Lucy's POV

I take the fake glasses off my face, my blonde hair falling out of a messy bun, oversized clothes on. I didn't choose to look like this. My sister did. I wasn't allowed to look like her, or even talk to her if any of her friends were around.

None of them know I exist. I wouldn't mind if I had friends, but I don't. A lot of people say 'well you come from a rich family, just buy friends' but it doesn't work like that. Money doesn't buy happiness, especially from my experience.

My parents usually worked away, so I just stayed in my room while Alex held or went to parties. On more than one occasion people have walked into my room making out, not even realising I was there. And to make sure I 'didn't exist' I had to go out the window or into the wardrobe.

In my own room.

My life wasn't always this bad, I did have friends. I had a best friend, his name was Natsu, and basically, he turned into a bully... And Alex is currently dating him.

"L, open up." I look up from my laptop, a half written essay automatically saving on there. I shut my laptop screen, getting up and opening the door. "Hey, A." Alex walks straight past me, her brown hair swaying as she sits on my bed.

I shut my door, sitting back on the bed across from her. "Okay, I'm having a literal crisis right now L and I need your help." I raise my eyebrow, eyeing her, her blue eyes staring back at me. They're contacts. "I'm listening..."

"Tomorrow's our first day back, right? Our last year of high school."

"Yeah...and?"

"And?! I have to look amazing! But I don't know what to do! I want to impress Natsu, I don't want him to think that I look like trash, he might break up with me." Alex opens one of her makeup bags, pouring all the nail varnishes out. "I don't know what to go for, help me L. Black? Blue? Pink? I mean it's like his hair, but I don't know!"

"Calm down, A. We can sort this. I think pink. It goes with your bright personality, and your style of clothing."

She sits there, thinking for a moment. "Okay, I'll go pink. Here." She throws me a blue one and some makeup. "You should look good too. I know most years I tell you to not so you don't take my spotlight but, hey. I think I'll look pretty hot if I say so myself, so I don't really mind."

She gets off my bed, giving me a small smile before heading back out my room again. See, she's not always bad. But most of the time she is..

Time Skip: Next morning

A groan escapes my mouth as I lean across, turning off the alarm on my iPhone. Snuggling back into bed, I shut my eyes, ready to go back to sleep before banging and crashing from the next room across wakes me up.

"Where the hell are my straighteners?!"

"This is the WRONG make up bag!"

"What cover should I use for my phone - I want to look cute - but not like I'm some tumblr girl - because I'm not."

I groan again, pulling my covers over my face; trying to block out the annoying sound of my sister. Sometimes I wonder how we're twins. We look nothing alike, well no, we did. She started wearing contacts and dyed her hair brown because she didn't want to look like me.

"LUCY WHERE IS THAT EYELASH GLUE I SWEAR TO GO- DON'T WORRY I FOUND IT!"

I sigh, deciding to actually get up, there was no way I was going to fall back asleep. I grab my phone, heading over to my desk. I sit in front of my mirror, shrugging at my bags under my eyes. Getting my hair brush, I start to get through the knots in my hair.

My door slams open, a frantic looking Alex standing there. "Hello?" "L. EMERGENCY. NATSU SAID HE IS GOING TO PICK ME UP IN 10 MINUTES. LUCY. WHERE IS MY NEW SCARF? WHERE'S THE NEW SHOES? ARE MY NAILS OKAY? I DECIDED ON FAKE NAILS. ARE THEY TOO LONG? WHAT IF I ACCIDENTALLY SCRATCH NAT-"

I stare at my sister amused, raising my eyebrow. "Okay, one. Your scarf is in the shopping bags. Two. The shoes are there as well. Your nails are fine, they're not too long or too short, okay? Calm down. I'll get ready and then start on breakfast."

"Oh I'm not having breakfast." I frown at her, crossing my arms. "Why not?" "Do you really think a model like me has time to eat breakfast? Hell no. That will ruin my body figure, I'll just get a sandwich at school."

I sigh, waving my sister off as she wouldn't listen to me if I argued back anyway. I decide to put a little makeup on, only some mascara and concealer because girl, those bags were horrid.

