Really sorry about all the time it's taken for me to update. I'm a horrible author. I kind of wasn't very motivated to write this from where I was because I had no idea where I should go with it. After that, I got a lot of ideas for stories of my own and couldn't concentrate on this at all. I apologize so much. I've mostly been sitting around and watching anime. I don't blame you if you don't want to read this until I'm done writing in in about five years at the rate I've been going. Unmotivation is the real culprit here. Well, without further ado, here is Chapter... what? Like 13, 14, something like that.

Lucy woke up normally, or rather the way she had gotten used to waking up for the past few years, so why did something feel so off about that day, about her life in general. She went over to the mirror in her bathroom and brushed her long brown hair and brushed her teeth, surveying everything with her green eyes. For just a moment, she thought she saw a flicker of brown in them, but that was impossible, her eyes had always been, and always would be green. She had just finished getting dressed when she heard the door slam.

Hurriedly, she ran over to the door and ran out, hoping to convince Kevin to stay. She knew the curse on his eye was bothering him more than usual today, after all, it was a new moon the previous night. She ran over to him begging him, at least to wait until she had made him breakfast. She went over to him, giving him a peck on the cheek as he sat down at the table. She turned around and started to think about their past together as she gathered up the ingredients.

It had been raining for days after she had run away, and with nowhere to go, she was forced to sleep in it. She had gotten very sick, and if she had stayed there any longer, she surely would've died, but then he came along and offered to let her stay at his house for a night. She had gladly accepted, having nowhere else to go. Eventually, one night had turned to a week, a week into a month, and a month into a year until finally, he had given her permanent residence there, confessing that he had known she was there for a while and that he had taken a liking to her, and one thing just led to another. Now, they were married and lived a content life with each other.

"Do you love me?" Lucy asked suddenly, aware that, there seemed to be something missing. "Of course I do." Kevin replied immediately afterward. He sounded so confident so sure, so Lucy decided to believe him. She turned to the fridge, looking for the eggs. She finally spotted the carton, but when she pulled it out, she saw that no eggs save one were there. "Hey, I'm going to go to town really quick, I hope you don't mind, but we need eggs." It was normal for Lucy to go to the town in mornings to get eggs, but something about today seemed off, just different. "Don't go to town, there was just a reported kidnapping, there's no need to get involved in their affairs." "It'll be fine, I'll go and be back in an instant she said. "You don't have to worry, I'll be careful, I always am."Kevin sighed unwillingly, allowing her to go but urging that she made it quick.

Back in town, Lucy was surprised to see few military police present, perhaps they had already solved the crime she thought. She went into the shop where an old lady she knew worked and bought a few eggs before leaving, planning on hurrying home. She was running through the center of town when she ran into somebody with pink hair, a man. All he wore was a vest even though it was winter, and she saw sandals on his feet. She had the odd feeling that he was familiar somehow, though she had no memories of him.

The mysterious boy looked around for a second before spotting her. "Hey, I've been looking for my friend, her name's Lucy. She has brown eyes, mid length blonde hair, really big boobs, and she smells like vanilla and strawberries. She's really nice and friendly and she recently took up a request in this village before she was kidnapped by some creep. The creep has a mask on, so we couldn't tell all of his facial features, but he was pretty tall and had really short brown hair that was darker than yours. So you seen or heard anything about them?" He asked, holding up a crude picture for me to see. Lucy shook her head, She never knew that there was another girl named Lucy in the town, how odd. But it couldn't be her, she had been here for years. She apologized to the man, who seemed to be quite frustrated by the whole incident.

She had just turned to leave when he grabbed her shoulder. "Sorry, I thought I saw something of her in you. I apologize, and thank you for your help." Just as he had said that, the bag with the eggs slid off her shoulder heading straight for the ground. He caught the bag just in time and handed the bag back to her, making brief contact with her hand. The contact felt so warm and comforting that she couldn't help but blush as he turned and walked away.

She ran back to their small cottage in the woods, trying to cover the fact that she was really late. She knew it would be reasonable and even expected that she would be a few minutes late but she was more that a little late. Just as she ran in the door, she looked at the time, hoping she had at least shaved a few minutes off, but fate was not exactly on her side.

She quickly explained to Kevin all about the officers looking for the girl in the city, exaggerating details and twisting bits of truth here and there, but what could she say. She opened the eggs, and cracked one, getting ready to put it in the bowl when she realized that it was already mostly cooked, along with many of the other ones nearby. She recalled the man who had caught them before. His hands had seemed a bit warm. She ignored the fact and used a couple of the eggs from the other side of the carton, making plans to head back to town the next day.

When she had finally finished breakfast, she brought it over to Kevin, grasping his hand with hers briefly, looking for the same warmth and comfort she had felt in the hands of the stranger, but was slightly disappointed when she felt none. She supposed his hands were warmer than normal, but she couldn't help but feel there was something else there.

She walked back in her bathroom and went to fix her hair, realizing her ribbon was in fact, the same color as the man's hair. She walked into her bedroom then, to start doing chores. She noticed that, her covers too, were very similar to the man, with its colors of pink black and gold. She brushed it off as mere coincidence but as she sat there later that night with his image there in her head all day, she felt that perhaps, what she and Kevin had wasn't love at all, and that love was what she had experienced with the man, but that was ridiculous they had only just met. She kept pondering the idea until she fell asleep dreaming, for the first time ever. Dreaming of him.