*Lays down in a sexy pose* How you doin? Hahahaha!!!!!! Just kidding I'm not sexy. I wish I was. But I'll never be as sexy as you guys. . . . . *Sad face* Anyway, I got the chapter done!!! And it's very exciting! I was having a hard time breathing when I was writing it, that should tell you, that it's really good. And well nothing really exciting with my life, except this chapter. But I would like to dedicate this chapter to CitrusPanda44! She is a new fallower! Yay! You guys know I love those! And anyway, love you CitrusPanda44! Love you guys! Enjoy the chapter!

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POV: Lucy

'It's in your father's bedroom.'

Those words rang out in my head over and over.

"What?" I asked Spetto.

"The dress you're talking about, it's in your father's closet." Spetto said. "I remember from when I've put your father's laundry away."

"It's in his closet?" I asked her, not wanting to believe that he had it so close to him this entire time.

"Yes." She answered.

"Where is he now?" I asked her as I looked at the floor.

"Lucy?" Natsu whispered, probably wondering what I was going to do next. And I was somewhat doing the same thing.

"He's in his office." Spetto said. "Why?"

"Because I'm getting that dress away from him." I said as I stormed down the attic stairs and towards my father's bedroom.

"Lucy!" Natsu called out as he chased after me. "Lucy are you insane?"

"Yep." I answered.

"Why are you so worried about a dress?" Natsu asked me.

"That dress meant a lot to my mother." I said. "I'm not going to let him hold onto it anymore. He doesn't deserve it."

"Why is it so precious?" Natsu asked as he grabbed my arm and spun me to face him. "It's just a dress."

"No, it's not just a dress." I said. "It's my mother's wedding dress."

"Why would she wear it on your birthday?" Natsu asked me completely confused.

"Because for my sixth birthday present, I asked my parents to renew their wedding vows, because I wanted to see them get married." I said. I felt tears building up in my eyes and I fought to keep them from falling.

"But why is it so important to you?" Natsu asked.

"Because that was my last moment of happiness." I said. "That was the last day, me and my parents were happy." I felt a tear slide down my cheek. "Right before it all went down the drain!"

"But is this really worth getting caught?" Natsu asked me, understanding a bit more.

"It is for me." I said and walked down the hallway, not caring if Natsu was staying or not. And then I finally reached the door. My father's bedroom. I reached out for the door handle.

"I get it." A voice said from behind me. I jumped and spun around, only to see Natsu, looking at me with a smile.

"Natsu?" I said and he continued to smile at me.

"I understand now." He told me. "You want to be happy with your family, but because you know that won't happen, you want to re-live that last moment." He said as he touched his scarf. "And since you can't do that either, you want to hold on to something that was a big part of it."

"Natsu." I whispered to myself again as I felt tears roll down my cheeks.

"Go ahead, go get your happiness." Natsu told me. "I'll stand guard." I then hugged him tightly.

"I think I already have." I said and then burst through the door and closed it behind me.

'He's not as dense as everyone thinks he is.'

I then walked over to the closet and walked in, as I turned the light on. It was a huge walk-in closet. I looked around but didn't see the dress. But then when I got to the back of the closet in the corner, there it was on a mannequin. I walked over to it and touched the fabric, and smiled.

'Don't worry mom, I'll take care of it.'

I then walked behind it and started unbuttoning the buttons on the back. And when I got in front of it and went to slide the dress up and over the mannequin, I heard the bedroom door opened.

"Lucy, he's coming!" Natsu said as he stood in the doorway, looking as if he just saw a ghost.

"Shit." I said and ran to the closet door and we went to leave out the bedroom door, but Natsu stopped me.

"He's too close, I can hear him in the hallway." Natsu said as he looked around and then started pulling me towards the balcony door and opened it. "We got to go out this way." He said as he went to pick me up, but I pushed him away.

"No, Natsu." I said as I looked at him. "I am this close to getting that dress." I said as I held my fingers close together to show him how close I was. "I'm not backing down now." I said and ran back into the room and closed the balcony door, locking it after I heard the click.

"Lucy!" Natsu said, but with the door between us, his voice ended up being muffled. I then heard the door nob turn ever so slowly, and I stared at it. And as it started to open I darted into the closet, turning the light off as I went, and hid behind the mannequin, that my mother's dress was being held up on.

'It's going to be okay. It's going to be, okay.'

I thought to myself as I tried to steady my breathing. I heard some footsteps and then the light to the closet turned on, and I froze in place. After about a minute of rummaging around, I decided to peek and see if he was about to leave. But when I did he must have seen me because he looked my way.

'Damn, why did I have to look?'

Footsteps approached me and I gulped and tried to call down my breathing. Then he stopped right in front of the mannequin, and I held my breath.

'Don't fucking move. Don't fucking breathe. Don't do a fucking thing.'

I commanded myself as a drop of sweat made its way down my forehead. Then I heard my father 'hmph' and then he walked out of the room, leaving the light on. Then after a moment, I could hear water start running, in the bathroom.

'Thank God.'

I then quickly and carefully ripped the dress off the mannequin and placed it on the floor. I looked around and found one of my dad's clothes cover. And placed the dress inside it. I quickly zipped up the cover and ran out of the closet, and saw that the bathroom door was open, and my dad was standing in front of the mirror.

'There's no way he's not going to see me.'

I looked at the balcony door and back.

'Okay, one.'

I looked at the balcony door.

'Two.'

I looked a the bathroom.

'Three!'

I then ran at the door and flung it open and ran to the edge of the railing, and climbed on top of it.

"Lucy?" I heard someone say. I froze for a moment and then turned to see my father was in his night robe. "What the hell do you think you're doing?"

"Taking this, and getting the hell away from you." I said, standing up to him a little bit.

"You're taking that." He said pointing at the dress that was hidden by the cover. "And are going to get away . . . . by what? Jumping off the railing?" He stopped to laugh. "You're not going anywhere."

"Says you." I said. And I could see that it pissed him off.

"Get down from there, and get in here. I've got weeks of anger to take out on you." He said smiling as he could probably see that I was shaking with fear. But I didn't move. I took a small step backward, and my heel was off the railing. "What you think you're going to getaway? By jumping? You're scared of heights." But when he said that, I couldn't help but smile.

"No." I said. And my father stared at me. "I'm not." I then leaned back on my heels and fell off the railing holding the dress close to me. And after a moment, instead of my body meeting the ground, it met something else. Natsu's arms. And we started flying back towards his house, as my dad started screaming in anger at me and Natsu.

"Good job." Natsu said to me, and I leaned my head on his shoulder. "You did good."

"So did you." I said.

"Why did I do?" He asked me and looked down at me, and I looked up at him.

"You helped make me look like a badass in front of my dad." I said and smiled. We both started laughing.

"Well, you were." Natsu said.

"Thank you." I said. "And, I'm sorry."

"For what?" Natsu asked me, as we got closer to the ground as his house came into view.

"For making you help me, even though you were completely against it." I said honestly. Then we landed and Natsu put me on my feet.

"I'll always be on your side." He said, and we walked into the house.