Sorry for the long wait but I am FINALLY back! Please R&R and I shall see you at the bottom with some explanations to my absence.
POV: Natsu
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy tail or the idea to this story. I'm just the writer.
A story for a friend, by a friend
The bus jolts under me causing my head to strike the window forcing me to wake up. I look around the bus and notice that the kids from earlier are gone. In their place is a couple that looks to be around sixteen years old and wearing the uniform to another private high school.
Both of them are quiet, each looking straight ahead, but if you were to look closely at them you could occasionally see their eyes slowly drift towards each other. When they both catch each other looking at one another they quickly look away, a dark rose dusting their cheeks from embarrassment. It's cute in its own way because anyone with eyes can see that these two like each other.
I watch as the girl turns her head enough to let her look at him again from her peripheral vision while the boy continues to stare out of the window to his left. His cheeks are blazing red with the color reaching all the way to the tips of his ears. He doesn't dare look back at the girl who is now almost completely facing him with a disappointed expression on her face.
Watching them, I can feel my eyelids getting heavy again as I lean back onto the window to continue my nap. While I wait for sleep to come for me again I continue watching the couple and notice the girl slowly lean in towards the boy causing him to flinch and look towards her. Before he can say anything she jumps up and plants a small kiss on his cheek causing his whole face to turn into a deep crimson with steam practically shooting out of his ears.
The last thing I see before closing my eyes is the girl acting as if nothing happened while the boy continues to stare at her. If I could see beyond that point I'd have noticed their hands intertwining with one another.
She's looking at me…
Why is she looking at me?
Did I do something wrong?
Looking up from the spear I am currently sharpening I notice brown eyes flit away to stare up at the blue sky. Her eyes don't look mad and neither does her posture. Her long hair sweeps over her shoulders and lightly dances in the soft breeze behind her reflecting the light of the sun all around her. The light she casts almost makes her glow like some unearthly creature and the sight of her makes it hard to look away.
Her eyes shift towards me and I quickly look away feeling my face heat up and my chest pound in fast hard beats. The speed of the pounding makes it a bit hard to breathe and my head is swimming in dizzying circles. I try to get back to sharpening my spear but my hands are shaking harder than they have done ever before. It's almost as if Grey, the other male we joined up with, were grabbing my shoulders and shaking me violently like he usually does when he thinks I've done something wrong. The only difference that instead of feeling angry I just feel a strange sensation in my stomach that I can't name.
"Natsu," I flinch at the sound of her twinkling voice that has my chest tightening for a moment and against all my will I can't help but look up at her. Her brown eyes are only a small distance away and they seem to search my own dark ones with that same curious look she has when discovering something new, "What's wrong," she asks, her words soft.
"N-Nothing," I quickly say while looking away from her feeling my chest pound even faster and all I want to do is run away as fast as I can, but somehow I know that I probably wouldn't make it that far.
Rustling from across the lake has us both looking up distracting me away from my still pounding chest and heating face. From where we are we watch as both Gray and Juvia walk around the edge of the small cliff they're on. They are the couple we met some sunlight's ago whom Lucy grew very fond of... well, fond of the female whose name we came to know as Juvia. From where I can see I notice that their hands are holding each other and occasionally Juvia will press her lips against Gray's cheek in a gesture they like to call kiss.
Their way of living is much different than Lucy's and my way of living is. They spent a lot of time together and although Lucy and I did the same Gray and Juvia were always kissing and holding hands. Sometimes they'd even be gone for long periods of time without telling us where they were or what they were doing. It's sometimes unsettling and gets on my nerves, but Lucy has already told me to stay quiet.
Watching them, I notice the intent look Lucy is giving them. Her eyes look far off and at the same time they have that familiar sad glint that I haven't seen since we first met Gray and Juvia. It's unsettling and makes me panic because what if she starts distancing herself from me again like she had that time? The last thing I want is for her to avoid me again, but somehow looking at her that doesn't seem to be the case.
Lucy and I continue to watch them from where we're sitting under the shade of a large tree besides some bushes that somewhat cover us from both Juvia's and Gray's eyes. I'm sure that if they were even able to see us they still wouldn't notice us. Especially since their eyes are always on each other with this strange look that they only have when they're together. Sometimes when Gray goes out to do some quick hunting I'll catch Juvia looking as if she'll never see him again.
"Natsu," Lucy finally says after a long period of silence, "Why don't you ever hold my hand?"