I put on all my clothing, my clothing 2 sizes too big, fake glasses covering my eyes. I decide to leave my hair down, back combing it a little at the top. "LUCY I THINK HE'S HERE. ANSWER THE DOOR! NO. WAIT. DON'T, HE DOESN'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE."

I hear loud shuffling and the door opening. "Hey babe!" "Natsu baby!" I cringe, putting my headphones in, blurring out their kissing noises with some random bands.

The door shuts, allowing me to leave my room and start on my breakfast. I decide on just having cereal, as we haven't gone shopping yet. "Oh, Lucy! You should've let me do that!" Our maid, Bri, walks in. "Don't be silly, Bri. It was only some cereal."

She smiles at me, cleaning up all the mess. "You better get off to school or you'll be late. Here's your bag, and Alex's. She forgot hers. I know you probably won't be able to give it to her, try putting it in her locker or something. Now shoo!" She pushes me slightly out the door, smiling at me.

I smile back, grabbing my bike and riding to school. I quickly jump off, walking to the bike storage part of the school, locking it up. I look at my phone, seeing that I have a couple of minutes to spare. I spot Mirajane, someone who I know is one of Alex's friends.

Timidly, I walk over to her, tapping her on the shoulder. She turns, beaming at me. "Hello? Are you lost or something?" I shake my head, looking down. "N-No... Uh... I-I found this on my way to school, and it says it belongs to Alex Heartia? I think you know her.."

Her smile soon turns into a grin as she pulls me into a hug, near enough jumping. "Thank you! I know that she was worrying all about whether she'd find it or not." Natsu and Alex begin walking over with their whole group.

My eyes widen as I turn. "I should get going.." Mira immediately grabs my hand, pulling me over to them. "Don't be silly. Hey guys! This is..." I look down, my bangs covering my eyes. "Lucy.." "This is Lucy! She found your bag on the way to school Alex! She's so nice, you should thank her."

I look up to see a glare on Alex's face as she looks at me, her eyes narrowing. I gulp, but she hides her glare with a nice smile, putting on a show for her friends. "Thank you Lucy, so so so much!" She walks over to me, lightly pulling me into a hug. I hug back, hearing her whisper into my ear. "Don't come near me in school again, or I will be mad."

My face pales as I fake a smile, turning and walking away. Today will be an adventure I bet.

I go into my first lesson, English, sitting in the seat in the corner, away from everyone else. Pulling out my phone, I start to play some random apps. "Hey, you're that girl from earlier." I look up to see Levy, one of Alex's good friends.

I nod, looking back down. I can't talk to her, Alex will literally kill me. She takes the seat next to me, leaning over to look at what I'm doing. "Dragon City! Nice. I started playing that, but then I ran out of gems and my parents wouldn't let me buy anymore."

I smile slightly at her, awkwardly collecting more stuff. "Holy cow, how do you have so many? Is your family rich or something?" My eyes widen and I frantically try to think of an excuse. "N-No! Uh.. Alex bought me some for finding her bag..?"

Levy nods in understanding, "I see." Gildarts walks in, immediately spotting that I was still wearing baggy clothing and fake glasses. He sighs, shaking his head slightly, "Okay, today class we will be working on group projects about... people who hide their identity." Gildarts turns, smirking at me. "You will be working with who is sat next to you."

"This will be fun, aye Lu-chan? Is it okay if I call you that?" "Sure..." "Do you want me to come round your house tonight?" My eyes widen as I stare at Levy, looking at her like she's crazy. "Can we just go round your house..?" She looks confused, but she agrees anyway.

"I don't have any work set for us for the next couple of weeks, all I need you to do is work on your projects. This lesson, you can use your phones to do some research." Levy grabs some paper and pulls a pen and her phone out her bag.

She frowns at it, "I've ran out of data... Have you got any?" I nod, opening up safari. "No offence, Lu-chan. But you look like you don't have much money...how do you have an iPhone?" My face pales again as I try to think of an excuse. "I-It was my aunt's but she got a new one so I got this."

