Hi everyone, this chapter will be a little bit depressing, but I promise it will get better soon. If there's anything you want to say about this chapter whenever it is negative or positive, feel free to post it in the review section. I would trully be happy.
I hope you'll like this chapter and I'll see you, I hope next week!
Enjoy!
Lucy's pov
As I woke up that morning, I felt a bit different. Usually, it was freezing in my bed since Natsu wasn't there anymore. I had to admit, his warmth was missing me a whole lot when he left if we can say it that way. Though, this morning, I felt like he was by my side, his muscular arms wrapped around my waist just like before, but it wasn't possible. After all, he forgot about myself so what would he be doing in my bed risking actually of being Lucy kick? I didn't know why, I wasn't convinced. All this time, I had kept my eyes closed thinking about that stupid thing, but to make sure he wasn't there, I made the effort to open my eyes. I shouldn't have (I think I said that before). A pink haired guy was sleeping beside me sounding like a pig while he was snoring. I wanted to scream, but wasn't able to do it. In a way I was happy he was there by my side, but I knew it didn't felt right. So, even if I didn't really want to, I prepared myself to shout at the top of lungs: GET OUT OF HERE! But the words never got the chance to leave my mouth.
"Luce…" He said with a soft voice she used to love a whole lot.
Then, fully awaken; he had started scratching the back of his head, yawning at the same time like nothing had happen in the past few seconds.
"How'd you call me?" I asked surprised
"Luce, what's the matter?"
"You used to call me this way when we were together…" Do you remember something? I asked with hope
He may still love Lisanna, but at least I'll have my best friend back
"What do you mean, I just thought Luce sounded great so I called you this way and I'll continue even if you don't like it" He said with his familiar smirk.
"Oh ok..."
"Hum, I wanted to ask you something really important" He told me with a serious tone
"What is it?" I demand as my cheeks started to heat
It isn't the time to think about some kind of romantic stuff! Stupid mind stop it now
"Is amnesia something we can eat?" He inquired more serious than ever
I couldn't stop myself. I started laughing so hard, I thought I might die
"What's so funny?" He asked his usual stupid smile plastered across his face.
"Actually, we call amnesia an important loss of memories" I said as I regained my composure
"Alright, I guess I'll find a solution later. Now shall we go on that mission? " He asked pointing a piece of paper.
"How did you manage to find one?"
"I woke up in the middle of the night and decided to take a little walk outside. Then, I saw a blue flying cat looking a bit desperate. I asked him what was wrong and he told me that Gray needed someone to accomplish this mission and explained me all about how mission worked and so I thought it would be a great opportunity to spend time together."
"What if I don't want to?" I asked already knowing what he'll say next and hiding my red cheeks from him.
"You don't have a choice!" He grinned all evil like.
"Fine" I shout though I already knew I wouldn't have won either way.
The mission was consisting on cooking a wedding cake.
Why did he need to choose THAT mission! The Natsu I know is always hungry and burn everything he touches.
I already knew we wouldn't get the reward of 740 000 jewels, which by the way was a whole lot of money, but again, I didn't had the choice. So, I followed him all the way to the tiny village thinking about how Natsu would mess it up by destroying and burning every single house. I know we are talking about a cooking mission right here, but if you know Natsu as much as I do, you would be as desperate as I was in the moment.
I didn't take a single look at him, perfectly knowing that my heart would skip a beat when my eyes would enter in contact with his. I couldn't help it. Even though he broke my heart into tiny pieces, I still love him more than everything.
After another fifteen minutes of walk, we finally met our customer in a little café. We had a rendez-vous with the person in question at 16h00. The husband, I guess had posted this mission early in the morning. As we finally found the table where he was waiting, I froze on the spot. Gray was sitting at the table looking more nervous than ever. He had already lost his shirt which was explaining why a couple of young girls were looking at him, hearts in their eyes.
