Chapter 5

Lucy's POV

"Pim..."

Still no reaction.

Biting my bottom lip out of sheer worry. He is really mad at me. Creases on his forehead are present when I look at it, making lines after lines. His lips were pursed together as if it's going to be string thick when it gets any further. Carving wholes on the road, he fixated his gaze on it, driving straight.

"Pim…" I called again. If our situation isn't preventing me, I would have made fun of him for so overly dramatic, getting jealous over nothing. Yet, this time he really means to kill the guy that laid his eyes on me.

Breathes were prolonged, I feel hopeless calling out to him. A stop light was in our peripheral so he stopped when it hit red. Even though he has no reason to stay focus, his gaze still won't tear off from the road. Back to the moment when he drag me towards his car, a word hasn't left his mouth from that point onward. It's a good thing though that his temper didn't get the best of him or Gray could have been pulverized by now, but when I see him, I'll make sure to give him a piece of my mind.

I sighed again, thinking, this is our first fight as a married couple.

Surrendering myself to him, I said, "I'm sorry." This sorry isn't directed at what happened earlier which I was against of that I could kill Gray if I wasn't so petrified. Still, I don't really know why that was the words that I could sum up and tell him.

"Sorry? For what?" cold as ice, his voice sent imaginative shivers down my spine. Even if I want to feel relieved that he talked to me despite his wordless acts a few moments ago, this time, these words pierced through me. I was known and named as a coldhearted woman back in the office, yet at this moment, Natsu took the price away from my hands.

"I'm sorry for…" my throat run dry that I couldn't make up a single word.

"Sorry because I caught you?"

"No!" it came out as a surprise from me. I looked at him, speechless. "You really think that I cheated on you?" my insides churn as I look at his blank expression. It feels like I swallowed knives. This should be the part where I would feel guarded by him, that he would tell me it's okay, that that was just nothing, an accident that I didn't like. Or is it just me sounding selfish to protect myself.

I keep on looking at him, trying to see a breaking point of his expression but there was none. I couldn't contain my outburst, I thought he knew everything there is to know about me, that I could never cheat on him.

"Then… explain what I saw." His voice ran cold, much colder than before. Despite his emotionless face, his fist didn't agree to his expression, it was clenched tight to the stirring wheel that it became white which it might draw out blood from the pressure.

The actions his letting me see and his expression didn't match the other. He suddenly stepped on the accelerator when the light turns green. Everything goes blur on the other side of the car's window, Natsu wasn't fazed by how fast he is going. I, on the other hand, held tightly on the door. "Natsu! Slow down!"

Could it be that he doesn't hear me or is he choosing not to hear me? Either way, he shows no sign of stopping the car. We drove car after car after car, even trucks that looked utterly ginormous than us, he overtook them without a sweat. My face went slightly pale when I realized that we're driving on a speedy highway. My heart beats faster than expected due to the unnecessary adrenaline, I latch on to his arm and yelled, "NATSU STOP!" that was the first time I felt scared from speeding through traffic. My eyes feels damp from the emotion that I'm feeling right now.

Natsu's pace still isn't slowing down, crossing my fingers, I said, "Fine! I'll explain everything to you! Just stop this fucking car! You're getting worked up over nothing!"

His foot latch onto the break like a race car abruptly pulling over the pavement.

"Over nothing? I saw you with that bastard! He is getting ready to kiss you Lucy! And you tell me that I'm getting worked up over nothing?! What if I wasn't there? Huh! Only goddamn knows what will happen!" Now he's expression changed, his forehead creased even more that veins started to get visible and eyebrows knitted together, eye drilling a whole into my very existence.

I can feel bullets of sweat dripping over my forehead, eyes damp and getting ready to cry. I know what I did was wrong to begin with. His words only cleared it out. My insides churn, that I almost feel like throwing up from all this emotions inside me. Catastrophic emotions. I fixated my eyes on his which was now idling the road.

"You really think that I would let that shitty bastard kiss me?" eyes now watering, voice cracking, fist clenching, but I could only do one thing, swallow my emotions back and if I couldn't bottle it in any longer, I will let it out. "And here I thought that your opinion on me would be different, but I was wrong, you still saw me as the same Lucy Heartfilia, the woman that slept with hundreds of guys for business." I lowered my head so that I'm looking at my hands on my knees. "You know, one thing is for sure, I would never do that kind of thing to you, Natsu. I would never cheat on another man when I already have the one I love. I'm not that kind of woman." I said, coldly that my voice sounded like facts had been laid out on the table in front of us.

After what I said to him, I didn't get any response. Silence.

My mind went blank as I opened the door beside me and dashed out the car. Tears rolled down as I forced them to not fall, I wiped them away, trusting myself that it would make them stop from falling but to no avail. This is wrong, this so wrong, everything is wrong. These words, like a song that keeps on repeating itself inside my head is driving me nuts.

