23 - Lucy

I pull away shockingly and place my thumb against my bottom lip. Guilt washing over me as the thought of kissing Natsu earlier pulls me in, simply because I'm remorseful to say that nothing seems to come close to Grey Fullbuster's lips. I've missed the feeling, cried myself asleep for days at end after breaking up with him. Some times I even wished that I could just wake up from this vividly realistic nightmare. After meeting Natsu and growing close to him it felt like this life changing event was only an eye opening for me. By learning the truth behind him, everything seemed to be falling into place; so how come am I questioning my sanity?

Am I really willing to take my chance with somebody who already broke my heart once. I remember how it felt and it would mean that I'm an emotionless monster if I'm to put anybody else through such heartache. A tear escapes lazily from my eye as I look up at Grey. He reaches out, to wipe it away but I take a step backwards shaking my head. I shut my eyes, turn around and made a run for it, only to bump into a broad figure. Slowly I pry my eyes open and look up into Natsu's sad expression. I need not to ask how much of that he'd seen because his reflexion says it all. He wipes the wetness away from my cheek and as he do it Natsu's demeanour changed completely.

Gently he push me off to the side, rush past me and bury his fist into Grey's perfect face. "Keep your slimy hands off of her," my cherry blossom boy threatens him. "Or what?" Grey ask as he spit blood at the ground. "Or you'll surely regret it. You had your change, Miss Heartfilia is my girl now," he stated casually. My heart gives a loud thud at hearing him admitting to that. Gajeel step from out the shadows, striding in between the guys. "That's enough, break it up," he spat cool and collectively. Grey barge away as did Gajeel while Natsu made his way back to me. When the pink head reach me, I stretch out on my toes and press my lips against his warm ones. Instantly hooping his arms around my frame as he deepen the kiss.

Grey:

I storm into the room that I'll be sharing with a few others and throw the door shut behind me. As my anger takes over, I ram my fist into the nearest wall, imagining it to be Natsu Dragneel's face, before snaking my shaking fingers through my hair. "His girl, his bloody girl; he said. Lucy's my girl!" I spat as I ram my fist harshly for a second time into the wall. "Lucy will always be my girl! How dare he mess around in my territory?" Again and again my fist comes in contact with the hard object, the roughness scraping against my raw skin. Droplets of scarlet smears down on to the ragged fence. Still it doesn't stop me from taking my anger out on it, as I visualize myself destroying his perfect face. "Who does he think he is? Her knight in shining armor!" I question myself.

As I throw the next punch a hand stops me mid-hit. My anger gave way and allow another emotion to surface. Quickly the dam broke and my eyes starts to leak as Erza pulls me into a tight hug. It's just her and me in the room and knowing Erza somebody's most likely standing outside, guarding the door, so that nobody could interrupt our moment. After a while my sobbing and tears came to a halt. Together Erza and I sat down at the foot of a random bed. "If you feel so defeated why cheat on Lucy?" Her question came as suspected. A sigh of discomfit tumbles from my lips as I take in her question. "I've never cheated on Lucy, it was all a misunderstanding," I answers honestly as I look down at my bloody, disformed hand. "Then why hook up with Juvia?" her question saddens me. "I wanted her to feel hurt and betrayed, like she made me feel after she throw away six years worth of memories when she dumped me after a stupid misunderstanding," I spoke my heart out. "Put yourself for a moment in her shoes Grey, how would you have felt?" I look down at my bloody hand as a new wave of tears wash over me. How am I to answer that question if I've never even thought about it myself? I haven't once stop to ask how she must have felt in that moment and then I did the most cowardly thing by hurting her tenfold. I just had to hook up with the one who seems to be the reason behind our breakup, just because I felt lonely. It was so hard to breathe in the abyss of her absence, that I've desperately turned to the next best thing and in the process pushing her into the arms of another. How could I have been so careless? I shouldn't have gone to that party. When Lucy informed me that she didn't want to go, I should have stayed home with her, that way we could have avoided this entire fiasco.

Erza takes my injured hand gently within her grip. On the bed in between us lays a heap medical aid. While I was deep in thought she must have retrieved the necessities from the first aid container. I drew in a sharp shivering breath as she wipe a piece of orange coloured cotton along the scrapes. The burning sensation making my fingers numb. Beneath the caked blood and rawness, my skin has a blueish-purple hue and it's almost swollen to twice its size, most certainly broken. Erza's feather-like touch is almost unbearable. The headmaster made it clear that there's no getting around tomorrow's activities, but looking down at my hand I think that it's safe to say that I'm out for the count, except of course, if this years activities could be played without using my hands.What's the chance of that happening? After binding up my hand and putting my hand in a sling, Erza drags me out of the room to consult Principle Drayer. 

She knocked twice on the door where he'll be staying along with Mr. Laxus and another. Mr. Strauss opens the door. He gives us one look before standing to the side, allowing us entrance. The headmaster stares up at my hand, blueish fingers sticking out from beneath the bandages. Erza explains the sitsuasion in a few words, literally. To summon it up, these was her exact words: Guilt, emotional, wall, Natsu and Lucy. Understanding wash over the three grownups and nothing more needed to be said as we excused ourselves from the room again.