Trash: A Collection of Stories

Chapter 33

I sighed, looking out the window.

"What's wrong?" Natsu asked. Wendy had used her spell to help his motion sickness, we were on another train.

"I don't know why we are doing this. It's not going to change my mind, this is our last mission together," I looked over at him.

"Let's see. And I would feel guilty that you left because of us." 'Guilty.'

I gasped, covering my mouth. "Say that last part again...."

"I would feel guilty-" Oh no.

"It's happening again," I covered the sides of my now ringing ears.

'I would feel guilty if she found out. We must keep this secret,' I was standing outside of fathers office.

'Daddy, who are you talking to?' Mini me asked, stepping in.

"Uh, no one important. I'll call you back, Jellal. Are you ready for your vacation?'

"Yeah, I'm excited!'

'It's going to be a hot one..'

"Urgh," a headache instantly came. "Can you get me water?"

"Sure, what happened?"

"Another vision. I guess Gray will never know about this one," I took the water bottle he handed me.

"You can tell me."

"I'll pass, thanks for the water."

We sat in silence the rest of the way to where ever Natsu picked. I don't know why he wanted me to come so badly, but I couldn't really argue.

"We are here," Natsu said a few hours later. I followed him off the train into the night. "The village is not too far from here."

By not too far, he meant on top of a mountain a few miles from the train station. A small village was nestled into the side, it was pretty hard to find.

The people were nice, a little on edge because I was there, and they showed us where we were staying for the night.

"Man, these poor people. So this mutant mouse/ rat thing has been ruining their village?" I asked, crawling into one of the mats.

"Mhmm, it's been eating all their crops and it destroyed a shed that held food supply," he laid on his mat next to me.

"This should be pretty easy, at least it's on a different mountain than this one if things blow up.." He chuckled and turned onto his other side to sleep. I did the same and dozed off.

"Lucy, we got to get moving," Natsu was already awake the next morning.

"Mm," I sat up, stretching. I quickly threw on a pair of clothes and we went to the mountain the people had directed us to.

"How long is this going to take?" I whined when it had already been over three hours of walking.

"How ever long it takes."

I had noticed that not once had he taken his eyes off of me the whole day, and every once and a while he would 'accidentally' bump into me.

"Ok, man. What's up?" I asked.

"What do you mean?"

"You've been staring at me, why?"

"I don't know, because I think you're beautiful."

I stopped in my tracks. Is this what Gray had been hinting all along? Is this why he got so mad when I started dating Sting? Ew, Sting, don't think about him. "Don't say that."