To think that the person that made me the happiest woman on earth and the person that made me the most vulnerable person on earth are the same, made me feel like utterly hopeless. I hate crying, I don't like myself when I cry, it made me think of things, things that drove me up against a wall, making it a barrier so that I wouldn't get hurt again.

"Lucy!" I heard someone faintly screaming my name from the distance. I dashed away from the voice, trying to block myself from hearing it. The road was dark and the night was cold. My feet, they are aching from the heels that I've worn all throughout the day, but I didn't care, instead I dashed madly towards nowhere, the sidewalk leading me with my aching feet.

"Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!" he keeps shouting my name, but I prefer to not hear him say my name, it only caused me pain.

I thought you understand me. Was I being selfish enough to think that you would? I thought to myself, continuing to run with streams of tears staining my face. I wiped it, like it's an acid. This all your fault Gray Fullbuster, your fault, your fault.

When I felt something strong tug my arm and made me face his direction. I couldn't make up what I'm seeing, a patch of blur from the tears covered up my vision of his features. "What the hell are doing Lucy?!" hiccups were my response to his question, but I saw how his eyes flickered with anger, only this time, he has gotten even more furious.

But in due time, when hiccups surrounded our atmosphere, his expression softened hearing my heavy breathing and seeing my tear stained face, he sighed and rubbed his face with both of his hands. I forced the tears to stop but they wouldn't, it's like gravity is pulling it out of me. Feeling the presence of Natsu, watching me rub the tears away, I felt a tinge of warmth rush through my body when he suddenly pulled me in for a tight hug. Kissing my forehead along the way. "I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry Lucy. Oh God. I'm so sorry." He keeps on repeating the same words of apology to me, and rub my back for comfort. I couldn't get much of a respond on my physical reply, instead my tears spoke on my behalf, rolling down my face non-stop.

Here I thought that my physique is as cold as ice, but when he's the one talking, I feel like I'm standing in the mouth of a giant erupting volcano surrounded by magma, steaming hot magma.

The road was clear, the night was cold, and it was just us, standing in the middle of a sidewalk. Him hugging me and me crying my eyes out. God, I'm so hopeless. We didn't mind that some pedestrians that's walking on the other side looked at us. We feel like we're the only ones standing in the center of the earth, no one around, just us. If only that could be true.

"Na-Natsu…" Hiccups were still present when I called him. "I would never cheat on you. You know me." I said to him, still hugging his chest that goes up and down as he breathes.

He sighed and spoke. "I know Pim. It's just that I couldn't help myself when another man touches you, especially if he tries to kiss you. I got jealous and acted out of pure instinct." He sighed again and planted a kiss on the top of my head. "Well, it's a good thing I didn't pulverize his fucking face. I could send him fumbling towards the hospital if he ever pull something like that again." Natsu said this as a joke that made me giggle but I know him, he half meant what he said. Every joke he tells me, he means the half of it. Sort of.

"You're only mine. Okay?"

With what he said, I got surprised. Aren't I immune to this already? I thought to myself. I know he's possessive but when he says it, it sounds sexy in a way. I hugged him tightly and nodded my head. "Okay. I'm sorry too." I answered and smile without him noticing. But then, he grabbed my chin. Tilting my head so that my vision would meet his. The dim lamp post gave us the light we needed, his eyes sparkled in the dimness of the light. I smiled watching how his eyes playfully dance. As our distance shortened, our lips touched, eyes closed. My skin colliding with the cold breeze and with Natsu's hot lips, he passionately kissed me under the moonlight.

Making an end to it, I felt cold. But then he kissed my forehead and smiled ever so warmly. I smiled and hugged him again. "Now let's go, you could get a cold." He said and ushered me back to the car. Lending me his jacket for warmth, a shield to the late night breeze.

Three weeks later...

As I sign all of the papers needed to be signed, my concentration got disrupted when the telephone rung, echoing its annoying sound. I picked it up, I couldn't stand someone or something disturbs me. "Miss Heartfilia, the board meeting will be ready in ten minutes." Was my secretary's voice on the other line. My eyebrow rose, also not getting where my secretary was headed. "What meeting?"

"Mr. Purehito called in for an emergency meeting, Ma'am." Air of suspicion breeze its way through my body, wondering what the hell these people are up to. Mr. Purehito is the vice president of this company, what is he doing arranging an emergency meeting out of the blue?

Guts didn't fail me before, and right now, it's alarming me like crazy. Thoroughly speaking I should not have gone to this meeting. But as the CEO, it is my sworn duty to attend any useless meetings. I sat on my chair, eyes glued up front, cold, glancing at the faces of the people who're now present.

