissing me. My heart stopped for a second, but restarted with a painful lurch as I realised that he was going to kiss me french style. I started trying to pull away, and I managed, my heart going at 180 beats per minute.

"I am not consentent! So that was an actual form of sexual harassment! Next time, please give me some kind of warning before attacking my lips!" I said, a deep red blush showing on my face.

"Luce, come on, it's just a game, Gray said he'd be my slave."

"It may just be a game but I'm not consentent!"

"We've already kissed! And we'll do it anyway for the play!"

"I'm not kissing you right now! We'll do when we need to do it."

"But there kissing!" He said, pointing to Gray and Cana. The words left my mouth, as we heard the squelch of tongue on tongue, Gray still with his arms crossed, Cana hands around his waist.

"Ew! There eating each others face!" Natsu said. "See, there friends but kissing."

"But Cana is a drunk and Gray is a stripper." I retorted, trying to ignore the sound of saliva.

"Lucy, please! I need him to be my slave!"

"No! I may love you, but I'm not kissing you like that just yet!" I said. When I realised why Gray and Cana had stopped kissing, and were staring at me, I put my hand over my mouth.

Woops.

I didn't mean to say that I loved him.

A/N: I am a troll, is all that I can say 3:) anyways, send me questions you want to ask the characters, love you, Roji