This is a modern au where there is no magic or supernatural things but it is a romantic drama which is based off of these romantic movies that I love to watch. Everything, Everything, Endless Love, Flipped, and A Little Romance. This will have drama, romance, comedy, loss, mild violence, mild language, and sexual content (PG 13 wise). If you want me to continue with this story tell me in the review section.

Have you ever been the new guy? Have you ever been the new guy more than once? or plenty of times? It's not easy because you can't have a stable home or have stable relationships. It's never easy being new.

Natsu Dragneel is my name and I have never had a stable home or any kind of a stable relationship except with my dad, my brother Zeref, and my cat Happy. Money was always a problem with my dad. He worked really hard but he didn't seem to get what he deserved for his hard labor. When my mom was pregnant with me there were a lot complications with her body so she was sick a lot after I was born and my dad couldn't afford proper medical care. I was only two when she died. After her death we started living in various shelters because he couldn't afford a stable house or apartment. We were always travelling and Dad was always trying to find work but every time he got one job he end up losing it and we'd have to move again. I never blamed him for how we lived because I knew that he wanted to give me and Zeref a better life. Every time we stopped to live somewhere for awhile he made sure that Zeref and I would attend school and when we went on the road again he made sure that we kept up with our lessons and work.

My dad recently got a job working as a mechanic, after two years of working hard his boss made him his partner. Now my dad has a stable job and enough money for us to move into a house. A real house. I was so excited because maybe now I had a chance of making friends.

We moved in on a Sunday when I was ten. Our house wasn't the biggest but it wasn't the smallest either. In my opinion it was perfect and I loved it. I had my own room, my own bed, my own closet, and my own bathroom. Finally I wouldn't have to continue using port a potties and bathing in school locker rooms. I could sleep in a real bed instead of a sleeping bag. I could eat real cooked food instead of take out. I finally had a home all I needed now were some friends. Unfortunately that was not easy.

One of the sucky things about being the new kid is that sometimes you can be a target for bullies and I wasn't just a target I was the favorite target. Wedgies, swirlies, daily beatings, you name it. I don't know why they picked me but for some reason they chose to spend their free time terrorizing me. I never told Dad or Zeref because the last thing I needed was my father and my brother fighting my battles for me.

So when I failed to make friends in school I tried to make friends in the neighborhood. I had two next door neighbors one of them was an old man and the other was another man who looked about the same age as my dad. He looked like business man, the rich, scary kind and his house was biggest place I had ever seen but it was designed like a fortress or something. When I first saw him I said hello but he looked at me like I was some kind of threat or something. Why? Did I look scary? I didn't think so. He got into a car drove away but not before going back inside to check on something. I wondered what it was?

When I went back inside I went to my room to unpack my things. As I did this I had the weirdest feeling that someone was watching me. Dad had gone to work, the old man next door was sleeping, and the other neighbors had left. So why did I have this feeling? I looked out my window to see if I was being watched and I saw something in the business guy's house move away quickly. Was there someone else living there? Did he have a kid? If they did why was he or she home alone? I know I'm not a parent but isn't it wrong to leave your kid all alone?

I learned that the guy's name was Jude Heartfilia and that he was this super rich doctor. He was also somewhat mean looking in my opinion so I tried to avoid speaking to him whenever I could. Until one day my curiosity about whoever or whatever lived in his house got the better of me and I decided to ask.

"Hi Mr. Heartfilia." I told him.

He didn't say hi back, he just looked at me and then looked away.

"Hey Mr. Heartfilia do you have kids?" I asked him.

He looked at me like I was a cop trying to interrogate him for a crime he just committed.

"Why do you want to know that?" He asked me in a voice sent shivers up my spine.

"Because... Because uh...I...I thought if you had kids I could play with them and make friends."

"I don't have any children." He told me.

"Oh then who lives with you?"

"No one lives with me."

"But I saw someone in your house."

"What are you doing snooping around my house?!"

"I...I...I wasn't snooping. I just saw-"

"Do you know that you could go to jail for spying and tresspassing?"

"But I wasn't-"

"How about I call the police right now! And give you an example of what happens to nosy little kids who spy!"

"Hey that's enough!" My father interrupted. "What's going on here?"

"Your son is a bit too nosy Igneel, if I were you I would teach him to mind his own business before he gets himself into lot of trouble."

"Get out of here Jude." Dad told him. "Leave my son alone."

He sneered at both of us then left.

"I didn't do anything wrong Dad." I told him.

"I know son but that Jude Heartfilia has got problems."

"Does he hate me?"

"If you ask me he hates everybody."

"Why?"

"No idea just stay away from him and his house okay?"

"Okay."

I did what my dad told me to. I didn't go near the house or Mr. Heartfilia but I always found myself staring at that house. I knew that somebody else lived there so everyday when I came home from school and finished up my homework I would just watch the house and try to figure out who else lived there. It was very hard because the windows were always covered up but I could make out shadows of a figure walking around. Over time I saw someone else go in and out of the house. It was a woman and judging by her clothing I figured out that she was a nurse. I knew I shouldn't be so obsessed with this guy but wanting to know who was in there, who that shadowy figure was, always teased my brain and I'm embarrassed to say this but I kept it up all the way through high school. So yeah I'm a creep but cut me some slack my only friend is a cat.

"Are you still watching that house?" My brother Zeref asked me.

"What's it to you if I am?"

"Oh nothing except it makes you look like a creepy stalker. What is it with you and that house? You've been spying on it for eight years."

"I know it's creepy but I can't help but feel that there is someone in there."

"Natsu you've watched that same house for eight years and for eight years you've only seen Jude Heartfilia come out of that house. Who or what are you looking for in there?"

"I really don't know."

"Well you better stop it soon because Dad has been talking about taking you to see a therapist."

I wasn't crazy but I knew he was right. This wasn't healthy and I didn't want my father to spend a fortune on some shrink so after Zeref leaves I put away my binoculars and crawl into bed with Happy jumping to curl up around my feet.

"What's wrong with me Happy?"

Maybe I really was crazy. Who in their right mind watches the same house for eight years looking for something and they don't even know what it is? After lying in bed for five minutes I got up and went to close the blinds to my window when I saw something. It was a girl. A girl with blonde hair standing at the window of Mr. Heartfilia's house. She was looking down and when she saw that I was staring at her she looked like she had just been spotted by a criminal. Then she pulled the curtains down.

I was right. There was someone else there and it was a girl. But where did she come from? I didn't see her come in. Had she been there all this time? Was she that shadowy figure that I had been searching for, for eight years? If so then who is she? And how come she's never left that house?