Hey Dark Gothic Lolita here!

So I don't know, sometimes when I try to do a little bit of brother and sister bonding between these two, it never works and it turns out to be romance. But whatever, I'm not complaining!

Yes, this is my second Prince, Princess thing that I have been working on alongside with the Natvia I uploaded today as well. I actually think I started writing this before that story though.

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I apologize for my bad grammar and spelling!

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Cinderella's best friend

Chapter one

Lucy stared out to the whole crowd that was now cheering for her. She smiled as she was wearing the most beautiful white dress ever tailored for her and her hair up in ringlets like how her mother's was. She gave a sad smile before masking it. She wished her mother was still alive to see her getting married. Married to the PRINCE in fact! She even wished her father was still alive too, even if he did make the mistake of marrying the witch of a second wife.

She looked at the man that she had hooked her arm with and she grinned at him and he grinned back. The Prince had managed to find her from her own dark place and he didn't even care that she was a slave in her own household. He cupped her face as she blushed and he too blushed. "I love you so much." Lucy let some tears fall down her face.

"I love you too, Natsu."

They both shared another kiss and the whole crowd of people went crazy as they cheered them all on and clapped. When they parted, Lucy rested her head on Natsu's shoulder while looking out to the front row. She then held back a frown when she saw that the most important person who wasn't her mum or dad wasn't there. She almost paled when she thought of her best friend. She would have to visit her very soon.

"I hope you're okay, Juvia-chan."

A young blue haired woman was at the market walking around, trying to get her mother's shopping done. The tears in her eyes were evident as she weaved in and out of people. She wiped away her tears with a dirty hand and scraped any free hair that was no longer in the bun that was tied to her hair. She was lucky that everyone was at the wedding and not that many people were at the market. A wedding that she should have been at, but now she was stuck at the market.

"Can Juvia please have the finest lamb chops please?" The butcher nodded his head at her while giving her a piteous look. He always gave her discounts on the meat that she bought from him because he knew of her rough life at home. Her own blood mother treated her like shit all because her dad was now dead. She smiled as soon as he handed it all to her and headed out of the shop to buy some eggs.

As she started walking down the road, she saw a man her age with dark hair tending to his horses. A little blush rose up on her face when she saw him and she cursed to herself. She knew that she had to get over him because he was always in love with Lucy, but he never noticed her. "Juvia promises that she will not be Gray's second best." She thought that she could walk past him without him noticing her, but he saw her and called her over.

"Juvia! Hey, why weren't you at the wedding? Lucy was really looking forward to seein' ya you know!" Juvia just shook her head while raising the basket of food to show him that she was really busy. He frowned before leaving his horse and walking over to her. "So you missed your best friend's wedding just because you had to do some shopping? That's a bit low isn't it?"

Juvia almost gasped in shock at his harsh words but she didn't. Had he only paid that much attention to Lucy that he didn't know that she too was going through the same thing? She quickly dried any tears before he could see them fall. "Juvia is sorry Gray. Juvia's mother won't let her go and now that Lucy has left home, Juvia has to work for Lucy's family because they live next door. Juvia is sorry that she can't stay and talk."

She watched as Gray's face suddenly showed concern for her. "Wait, you're mistreated too? Like Lucy?" Juvia nodded her head before smiling.

"But it's fine. Juvia can manage. Bye! Oh, tell Ultear, Lyon, Meredy and Gray's mother Juvia said hi!" Before Gray could say another word, she walked off. She didn't need his pity. She knew that Lucy had asked for him to look after her when she got married. Juvia knew that Lucy was indirectly trying to set them up together, but Juvia didn't want that. No, she didn't need that. If she was going to die alone, then so be it. She was NEVER going to be anyone's second choice.

She turned onto another street where the store that sold eggs was. As she rounded the corner, she crashed into someone and fell to the floor. "Watch where you're fucking going!" She was about to apologise to the person with the gruff when she looked up to see a man with piercing red eyes, studs practically everywhere on his face, his jet black hair was probably longer than her blue hair and he was wearing a black suit. Juvia couldn't help but notice how good he looked in it, even if he did look like a delinquent.

Juvia blushed at the thought before looking down at the ground where she sat. "Juvia is sorry." Just as she was going to pick herself up from the floor, he placed his hand in her face so that she could take it. She looked up into his red eyes and he just grunted at her. Juvia took his hand and couldn't help but notice that it was so big and manly. He hauled her up so easily that she couldn't believe she was that light. That or he lifts weights heavier than her.

