Everyone buckleup, here comes my firstmultichap fic for Fairy Tail! Hope you guys enjoy!
Chapter 1
"Alright, class! Today's assignment is to write a one-page paper about your parents. You have today's class to work on it. It'll be due by the end of the week!" Miss Albarn announced after the morning announcements were finished.
They had been working on describing people for the past couple of days now and this was to be their final assignment for the section.
Lucy winced slightly at the thought of writing about her father. He had been cold to her ever since…
Lucy shook her head. No, she wasn't going to think about that now. She had to focus on her schoolwork.
Small talk broke out around her, everyone bragging about their parents and what their jobs were. Lucy didn't really want a lot of people knowing about her father's business. Well, everyone technically already did, everyone knew about the Heartfilia Co. but no one knew the only daughter of Jude Heartfilia was attending public school. It had been her mother's wish to send her to public school like she had. Jude had advocated private schooling or even homeschooling, but Layla Heartfilia had been quite adamant about it. So here sat Lucy in public school, struggling to find friends. Wasn't public school supposed to be this haven for friend making?
Lucy sighed and pulled out her notebook and began to write. Class was going to be boring if she didn't get any work done. It turned out that she was the only one to have started writing. Her neighbor peeked over and saw her writing and started to talk to her.
"Who ya writing about?" he asked.
Lucy glanced over at him. "Just my dad," She said quietly.
"Huh? Just your dad?"
Lucy nodded, secretly hoping for the boy to leave her alone with her work.
"What about your mom?"
Lucy stopped writing but didn't look at the boy either. "M-my momma is… she's gone."
The boy blinked at her. "Gone? As in, like dead?"
Lucy closed her eyes, trying not to cry. It hadn't been very long since her mother had passed away and the pain she was feeling in her heart was still quite raw. It had been all over the news for a week when Layla had died, but her father had kept Lucy out of the spotlight to save her from the paparazzi. It was one of the last kind acts her father ever did for her.
"She's dead isn't she?" the boy pressed.
Lucy nodded meekly, going back to her assignment. If she was able to ignore the boy she would be able to finish the assignment by the end of the class.
"How'd she die?"
"She was sick." Lucy really wanted to tell this boy to go away. He was the loudmouth of the class and was really starting to get on her nerves.
"Oh, well that sucks. My mom has never gotten sick, even though I have a lot. She's always there to take care of me and stuff…" Lucy ignored the rest of what the boy was saying. She didn't want to listen to him rant about how great his mom was. Her momma was ten times better than his, but she couldn't very well say that when he already knew she was gone.
Lucy flinched when she saw a tear fall onto her paper. When did she start crying?
The boy was still yapping her ear off when someone else from across her table started speaking.
"Oi, you made her cry!" It was the pink haired boy, who was the other loud mouth of the class. But Lucy never thought he was annoying, in fact, she thought he was quite funny.
The other boy stopped talking and glared at the other boy. "It's not my fault that she's still crying about her mommy!"
The pink haired boy tugged his scaled scarf out of his face, narrowing his eyes at the other. "Well, you kept goin' on an' on about yours. Can't ya tell she just wanted to work on her paper alone?"
The boy cast a look at Lucy, she kept her head down, though, trying to hold back the tears. Class should be ending soon, then she would be free of this crazy situation.
"What? We were just having a friendly conversation!"
"Yeah right! You just kept talking while she started cryin'!"
Lucy just wished this whole thing would blow over, like if she could just melt into the floor right now that would be great.
The bell rang and Lucy was free. Quickly grabbing all of her things and tossing them into her bag, she escaped the room with the arguing boys.
Lucy breathed out a sigh of relief. It was stressful to listen to two people argue. The last time her mother had spoken had been an argument with her father about where she would go to school. After that, she had been in and out of the hospital and Lucy couldn't go see her. Her father wouldn't take her when she asked.
Lucy walked quietly to her next class. She was always the quiet one in class, and she preferred to keep it that way. She didn't need any loud mouth boys keeping her from her silent march through school.
Lucy made it to lunch unscathed from any more drama, and she was thankful. But now came the most stressful part of her day on a regular basis: lunch.
The lunch room was packed full of kids her age. All the tables full and all the cliques together. Ranging from sports to the band nerds, everyone had their place.
Everyone but her.
Lucy made her way to a corner, found an open seat, sat down and began to eat her packed lunch in silence.
She wasn't all that bothered by being alone, she was used to it. At home, she was left to her own devices too. Her father had nothing to do with her, and the maids in the house only helped a little with her isolation. It was somewhat better at school, but no one would talk to her and she had no idea how to reach out to them. Her father never let her have friends over. Well, if she had-
"Hiya!"
Lucy jumped and looked up to find the pink haired boy with the scarf standing across from her.
"U-uh, hi?" she offered.
The boy gave her a fanged smile, squeezing his eyes shut and tilting his head to the side. "My name's Natsu! What's yours?"
"L-lucy…"
"Well, Luce, I wanted ta say I took care of that guy who was botherin' ya in class today." He stood there so proud of his accomplishment that Lucy couldn't hold back the giggle that escaped her.
"Oh, well, um, you didn't have to do that. It was fine, really," she said. "But thank you anyways." She offered him a small smile.
"Sure thing, Luce!" He sat down across from her. She noticed he didn't have any food and he was staring hungrily at hers.
Lucy didn't have much of an appetite to begin with so she pushed some of her food towards him. "Here, have some."
"Aw, sweet! Thanks, Luce! You'll make the best friend I've ever had!"
Friend? His best friend?
Lucy blushed a little, suddenly shy with his statement. He would be her first friend here. She couldn't deny him, could she?
"Ya know, I bet my cat, Happy, would love ta meet ya," Natsu mumbled around the food in his mouth.
"Huh?" A cat named Happy?
"Yeah! He's my other best friend," Natsu gave her another one of his fanged smiles, all teeth, causing the rest of his face to scrunch up.
Lucy decided this boy was going to be her friend. After months of traversing through this school with no one to talk to, he was the first to go out of his way to talk to her.
Maybe a pink haired loudmouth wasn't the worst thing in the world right now.
So.. what do ya think? Leave a review please!
Until next time,
Mogey
