Soul Mark

Chapter 5

"Let me show you Lucy, please! I love you!" With a jolt Lucy sat up, desperately trying to hold on to what the person in her dream had said while glancing over at her clock. She groaned and flopped back on her bed. Waking up at 7am was not what she had in mind for Saturday morning. With another loud groan she rolled over and went back to sleep, this time without any familiar voices confessing their love.

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At a reasonable hour Lucy was up and in the kitchen making her "adopted" family breakfast. It was the least she could do for the McGarden's to show how much she appreciated them.

"Morning Lu!" Levy called as she bounded down the stairs, already fully dressed in one of her favorite orange sundresses, and her wild blue hair pulled back with a matching orange headband.

"Morning Levy, wow you look nice! Where are you going?" asked Lucy as she set breakfast on the table, taking in her best friends' appearance with an appreciative nod and a light smile.

Levy looked at her friend closely. Lucy had told the blunette about her run in with Natsu in the hallway and knew it had upset her a lot. She hadn't done anything but hang out in her room and go to school since meeting the pinkette and it upset Levy to see her like this. So, she had devised a plan to cheer the brunette up.

With a big smile Levy strode into the kitchen, "Thanks!" she said happily, sitting down at the table and digging into the delicious pancakes Lucy had made. "But it's more like, where are we going?"

Lucy looked skeptically at the young girl and sat down at her own place to begin eating. "What do you mean? I don't have any plans today," Lucy said, giving the other girl a look as she stuffed her face full of pancake.

She had put Levy's parent's plates in the oven, so they wouldn't get cold since they weren't much of morning people on the weekends. They both were writers; Levy's mom wrote science journals for a magazine and her father wrote history books. It was where Levy had gotten her love of reading and Lucy had had the dream of becoming a writer herself.

"Yep! You and I are going out for the day!" Levy said excitedly as she finished up her breakfast. "I was thinking we'd have a girl's day out like we used to!"

Lucy bit her lip, that sounded like a lot of fun, but she really didn't want to deal with people from her school being out and about today to. Some of her classmates still whispered and pointed at her for what had happened in the parking lot when she punched Natsu.

"Alright, fine," the girl conceded, picking up their plates and taking them to the sink. "But we're going to the mall across town, not the one we went to last time. I don't want to run into anyone from Fairy Tail today." 'Especially a certain pink-haired boy' she thought quietly to herself.

Levy squealed and jumped up from her seat at the table. "Yay! Thank you, Lu!" the girl said excitedly, running over to hug her best friend, making the brunette let out a small laugh. "Yeah, yeah, but you're buying me another book, ok?"

"Deal!" Levy agreed, grabbing Lucy's hand and running up the stairs to get her ready. Lucy remembered Natsu grabbing that same hand to stop her and looked down. No buzzing occurred while Levy held her hand, it was weird, and it confused her, 'why did it only happen with Natsu?' she questioned to herself before shrugging it off as Levy chose an outfit for her to wear from her own closet. Looking at the outfits Lucy immediately declined each of them and went to her room, grabbing her favorite pair of jeans and a sweater that looked prettier than the other ones she owned.

She showed it to Levy who huffed, "Lucy, it's going to be 98 degrees outside today! You cannot wear that." With a delicate finger to her lips Levy's eyes grew wide, "I've got it!" she shouted and dug through her closet.