"So can you tell me where the fuck I am? I was only going for a walk and I end up in some market." Juvia couldn't help but frown at him.

"Please stop with that foul language, it's disgusting." It was his turn to frown before he smirked and came closer to her face. They were inches away from each other and Juvia couldn't but blush from how close they both were to one another.

"Oh? And what the fuck are you going to do about it, Juvia-chan?"

Juvia flinched at the word 'fuck' and she scoffed at herself. She needed to stop her habit of speaking in third person because it gives her name away to every stranger she meets. "Juvia will hit you." Without any other warning, she slapped him across the face and they both stared at each other. One in anger and one in amusement. The taller one of the two straightened up, still smirking at her while rubbing his cheek. Juvia suddenly felt bad. "Juvia is sorry stranger! She wasn't really meant to slap you! Ugh, how rude of Juvia! Is there anything Juvia can do to make up for it?"

She watched him stroking his chin before he gave her a very animalistic grin and she gulped in slight fear. "The name's Gajeel for one thing, not stranger. And yes, there is something you can do for me. But don't worry, I'll find you when you're not...butchering sweet little lambs." She blushed heavily and he laughed before heading the way he came. Although there were practically no Juvias around the place, many people only knew her second name.

"If you're going to look for Juvia, ask for the Lockser house!" She saw him put his hand up in acknowledgement as one hand was in his pocket and he kept on walking away. Then she stopped. Why on Earth would she even want him to come and look for her?! Juvia sighed, not wanting to forget the eggs and hurry home.

Lucy lay in her new husband's arms with a smile on her face. She was known as 'Cinderella' before, but those days were now gone. She was now called by her birth name, Lucy. Natsu stroked her hair and Lucy sighed in content. "I love you so much Natsu." He chuckled and it made Lucy feel warm inside. She then couldn't help but think of her friend. "Juvia didn't come today."

Natsu also frowned. He hadn't seen her either. "Maybe she couldn't get a carriage here? But we sent her one specifically..." Lucy sighed and nodded.

"Yeah, I saw her mum and Wendy, but I didn't see her. It's obvious as to what has happened here." Lucy was so angry. First her stepmother and sisters were treating her like crap, then her best friend, her next door neighbour was also getting the same treatment from her BLOOD mother. Lucy hugged Natsu tighter.

"I'll go and see her tomorrow." Natsu nodded.

~x~

"Gajeel, you know what this means right?" Gajeel grunted as he looked at his younger twin brother. He knew what it meant and he was going to be bugged about it for all eternity, or at least until his dad died. "Yes Rogue, I more than know what it means. Our stupid cousin just HAD to get married, and now dad is going to want the same from me. I already know who he's going to tell me to marry anyway. Bookworm, just because she's a Lady. I just don't see her that way, she's not my type. And she's no fun."

It wasn't that he didn't like her, it's just that they weren't going to really get along as husband and wife. She was a shrimp and he was tall. He was into girls with killer figures and she had a body of a 12 year old. Rogue shrugged his shoulders as he threw a stone down out of the balcony. "I don't mind Levy, I think she's cool." Gajeel snorted.

"Why don't you marry her then?" He saw his brother smirk.

"It's not a bad idea actually. But you're next in line to be King, so I guess it's more important if you get married and produce an heir and all that kinda stuff. I'll just be getting the title of Prince Rogue, not needing to do any work and I'll have a cute wife. Life's good when you're the younger twin."

Gajeel mimicked him. "Life's good when you're the younger twin, blah blah blah." Rogue glared at him and Gajeel glared right back. "I'm going for a fucking walk, on the other side of town." his brother shrugged at him.

"Then I'm going to bed. Bye." Raios walked off and Gajeel climbed down the balcony to his cousin's Palace and made his way through the bushes, nodding his head at the guards.

He didn't know where the hell he was going to go at this time of the night, until he had a thought. "Yeah, might as well find Juvia then."

SLAP

Juvia managed to ignore the pain that went soaring right through her left cheek, and her right cheek was slashed from the sharp nails of her loving mother. She had been hit for so many years that she no longer even felt the pain. Her body had grown a tolerance towards it just immediately went numb. "You worthless piece of SHIT! The lamb chops are so fucking shit and you DARE bring them home to MY HOUSE?! You're so worthless, I wonder why I even keep you around here! Why can't you make something out of yourself, like your older brother Jellal has done, or why can't you be perfect like your younger sister? No, you had to be yourself, someone so fucking hopeless and a waste of space on this Earth! You know what, get out of my sight!"