Shocked, I stare at her as if she had completely lost her head, "What?!" I ask a little louder than I intended, but both Gray and Juvia are long gone having returned back to the forest. I'm kind of glad that they're gone since there's probably a chance that Gray would begin to pick a fight with me for 'watching' them like a strange animal. He would completely disregard that Lucy is with me as well.
Lucy stares at me with her large brown eyes and I can't seem to find an answer to her question. I mean, I've held her hand before and have even hugged her before, but lately whenever I do those things I can't help but feel my chest tighten and my face burn. Sometimes I wonder if she feels the same, but she never seems to ever look uncomfortable when I do hug her or hold her hands.
Looking away from her I mutter, "I don't know," before running my sharp rock against the stick of wood I am currently sharpening.
I keep my eyes on my work as Lucy makes a small noise before lying down beside me and stares up at the leaves of the trees above us. She stays quiet as I continue to work silently while occasionally looking over at her, but she keeps her gaze fixed on the rustling green leaves that shift in the soft breeze.
All around us is quiet other than the occasional sound of a bird or small animal along with the smooth sounds of the nearby water from the small lake. Occasionally a leaf will fall from the tree and drift down towards the ground in dizzying circles and land among the green grass and other fallen leaves. A certain leaf that catches my eye drifts down and lands right over Lucy's face, but she doesn't move to take it off. Instead she just lays there with only her chest slowly moving up and down making it look like she's asleep. The leaf is big enough to cover her eyes so for all I know she is asleep.
Placing my tools down I lean over and slowly remove the large leaf from her face. To my surprise I'm greeted with her eyes completely open and staring at me with the intent look she had been giving me earlier. Her eyes are kind of cloudy and she's breathing fairly quickly, her warm breath washing over me with a strange heat that makes my back tingle. My mouth has also gone dry and I want water, but I can't seem to move. I'm stuck and in truth I don't really want to move.
My eyes travel down to Lucy's mouth after she licks her lips and I can't help but just look at her mouth. I don't understand why but I begin to wonder what it would be like if I were to press my own lips against hers. Juvia and Gray do it all the time and they seem to enjoy it and it leaves me curious as to what would happen if I were kiss Lucy. Would it be as appealing as they made it seem or would it be nothing more than a small gesture that ended up meaning nothing.
"Natsu," Lucy's voice distracts me away from her lips and when I look up I notice how red her own cheeks are.
She doesn't say anything after that and seems to be out of words to say, not that we know enough to express ourselves, but her silence is not discouraging. Feeling my arms shake from holding myself for so long I start to lean forward wondering if Lucy would be fine with me lying down next to her. As I lead down she doesn't seem to complain, but before I can lay down next to her she takes my face in her cool hands and presses her lips against mine.
I'm surprised to the point where I can't move and the only thing I feel is the soft sensation of Lucy's lips against mine and the feel of my pounding chest slow down along with all noises around me becoming silent. I pull away and stare down at Lucy wondering if she is feeling the same things I am, even when I don't understand what any of it means.
Lucy looks up at me, a smile on her face, and gently runs her hand through my hair. The glow in her eyes sets off something inside of me and before I can think I pull her tightly into my arms before kissing her again and somehow I know that things aren't going to be the same anymore. Lucy has become more than just my partner that I travel with. She's more important to me than I would have imagined and those thoughts scare me, but they also leave me at ease because that means Lucy and I would always be together.
From that moment I gave my oath that I would always and forever protect Lucy, no matter what it takes to keep her happy.
{If I had only felt the warmth within your touch
If I had only seen how you smile when you blush
Or how you curl your lip when you concentrate enough
Well I would have known
What I was living for all along
What I've been living for…}
- Turning page – Sleeping At Last
So this chapter had me stumped for some time because somehow I didn't know how to develop their relationship and I somehow ended up with this. This chapter is slightly inspired by the movie "The Blue Lagoon" from the scene where the two teenagers discover what love truly is. I like that movie a lot because the love that they come to understand is pure and innocent and I tried to integrate that into this chapter. I'm not sure if I succeeded but what's done is done.
So if you've read my latest chapter to S.T.S.O.F you'll know why I had been out for so long, which I'm still extremely sorry about, but if you haven't then I'll just say that I've had it a little bit rough these past two weeks with school, family emergencies, and simply life itself. Thankfully things have started to calm down and I was FINALLY able to sit down and actually think about my stories and write a, somewhat, decent chapter. I really hope you all enjoyed this chapter.
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