Sayings Aren't Always Right

Love you, but not in love with you

"Lucy, I'm sorry. This... This just isn't working out between us." Sting said with his head down, avoiding eye contact with the blonde girl in front of him. He himself could not believe what was happening. He had loved this girl for over a year, what had changed?

"You told me you love me,was it all a lie? Was I just some toy?" Lucy asked, her voice barely a whisper. She wanted to cry, she wanted to cry so badly, but she didn't, she held her ground. She refused to look weak in front of a man who would soon be her ex.

"Answer me! Look me in the eye and answer me!" Lucy screamed.

"Lucy, I'm sorry. I really am. I love you, I still do, but I'm not in love with you, you know? I'm in love with Yukino now," Sting replied, raising his head to look at Lucy dead in the eye. He had finally found out what had gone wrong. It was not her, it was him. He still had feelings for her, he knew it. It was impossible to not feel anything for a person you had once loved after all, but he just...loved her. He was not in love with her. He was in love with Yukino. A girl who had bewitched him and he wished would never let him go from her clutches.

"No! I don't know what you're talking about! How could you not be in love with me but love me at the same time? If you love me, then you love me, if you don't, then you don't! Stop making up stupid excuses!" Lucy practically screamed at him. She could not help it. The man of her dreams was rejecting her. She gave him everything, all she wanted was his love, was it too much to ask? Instead, this was how he repaid her.

"Look, if you don't understand me, then so be it! Don't go around telling lies! I'm not making up excuses! If you don't understand something, don't blame others!" Sting was starting to get angry now. She thinks that she is the only one who can get angry, oh no, he could get angry too.

"But-" As soon as she said a word, Lucy got cut off by Sting.

"No! No means no! If you don't get what I said earlier, then let me rephrase it: I don't love you anymore, at least not in the way you want me too!" Sting was starting to feel annoyed. He could feel anger bubbling in his veins. He was like a volcano, about to erupt anytime. He thought that Lucy was intelligent. Look like he was wrong, she was just another one of those dumb blondes with a smoking hot body but no brains.

"I-" Once again, Lucy was cut off by Sting.

"Can't you get it through your thick skull? I. Don't. Love. You. How dumb can you get? You're just like those stupid blondes! You should go back to elementary school and expand your vocabulary! Learn that there are other words besides 'yes'!" Sting shouted. The volcano had erupted. He could not believe that Lucy still had the nerve to persuade him. Why can she not understand that he just wanted to be with the one he truly loved, which just so happen not to be her?

"If...if that's what you feel, then so be it. I...I'll let you go. After all, as the saying goes,'If you love something,let it go, if it returns to you, it belongs to you all along. If not, it was never yours." Lucy said, barely containing her tears at that point. Sting had never shouted at her. Not once in all of their relationship. She finally realized that this Sting was not the one she fell in love with. This Sting did not care whether she lived or died, as long as his beloved Yukino was alive and well.

Sting started to feel guilty. He could see tears streaming down Lucy's face. Crap, he had gone too far.

"I'm sorry, Lucy. I'm very sorry, it was just the heat of the moment," Sting mumbled, he could smell the salt coming from Lucy's tears. Even though he did not love her the way she hoped, it still hurt to see her cry because of him. Had he not once promised to never let her cry?

"Sting, don't. Don't tell me you're sorry. If you were truly sorry, you would come her and kiss me, not break up with me," Lucy replied. She really wished that he would kiss her. She truly believed that they would end up together until the day one of them died. Looks like she was wrong. In her eyes, her friends' eyes, everybody's eyes, they were a perfect couple. The Golden Couple. When and where did things go so wrong?

After standing around looking at each other awkwardly, it was clear that Sting was going to go through with the break up.

"Well...I guess this is goodbye," Lucy said weakly in an attempt to break the ice.

"Yeah...I guess it is... Goodbye," Sting replied, not meeting her eyes. He was afraid to see the betrayal in them.

At that note, Lucy ran back home, not willing to glance at Sting for one more second.

Sting on the other hand, went back to the house that he and Rouge shared. Oh Gods, Rogue. He knew that he was going to hear an earful from Rogue when he finds out that Sting had broken up with Lucy.

Reaching home, Lucy shut the door and all the windows in her house close, she didn't want anyone to disturb her.

"I'm so stupid. I should have known this was going to happen. Ha! How could I have ever believed Sting truly was the one for me? Of course he would fall for Yukino, she's so pretty and kind..." Lucy sobbed into her pillow.

Today, is the day Lucy Heartfilia got her heart shattered. Will she ever be the same?