WARNING: Within this story, lies extremely dark themes such as self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, and etc. Reader caution is advised
DISCLAIMER: I only own the plot and the events within this story, all else belongs to Hiro Mashima.
Chapter 3: The New Beginning
Mondays, the most dreaded day of the week. It wasn't the day itself that was horrible, it was the fact that it's the first day to get on schedule with events. Although, it didn't chose to be first in line, so maybe it was under appreciated.
However, when Lucy's alarm on her phone blared real loud, she didn't give a crap what day it was. She just hated the fact that she had to wake up nonetheless
The blonde was sure no angel who slightly stirred when waking up. She was like most ordinary people, waking up groggily and with her hair in mild tangles everywhere on her face.
After rubbing her eyes, blinking them open to the harsh sunlight, she reached over and swiped off her alarm. Slowly, and reluctantly, she sat up vaguely regaining consciousness.
When she started looking around the room, she was shocked to see a different interior than she was adapted to. She was in a small state of confusion, until she remembered that she was staying at the Doctor's house for awhile.
She stayed sitting up for about five minutes, with her eyes half lidded closed, before she took of the fuzzy blankets that were over her legs, and stood up from her bed.
Her brown orbs were about almost fully open, as she trudged her way through the door and out into the hallway. She was adorned in her long sleeve shirt and pajamas pants seeing that it was winter. However, the family kept the house pretty warm, but she still had to wear long sleeves and pants for... certain reasons.
It took her only a few moments for her to remember that the bathroom was down the hallway and to her left, before she started heading down towards it. Her nose caught the faint scent of bacon and eggs, also smelling the grease and hearing the sound of sizzling.
She wasn't used to all of it… The breakfast, the family bonding, it was all too new. Although the girl certainly didn't mind it all, it was actually nice.
Once she arrived at the bathroom door, she saw it closed signaling that someone was already occupying the room. She crossed her legs, a childish thing she learned to hold in her pee.
She hadn't gone to the restroom in eight hours, and she had a lot of water in her bladder to dispose of. Take mind, it was also her time of the month, making the pressure to pee even stronger.
Lucy stood there anxiously, honestly about to scream at the person in the bathroom to hurry up, before the door finally opened almost making her pee in surprise. As the person calmly walked out through the doorway, she quickly averted her chocolate orbs to glance at him. She noticed who it was immediately by his pink locks, and she almost gave him a hug judging on how elated she was to finally use restroom, but she refrained from doing so, seeing as she rushed to the toilet.
As soon as she shut the door, and ran to the toilet seat she could hear him softly chuckle and mumble, "Weirdo."
Now Lucy knew Fairy Tail Academy had a required uniform, because her two new younger family members were adorned in, but since she didn't own the specific outfit, she wore an outfit of her choice. Of course that just consisted of her trademark jeans and dark hoodie, that hid the fact that she was just wearing a bra underneath.
"Natsu, make sure you stop with Lucy at the office to make sure they get her school uniform in." Grandine announced, in a sing song voice, and she placed the sizzling bacon from the hot pan onto the plastic plate in front of her.
"Yah, sure." The pinkette mumbled nonchalantly, quickly snatching a strip of bacon fresh off the plate, not even flinching at the singeing grease that was being emitted from the piece of meat.
Lucy's eyes were glued to the boy in bewilderment as he gulfed the bacon in his mouth, and swallowed it without hesitation. Now there is a big difference between strange and unnatural, and Natsu was appearing like the second option.
"Natsu, you could wait until I put the food on the table." The woman slightly scoffed, setting the plate down onto the plastic tablecloth.
The younger of the siblings giggled at her brother, before softly muttering a thanks to her mother for the breakfast. Grandine quickly turned back to the stove, and took ahold of the other black pan filled to the brim with scrambled eggs.
She scraped the contents onto another a plate, and brought it over to the family. "Okay, now eat up everyone."
Her husband and children sure complied with her announcement, seeing as they immediately started serving themselves.
Lucy held back until the family had already collected their portions before she attempted to grab hers. By the time they all finished filling their plates, there was only a few slices of bacon and a small section of clumps of eggs.
