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Out of sight, out of mind.

Chapter 1

The end of an era.

Have you ever had a person with whom you can and have shared everything without fear of judgement or rejection? I have, no I had…

Erza Scarlet had been my first and best friend, the first girl I kissed, the first person with whom I got drunk, the first girl who saw me naked and with whom I had sex. Even if we had never been a couple, we had always been each other's constant, each other's rock; the pillar on which we could rest on no matter what the other had done.

When we were still careless kids, we had made a pact; we had sworn to always be there for one another. And, we have been; through elementary school, high school and college. We had even thought we would be able to respect it when our paths would split, what happened after college.

When we graduated from Era's college, the Council of magic offered me a scholarship and asked me to become one of their new apprentice. I immediately accepted their offer. First, becoming a member of the Magic Council had always been my goal, and secondly, I wanted to make a difference and I knew that, being a member of the Council, could help me achieve it. However, I knew that Erza hadn't chosen the same path. I knew that wanted more action; she was a fighter, a warrior; when I was more of an intellectual magical type.

A year before graduation, she had heard of a certain Guild's Master; Master Makarov, who was providing missions for the members of his Guild named Fairy Tail. This Guild was helping the Kingdom of Fiore's Kingdom and its surrounding, in exchange of a recompense. The mission of that guild soothed her perfectly; she loved to help others. I was used to make fun of her with the Guild's name, but she didn't mind. She knew herself that she was far from a soft and light fairy... However, a sure thing was that Erza would be an excellent addition to their guild; they would be foolish not to accept her...

We spent the last night before she left for Magnolia together. She was nervous, what was unusual for her... She was scared that they wouldn't accept her. I told her that they would be fools if they didn't want her. Then, her mood got better.

We talked, laughed, we ended up kissing and having sex, what had happened pretty often in the last month. However, I had felt a slight difference during our last time, without being able to name it. Maybe it had been the way she had softly wispered my name during it, or the way her hands had caressed me or something into her eyes... I put it on the fact that we wouldn't see each other for some time, so it was perfectly normal for it to be different. To be honest, I gratefully welcomed this ending; I wanted to taste her one last time before she go.

Along the years, I had had sex with other girls, but, with the others, I had never felt completely free as I did when I was with Erza; she knew me and anticipated my every move. She was creative and she never resisted when I wanted to try new things. We friends with benefits, we loved to pleasure each other and we were satisfied with that status. And, Erza had never wanted or needed a man at her side. God, I would miss her warm and voluptuous curves...

The next morning, we woke up in each other's arms, which was not unusual. However, the silence following it was. Still silent, we got dressed. I helped her picking up her luggage. Once she was ready, we went down the stairs of her dorm and I accompanied her to the exit of the city.

Before she left, we did not promise anything to each other, but I told her that I would respect our pact. She replied by saying that I would always be in her heart. As she pronounced her words, two tears ran down her rosy cheeks. I immediately crossed the distance between us and I wiped it with my thumb.

Then, she took me into her arms. I held her tightly against me; a part of me did not want to let her go, but she released herself from my grip. Before leaving, she placed her lips on mine; a chaste kiss, one without her usual fierceness. Lightly taken aback by her gentleness, I did not have time to respond because she had already stepped back and started to walk away with her luggage.

Turning away from her, I felt something strange, like a shadow passing over me. Promptly, I turned myself to look at Erza's who was getting more and more further away from me. She was not out of sight yet, but she was out of reach. Even if it was a nice and warm sunny day, I shivered and lowered my head. Why did I have the feeling of losing something truly important; vital…

I looked up to see her again. Now, she was out of sight. A sentence popped into my mind: out of sight, out of mind. I hoped that this old adage would not apply to us. No! We had always been a part of each of our lives and it wasn't about to change, no matter how many miles were separating us.

There was no doubt to me that she would be accepted into the guild she had chosen, that she would make new friends and that she would be happy; she deserved to be. I also knew that we would meet again! I hoped that it would sooner rather than later, but it was beyond my control…

I wondered where we would be in our lives when we would meet again. Would I have climbed the rungs of the Magic Council? Would Erza stil be as kind and as beautiful as she was now? Would she always be my best and dearest friend despite the distance that had separated us? If I could not be 100% sure of the answers to my first two questions, I was sure of the latter, because Erza had never broken a promise ... Never...

Slowly, I went to my own dorm. Pretty soon, the room seemed lonely and cold; a good amount of boxes were lying on the floor around the room. Today, I was moving into the dorm reserved to the Council of Magic's students. It pained me to leave this place; these walls had heard and seen so many things. If walls could talk...

God; I was already missing her and she had been gone for what, five minutes.

Telling myself that staying here would only depress me even more, I took two boxes and I went to my new dorm which was ten minutes away from my old one.

When I arrived in front of the tall and bright establishment, I entered. Inside, near the entrance, a bald and muscular man asked me my name. When I gave it to him, he let me in and told me that my room was the number 33. Then, the man stood up and he escorted me there.

Five minutes later, in front of my room's door, the man pulled out the keys from his pants pocket. He opened the door quickly and let me in. Once inside, I laid my boxes on the floor. Before leaving, the bald man gave me my keys. He told me that his name was Ezra and that, if I needed anything, his office was on the ground floor, and then he left. Ezra, what a coincidence!

After closing the door, I noticed that my new room was small and very white. Inside, there was a bed, a bedside table, a desk and a chair. Without waiting, I went to sit on the bed that was hard and uncomfortable.

This was my new start, a brand new place where I was going to create myself new memories. First, I needed to paint those walls. Thinking about it, only one color came to my mind, one of my old days; I'll let you guess which one...