As I started walking in his direction ignoring the fact that I was totally paralyzed, his face changed. He looked at me happier than ever. I knew this would last only for seconds and unfortunately, I was right. When he saw Natsu approaching, he looked at me more depressed than ever. His face was clearly saying: Please tell me he won't help you. As he saw I wasn't looking at him, to ashamed to make contact with his dark eyes, he casually started crying. Natsu smiling wasn't helping either! I'm just sayin'
"Why the hell is flame brain here with you" Gray asked furious.
"Who's flame brain?" Natsu said not having a single clue about the identity of the said flame brain.
"I'm talking about you stupid flame bastard" Gray shouted feeling even more angry and provoked.
"I wouldn't talk in your place, you stupid exhibitionist freak" Natsu said with a smirk.
"Are you trying to pick a fight with me" Gray screamed out of control
"You started first" Natsu said sending him a challenging glare
"Gray, if I understand well, you'll get married in less than three days. I don't think your wife would be happy to see you all beat up because of a stupid fight you pick up with that idiot" Lucy told trying to calm him down
"You're right; Juvia is a total psycho after all"
"Hey wait, who are you calling an idiot? Aren't you supposed to be on my side right now! You don't even know this guy! Natsu yelled obviously mad.
"Enough already! I surely know who this guy is, it's Gray one of your best buddies actually. You don't remember him because of your amnesia. Now stop screaming and let me do that wedding cake alone so you won't mess it up!"
"But Luce…" He said while pouting.
I didn't pay any attention to him. We needed to get this job done and quick.
"Gray, where are your kitchen and all the ingredients for the cake" I asked a bit worried he hadn't thought about this
"Over there"
And so, I started mixing all the needed ingredients in an enormous metal bowl. That's when I heard a certain someone's stomach growling behind me.
"Gray, can you do me a favor please?" I asked with puppy eyes.
"What is it?"
"Drag Natsu out of the kitchen or it will be the end of the vanilla cake I'm cooking for your wedding"
"Alright"
As he left, pulling Natsu's arm out of the room with the maximum of strength he had left, I preheat the oven to 350 F. About five minutes later, I put the cake into the oven for about thirty minutes.
"This is torture" yelled Natsu as the scent of vanilla was filling the room he was forced to stay in.
The thirty minutes passed faster than I thought they would. And so I placed the gigantic pastry on a plate and put it on the table nearby. It took me about three hours to decorate it properly. I only let Gray enter the room knowing Natsu wouldn't have been able to resist and would have ate it all.
"This is perfect! Oh and before I forgot here is your money" He said a smile plastered across his face
"That's okay, I don't need it. Both of you are great friends of mine after all"
"Before you left, I wanted to apologize for ignoring you since the return of Lisanna. I don't know what has gotten into me. I was truly happy when I saw you arrive. I was hoping you'd forgive us for our foolishness. By this I mean me and Juvia."
I couldn't feel better. I was hoping something like that would happen someday.
"That's okay I had already forgive you for this." I said smiling softly.
"Don't forget to come okay? I still hadn't give the invitations to everyone, but here's yours and Natsu's"
"Thank you so much! I promise I'll come."
And so, Natsu and I started heading back to Magnolia.
"Doesn't that guy live in Magnolia too?" Natsu asked a bit curious
"Yeah, but he decided to do his wedding in that little village. He is probably still there to make sure everything is ready for the event. Remember, it's in less than three days."
"I guess you're right"
We finally arrived at my house around 21h00. It was so dark outside; I couldn't distinguish Natsu's pinky hair anymore. As I enter the house after giving a brief goodbye to Natsu, I let myself fall on my bed that looked so comfortable right now, but I needed to take a shower first since I was stinking after all the hard work I had done during the day. Actually, I hadn't thought making a cake could be so exhausting.
After talking a long hot shower, I put on my favorite pajamas, the pink one with the little white bunnies. As I crawled under my multiple covers, I felt the same warmth as this morning like you-know-who was sleeping in my bed AGAIN. I wasn't wrong. There he was looking at me with those cute little puppy eyes of his. After seeing this, I wasn't able to refuse. What a shame, but it wasn't like I had tried to much either. After all, my bed is always cold when he isn't there. (I can't sleep when it's cold, it's like I'm depending on his warmth.)