Before Juvia could even walk away, her mother kicked her back and her she fell over, her face slamming into the door handle. "DON'T YOU DARE GET BLOOD ALL OVER MY FLOOR! I swear to KAMI that if I could exchange souls, I would get rid of yours to have your father back!" Juvia merely picked herself up from the floor and walked down the cellar where her room was next door, with no heating and hardly a good bed. She heard light footsteps tottering down from outside her room and she quickly wiped up her tears and tried to stop the bleeding as much as possible.

"Juvia-nee? Did mum hurt you again?" The blood had been wiped from her face, the tears had vanished and Juvia smiled while hugging her sister.

"No Wendy-chan, mother didn't hurt Juvia. Juvia was being clumsy again and fell to the floor!" Juvia didn't know why she was lying to her sister when she was now 13 years old and she now knew what was going on around the house. Wendy handed her sister a plaster for her face and hugged Juvia tightly. Juvia smiled while tears welled up in her eyes.

There was a knock at the front door and Juvia could hear her mum talking to someone. Her voice was so loud that they could both hear it. "Juvia? Sorry, there's no Juvia around here. I only have a son and a daughter called wendy, no Juvia. Wrong house." She could hear the door slam and her mother's angry footsteps coming down the stairs. She panicked and hid Wendy in a corner where her mum won't see her. If Wendy was down here talking to her, their mum would go mad tonight. Not at Wendy, but at her.

"JUVIA! SO you're a slut now huh? Having men calling for you. I knew it. You're a prostitute and now you're probably hoarding every single STD in your body. You're such a failure."

Juvia could feel the hot tears welling up in her eyes and her mother just walked out, muttering things of how Juvia was most probably pregnant and that she was the worst person on Earth.

"Wendy should go now in case mother finds Wendy here." Wendy's eyes were filled with tears and Juvia smiled at her, rubbing her hair. Wendy quickly ran out and Juvia shut her wooden door and burst into tears. How could a mother say such words? Was it really her fault that her father was now dead? Did she really hate her that much?

She dried her tears and made her way to the disgusting shower that only poured out ice cold water. She was used to it anyway so it never mattered about how cold it was, just as long as she was clean. She washed the grease out of her hair, the dirt off of her body before finding a fresh dress to put on, not like it was brand new anyway. Lucy's step mother had asked for her to help her tonight. She walked out of her room and when she was walking up the stairs, she made sure that her mum wasn't there to see her before running out of the door.

Just as she was about to walk out of her compound, somebody grabbed her. She turned her head to find Gray staring at her. "Gray-san? What are you doing?" He shrugged before stuffing his hands in his pockets.

"I saw some guy come by here, he was looking for you. I just wanted to know what he wanted." Juvia sighed and rubbed at her temples.

"Juvia doesn't know because Juvia's mother told him that Juvia doesn't exist, that he had the wrong house." Gray's face hardened and Juvia brushed past him.

"Hey wait! I was wondering if one day...when you're free...we could go on a date?" Juvia paused and looked at him. He wasn't fidgeting, he wasn't blushing. He just stood there as though it was a duty, nothing more and nothing less. Juvia smiled at him.

"Juvia is sorry Gray-san, but Juvia can't." He stood there flummoxed as she hurried to Lucy's old house where her tyrant stepmother and sisters lived. She knocked on the door and a disgusted face opened the door. Juvia never knew the names of Lucy's stepsisters, but she never cared.

"Ugh, MUM! The whore is here!" Juvia made sure that the words they said wouldn't hurt her. She wasn't going to give them the satisfaction and cry in front of them. Her father had raised her better than that.

The woman of the house then came to the door, sending her daughter away and then glaring at Juvia. "Ugh, the slut. Anyway, make yourself useful by cleaning out cellar." Juvia nodded her head, bowing to the woman before taking her leave. She could see the look of disgust on the woman's face. She walked down the stairs that was designed just like hers. Her mother had already discussed what was going on with her neighbour. That or they were eavesdropping when Gajeel came to look for her.