"But it's the latest iPhone why would she get a new one?"

"Uh.. she wanted a different colour?"

Levy laughs slightly, smiling. "Ah, that sounds like something Alex's aunt would do!" I smile slightly, "So..what do I search for?" "First search for reasons of why people would pretend to be someone else, or hide their identity."

I search it up, clicking on the first link, showing her the phone so she can write it all down. "Can you see without your glasses? Wait.. that's a stupid question, considering you always wear them Lu-chan. Can I try them on?"

I try to think of an excuse but she pulls them off, putting them on. "Nothing seems different.." "O-OH my eyes aren't that bad, I only have level one or two eyesight, it's not that bad." She nods, handing them back to me.

I put them on, seeing that she wrote down what was on the site. "Um, what else should we do?" "Let's just continue it when we get to mine later. Give me your phone." I give it to her, seeing her typing before she gives it back to me. "I put my number in and texted myself. I'll text you my address later, meet me at 5, okay?"

I nod and she sits on her phone, texting people. I sigh and decide to go back on Dragon City, waiting for the bell. When it rings, I sling my bag over my shoulder, heading to my next lesson.

I head the long way, having done this for the past 4 years just to avoid Alex and her friends. I arrive just before the bell goes, sitting in the only seat available, next to Gray. I internally groan, not wanting to be with anymore of Alex's friends.

"Hey! Aren't you that girl from earlier?" I shyly nod, looking away. I spot Juvia glaring at me, having to sit next to Gajeel. Oh no. "You seem pretty cool, Levy told us that you guys were partners in English. That seems pretty rad." I grit my teeth, just nodding.

"You seem pretty quiet, how come?" I shrug, pulling the piece of paper that Jellal was handing out; writing my name on it. "Lucy Heartfilia..hm.. Nice name. My names Gray by the way." I jump, not knowing that Gray was so close to me. "Your last names kinda like Alex's. I mean, hers has heart in it too. But hers is Heartia, not Heartfilia."

Gray continues to non-stop rant, Juvia giving me death glares while Erza and Jellal watch from the back, raising their eyebrows. "Do you hang out with anyone at lunch? Maybe you could hang out with us." I look at Gray, eyes wide, as well as my mouth. "No-no-no-no-no! I-I hang out in the library, I have for 4 years, it's fine."

"Are you sure?"

"Y-Yes!"

"Wow I actually made you talk." He smirks at me, grinning. "Can I copy your work?" I stare back at him, dumbstruck. "What?" "...Can I copy your work? You're like really good at Maths, I don't understand it at all. I usually sit next to Juvia but they made us move because we used to kiss but I mean I was only thanking her for helping me with the work I don't see what the problem was-"

"Mr Fullbuster may you please be quiet or I may have to report you to the head master."

Gray pouts, crossing his arms. "I was only talking to Lucy. Can't I make friends around here? Oh. Wait. School is the time for learning and only learning. Anything other than learning isn't tolerant is it Mr. Yajima?"

"If I'm being honest, I prefer cooking myself and would rather be a chef. But life doesn't work like that, okay? You can talk after you've done all your work." Gray sighs, grabbing my sheet and copying from it which Yajima doesn't do anything about.

"I've done it all, can I talk now?" Yajima waves him off, typing away on the computer. "Whatever." "So where abouts do you live Lucy?" I quickly try to think of an excuse. "Uh... It's probably by Alex since I found her bag this morning...?"

"So you live in the rich part of the city?"

"Yeah...?"

"Nice.. Uh... I just... you wouldn't think that because uh..."

"Of the way I look?"

"Well..uh..yeah."

"I only live there because of my parents."

"Who's your parents?"

"They're friends with the Heartia company.."

"Cooool! So you and Alex knew each other before?"

"Kind of..."

"Nice."

Juvia waltzed over, sitting in Grays lap before giving him a massive kiss, glaring at me while she does it. "I did the work and came to see you Gray-sama." "Oh hey baby." Gray and Juvia continue to make out and talk as I just randomly draw on the back of my sheet.

