Lucy's house - Lucy's POV.

I woke up with a smile on my face. Who shouldn't I? I was happy with my family (Fairy Tail) and a new day has just began. I slowly sat up while stretching myself and walked to the bathroom. Like always, I stepped under the shower after undressing myself and started washing my hair with my favorite shampoo - strawberry and vanilla flavoured. I just loved taking showers or baths. It really did great for my mood and I could also relax for a while.
But, all things come to an end, and so did my shower. I slowly stepped out of it, began rubbing myself dry with a towel and then picked out some clothes to wear for today.
"What should I wear today? This is my main problem every morning.. well .. unless some idiot decides to sleep in my bed, then I have a much bigger problem." I thought while throwing piece after piece of my clothing through the room out of the dresser.

After what seemed like an hour, I decided to just go with my usual outfit - blue skirt which reached above my knees, white shirt with blue stripes, black leather high heeled boots that reach up to my knees and of course my brown belt so that I can keep my keys with me. My blonde hair was just tied up in the side pony tail. I looked at the clock to see it was 9 in the morning. Time enough to walk to the guild.

I walked out of my apartment and locked my door. As always, I called Plue. With a bright flash, he appeared from the celestial world. "Pluun, pluun!" I hugged him tight, he was just so cute! "Plue do you wan't to walk with me to the guild again?" I already knew the answer, but I always asked that to hear that cute voice. "Pluun!" He nodded eagerly. I smiled at him.

Moments later, I arrived at the guild. I pushed the doors open and greeted everyone with a smile. "Hey everyone! good morning." "Good morning Lucy." Everyone answered me.
I made my way to the bar, while sending Plue back to the Celestial World. "Hi, Mira." I said to the barmaid. "Hi, Lucy." She answered with a smile. "What can I get for you?" "A strawberry smoothie, please." "Sure, coming right up." She quickly walked away to get it. While waiting for my smoothie, I scanned the guild to see if there was anyone I could talk to. Such as an annoying, but for some reason cute, Dragon Slayer. Dejected, I turned back to the bar. No one of Team Natsu was present.

"Gihi, Team Natsu left early this morning, bunny girl." I turned around once again to see that that voice belonged to none other then Black Steel Gajeel. "Why? I haven't heard anything from them." He just shrugged, "I dunno why they haven't said anything to you, but they were saying something about going on a mission with that white haired kid who just returned from Edolas."

I could feel my emotions going from happy to unhappy in a matter of seconds. I smiled, which did not go easy, and said, "Oh, well at least they can catch up that way." Apparently, Gajeel noticed that I was unhappy, by looking at my eyes. I could only imagine how unhappy I was looking at the moment. "Bunny girl, don't let it get to you, they will be back before you know it and you can go being a happy bunny again. Gihi." "Gajeel, I'm not a bunny!" "Well, I can clearly remember you putting on a bunny suit as if it where every day business." He smirked when he said this. "Stupid Gajeel.. even though I wore a bunny suit does not mean I am a bunny!" I pouted. "Pouting only makes you cuter and guess what? Bunnies are cute. Another reason you are one." "For the last time I am not...! Wait.." "Did he just call me cute?" My mouth began forming a small smile. "You, mister Black Steel Gajeel, just called me cute." "Gihi. No I didn't."

He walked away after having said that. "Thanks Gajeel." I whispered. But I knew he could still hear me. "Thanks for trying to comfort me." "Lucy! Do you like him? Are you going out with him? kyaaah!" Mirajane suddenly said, interrupting my thoughts. I could just see her imagining black haired babies with brown eyes or blonde haired babies with red eyes. I sighed, "No Mirajane, we're not going out. So stop imagining! Because I know your brain is going the wrong way right now."
She pouted and handed me my strawberry smoothie. "Thanks, Mira." I smiled at the white-haired mage who sort of became like a big sister to me.

"No problem Lucy. I still think you and Gajeel are hiding something though." She stared into my eyes as if she could read my mind that way. I laughed and immediately rejected that thought, "No, Mira! We're just friends!" She also started laughing, but walked away when someone at the other side of the bar needed something. Which left me alone, drinking my strawberry smoothie and thinking about some things.

"Ever since Lisanna came back from Edolas, they've started to spend more time with her. Not, that that's wrong, she came back from the dead for Mavis's sake, but do they really have to ignore me in the process? Even Mirajane, her big sister, still talks with me normally. So why can't they? I just hope that when they come back they'll take me on a mission. I need rent money again, because the month is almost over. The biggest reason, of course, is that I want to spend some time with my Team without being ignored most of the time.."

Gajeel's POV.

While I walked away I heard her whispering, "Thanks Gajeel." "Gheh, I should've know she would see through me." I took my place next to book worm, whom looked up from her book to say "Hi." and started reading again. Not that I cared, she was reading the whole day. After a while, I looked at Bunny girl and saw that she was lost in her thoughts. "She must be thinking about Team Natsu and that white haired kid. They've been ignoring her for some time now and it actually saddens me, because Bunny girl is one of the few people who actually talk to me without being scared." He started looking around and saw Laxus staring at bunny girl too. "He must've noticed that sad aura as well."

Just then, I noticed Demon Barmaid walking up to Bunny girl again and with my Dragon Ears, I started listening in on their conversation. "O, Lucy, I forgot something to tell you." Lucy, a bit startled because she was still lost in her thoughts, answered, "No problem Mira, what is it?" "Well, Team Natsu said to tell you to be here tomorrow morning because they had something to tell you." Lucy seemed shocked and said, "Ok, sure. Thanks for telling me Mira." She smiled at the Demon Barmaid and then walked out of the guild. While Lucy walked out of the guild, I smelled some unshed tears. "I hope Bunny girl will be alright." Where my last thoughts before shifting my attention to book worm.

Lucy's POV.

"What if they're kicking me out of the team? They wouldn't right?" That was everything I could think of the moment I exited the guild. "Maybe I shouldn't think so negatively. They are my nakama after all. Perhaps they're inviting me to go on a mission!" I smiled a bit before my thoughts went negative again. "But what if they decided that Lisanna is so much better then me? She's their childhood friend after all, they have more memories to share with her. Not to forget that she's stronger than me." My smile disappeared.

I just walked without looking where I went, before arriving at the shopping mall. "Maybe this will help me clear up my mind." I softly said to myself. I also thought of a plan to distract me even better. "Loke!" I slightly touched his key and with a bright flash, a young man appeared. "Yes, princess?" He dropped to one knee and gave me a kiss on my hand. I gave him a light punch on the head while saying, "Don't do that! You pervy lion!" "It's just because our love is too great, that I can't control myself, Princess." He answered with a smile. I looked at him as he were crazy and then said with a sweet smile, "Loke, won't jou join me? I'm going to shop and I plan to buy lots of stuff." At that moment I really had to control myself not to burst out in laughter, because his face was just priceless! "B-but, Princess.." He started, "Don't you have to write your novel or something?" There was a spark of hope in his eyes but that all disappeared when I said that I really wanted to go shopping and he has to come with me. "F-fine then.." "Great! Let's go shall we?" I grabbed his arm and started to pull him to the shops. "Time to shop!" "And also time to get my thoughts out of the negative."

Alright! That's it for chapter one. If you liked it, please say so, this is after all the first fanfiction I have ever written so I appreciate every thought. If there was something wrong, or something you didn't like I'd also like to know, so I can improve myself ^_^