Chapter 4- Cross My Heart
Cross my heart
And hope to die
Stick a needle in my eye
Wait a moment,
I spoke a lie
I never really
Wanted to die.
But if I may
And if I might
My heart is open
For tonight
Though my lips are sealed
And a promise is true
I won't break my word
My word to you.
Cross my heart
Hope to die
Stick a needle in my eye.
A secret's a secret
My word is forever
I will tell no one
About your cruel endeavour.
You claim no pain
But I see right through
Your words in
Everything you do.
Teary eyes
Broken heart
Life has torn
You apart
Cross my heart
Hope to die
Stick a needle in my eye
I loved you then
I love you now
I'll still love you
Though I'll break my vow.
I can't hold this secret
Any longer
It's hurting you
Not making you stronger.
You're my friend
So I'll risk your respect
By hurting you
I can protect
I'll save you
Since you will not
You might hate me
But I'll give it a shot.
I'm willing to risk
Our bond that we own
So long as you're safe
You won't be alone.
Cross my heart
Hope to die
Stick a needle in my eye
Break my promise
Tell a lie
Save my friend
though, maybe it's 'bye.'
Lucy eyed Lisanna as she leaned her head on Natsu's shoulder and he whispered something to her. That should be her, not Lisanna.
Something was wrong with Lisanna, Lucy had noticed. She had been depressed lately at school and Lucy was eager to know why because it was starting to piss her off. She had tried to be friendlier than usual and say hello or smile but Lisanna just looks away, completely ignoring her. Lucy did not like to get ignored.
Everyone one was sitting closer to her than usual, they were all smiling and trying to be extra happy, extra funny. But there was something about the way that they acted that was…awkward…nervous maybe.
Either way Lucy hated it. Nobody had noticed her presence for the past two days. That definitely was not good enough.
She sighed and stood, swinger her bag straps over her shoulder. "I'm leaving." She announced and got at least three glances. Glances. Not even actual stares. What, was she not good enough to make eye contact with? "Fine then. Fuck you too." She grumbled and walked away, almost feeling the glares that burned into her back.
She sighed and walked around the school, looking for a shaded and secluded area. Walking behind the school, she thought she had found the perfect spot, only to walk away when she found two people making out.
The bell rang and Lucy groaned in annoyance. Science. Great.
As she walked, she passed an interesting sight. The boy she had caught making some random was now kissing Levy. Very interesting. Levy said something and then walked away while he turned and began to walk somewhere else.
Lucy decided to follow him.
"Jet!" She called out and he turned at the sound of his name, just in time to be pushed against the wall.
"Lucy?" He said, raising an eyebrow.
"So you've heard of me?" She smirked.
"Well who hasn't?"
"Good point."
"What do you want? I have to get to class."
She hummed, a mischievous smirk dancing across her lips. "You see…" She trailed off. "I saw you kissing someone…" She stood on her toes and brought her lips close to his ear. "And it wasn't Levy."
He froze and a look of horror took over his features. "Y-you saw?"
"You're not denying it."
His eyes widened and he held onto her shoulder's. "Please! Don't tell anyone! I'm begging you!" He pleaded.
"You're telling me you want me to forget about what I saw you do and that I have to lie to my friend?"
"Yes! That's what I want you to do! Please! Promise you won't tell!"
"I…" She took over his terrified figure and an amused smile stretched across her lips and something sparkled in her eyes. "Promise. Cross my heart." Even though she had given him what he wanted, a promise, he knew she was digging his grave.
Lucy took a step back and she smiled, like nothing had ever happened. "It was nice meeting you, Jet." She winked and left him, deciding to get to class.
Heads turned when the door opened. What? Haven't they ever seen a human girl before.
"Lucy. You're late." The teacher pointed out.
"Yeah."
"May I ask why?"
"I was in the bathroom."
"It takes you twenty minutes to go to the bathroom?"
"I got lost."
"You've been at this school for about a month now, you should know how to get around."
"Well I don't."
"Detention, Lucy." He half heartily said and Lucy groaned as she sat at one of the experiment tables, seeing as there was no spare seat for her with Gray, Gajeel, Natsu and Erza.
Gray leaned back to the three after Lucy had sat on the other side of the class. "I swear it looked like she was kissing him!"
"Lucy wouldn't do that to Levy…would she?" Erza frowned.
