disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN FAIRYTAIL OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS! ~ .1128~

Chapter 1

"Love is giving someone the power to destroy you, but trusting them not to," -Unknown

The pounding instrumentals were deafening me, but it didn't matter, as long as it blanketed the din of my classmates. Luckily my suffering was about to end, the first bell of the day had rung, so the class found their seats and the annoying sounds were softening. I plucked the earbuds out and wrapped them around my phone before shoving it in the desk. My eyes trailed out the window and focused on the falling petals. The cherry blossoms were blooming again and the end of the year was nearing. People would take this chance to finally confess to their life long crushes, and their roller coaster would finally spiral out of control or be the best ride of their life. Love was cringy, these perfectly melodramatic relationships could only exist in people's minds, shoujo manga, and sappy romance dramas. I grew up with abandonment issues, which is probably another factor to my hatred of the near coming illness of love. My mother wasn't always home, she'd leave me with my babysitter who'd I had become accustomed to, but as usual, he had to leave. I returned to my mother's side and she got remarried, where I finally had the loving family I yearned for as a kid. I also learned to find friends, although not many had the privilege of my friendship. My first and lifelong friend was Chelia. If this were a shoujo manga and I was cast as the male lead, she's the person I'd confess to; she had the basic traits of any shoujo heroine, she was kind, tall, and outgoing.

Just before the second bell rung, she stumbled in, grumbling about her ex-boyfriend. She made her way towards my seat, by the scrunched up nose and wrinkled forehead, I could tell she was ready to rant. She had recently broken up with her boyfriend, he'd been caught cheating on her and yet begs for forgiveness. How rude, I didn't engage in Chelia's rant I just agreed to everything that was coming out of her mouth.

"Wendy, you won't believe this. He was waiting at my house! What a stalker!" She screeched as she slammed her fist onto my desk. She let out a frustrated sigh before glancing back over at me, she smirked, "Wendy... when are you going to get a boyfriend?" My eyes widened at the sudden change in subject, " I don't want to wait till after college to be invited to your wedding. It's way too far from now," I giggled and replied, "Chelia! I told you I haven't found anyone interesting enough. And there might be a possibility that there is no one that fits my expectations," Pouting, she sat on my desk. "You should at least TRY to find someone to marry because I've already planned your wedding." She laughed at my shocked face. A few minutes later the second bell rang, and the rest of the students shuffled into the classroom, preparing for our first class. Once the teacher walked into the room, the Class President ordered the students to stand and bow to the teacher. Our class was full of girls, for some reason, the school thought it would be a good way to separate the classes. This was painful for most, since the only time you got to see a male friend or boyfriend was at lunch. The class started off very boring as usual, so I continued to stare out the window and tune out the teacher as he continued with his lesson on the evolution of humans. Within the peachy pink there was a flash of darkness that was constantly moving around the large sakura tree in the courtyard. Apparently, I wasn't the only one that noticed, the person behind me screamed which caught everyone's attention.

"There is a person in the trees!" She informed which caused chaos in the class. The teacher ran to the window with a worried face; after finding the person in the trees, he scrambled out of the room leaving the students to crowd the window. Even I was interested, the person in the tree had dark purple hair that was so dark it was almost black. There was a flash of bright blue eyes that contrasted his tanned ivory skin. That person moved into the tree once again, and this time he was facing us. He was wearing our school's uniform in a weird way, the tie was loosely placed around his neck and his blazer was missing. His facial features were perfect, large eyes and sharp jawline. His hair was long enough to cover his eyebrows, yet barely passed his scalp in the back. Not even a minute had passed since the boy stared at the crowd of girls before the whole class screamed: "PRINCE~~" making me snap out of my daydream. I noticed he was looking directly at me, then he looked down and started to laugh, soon he climbed down from the tree. Once he was out of sight the class went back to their seats, but of course, they couldn't stop talking about him. Well, this was a class full of girls so of course, they would be talking about him. I sighed, the girls wouldn't stop now. A new hot guy for the girls in my class to die over, and more of me dying from all this moe spreading. Suddenly the door slammed open, and the 'Prince' stuck his head in scanning the room. The girls squealed and ran up to the door. I was basically the only girl not running up to him. Rather, I just sat there staring at all the girls in disgust. I pulled out my phone to block out distract myself the sounds of the fangirls.

The lunch bell finally rang, relieved, I walked out of the room full of crazy moe girls. Chelia pulled me aside before I joined the stream of students headed for the cafeteria.

"Did you see that guy from earlier?" Chelia asked. I rolled my eyes and only responded with, "Of course. What you like him?" Chelia shook her head. I stared at her shocked it was the first time she'd ever said that.

