Enchanted to Meet you

Enchanted

"Enchanted"

There I was again tonight,

Forcing laughter, faking smiles.

Same old tired lonely place.

Lucy Heartfilia wandered around the Heartfilia mansion, watching the beautiful dancers glide over the ball-room floor along with the lovely orchestral music. She looked stunning in her formal, pink, ball-gown but though her beauty was ever-present, her brown eyes were vacant and bored. Occasionally she would be stopped by a few of her father's acquaintances. "Lucy," they would say, and immediately, her vacant expression would loosen and a lovely smile would grace her face, a pleasant laugh crossing her lips.

But as soon as she could manage to break away from them, she would turn her sad face towards the arched window, longing to be out under the moon and endless stars.

Walls of insincerity,

Shifting eyes and vacancy,

Vanished when I saw your face.

She shifted her gaze to the chattering people who were laughing and talking amiably with each other. But something about them seemed- false. She knew they were only here for her father's money and high standing position. Her father knew it too. That's why he held his money and position high above any relationship with his daughter. But she was long past the point of truly caring. She had put up with it ever since her mother had died and she knew there was no way to change his behavior by simply talking to him. And that is all she could do. That and attending his parties in uncomfortable ball gowns.

Her eyes moved over the people again, but stopped on a particular person that caught her attention.

There was a boy standing by the food table, eating, but looking just as uncomfortable and unenthusiastic about being there as she was. Lucy stared at him long enough to examine his unusual cherry blossom hair, and his pained expression as he struggled to loosen the tie around his neck. She giggled and suddenly, as if he had heard her, he looked across the room at her, his dark eyes capturing her brown ones.

All I can say is it was enchanting to meet you.

Her breath caught and she immediately diverted her eyes to someone else. She was sure she had felt sparks when their eyes had connected, as if he had some sort of fire inside of him that had tried to embrace her. But she liked the feeling. It felt absolutely magical, and somehow, comforting. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, moving her eyes towards the man again. To her dismay he was still looking at her, looking almost confused. But when her gaze met his again, he smiled a genuine smile.

Your eyes whispered, "Have we met?"

Across the room your silhouette,

Starts to make its way to me.

He finished his food much to her amusement and began to make his way across the room to her. His eyes were saying something along the lines of "Do I know you?" And she agreed. She felt like she had seen him somewhere before. In her dreams of adventure, fire, magic, laughter, friendship, love and pure happiness.

He was halfway across the room now, not too politely pushing in-between dancing people. But she didn't mind. She laughed as he got closer and stood as he took her hand with a friendly smirk.

"I'm Natsu," he said, not too formally either but she grinned.
"I'm Lucy," she told him.

The playful conversation starts.

Counter all your quick remarks,

and passing notes in secrecy.

For the first time in what felt like forever, she had a genuine smile on her face as she spoke to him, and her laughter was real. They made fun of the people around the ball-room, poking fun at the pudgy old man that had always been such a sarcastic and bitter old fool. He kept poking fun at her too, calling her weird and strange, but she simply made fun of him back, teasing his pink hair that she secretly adored.