Gray shrugged. "Maybe something happened between them and she was doing this as a way of revenge. Maybe she's trying to be number one by taking us down one by one. Oh God maybe Jellal was right!
"Well we shouldn't make assumptions just yet…" Erza said and they took a quick glance at the blonde. "Is it just me or has she been kinda moody lately?"
"Yeah, with that whole 'Well fuck you too' thing she pulled off at lunch."
Natsu sighed. "You guys make her sound like some evil Disney villain."
~Lunch~
"Shouldn't you be in detention, Lucy?" Erza asked
Lucy shrugged. "Yeah. So is anyone in here dating anyone?" She said, quickly changing the subject.
"Why?" Natsu asked, raising an eyebrow.
Lucy shrugged. "I saw Levy kissing some guy a bit after the bell rang for science and I always thought she was dating Gajeel." Gajeel's frown deepened and Lucy knew she had struck a chord.
"I thought you said you were in the bathroom?" Erza said, her eyebrows narrowing.
"No, remember I was lost. I happened to see them while I was trying to find my way around the school." She said.
"Why didn't you just ask Levy for directions?"
Lucy's eyebrows narrowed and she locked eyes with Erza. "Because I didn't want to disturb them. Why so many questions, Erza?" Erza didn't answer and Lucy smiled, pleased with herself. "So who's the lucky guy?"
Levy blushed. "His name's Jet,"
"Really? I love that name! So what, are you guys in lo~ve?" She asked with a giggle.
"They are. Jet had a crush on her pretty much from the first time they met but only had the guts to ask her out at the beginning of the year. They're really happy together." Erza explained, giving her a hard stare.
"That sounds like such a cliché love story…" Lucy hummed and picked a small flower from the ground then began to rip of its petals. "You're just missing the part where he cheats on his girlfriend…"
"You tryin' to imply something!?" Gajeel yelled and Lucy snapped her head up to look at him with wide eyes, not expecting his sudden outburst.
"No…" She trailed of. "Why would I? After all, they do love each other. So that would never happen."
"Can we just change the subject guys?" Gray sighed.
The group agreed and Juvia began to tell a story of whatever happened in her class, but Lucy payed no mind to it. Her eyes stayed focused on Natsu and Lisanna. She blushed and giggled while he smiled down at her with a loving gaze. Why couldn't he ever look at Lucy like that?
Later, the bell rang and everyone stood, saying some things before walking away. Before Natsu could get too far, she grabbed onto his wrist and pulled him back, away from everyone and more importantly, Lisanna.
"What happened to her?" She asked.
"What?" Natsu said and raised an eyebrow.
"Lisanna. Something happened to her. Did you guys start dating? Did someone break up with her? Did her cat die?"
Natsu pulled pulled his wrist out of Lucy's grip. "Her sister's moving to another country, they've been together since Lisanna was born so she's taking it pretty hard."
Lucy who was standing a few feet away waiting for Natsu. She looked away and looked back up at Natsu, her eyes softening. "Well that's a shame, but…" She trailed of and stood on her tippy-toes, her lips inches away from Natsu's own. "I'm not going to give you up to her." She hummed then softly kissed him before quickly pulling away.
"You're selfish, you know that right?"
"I just don't like to share my toys."
"I'm not a toy, Lucy."
Lucy winked and began walking to her next class. "You sure about that?"
~The Next Day~
Lucy sighed and tapped her pen against her desk repeatedly, her mind running wild as the teacher rambled on about things she had already learnt last year.
"You seem kind of on edge lately. Something on your mind?" Natsu asked quietly, looking down at her with a raised eyebrow.
"It's nothing." Lucy smiled and shook her head.
Half an hour later the bell rang and Lucy eagerly stuffed her books and pens into her school bag then made her way out of the classroom. Walking behind the school, she found the familiar brunette and backstabbing asshole.
"Hey, why don't you find someone who's single?" She smiled at the girl and pulled Jet aside.
"What are you doing?!" He stammered.
Lucy let out a small laugh before the smile dropped and she glared at him viciously. "See here's the thing. I'm not going to watch my friend be so happy-go-lucky while you suck faces with some random."
"What are you trying to say?"
"You tell her or I will. Right now."
"You promised you wouldn't tell!"
"I lied." She sneered.
"Maybe I'll just let you tell her then."
"You sure about that? If you tell her then she will probably thank you for being able to tell her and you wouldn't get beat up by everyone that loves her. But, if I tell her, well, let's just say I probably won't even recognize that long face of yours."