"I think that you guys should get together." 'Oh of course,' I thought, 'if he wasn't for her then he was for one of her friends.' "No," I replied bluntly.

"Okay, just hear me out," she paused for me to reject her ideas, but I stayed quiet, slightly interested. She smiled widely and listed her reasons as we walked to the cafeteria. By the time we got there, she had just finished her reasoning. I stared at her surprised about how much she could pick up in a few minutes of seeing his face.

"But Chelia, you have to consider BOTH of our feelings," I said. She pouted and said, "Well it's just an inference. If you two had some sorts of mutual feelings," I giggled at her shipping failure. We brought our food to the table full of our friends, Eve, Asuka, and Meredy. They had been put into different classes as us, but luckily we still had lunch together.

"Did you guys see the new kid?" Eve asked us.

"Yeah, what about him?" Meredy questioned.

"Well, I kind of invited him to sit with us. Since he is in my class, and we sit next to each other."

"Really?!" Chelia squealed nudging me in the arm. I glared darts at her, but she ignored me and continued to smile and jump in her seat.

"That's cool, we might as well help him before he kills himself," we all laughed at Asuka's little joke. It was true that it was hard to find friends at this school. Most groups have been friends since they were young, so none was really open to meeting new people. But we were okay with new people since most people in the group were new to the school system recently.

"By the way," Eve started again. "His name is Romeo Conbolt,"

"Oh? I thought I was going to introduce myself," Romeo said from behind Eve. Eve jumped for a second before laughing and allowing Romeo to sit next to him.

"Hi, I'm Meredy. Eve's girlfriend," Meredy said from next to Eve.

"I'm Asuka," Asuka introduced giving a small wave from across the table

"I'm Chelia," Chelia reached over the table to shake hands with Romeo. He accepted and waited for me to introduce myself.

"Wendy," I said a little too late since I was too busy staring back into his beautiful blue eyes. They were gorgeous. They seemed like the midnight sky, dark but still noticeably blue and they seemed to sparkle like the blazing stars against the dark sky. He returned my small smile causing Chelia giggled. There was an awkward and long pause that Romeo and I spent staring at each other. I cleared my throat and broke the contact to down at my food.

"Um," Romeo cleared his voice, "well as Eve said my name is Romeo. I'm from Crocus, my family moved because my dad found a job here." He paused to think for a moment, and then he shrugged indicating that there was nothing else to add to his introduction.

"OH! Romeo do you have a girlfriend?" Chelia suddenly asked eyes wide with excitement. He stared at her weirdly for a moment before laughing and saying, "No, I don't have a girlfriend." Chelia secretly nudged me. 'At least she knows when to hide it,' I thought as I punched her hard, pissed that she even tried to ship us.

"Well, after school you wanna join us at our favorite cafe? We always go after school." I said kindly. He smiled back replying, "Sure, but only If that is okay with you guys," Eve smiled and nodded in agreement. At that moment the bell rang, we all took our binders, lunches and scurried to class. Meredy and Asuka went along to their class which was in a different direction from the rest of ours, they were slightly older after all. Romeo and I talked a little as we walked with a stream of students to our designated rooms. Turns out we had a lot in common and I liked Romeo, but obviously, only as a friend, he was a cool person.

The last bell of the day finally rang, and all the students raced out of the classes. Chelia and I went down to our shoe lockers. We were shouting out to all the friends that we have saying our goodbyes. We entered the courtyard where people were gathering around the entrance of the front of the school.

"Wendy! Chelia! Over here!" Asuka called at the entrance as we exited the building.

"Looks like the older kids were let out before us," Chelia sighed. I smiled and commented, "So? We all are going to the same place. Plus it wouldn't be our fault for getting out later," Chelia frowned.

"Yes, it is. See, even the boys are already there," she pointed ahead at our group of friends. I sighed and nodded gazing in another direction, not admitting defeat.

"LET'S GO!" Meredy cheered once we all gathered. Meredy and Chelia led in front talking about love and all the stuff they enjoyed fangirling about. Behind them were Asuka and me we were laughing at them, commenting on their statements Asuka was dating someone too, but he didn't go to the same school as us. He would often meet us after school at the cafe, but today he was busy. Behind Asuka and me, Romeo and Eve were talking about clubs and their homework from school.

"Hey, what clubs do you guys take?" Romeo asked.

"Chelia is on the Track team with Eve. Meredy is on the Student Council with Asuka. And I'm on the Swim team." I replied leaning my head back to meet his gaze.

"Don't you guys have club now?" He laughed out. Suddenly they all stopped walking.

