Chapter 3

Theme: Mirror

Lucy awoke to the sunlight streaming through her window. A gently breeze rustled the curtains and drifted over her causing goosebumps to form on her delicate skin. She sat up in her bed as she welcomed the new day. Removing the blankets, she stood up and felt the soft white rug beneath her feet.

She smiled to herself as she thought of how it felt like today was going to be a good day. She didn't know why but she just had that feeling. Maybe they would find a good mission today. She felt like she could take on the world at the moment. Stepping over to her closet, she pulled out the clothes she was planning to wear today and made her way to the bathroom.

The door creaked open and she sat her clothes down on the sink. She had learned to start changing in her bathroom since her partner just loved to surprise her in the mornings. Most of the time while she was in the process of dressing. Even as she looked at herself in the mirror and noticed that her hair was a mess and the make-up she wore the previous day was smeared on her face, she didn't let it get her spirits down.

Yesterday her and her team had returned from a stressful mission and she was too tired to even bathe when she got home, so instead she went straight to bed. She ran the water in the sink and as she waited for it to warm up, she grabbed out a towel and washcloth. Wetting the washcloth under the now warm water, she dabbed away at the smeared make-up.

When she was finished cleaning off her face, she turned to water off and walked over to the tub and turned it on. As the tub started to fill, she slowly stripped off the clothes that she was wearing and put them in the laundry basket on the right of her. She dipped herself into the tub as the steam rose up, clouding the small bathroom.

She had decided to indulge herself today and use her more expensive soap that she would normally only use on special occasions. The smell of sweet cherry blossoms filled the air and she sighed in content. It was her favorite scent and it always reminded her of the spring. She soaked for a while as she let the heat work of any kinks left in her body from yesterday.

When she was finished bathing, she pulled the plug as the sweet smelling bath water made its way down the drain. Stepping over the bathtub, she planted her feet onto the soft mat that lay on the tiled floor. She quickly wrapped herself in her fluffy white towel as she approached the mirror.

She was surprised to see that someone had wrote something on the mirror to only be revealed once the steam hit it. She walked closer to see what it said and found herself even more surprised. There wrote on the mirror in the worst kind of chicken scratch handwritting said 'Good morning beautiful'.

She smiled to herself as she wondered who would have done that. It was incredibly sweet and romantic with a hint of mystery. She figured that this person had to know her if they knew that she took a bath first thing in the morning. She wasn't sure who wrote it but she knew that she would find out soon or later.

Fixing her hair after getting dressed, she looked into the mirror in her bedroom as she went through the list of possible candidates of who could have wrote the message. In all honesty, there wasn't that many people who could have done it. She couldn't wait to get to the guild and see if she could figure it out.

Throwing on her boots, she then walked over to her bedside table and grabbed her keys. Strapping them to her waist, she made her way out her door and down the cobblestone street. She balanced herself on the side wall next to the stream as the same boatmen as usual passed by and sent their warning her way about falling in.

She hummed lightly to herself as she saw the guild forming in the distance. She had a bubbling sensation building up in her as she quickened her pace. She pushed open the guild doors and greeted everyone like any other day.

Glancing around she noticed that only one person was missing. Natsu. Shrugging, she made her way over to the bar to order her favorite drink. Mirajane promptly made the drink and sat it in front of the blond mage before she even had to ask. She smiled as a thank you before taking a nice long sip of her drink.

The feeling she got earlier was growing more and more as time ticked by. She had been here for about an hour and she already felt like she was going to burst. No one had made any attempt to really talk to her other than Mirajane and her best friend Levy. And other than that, she had no clue to who the mystery man was. Or woman but Lucy shuddered at the thought.

She wasn't against that kind of thing but she preffered men and she hoped, especially with what the handwritting looked like, that it was a man. The guild doors burst open but Lucy was to engulfed in her own thoughts to notice. Staring into her drink as the condensation fell down and onto her palm, something red was suddenly slung in front of her causing her to jump back in surprise.

When she managed to get a good look at what was in front of her, she noticed that it was a dozen of the most beautiful red roses she had ever seen. She smiled as she could smell their sweet scent coming off them. She followed the tan arm that was holding them until she meet the deep onyx eyes of none other then her best friend.

"Natsu?"

"Good morning beautiful," he gave her a wide smile with his fangs gleaming in the light as her heart began to flutter. So it had to be him that wrote that message then.

"N-Natsu?"

"Here, these are for you," he pushed the roses closer to her as the smell of them became stronger. She reached out and grabbed the roses with trembling hands. Is this really happening? She found herself wondering.

She allowed herself another glance over this mysterious man who looked just like her partner to notice that he wasn't wearing his normal clothes. Instead, he was wearing a red polo with two of the three buttons undone and dark jeans that were almost black. His hair was still spiked but a little neater than normal, so she figured that he must have actually brushed it.

"Thanks," was all she managed to say, when all the butterflies that were floating around in her stomach had her slightly dizzy. Lucy's mind was doing flips, trying to think of what caused the change in this man.

"Lucy, I wanted to know if you were willing to go on a date with me?"

Lucy's eyes widened as the word fell from his lips. Date? Did he really just ask me on a date? Lucy wondered.

"You don't have to give me an answer right away, but there is something that you need to know,"

The rate that her heart was beating sped up even more. She felt like she was going to have a heart attack at any moment. Jeez what this guy can do to her.

"I want you to know that even though it took me a long time to figure it out, I realized that I love you. I have since we met and I always said you were weird because I never understood these sensations that would ripple through me by just being near you. I always thought that it was because you were strange but then I realized that it wasn't because of that."

"It's because of the kindness that you show, even to those who don't deserve it. Because of the way you care for your friends, the tears you have shed for us, and the way you are willing to put your life on the line to protect someone. Your beautiful smile lights up my day, the look in your eyes always makes me feel like I have one hundread little dragons doing flips in my stomach."

"Your light touch takes my breath away, and I can only imagine what I would feel if all that was directed towards me in a way of being more than friends. When I am with you I feel like I am in heaven, like nothing could compare. Not even finding Igneel."

At that last statement Lucy stood up and threw her arms around the man standing in front of her. She never imagined such words to come from him. It was the sweetest and most romantic thing she has ever been told and what made it all that much better is that it was genuine and full of love.

"So can I take this as a yes?"

"Of course, you may not be my prince charming but your the almighty dragon protecting me from harm and in my book, that's a much better fairy tale."

He laughed in response to her statement as he completely agreed with her.

A/N: Hey there, I was wondering what everyone thought so far of the series. Please give me a shout, I would love to hear from you in either a PM or a review. I thought that I would let you know that the next chapter will be called 'Rumors'. Can you guess what's going to happen? I would love to see how close everyone gets. And also, I have the first 8 chapters written already, and the first 57 planned as of right now. I am constantly writing more and planning. If you have any theme idea's just hit me up. If you do send me an idea, just know that I will take it seriously but you may not see it right away since I have several chapters already wrote and I am trying to keep them in a certain order. Thanks so much, you guys are amazing. Please check out my other stories if you don't mind. Love you all, Angel.