Equally terrifying glares sparked between the two.
"Do we have a deal?"
He didn't answer.
"Jet. I said-"
"Yes! I know! Fine! We have a deal!" He said and shoved her away from him. "You win."
Lucy smiled warmly and brushed a strand of hair away from in front of his eyes in a loving matter. "I always win, Jet."
"Where is she then?"
"Where she always is."
"What?! You don't expect me to say it in front of everyone do you?!"
"Well you could do that or you could just pull her away, tell her, and then walk away. Simple as that."
He sighed and glanced at her before nodding and taking a step forward, but was stopped when Lucy put an arm in front of him.
"Wait, leave in about fifteen minutes."
"Why?"
"It'll let you think of what you're going to say." She explained and walked away with a smile gradually growing on her lips. People were just so easy to manipulate sometimes.
"Hey guys," Lucy said and sat down in the group, receiving several variations of greetings in response.
After greeting the blonde, they returned to the conversation they were in the middle of before Lucy arrived. Reaching into the depths of her pocket, Lucy pulled out her mobile and began to aimlessly scroll through Facebook, occasionally liking and commenting on some statuses or photos. Unconsciously, her eyes continued to dart to the small digital clock at the top of her screen, watching intensely as minutes passed.
"Hey, Levy." Jet said with a weak smile as he stood before the group. The corners of Lucy's lip-stick stained mouth twitched and she held in a smile that itched to come to life.
"Jet," Levy said with a beaming smile and stood to embrace her boyfriend.
"Can I talk to you…You know, alone?" This seemed to spark the others attention when they stopped to glance at him, knowing that those words couldn't mean anything good.
An odd look took over Levy's features before she nodded. "Sure," She said and Jet led them a bit away from the group.
As they got further and further away, Lucy's eyes remained glued to the screen, showing no signs on being interested in what was happening.
"You wouldn't know what they're talking about, would you?" Erza asked, tearing her eyes away from Jet and Levy's figures.
Lucy shook her head and turned off her mobile then stuffed it in her pocket. "No."
"YOU ASSHOLE!" Levy screamed at the top of her lungs and everyone turned to look just in time to see Levy's hand plummet down to meet Jet's cheek, his head flicking to the side with the amount of force. Levy fled the scene with tears in her eyes. Lisanna, Juvia and Erza stood and rushed over to the now crying girl.
"Looks like Levy and her boyfriend had a little fight." Lucy paused before quietly laughing. "Excuse my incorrect use of words. I mean ex-boyfriend."
"Little looks like an understatement." Gray said and looked over to the three girls with furrowed eyebrows.
Lucy followed where he looked and for a brief moment, her eyes locked with Jet's own sorrowful ones. Quickly, she tore her eyes away and bit the inside of her cheek, hating the guilty feeling that she would have to carry for the rest of her life. Erza, Lisanna, Juvia and Levy walked away to somewhere inside the school buildings, which Lucy assumed they were going to the bathroom to clean up Levy's no doubt red and puffy face from all the sobbing she had done. Correction. Is doing. She hadn't really stopped yet.
Seeing that there was no more Silver-haired blue-eyed girl to cuddle up to Natsu and that he was free at the moment, Lucy scooted closer to him until their shoulders touched.
She sighed. "Well hasn't this been an eventful week?"
Gajeel scoffed. A 'no shit Sherlock' sort of scoff.
"First Lisanna's sister..." Jellal trailed of.
"Then Levy and Jet's break up…" Gray finished off, getting a few bad looks. "What!? You still think after that that they're getting back together?" He rolled his eyes. "We've all been there, we know how it ends."
"I feel like I should be with Levy." Lucy pondered on the idea and rested her head against Natsu's shoulder.
"You probably should." Natsu said, glancing down at her.
Lucy shrugged. "Oh well. I probably wouldn't much help."
"That's true." Jellal agreed.
"So what do you think happened?" Lucy asked. "Like what got between them?"
"Maybe he's doing drugs?"
"Herpes?"
"He's a murderer?"
"He over fed her fish?"
"He could have dumped her if she didn't want to have sex with him?"
"Maybe he cheated."
Poor Jet, his first time appearing and that happens D:
QUE MUSIC!
LOVERS TO FRIENDS, STRANGERS TO DUST, WHY DO ALL GOOD THINGS COME TO AND END?
Yeah, I don't really know the words….