You're the Reason Why

by taberune

The heartbreaker of the school Leo, or Loke as he insists everyone calls him, finds out his childhood friend had committed suicide. That day, when he gets home, he finds that a certain someone had emailed him: Aries, the one who had committed suicide. She had sent him an audio file, and she tells him that he's the reason she died.

1. The Email

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail. Or Th1rteen R3asons Why (by Jay Asher).

A/N:

I got the idea for this fic from the book Thirteen Reasons Why, and if you haven't read it yet, you should. It's a great book, albeit a bit sad. You could say I copied the whole thing, but I didn't really. But if you feel this way, go ahead.

I'm in a very serious LoRies mood right now. Like, this morning, I woke up and I was like I ship LoRies. And then I thought that there was something wrong with me because I shipped LoLu, but then… Yeah, no more LoLu…

Oh, and this is in Loke/Leo's POV and they don't have powers and so on. It's in an AU.

I walked into the classroom and, by routine, immediately headed over to Lucy's desk. "Hey, Princess. Feel up for a date today?" I was the 'heartbreaker' at this school and 'heartbreaker' wasn't just some random nickname.

Lucy looked up, and I saw that her eyes were red, puffy, and filled with tears. "Hey, what's wrong? Did some guy do this to you? 'Cause I swear I'll beat the heck out of him."

She shook her head then nodded over at the window. As I turned to look around, I saw that everyone was either a) crying or b) staring into space. Then I saw an empty seat by the window.

Suddenly, something clicked. The sad faces, everyone crying, the empty seat. "Where's Aries?" My voice was a whisper. There was no answer. "Where's Aries?" I said, louder this time. I felt a hand on my shoulder and turned around to face Macao sensei. "Loke, Aries… She died yesterday. She committed suicide."

"No." I refused to believe it. Aries and I hadn't spoken that much for a while, but we'd been friends since we were children. We were born in the same hospital. We'd been put in the same orphanage after Aries' mother died giving birth to her and my mother ran off into the night. We knew each other well.

"No," I said again. Macao nodded slowly and sadly. "We know you were close to her." He cleared his throat and sniffed. "Why don't you take the day off, huh?" He patted me on my back and walked back to the front of the classroom.

Normally, I would've walked out of the room there and then. I mean, a Monday with no school! And no consequences after! But today, I needed to take my mind of Aries, so I stayed. I stayed through math, and Wakaba sensei gave me a 70%, even though I'd gotten more than half of the questions wrong. I stayed through English, and Laki sensei was extra nice to everyone, telling us we could go outside and have a free reading period. I stayed through science, and Cana sensei just gave me a pat on the head when I nearly burnt down the lab. And I stayed through Home Ec, which was the worst. Because Aries was usually my partner and she was gone.

When I got home, I walked straight up the carpeted stairs and pushed open the door to my bedroom. I locked the door behind me and pulled my laptop off my desk and dragged it onto the bed. Maybe surfing the Internet would help.

Out of habit, I clicked on my bookmark icon that led to Gmail, and I saw that there was one unread email. And I could almost feel the blood drain from my face. Because the email was from Aries.