"I forgot!" Chelia shrieked running back to the school with Eve hot on her tail. Meredy apologized and followed the other two. Asuka said her goodbyes and walked back with Meredy.

"What about you Wendy?" I turned to the tall boy in front of me.

"Today is your lucky day, Romeo. You get me all alone," I joked. He chuckled and we continued to the cafe.

"Welcome back to Fairytail Café," Lucy greeted at the front door. She glanced to my side and saw Romeo. She looked back at me and giggled.

"Romeo, this is Lucy. My brother's girlfriend," Lucy blushed at the statement. They've been dating for a while but for some reason, they were still shy about it.

"Nice to meet you, Lucy" he greeted kindly. We entered and everyone who wasn't busy working swarmed around the door.

"Wendyyyyyyyyy," they all cried. Many questions were asked about both Romeo and school before Romeo and I found a seat. I shooed them away after we ordered something to drink.

"Everyone seems to love you here. You guys must've been here hundreds of times." Romeo chuckled. I blushed, 'Why am I blushing?!' I asked myself.

"W-well, we're all f-friends with the owners. And all of our siblings or parents worked here at one point." I said surprised that my old habit of stuttering was showing. 'Stupiddddd, why did you have to stutter? Now he thinks you like him' I mentally slapped myself. Romeo just laughed sweetly and densely. After a while, we were having a normal conversation again.

"What clubs do you wanna take?" I asked Romeo. He thought for a moment, then his face brightened up and he continued.

"Basketball! I saw this guy once playing for Magnolia College. He was awesome; I really want to meet him here. I think of him as a role model," I smiled; Romeo was very cute when he was happy. Like a little puppy when you show it a treat.

"What was his name?" I asked, interested.

"I don't know his first name, but I think his last name was Dragneel or something." My eyes widened and I stared at him. He seemed to notice.

"What? You know him?"

"Did he have like pink hair?"

"Yeah, why? Do you know him?"

"Yeah, a little too well,"

"Really how do you know him? Can I meet him?!"

"S-sure, come on let's go meet my brother," Romeo got all giddy and followed me out of the cafe and to my house. "How come you don't have the same last name?" Romeo started. I smiled and for once was willing to tell my story.

"My mom married his dad recently. My other brother is adopted, but I don't usually go by my second last name. Just Marvell is okay," Romeo nodded understandingly.

We had finally reached the house; I could already feel something bad coming. I went to the door and hear shouting and loud thuds. I was pissed, 'How could they do this now?' I was ready to barge in and end their fights, but I realized Romeo was still standing and waiting for his meeting with Natsu. I turned around to Romeo trying to cover the fact that he wasn't going to be invited in.

"Um, I don't think now is a really good time. If you don't mind. Maybe some other day?" I apologized. He nodded but he seemed sad and walked away waving goodbye. I scurried inside quickly before they'd realized that Romeo was outside.

"Who was that?" I heard a rough voice say. 'Too late,' I thought.

"I think that's a guy," Another voice warned.

"What?! No way," the first voice countered. I turned towards them and stuck out a hip placing my hand on it.

"Yeah, it's guy. So what?" I sassed. They looked at each other then looked back at me.

"He has a girlfriend, right? She isn't you, right?" They asked.

"Urgh, okay he doesn't have a girlfriend. But he is just a friend," I responded.

"Look, we're just trying to keep you from getting hurt alright?" My oldest brother, Natsu said.

"But look at you and Lucy! Neither of you got hurt-" I paused. 'Shoot! Natsu got hurt before... by Lisanna.' I thought. Lisanna was Natsu's childhood friend; they hung out all the time. Before Lisanna left Fiore, Natsu couldn't stop crying. By the time she came back, Natsu had moved on and they stayed friends. Both found different lovers.

"Hahahahaha, Wendy, this flame-brain here got hurt before. By that girl named Lisanna, remember?" Gajeel, my other brother, laughed. Natsu glared at Gajeel, Gajeel noticed and glared back.

"Wanna fight, metal head?" Natsu shouted. Gajeel pounced onto Natsu and the two started wrestling.

"STOP!" I screamed, both of the boys stopped fighting and glanced at me. They let each other go.

"Get out of here," I ordered. They both moved up the stairs whispering to each other threats. I sighed, 'This is never going to go away, huh?' I thought. Ever since I was young, I couldn't bring many people home if my brothers were both home. They always fought with each other. It wasn't easy to calm them; usually, my mom or dad would have to separate them. What I would do would only stop them for a few minutes, but when dad stopped them, they acted like buddies. I ended up doing homework with loud music to cover up the sounds of Natsu and Gajeel fighting.

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