I thought I made the right choice because after only a matter of time I fell asleep.
When I open my eyes in the morning the next day, Natsu was still sleeping and snoring like yesterday. Though, this time there was a certain distance between us. I didn't know what to think about it. In a way I was sad because when we were together I enjoyed him being so close to me, I felt safe in the embrace of his arms, but in the other way, we weren't together anymore and I wouldn't like his girlfriend Lisanna to get jealous and continue beating me up like she did last time. So, let's say I was relieved he wasn't that much close to me.
As I forced myself to get out of bed, I remark a piece of paper on the corner of the desk I use to write my novel. Curious, I reached for it and start reading it. Fortunately I didn't read it aloud. Natsu could have heard me. The letter was actually about him and his amnesia case. This is what it was saying:
Dear Lucy,
We finally find out a way to bring back the memories Natsu lost. Meet me at the Fairy Tail guild. Mira, Lisanna and I will be there to discuss about the situation. You must be there because you are concerned in this story more than you think. The three of us are hoping you'll come to our meeting tomorrow morning at 10h00.
Sincerely, Makarov
As I look at the date it had arrived at my house, I realized that tomorrow morning was today since he had send it to me yesterday while Natsu and I were on a mission. Worried to miss it, I looked at the time, 9h15. I could still arrive in time at the guild, but I needed to hurry and prepare myself quickly. After about thirty minutes, I was ready to leave.
I started running as fast as I could and arrived at the meeting place around 9h55. I was curious about the solution they found to Natsu's problem. I start looking around in search of Makarov and the two other girls and finally find them starting to enter Makarov's bedroom.
I followed them and the meeting started. As they were explaining the situation, I understood why they needed me so much. That's when I started to think how it would affect the relationship between me and Natsu. And so, I realized that when his memories would come back, he'd love Lisanna more than ever and I wouldn't exist anymore. That's why I accepted because I thought that Natsu deserved to be happy and I would cause more trouble if I were still there when his amnesia would be gone. He won't notice I will be gone.
Makarov and Mira looked depress as I accepted their kind of request. I didn't understand because since the return of Lisanna, it was the first time they didn't ignore me. They were actually sad as tears appeared at the corner of their eyes. I decided it would be better if I left because I would change my mind so that they would smile happily again. Since it was the last time I'd probably see Lisanna for a while, I dared take a look at her. I was kind of surprised because she wasn't smiling at all. She looked a bit depressed too. I forced myself to smile at her and tell everyone I'd be okay where I'd be and I surprised myself comforting Lisanna with this simple sentence that meant everything:
"Take care of Natsu, I'm begging you. He deserved to have all your love. Before I left, I wanted to tell you one last thing. Be happy. Marry him and have lots and lots of children with him because you two look beautiful together. I never wanted to admit it because I was jealous, but you are the perfect match for him. You two are meant to be together."
I didn't expect this to happen though. She started hugging me tightly saying she was sorry for all the mean things she did to me and that in reality she never wanted to do those to me. She said that she had always wanted to be one of my friends, but couldn't manage to talk or act properly by my side because she was jealous of my relationship with Natsu. I didn't know if she did that to make me feel a bit better before what was going to happen to me, but I felt relieved. I always wanted to be friend with her too, but I never got the chance to. And so, I left crying in happiness and sorrow at the same time.
As I arrived at my house, I sit on my bed beside Natsu still sleeping and gave him a little peck on the cheek. Then I softly whispered at his ear: I'll miss you a whole lot. Though Natsu's warmth was by my side, I couldn't sleep that night. At least not as fast as I wished I would have. I put my head on my pillow thinking of a letter I would give to Natsu before leaving. Though he probably won't read it. What would my last words be? I will always love you? Yeah, probably since he won't hear me say them again. I guessed it was worth it. My pillow was already wet with warm tears and this was the last thing I remembered before falling asleep deeply.
