Her Dreams

Chapter 3

*Dream*

"Natsu! Ohh Natsu! Hurry, you're gonna miss it." Lucy screamed in excitement. She smiled as she saw Natsu come running into the living room. When he walked in Lucy's heart almost stopped there was Natsu without a shirt on and a towel wrapped around his waist. Her thoughts interrupted by the tv announcing what she was so excited about.

"Lucy Heartfilia has become one of the top authors in Fiore. She is well known for her fantasy and romance novels that have become quite popular with teenagers. She will be attending a banquet in her honor to receive an award for this accomplishment."

Lucy squealed and jumped into Natsu's lap as he sat down next to her. Before Lucy knew it, she was pushed down onto her back as Natsu kissed her. After a few minutes, they released from kissing and stared into each other's eyes. What Lucy saw in his surprised her for the first time in his eyes she saw love and not hatred.

"Why can't this be real life" Lucy mumbled not realizing she said it out loud. When she looked up she saw Natsu's face looked like he was in pain.

"Luce..." Natsu spoke while putting his hand to her cheek. Lucy felt bad even if it was just a dream she knew that her dream Natsu cared for her.

"I'm sorry..." Lucy started before she was cut off by Natsu speaking.

"Don't apologize. It's not your fault but... stay safe for me please." Natsu spoke softly while pulling her into his bare chest to hold her.

Lucy started crying into his chest until she saw it start to get dark again and look up to Natsu softly kissing her forehead with tears in his eyes. The last thing she heard before she woke up again was Natsu telling her he loved her once again.

Lucy woke up crying about the strange dream she had again. It felt like she was in a different world altogether when she was there. The Natsu in her dream was amazing and caring towards her when he in all actuality was cruel person. He was hateful and abusive to her at school although he didn't hurt her as much as Lisanna did. Her dreams hurt so much because it was making her feel torn between wanting to stay in her dreams forever and staying in the real world to stay by stings side. It's been weeks since he saved her from dying at the school. She had been spending time with him outside of school at the arcade. He had done everything he could to earn her trust and she did trust him more than anyone else. She couldn't count how many times he had saved her from Lisanna and her friends. Lucy having enough of moping around in her bed and got ready for another day at school.

As she got to the school, she saw Sting but when she went to say hello to him she saw him talking to Natsu. Deciding to see what was going on she hid behind the wall to see what was going on. It made her nervous because she still hadn't figured out her feelings completely. It was turning into a point where she could no longer see reality as it was. Her dreams were starting to interfere with how she felt in her real life. Coming out of her thoughts she heard what the two boys were talking about.

"Dude, I can't do it anymore. The bets off. There's more to her than you realize and she's become like a sister to me." Sting said.

"Hmph. The great Sting backing out of a bet isn't that shocking. What'd she do feed you a bunch of lies about her mother died. You do know she's the reason her mother died, right? That piece of trash doesn't need to be here." Natsu sneered.

"Shut up. For your information, I heard nothing about her mother, hell I haven't even seen her father." Sting yelled.

Lucy sat there trying to process what was being said and realized they were talking about her. Sting never truly wanted to be friends with her he only helped her because of a bet he had with Natsu. Walking out from behind the wall she walked towards sting emotionless while looking at the man she'd soon come to care for.