The blonde didn't mind all too much, and she was quite glad they didn't leave her much and they weren't taking notice of her serving, seeing as she just grabbed a single slice of bacon.
The one thing Dr. Dragneel, or mostly referred to as Igneel, wasn't aware of was the teen's eating disorder. She was mostly facing anorexia, but also struggling with occasional bulimia.
Of course that was due to past experiences of being called fat, even though the girl clearly wasn't.
She slowly took bites of the food, while occasionally taking sips of the glass of water that sat in front of her plate. That alone filled her up, especially with her stomache adapted to the small portions.
The family finished eating within time, and threw away each plate into the trash bin afterwards. There weren't many dishes, so Grandine just set the remaining pots and utensils in the sink to wash later.
"You kids better get going soon, you've got about half an hour before the first bell rings, and you still have to check in at the office, Lucy." Igneel announced, glancing at the clock that was upon the kitchen wall.
"Okay, dad." The youngest replied, softly before running over to grab her small, bright blue backpack. She beamed joyfully, before walking over to the front door to wait on the other two.
Unlike his younger sister, Natsu trudged his way slowly over towards where he had tossed his backpack from the previous time he got home from school.
Lucy kept an eye on the two as she eventually followed behind them towards to front door, slowly and bit reluctant. I mean, who in the right mind wants to go to school?
She reached her small hand out towards the metallic knob, and turned it, opening the door with little effort. The cool breeze of winter hit the girl like a slap to the face, the climate sure wasn't being nice to her. Of course she didn't mind too much, since she had her hoodie on of course.
The blonde let out a light sigh, before stepping out onto the wet pavement of melted snow. Here's to another day.
It didn't take long for the three to walk to school. The middle school in the area wasn't too far from the high school, so the young Wendy had walked with the two teenagers until they had to part ways. Once she left, Lucy felt pretty awkward left with the hyper boy.
She was just following behind him, without saying a word to help memorize their path for future travels. As she was trying to have a tranquil atmosphere the pink haired boy was running his mouth at the most random topics, she couldn't even believe.
"If I had to chose between hot pockets and pizza rolls I'm not sure what I would chose. They're both pretty good, but hot wings are my favorite. I love spicy food and anything hot. Maybe it's because I grew up loving dragons, but I mean who doesn't. Hell dragons are awesome, what am I saying? Wendy likes dragons too, and that's cool because we both share our love for dragons. Although she doesn't tolerate heat and spice like I do." It was practically just him talking to herself much less than him actually conversing with her.
The blonde just nodded and shared a half meaningful smile to his words, she didn't want to be rude but she had no clue what he rambling on about.
"Well look at that, we are. Welcome to Fairy Tail, Lucy!" Natsu finally called out with a wide grin, causing a warm feeling to overtake her heart while was new to her. How did his simple smile make her feel that way? "I'll show you my friends," He spoke immediately taking off, forgetting to bring her along.
Lucy let out a light sigh, not surprised the oblivious boy ran off without her forgetting his intention to bring her. She just continued on towards the front of the skin. As she walked through the snowy sidewalk, trying her best not to slip on the ice, she looked around the campus to view her new surroundings.
Her chocolate brown eyes skimmed over all the students just to see them separated in cliques. Lucy was smart enough to be able to tell the groups apart. Jocks, geeks, cheerleaders, band kids, etc. It wasn't much different from any other high school in existence.
When she finished scanning through the students, she finally caught sight of Natsu again. He stood in a group of teenagers that all seemed very loudly. A black haired boy had shoved the pinkette, and Lucy could tell the two began fighting as she overheard their argument.
She couldn't help but laugh, walking up to the group curious as to what her new roommate was up to. Upon seeing her walk up, he lit up with a grin and stopped fighting with the other guy.
"Oh hey Lucy, meet my family here at Fairy Tail!" He announced so cheerfully, it made the blonde smile genuinely in return. At the time Lucy didn't even question as to why this boy was finally giving her the chance of happiness she'd practically forgot what it felt to experience.