"What is the meaning of this?" I'm not the one for detours so I cut to the chase when I saw that everyone got settled down and Angel stood up front. As expected. She's never one to back down on a fight. Still have a face to show after my wonderful performance that I showed her last time.

I relaxed as I give her my hard glares, which did not frazzle her at all, not breaking a sweat. This threw me off. What the hell is she up to? I couldn't stand sitting there, alienated by the things around me. "What is the meaning of this I say?" I asked again when no one responded.

"As of the moment Miss Heartfilia, we couldn't tend to your question. Our guest is still not here. So why don't you find yourself a 'toy' to play with?" Even though Angel's way of saying 'toy' is not that obvious, I still caught it in thin air. But another question escaped my mouth, "Guest?" not really putting what she said to me in my head, I'm more interested on the 'Guest' that we're having today.

Still, no one answered. So I waited, and waited.

Twenty minutes passed…

Twenty seven…

Thirty three…

Forty…

Fifty six

Almost an hour, I've waited for almost an hour and not a single speck of that 'guest'. "I'm leaving. There is no point of me staying here. Unlike all of you, I still have a lot of paperwork to sign. If you'll excuse me."

Doors slammed open. I stood there, feet glued to the carpeted floor. As if on cue with my rage a man with the same shade of blonde appeared before the doorways of the room. Everyone stood. As I was meeting the gaze of my ever 'supportive' father. "It's good to see you Mr. Heartfilia" everyone greeted the man that built this inextinguishable company.

"Sorry for being late, gentlemen, ladies." He gestured to all of them. "This is not my thing anymore." He laughed at his own inner joke. All of them welcomed him with a warm smile. And as was I, standing there, I looked at him. With him looking back at me. "Hey there darling." He greeted. My face was plastered with my hard ground expression.

Jude Heartfilia. What the hell are you doing here?

"Let's start now. So, what have you got in store for us Angel? Since you were the one who organized this emergency meeting that I shouldn't be a part of." He took his seat besides mine which I took a while ago.

When Jude said that, my peripheral vision flew across the room, seeing a smirking Angel standing tall at the center up front. My gaze hardens when I saw that smirk. She's up to something.

Angel gave my dad a smile. "Oh uncle, I know that. But the fact still remains that you're still the true owner of this company even though Lucy is the one with title of CEO."

"Actually uncle, Angel here has something to say. She even prepared visuals for us to see." Sherry butted in with her ridiculous face layered with makeup. Dad nodded, thoroughly listening to the two witches.

"Well then, show us, Angel." Angel smiled without a word to my dad. "Good morning ladies and gentlemen. This won't take much of your time, considering that all of us got matters to catch. Especially Miss Lucy here." She smiled to me, with quite a hidden message I would say, behind that pearly whites. I could smash that.

Without any delay, Angel turn the projector on. Seeing the visual of both her and Sherry were talking about which is a… "video?" somebody from the crowd questioned. But Angel only smiled at him.

Just so, when I was about to give a smartass comment concerning her report, but something blocked my mind from processing what I was going to say to this forsaken woman. I heard it again, seeing as the video was still pitch black, only a static sound and another could be heard.

A loud moan. A voice.

"Ohhh yeah! Baby!" from the sound of that, the voice sounded familiar. Aching to know who this is, my face fell white as paint from the vision I'm seeing. Twitches of fury erupted from my stomach, my expression could not be bothered, and I want to pulverize someone.

Oh no...

No!

FUCK!

Is this what Natsu was talking about?! A stupid blackmail is what this woman came up just to beat me?!

Is that me? I still feel my own expression not changing, eyes hard on the video being played. Fists clench. As the girl keep moaning and saying pleasurable words, I can't help but clench my fist tighter, drawing blood the further I dug deep on my skin.

"Turn that off!" the voice of my father shattered the sound of the video. It was off, the screen turned white from the fabric behind it. "Angel! What is the meaning this?! How could you?!" my father, sounded furious. Is he really? I couldn't feel anything. I feel numb, like a ginormous bucket of ice was poured right on time of my head and is sticking to my body.

The girl's features… lips, eyes, her smile, the way she laughs in a flirtatious way.

She looks identical to me.

My body was still, my mind is calm. And whatever shit Angel brings and the other two wenches, I'm ready for it. But, the question is, what kind of comeback are they going to pull next? The video of me lying on my death bed? That'll happen when hell freezes over.

Just need to be calm. If I burst out now, I'll be in for a bid trouble than I already am. I regain my composure. The board all looked at me with disgust and glares.

I know what I said about being calm but, I'm in for a BIG trouble.

A/N: Hey guys! I'm really sorry for not updating! School is hectic for me to handle. So, anyways, here is the other chapter! I sure hope you guys like it. Leave a review or something to let me know what you guys think, the thoughts of the people can help a person! Haha! Anyways! Have an awesome day everybody!