Lucy's P.O.V

I didn't know why it hurt so bad to hear that. To know what he said had been right, made my heart ache and all my emotions for Rin pain me. I felt my eyes began to water. I felt someone touch my arm causing me to gasp. "Lucy" That voice, I didn't want to hear it now.

"Please don't"

"Lucy"

"Please stay away from me!" I screamed, smacking away Ruki's hand. My eyes widened before I looked at him.

"Ruki-kun, I am so sorry."

"I want you to be happy."

"I just can'-"

"You can't seem to keep your paws off of her can you?" We looked behind us to see Rin. He glared at us.

"Rin" He walked up to us causing Ruki to move me behind him.

"What do you want?"

"For you to let go of my girlfriend," Rin said grabbing me and pulling me away from Ruki.

"Rin" Ruki smirked at him causing my eyes to widen.

"Ruki-kun"

"Come on Lucy, I do not want you near this pitiful piece of shit."

Ruki's P.O.V

He really had the nerve to say that? Even after the way, he treated Lucy? I grabbed her hand stopping the two.

"Oi"

"You always make her do what you want don't you?" He arched a brow.

"What?"

"Lucy would have been angry by now and probably told you off. Insulting you and your character in many ways but right now she seemed like an empty shell. Do you even know what you are doing to her?" I let out a dry chuckle. "And you call me a pathetic piece of shit."

"Ruki-kun"

"She doesn't like you. " He sucked his teeth before he let go of her and walked up to me.

"If anything you do not understand her at all do you? I knew her longer than you-"

"And yet I know more about her than you do."

"Tch, say that to the bitch who couldn't even keep Yui to himself." My anger began to boil. He chuckled at me.

"You son of a bitch."

"Ah, it seems like I hit something."

"Yui?"

"You haven't even told Lucy about her yet and yet you say you love her? Let me guess how long it took for you to 'fall' for Lucy, about a day. You were trying to replace her with Lucy?"

"I gave it time before I fell for her."

" I mean Ayato and her have been dating for not that long huh?"

"I do not care about that."

"I mean, what kind of man lets the love of his life slip between his fingers?

"You" Our eyes widened before we looked behind us to see Lucy in her Capricorn form.

"What are you going to do? Are you going to fight me, Lucy?" So Rin knew about her magic? She glared at him.

"I am tired of losing everyone I care about and everything I care for to you. You know when you broke my heart I was so empty inside but then I met Ruki who for some reason, no matter how much I tried to fight it, made me feel whole."

"What are you saying?"

"I am saying that I like Ruki and also that you breaking up with me was not the worst thing to ever happen to me, if anything it was the best and if you try to fight him then you will have to go through me." My eyes widened. So she liked me for this long? Why didn't she show it before?

"Go through you?" He shook his head. "Why the hell would I do that?"  Was he afraid of her?

"You remember what happened when we first met."

"Oi, I thought we agreed to never discuss that."

"The fact that I fell for you even after you hurt someone so dear to me. It took guts but still, I found a way to fight the negative feelings I had for you and turn them to something good but you ruined them. So I gave them to someone else." She smiled at me. Rin glared at me.

"So you think you are going to take her?"

"Why do I have to take someone who was already mine?"

"You bastard, you do not know who I am."  He was about to punch me when I stopped his fist. I twisted it causing him to cringe in pain.

"You do not know who I am neither but I guess we can end this with me taking away the love of my life who just so happened to be your ex-girlfriend." I took her hand and pulled her into my room.

Lucy's P.O.V

As Ruki pulled me into his room, I felt my heart began to race. He cared about how I felt and what I believed in. He truly knew who I was and liked me for who I was. He got me to tell Rin my true feelings. I grabbed his hand.

"Ruki, what's wrong?"

"I love you" I giggled.

"I care about you as well, silly."

"But do you love me?" He turned around to face me.

That expression he had was full of hurt and fear. It only made me want to understand him more. I couldn't understand my own feelings of what love had been. I never truly experienced it before and didn't know how to explain it.

"Ruki I-" I wanted to tell him but I couldn't understand. How could I tell him how much I cared for him? "You are the only one who I want. There are times when I am sad, angry, or even both and all I can think about is your smile. When you appear hurt all I want to do is help you. All I want is to be yours and hope that you understand." He let out a small smile before he lifted my head up and pressed his lips against mine. It had been as if time had frozen for a second and all I could feel was his warmth. All I could see were his eyes, all I could smell was the slight scent of cinnamon that came from him. At this moment all I knew had been him. He backed away with a smile.

"That's what I wanted to hear."