She started dusting, cleaning and mopping the place up to the woman's standards. She opened up a window and just as she did, red eyes stared back at her. "AHHHH!" She quickly placed her hand over her own mouth when she saw a smirk that had been implanted in her mind all day. "Gajeel," she hissed. She was so angry right now. She looked behind her and was grateful that the cellar door was closed while she cleaned it out.

"What the hell is Gajeel doing staring at Juvia from a hidden window?!" He laughed while jumping through and staring at the place. Then he looked down at her. "I was looking for you. I went to your house and the woman there told me that there was no such person as Juvia. It made me wonder if I had been talking to a ghost. That was until I saw you leaving your house to come next door, I came back here." Juvia stared at him with her mouth wide open.

"Juvia is very much alive but Juvia and her mother...don't get along." He raised a studded eyebrow up at her but didn't ask any questions which she was grateful for. Instead, he went on talking which made her flinch.

"So she lied and said that her own daughter doesn't exist. Yup, an ongoing feud I can sense from here." She was about to defend her mum, but why should she when the woman didn't love her?

"So what is Gajeel doing here anyway?" He jumped back away from her when she swept around his feet. He found a good enough chair to sit on, even if it was ricketing about and making a creak noise as though it might fall over soon enough.

"I'm here to tell you what you're going to do for me." He watched her in amusement as she glared at him and whacked his legs.

"Gajeel can't order Juvia around."

"Actually, I think I very much can."

He laughed, not caring that the owners of the house might hear him. Juvia tried to get him to be quiet. "Shut up Gajeel! They'll kill Juvia if they find Gajeel here, especially after what Juvia's mother is spreading around now!" Gajeel gave her a look and Juvia just turned her back on him. "What does Gajeel want from Juvia then?"

He stood up and walked behind her, putting his hands on her waist. A blush rose up on her cheeks as she tried to pull away from his grip. He held on tighter, his chin on her shoulders. "I need you, to become my wife." Juvia stilled. For a moment, she even felt quite proud to be chosen by quite a really good looking guy to be his wife. Out of all the girls that were around this whole city, he chose her.

Then she came back down to reality. "Wait wait wait, why does Gajeel think that Juvia will marry him?" She spun out of his arms and he looked at her questioningly. "Gajeel is so rude and so untamed that Juvia wants nothing to do with him, so Gajeel can take his marriage proposal elsewhere. Besides, we hardly know one another, we can't just automatically fall in love."

She thought that that would have made him give up, but he simply put his hand on his chin, his tanned fingers stroking it. She couldn't help but stare at him, at his height, at his hair, the studs on him and his sharp calculating red eyes. "So what you're trying to say is that we should get to know each other first and by doing that you want to spend time with me! Yeah I get it! We should DATE first!"

Juvia's jaw dropped to the ground as she stared at him. "H-How did Gajeel get to that conclusion?" Honestly, he must have been smoking something real special here! He leaned down to her face again, his lips were hovering dangerously near hers and he smirked when he saw another blush light up on her face.

"I can see it in your eyes." They both stared at one another, their eyes never leaving one another. Juvia honestly thought that he was going to be an idiot, like he always seemed to be and dare to kiss her, but he didn't.

Instead, he leaned back and stroked her cheek with the back of his hand that Juvia couldn't help but sigh at the contact. He removed his hand and tapped the plaster that was over her nose. It made her flinch and his eyes were questioning her on how it happened. She just looked away from him and he made his way back over to the window.

"I guess I'll be going. Have a nice night now and I'll see ya tomorrow." He jumped out, almost as though he was never there. His presence was gone and Juvia couldn't help but feel so empty.

She shut the window, set the chair up and the door swung open as Lucy's step mother stood there. She inspected the whole room, every place, running her finger on the surfaces to make sure that no bit of dust lingered there.

"You've done well, better than Lucy. You're free to go." Juvia bowed once more and the woman snorted before leaving her alone in the room. Juvia turned back and saw red eyes still looking at her once more before they were gone again. Juvia smiled a little bit before walking out and back to her house.

She slipped into the house and saw that Wendy and her mother had gone to bed. She sighed in happiness as she walked down to her own cellar where her room was next door. She changed into her nightwear before slipping onto her bed where she froze almost every night. She thought about Gajeel. Was he her Natsu? No, he was Gajeel and that was that. She wondered what would happen to Wendy, maybe she should take her with her.

She rolled over onto her side, thinking about Gajeel and smiled before closing her eyes.

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