Strong willed girl with the Tiger (StingxLucy)

Chapter 4 The Mansion

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Lucy's point of view:

I woke up to the sound of the trains brakes squealing. I looked to my right and saw that we had made it to town. I heard a groan and saw Rogue start to sit up. I looked down at Sting noticing that he wasn't waking up. I shook his shoulder saying " Wake up!!!! Stingy-bee wakey wakey!" 

Sting's eyes fluttered open and he glared at me asking " What did you just call me?" I answered with a smirk " Oh you know, just the most adorable name ever! Stingy-bee!" Sting groaned then sat up while glaring at me " I don't like that name Blondie! Don't call me that!" I looked over at him with a disgusted face at his nickname for me but said nothing. 

"Come on guy's, let's get off of the train." Rogue said. We all grabbed our stuff and shuffled our way off the train. I looked up at them and asked sort of shyly " Do you guy's know where you're staying yet?" Sting looked down at me while rubbing the back of his head saying " Not yet, there aren't really any hotels around this area so we where going to camp out in the forest." I looked at the two startled saying " You guy's have no where to stay while you're here?!" All four of them shook their heads no. Fro said " No we are staying in the forest! Fro think's it will be a little dirty." I giggled and said " If you guy's want, you can stay at the mansion while you're here. It would be no problem at all, and I wouldn't mind the company anyways..."

Rogue answered " We wouldn't want to impose Lucy." "Nonsense!" I shouted, " I don't mind at all. Come on guy's!" They all nodded their heads yes, and we started our walk to the estate. While walking no one talked, it was kind of awkward. Then Rogue, being the amazing person he is asked me a question breaking the silence, " When's the last time you've lived back at the estate Lucy?" I thought for a minute before answering " It's been 3 years since i've lived here. I was 15 when I ran away from home. Well, technicly if you count when I was stuck at Tenro island for 7 years it's been 10 years." " Wow" I whispered to myself, " It's already been that long?" 

We walked for at least 30 minutes until actually making it onto the estate itself. It would take another 15 minutes until we actually reached the mansion. " Ughhhh how much longer is this going to take Blondie?" Sting complained. "Well," I said " we were just walking through the city, and then 5 minutes ago we walked onto the estate. We should be at the mansion in about 10 minutes."

I looked up to see Rogue actually have a surprised face and Sting have an annoyed face. I laughed at their faces. " Damn Blondie just how rich are you?!" Sting asked surprised. I put on a thoughtful face while replying with " Well, we did use to be the richest family in Fiore, until my fathers business failed. He lost the house and everything. But I bought it back a month ago without anyone knowing."  'I even had mother and fathers graves moved back last month' I thought to myself.

You could see the mansion now, and everyone looked surprised at it's size. Both Fro and Lector almost fell out of the sky. I looked to my left and right to see the boys reactions, it was hilarious. Rogue's eyes were so big i thought they were going to pop out and Sting had his mouth almost touching the ground. I giggled at their reactions saying " Welcome to the Heartfilia mansion guy's! I hope you enjoy your stay." 

"This is actually yours Blondie?" Sting asked exasperated. He was looking around in wonder, amazed by the size of it. " Yes, this is the place where I grew up until I turned 15." I said. I felt a weight on my left shoulder and saw Fro sitting on it. She said " Fro thinks this place is very pretty! But wont you be sad being alone here?" I looked at Fro and smiled sadly " I've been alone for most of my life. This wont make that big of a difference." She frowned and cuddled into my neck as we continued our walk to the massive front doors. 

I stepped in front of the boy's when we got to the door and turned towards them slightly, "Ready boy's?" They both just nodded their heads. I got out a medium sized key and turned the lock and opened the doors. I looked into the for-wa and smiled. I heard the exceeds gasp and saw that Sting and Rogue both had stunned faces. I ran into the middle looked up at the giant crystal chandelier smiled and twirled around. After that, I led them to their rooms and told them to be ready for dinner by 7, it was now just turning 6. 

Since it was the first night in me being back, I decided to dress up for the occasion. I went into my giant walk in closet and found a floor length gown. I had the maids go shopping for me before I had left Fairytail. When I finally found the right one I gasped. It was a crystal blue. It swept down to the ground elegantly with crystals accenting it. There was a slit that went to about mid-thigh,and you could see the glass heels I was wearing. Breath takingly beautiful, but painful. The top of the dress was full of see through lace. It was exquisite. I put my hair into a french braid then tied it into a bun. My hair had grown down to the middle of my back because I hadn't cut it in awhile. I liked it long for some reason. I went to the jewelry box that was still in my room, after all of this time and picked up the diamond necklace that was once my mothers. It had about 20 diamonds going up and down it, it didn't look to over the top though. Next was for tear drop diamond earings, they fell to the bottom of my cheek bone. I also put on a diamond bracelet that had stars. It was a gift from Loke from a year ago for my birthday. For some strange reason, I had always loved diamonds my whole life. There was just something special and fascinating about them. They took my breath away. 

I forgot to tell the boys that they would have to slightly dress up for this dinner. So I sent one of my maids to give clothes to them. I gave both of them black dress slacks and button up long sleeved shirts. Sting had a white one and Rogue got a Black one with white stitching. It looked really good on a hanger, I just hope that they didn't mind this. I wrote a note to them saying ' Sorry about this guys. I forgot to tell you that you would have to dress up for this dinner. I hope you aren't to mad at me. See you down there. - Lucy Heartfilia' 

After I sent that to them I went down stairs to look at the preparations that the staff had done. I had a feeling that some people that my father had acquainted with would be stopping by. That's why I had everyone get dressed up. I wasn't to worried about it. I still knew how to act like a perfect lady, like the one I was brought up to be. I walked back up to my room because I had forgotten to spray my perfume on, so I ran back up because it was just about 7. I then started my walk back down the stairs. 

Sorry for the cliffy everyone! I had some stuff to take care of so I just ended it here. In future chapters of this book, you'll find out why Lucy loves diamonds so much. Thanks for taking a look!