Soul Mark

Chapter 3

'Did I just hit him!' Lucy's inner voice screamed as she looked down at the pinkette now on the ground of the parking lot. In her defense he had just been sniffing her and getting way too close for comfort, right? Still that wasn't like anything she had ever done before, she wasn't one for violence, or close proximity either, aside from Levy of course.

Lucy glanced down at Lisanna and Natsu to find that Lisanna was glaring hard at her and Natsu was sitting with his hand pressed against his cheek and a smile on his face. "Damn, what are you packing in that tiny little body of yours?" Natsu asked appreciatively as he stood and brushed himself off, looking at the tiny brunette in front of him. Lisanna, however, turned quickly and began screaming at Lucy, something that surprised both her and Natsu.

"What the hell freak! He was just flirting with you! You don't go hitting people because of it! God, I knew you were a weirdo. Always hanging out with that wannabe popular blue haired chick in the library all alone. Come on Natsu let's get out of here."

Natsu and Lucy stood still as Lisanna turned and walked off expecting Natsu to follow her without comment. Lucy had tears beginning to well up in her eyes, angry at Lisanna for saying such hurtful things about her best friend, angry at Natsu for making herself a target in Lisanna's eyes, and angry with herself that she couldn't speak up for herself. She hung her head so that her hair became a curtain from the outside world as Natsu continued to stare at her with wide eyes. "Sorry for hitting you," squeaked out a tiny voice from behind the layers of hair. Thanks to Natsu's extraordinary hearing he picked it up loud and clear and smiled to himself. 'Ah, so that's what her voice sounded like. Why does it sound so familiar though?' He thought about it hard for a minute and looked the young girl over. Surely, he would have recognized her if they'd met before, he'd never forget a face like that. "Don't sweat it," Natsu said with a smile, making the brunette look up at him with a tear streaked, shocked face.

"I shouldn't have gotten so close, after all we're both marked, it was really rude of me to disrespect your space like that." He rubbed the back of his neck and gave an embarrassed grin to the girl.

Lucy tilted her head slightly to the side glancing at the boy in front of her 'Natsu...' she thought 'why does that voice sound so familiar?' As she was thinking Natsu had placed a hand out as if to shake hands and was waiting for her to say something like he'd asked a question. She gave him a quizzical look and he chuckled, "I asked what your name was, I'm Natsu!" she glanced down once more at his hand, ignoring the gesture she looked back up into those bright onyx eyes and said, "Lucy," before turning her head to see Levy running across the parking lot in a huff.

"Sorry Lu! I got held up helping one of the teachers with grading papers" Levy rambled quickly as she gasped for breath. "Don't worry about it," Lucy replied walking towards the passenger door of the car, "let's just go."

Levy caught her breath and finally noticed that Lucy hadn't been alone, the new guy, Natsu was standing right where she had left him with his mouth hanging open and his eyes wide as if he'd seen a ghost. His cheek, Levy noticed was tinged red with what appeared to be a handprint. 'What the heck happened here?' she thought to herself as she followed her best friend and got into the driver's side. Just as both girls closed their doors Natsu seemed to snap out of the trance he was in and stepped forward as if to walk up to Lucy's window, when Lisanna came running back over, grabbing the boy's arm and leading him away with only a glance back in Lucy's direction.

"Care to share?" asked a confused Levy while they sat at a red light on their way home.

"No, not really" replied Lucy as she twiddled her fingers and slowly traced the mark on her hand.

"Did you see his mark? Was it filled in? What color was it? Is it you?" Levy continued to ask questions in a hurried voice, curious to find if Natsu Dragneel, the most popular guy at his old school and now here, basketball star, and rather large flirt, was in fact Lucy's soulmate.

Lucy sighed and shut her eyes, "There's no way it's me Levy, it's just pure coincidence."

"Well, what color was his?" Levy asked, looking over at her best friend at the stoplight. "He has his filled, doesn't he?"

Lucy sighed again and dropped her head into her hands. "Yeah, he has his filled with yellow." She whispered almost incoherently avoiding all eye contact with the blunette.

"Lu! Do you know what this means?!" Levy cried out as she stomped on the gas pedal when the light turned green, causing Lucy to fly back against her seat. Lucy glared at her best friend and rubbed her sore head, "what was that for?" she muttered. "Sorry Lu, but seriously, do you understand what this means! Natsu Dragneel is your soulmate!" Levy cried out, ignoring the brunettes mumbles of pain as they pulled into the driveway.

Lucy sighed and continued to sit in the car, making no move to get out while Levy turned to look at the sad girl next to her. "I know," Lucy said looking down at her lap, "but Natsu doesn't. And he doesn't ever need to." Lucy looked up with a fierce look at Levy that made even Levy's eyes widen in shock. "You have to promise me you will never tell him," said Lucy fiercely, "after all Natsu thinks his soulmate has blonde hair. You're the only other person that knows I dyed my hair brown right before I started going to Fairy Tail High."

Levy huffed slightly and nodded slowly, remembering the day that she had caught Lucy redying her hair in the bathroom and what Lucy had told her after finding out. "Yeah, ok, I won't say a thing, you have my word."

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Is everyone liking the story so far? I really hope so! This is the first story I have ever written. I have another one published on the other website that's still in the works so we'll see how it goes, personally it's better than this one in my opinion but that's just me. Anyway let me know what y'all think :)!

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