You're Warm (Fairy Tail)

Prologue

You’re Warm 

Standing under the dull pouring sky that clouded my sights of what’s in front of me, I ignored the hushed whisperings echoing around me as we mourned for the two adults lying on the ground.
It was my fault. If I didn’t try running out onto the road to fetch my favourite sparkling yellow ball, they’d still be alive, standing in front of me with bright smiles.

 But it was too late.

Wearing my black dress which stopped at my knees, my mother’s gloves which she’d always loved, and my ribbon up in my hair bought by my father, I simply just stood there. Still and silent…

    “They’ll always be watching over you up in the heavens with smiles on their faces,” a woman said, slowly turning me to look up to her face.

Just who does she think she was trying to making everything seem lighter?
This wasn’t a place to joke around – How did she even know about that when she’s not in their place yet?

“Thank you, but I’m fine…” I whispered back to her where she softly smiled at me.

An umbrella in her wrinkly hand, she tilted the thing to cover my soaked shivering body. “I hope you are, because everyone around you is worried,” she replied.

Looking down to my mud-covered shoes, I sighed. “But the person who should be here isn’t.” I then excused myself and quickly walked away. I couldn’t stand it.

I hated the lies. I hated those fake-assed expressions on their faces as the faked their tears. I hated everything.

Walking a far distance from my parent’s burial, I squinted my honey-brown eyes to look at my blurred surroundings. When no one was there to see what I was about to do next, I cried.

I cried as I released out my burdening tears which struggled to get out of my system. These were the true tears of a child who’d lost her parents. The figures of which she’d thought to grow up with a bit more.

[Was it all expected of me to be alone in this world...]

“Mother… Father… Why did you leave me in this world?” I cried before a distant voice called out for my name.

    “Lucy…”

Stopping my tears to only widen my eyes, I lifted up my head to see a faint figure of a boy in black clothes with pink hair sagged by the rain. “Natsu?” I whispered out.

Blinking a few times, I stared back to the empty space in front of me and felt my system going haywire.

“Was he really there just then?” I questioned.