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Chapter six: Mich
"Here you go, honey...This is your new little sister. Promise you will take care of her," A blonde-haired woman with no face says handing me a doll. "Thank you, mommy! I promise I will," I say smiling softly my small arms reaching for and holding it tightly in my arms. "What will be her name?" The woman says crouching down rubbing my chin. "Hm...Maybe Michelle?!" I say excitedly. "I think that is nice name honey," the woman say s as she turns her head and walks away slowly. "Wait where are you going?!" I say. But she continues walking. I feel tears fill my eyes as I watch the woman walk away and I just knew that she would never come back. I jump up from Natsu's arms my eyes filled with tears my hand's trail to my face gently covering them as I sob as soft as possible. I feel a dominant embrace pull me into his chest. "Shh..." he says as his hand gently rubs my head letting me cry. "I-I am sorry for waking you," I say softly as I looked up at him my head in his chest.

"It's okay. Bad dream?" He asks his voice husky from just being woken up from. "I wish more like a bad memory," I say adjusting myself slightly on top of him. Since he pulled me onto him so quickly in a rush to comfort me I didn't even realize the position we are in. Me sitting on top of him our chest against on another his arms feeling on my back. My arms around his. This is definitely inappropriate...But I want to stay. So I do. "Your mom huh?" He says as his chin rest on my head. "I just miss her so much. I just wish she was here. It's not fair" I say choking back my tears. "I know...It isn't. I know I can't personally relate but just know that if you need some to lie on I'm always here," He says soothingly. Natsu is a bit of an airhead no a lot of an airhead and someone who never thinks just does, does, does. But there are moments like these that show me how much he's grown and how much I lucked out to have him.

"Thank you..." I say lifting my head and sliding off of him. "I need to find someone," I say getting up. "Let me help you," he says stretching. "No you go to sleep I know you're tired," I say throwing the covers at his face. "Yeah well I can't sleep till you are okay," he says as he gets up. "We are looking for Michelle..." I say. Just saying her name brought so unwanted emotions back. "Michelle?" He says confused. I quickly snap my head to look at him my eyebrows rising causing him to shiver. "O-Oh Michelle the doll your mom gave you before...the incident," he says causing me to sigh in relief. "Good because I thought you forgot I brought the doll everywhere with me as a kid...But now I don't have a clue where she is." "So where are we checking first?" He asks. "My room," I say leading him upstairs

I began rummaging through my stuff when we get upstairs. Old boxes, my closets, and even under the bed. "you have a lot of shit in this room," Natsu says causing me to gasp. "No I don't my room is perfect. It has everything you would ever need. A couch, mini-fridge, 2 walking closets, and of course the bay window," I say stubbornly. I am not going to lie there are perks to having a "rich" dad and I am extremely great full to my dad for him to provide everything I would ever want and need. "Exactly that's a lot. Who even uses the couch?" Natsu says raising his eyebrow. "It is for when people stay over they can stay on the couch," I say fidgeting my fingers. "No one sleeps over beside me? And I just sleep with you all the time," he says causing me to squirm. "Please don't word it like that, " I say embarrassment filling up my face. "Why? Do we not sleep together?" he asks confused. Then there are moments where Natsu is just slow. "Because it just sounds-You know what forget it," I say rolling my eyes.

"Oh, crap Natsu I just remembered...Where are Wends and Chelia?" I say. "Well after you fell asleep during the movie...They left to my house. But I stood with because you were just too comfortable even snoring obnoxiously," he says laughing. I punch his arm giggling, "You know damn well I wasn't snoring," I say rolling my eyes. "Well it is obviously isn't here you know where else it could be?" He asks. "Ah yes, the attic where all of mom old shit is, " I say frowning. "Your dad hasn't gotten rid of it yet?" I nod my head no. "He can't bear it...But the thing is my dad said I am not allowed down there," I say shrugging. "Well is he here no?" Natsu says taking my hand and dragging me up the stairs and up the latter. When we walked in there were just three big boxes and all three said "Layla..." on the side. "Nope...no can't do it. Fuck it," I say as I turn around but a hand on my waist stopped me.

"C'mon Lucy. You're strong you got this," I turn slowly squeezing my eyes tight. "You know I don't even remember her face?" I say as I try to stop the tears from trailing down my face. "I understand why Lucy all of the memories surrounding her bring pain but you can't keep bottling it up. And thinking that's gonna solve anything," he says rubbing my back. "Y-You know for a dumbass you are surprisingly smart," I sucking up my tears and softly laughing. "Yeah yeah I know now go and open the boxes," he says pushing me forward gently. I go towards the first box on the right my hands gently opening the box. My breath became thicker as I looked inside. There were pictures and letters in this box. My heart jumped for a second as I picked up the letter. But then it instantly shattered. All these letters were from my dad to my mom. The most recent one from the day of my hangover. Dad is hurting still too? I didn't want to read them and invade his privacy so I place them down softly I picked up one of the pictures. This is one with us three...the memory in the image I couldn't remember like at all a complete void in my mind.

But looking at my mom's face there was no doubt that she was a beauty. I wish she was with me. But Honestly, I can't even think of what my life would be like if she was here. It wasn't just that since the picture didn't mean anything neither did her face it was like a woman I never got to know. I put the picture down and shut the box lid. "Not in here..." I say snuffing . I open up the next box in the middle and I was just old jewelry and video tapes. I close that one immediately. "Not here too..." and as I go on to the last box before i even touch it I let out a big sigh. "She isn't here," I say softly. "You haven't even-"I just know Natsu. Let's go," I say walking from the boxes and down the latter. "So where could it be?" Natsu asks as we stand in the hallway. "I know it won't be in a place that remind me of her but it will be in a place where I am comfortable with leaving it. Damn I know where it is," I say smacking myself. I rush off back to my room Natsu following behind me. I lifted the middle seat in the bay window to see her there. "This is the place where i kept everything that was important to me when I was little," I pick up Michelle holding her in my arms.

"I'm sorry for leaving you behind," I say smiling. "What else do you have in here?" Natsu says as he looks inside. "Hm? I don't remember," I say curiously. He picks up a basket with a bunch of pictures. "These are all pictures of us?" He says grinning. His face alone makes me blush so I cover it with her. "Y-Yes," I say almost inaudible but of course he heard. His hand rummages through the pictures. "You even put the dates on them?" He says chuckling. "Whatever Natsu stop embarrassing me," I say as I take the box away from him looking down . "I think it is cute that you cherish us," he says as he lifts my chin to look up at me. "Y-Yeah more than you could ever know."