"Woah you're a really good drawer!" I look down at what I've drawn, seeing a pretty good eye with a tear drop falling down. Am I a good drawer? "Do you take art?" I nod, I was actually lucky to take art. Alex wanted to, and because of that I wasn't allowed to but after arrangements made, they made sure we weren't in the same class.

"Alex takes art too!" I nod again, acting as if I hadn't already known that. "Maybe you're in the same class." Once again, I act like I don't know that I won't be. "Maybe..."

The bell rings, telling us that it's break time. I get up, grabbing my bag. "It's raining outside, Gray-sama!" "Damn it I forgot my jacket!" "Don't worry I've got it." Juvia pulls a Jersey from her bag, handing it to Gray.

He puts it on, Juvia wearing a typical blue long coat with a fluffy hood, all the girls in their group have one. They walk out, holding hands, leaving me all alone. I shrug, heading to the Library. I decide to read something different, going to the manga section. I see one called Fairy Tail and start to read it.

(note: this part has been edited 06/09/16)

There's a blonde main character who ends up going on adventures and joining a 'guild', the main girl's name is never mentioned yet everyone elses is. I close the book and look at the cover, running my hands over the logo.

Standing up I put it back on the shelf, huffing. "Fairies don't even have tails." Walking towards the door I bow at Laki and walk out, "Lucy, wait!" I turn and look at her questioningly, "Uh... Natsu and everyone else is still outside I think, you should hurry out."

I smile at her and head outside. That's what I like about Laki, all the teachers of course know about the deal me and Alex have, but they try to make us talk and hang out together, but Laki completely understands and tries to help me stay away from the group as much as possible.

I walk out the library, looking left and right before heading down the corridor. "Hey Lucy! Fancy seeing you here!" I cringe, freezing. Gray. I turn slowly, faking a smile at him. "Hey..." I see the rest of the group standing behind him, making me slightly scared.

Natsu goes to walk up to me but Alex immediately grabs him, obviously giving some random excuse and dragging him away, turning around to glare at me. "Where were you heading?" I awkwardly adjust my bag on my shoulder, wobbling on the spot. "Just to my next lesson..."

"Next lessons options innit?" Gray turns to Mira, raising his eyebrow. "Yeah, double lesson." Gray nods again, turning back to face me. "What's your next lesson then?"

"Uh..."

"Art?"

"Gray-sama, Alex doesn't have art next."

"True.."

"I have music..."

"No way you do music?!"

I give a small smile, nodding. "ALL HERE WHO DO MUSIC, RAISE YOUR HAND." I give Mirajane a weird look, awkwardly raising my hand. Gray, Mirajane, Gajeel and Natsu who's walking back over raise their hands.

"What we talkin' 'bout?" Natsu tags a swig from his drink, one arm around Alex's waist. "Just about subjects and stuff." Alex speaks up, scrunching up her nose. "Ew, boring." Gray shrugs, taking a hold of Juvia's hand. "Shall we head to music guys?"

Alex starts whispering to Natsu, pouting. "I dunno..." Everyone else continues to talk, not paying attention to Alex and Natsu whispering. "Come on, for me babe?" Natsu bites his lip before nodding. "Imma just go the bathroom see you in Music." Alex and Natsu begin walking off, Gajeel speaking up. "Going to the bathroom together?" Natsu turns, winking.

Everyone laughs and begins to walk towards Music, as I awkwardly walk behind them. "So, Lucy. How come I never really saw you around school before?" Mirajane walks slower, walking beside me, Laxus deciding to go and talk to Gajeel. "I liked to keep quiet, you probably just never noticed me. I was here though, I actually hung out with Alex in the first year.."

My eyes widen, and I realise I just said something I shouldn't of. Everyone turns, staring at me. "Alex hung out with you? What, why?" Jellal speaks up, one hand on his hip. "Uh... Our parents were friends so we hung out, but she eventually hung out with you guys..." Everyone nods, understanding but Erza stares back at me, scrunching up her eyebrows.

Word Count: 3442

Part one of Day one of school!

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