Warnings: So you guys have reached the second chapter huh? That means you're all aware of what this story contains. So I don't really have to warn you again. Just looked over at the first chapter, it's there.

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Summary: Natsu was just having a peaceful sleep in his room one morning when something came up and it changes his life the way he never expected it to happen. One thing leads to another and only his decisions can decide if his life would turn into nightmare or paradise.

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Ice Roses

Chapter 2: Love's Mathematical Equation

By: Johan Lee

Natsu's head snapped at the direction of his window upon hearing a snicker.

"Hey, who's there?!" he shouted.

Through the material of his light blue curtain, he could clearly make out a silhouette of a person standing outside his window. The said person's body though was partly hidden, and he couldn't have a clear view of the bastard's face because of the stupid curtain blocking his sight. He silently reminded himself not to listen to any of Lucy's house improvement lessons anymore.

There's a movement from the silhouette that made Natsu prepared for the worst. What if it was an enemy and was about to charge in and cut his head off. But then, just in a blink of an eye, the person was gone.

Natsu blinked twice, trice and then his eyes widened. The bastard had just run away! And he's not doing anything about it but to stare at his window like a fool.

Natsu shook out of his trance and jumped out of his bed and into his window. Ripping the stupid piece of shit out of his way, Natsu hovered over the opening and roared, fire blazing out of his mouth.

"YOU BASTARD! WHOEVER YOU ARE YOU ARE NOT GOING AWAY WITH THIS! JUST WAIT 'TIL I GOT MY HANDS ON YOU, I SWEAR I'M GOING TO BURN YOUR HEADS OOOOFF!..."

He was about to jump out of his window when his hand brushed to something hard and cold and….

Natsu stilled, eyes were solemnly focused on the object sitting innocently on his window.

It was….

It was a rose.

A simple but beautiful single-stem rose.

With mild curiosity, Natsu picked up the flower and brought it to his face to inspect it. It was indeed a rose, though he couldn't tell what kind of specie it was with its bluish transparent color. Maybe a rare specie, but nevertheless, a rose.

A bright smile tugged its way on his lips as a warm feeling started to spread inside him, the thought of chasing the run away bastard from earlier has long vanished into thin air. His mind was now focused only on the rose, which he figured out, came from the mysterious person on his window.

Receiving a rose from someone means that someone has a special feelings for you, or so Lucy told him so (seriously, he listened to Lucy's words a lot). And in his case, he didn't know who it was. So doing a little mathematical equation for love (Him + a rose + a stranger who cared for him = Natsu having a rose-giving secret admirer who is so hot and sexy and hopefully has a midnight black hair and eyes that were navy blue in color and likes to strip and—wait WHAT?)

Natsu flushed a deep shade of red as he realized what he was thinking, the result of his mathematical equation for love somehow freaked him out especially at the added description of what he thought of his secret admirer might looked like(or he wished would look like).

Natsu sniffed the flower distractedly, willing the pink blush dusting his cheeks to fade away. The rose smelt so great, kind of refreshing like a mountain morning air; though it somehow hurt his nose for it has a strange minty scent. He felt as if he was inhaling a eucalyptus-flavored-ice-cream (if there's even an ice-cream flavor like that!). And to think about it, the petals of the strange flower looked like it was really made up form ice. And when Natsu touched the crystal-like rose petals, the only reaction he gave was….

"No way! It's really made of ice!"

Natsu gaped like a fish with his mouth hanging open as he stared at the flower in mixed shock and astonishment. And being in a dazed of wonderment, his fingers seemed to move on their own accord as it started gliding against the cold smooth surface of its petals.

"Wow! It even looks like it was made of glass. It's cold though, but it's flawless! It's …. Perfect…!"

Didn't he just mention previously that he hated cold-related things next to transportation? What had just happened to that one?

His forest green eyes were twinkling with awe as he felt the urge to touch the frozen petals once again. His heart was blazing with passion that he never felt before. But as soon the skin of his eager fingers, for the second time, made contact with the ice rose petal, steam started to emit around it. And as fast as a tear would fall from someone else's eyes, the ice rose melted into a pile of lukewarm liquid that flowed down the stem and into Natsu's hand that was holding it.

Natsu was in utter shocked and horror as he stared at the dripping water from his hand that used to be his beautiful perfect ice rose.

"What…..had just happened….?"

To be continued…

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