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"Minerva... What do you want?" Jellal growled, defensively leading Erza behind him. "Oh.. Darling.. I just want you. You know that." Minerva sadistically smiled, a glare forcing it's way to her face, she looked at Erza and scowled. "Oh darling, who is this redheaded monkey?" the black haired beauty walked up to stand right in front of Jellal, she trailed her fingers along the collar of his shirt, licking her lips slowly. "You'll do, Jellal. But that redheaded skank wont. So.. Get rid of her. Now." Minerva growled angrily, Erza took in a deep breath, closing her eyes and stepping away from Jellal. "I wont leave him." Erza spoke up. "Do you forget who you are calling a skank? I'm.. Erza Scarlet, student rep of Fairy Tail Highschool.." Erza looked Minerva in the eye, sending a glare of her own to the other young adult.
"Whatever, loser." Minerva growled, stepping forewards and kicking Erza's knee, almost making the scarlet haired teen fall. "Erza!" Jellal yelled, looking at his girlfriend-to-be's knee as there was obvious bleeding involved. Minerva turned on her spiky heel and walked away. "Ow.. Jellal, I promise I'm okay." Erza smiled, reassuring her childhood friend. "That bitch will have it comin' for her." Erza growled to herself, she sat down at the bench and grabbed cloth from her bag to wipe up the blood that trickled down her shin. "I'll go see if the nurse is still in the school, okay Erza? Stay there." Jellal told her, running inside of the dimly lit school to find the nurse.
"Welp.. I really can't let my father see this.." Erza mumbled, sitting alone as blossoms from trees fell gently onto the ground. Jellal ran back to her, panting. "Aries isn't in the building.. Shit.." Jellal growled, slapping himself. "Can you walk?" Jellal asked, worried. "Yeah.. I think so.." Erza mumbled, looking down at her leg. She used the blood stained cloth to wrap around her knee. Jellal looked at the cloth. "Erza.. Why is that cloth covered in blood? Is it just.. Your blood? Because.. Some parts of the blood that have blood on it seem like it's been bloody for a while.. Is everything okay?" Jellal worriedly spoke, his voice was light and shaky. "I.." Erza took a deep breath in. "It's.. A long story.." Erza looked down, fiddling with her hands. Jellal noticed something else, and almost started to cry.
'The amount of scars along Erza's body.. It doesn't look self-inflicted..' Jellal thought, biting his lip. He ran his hands through his deep blue hair, letting out a sigh. He wiped any on-coming tears from his face, wrapping his arms around his childhood friend. "Erza.. What's going on?.. What's up with all those.. Scars?.." Jellal asked her quietly, putting his head against her's.
"My... Father has been.. Hurting me.. Since my mother.. Left us.." Erza looked down, angrily biting her lip. "W... What?.." Jellal gasped, "How.. Long has it been?! Erza?.." The blue haired teen stroked his childhood friend's head gently, soothing her aching heart that he could tell was pounding very fast. "It's.. Been since I met you..." Erza looked down, avoiding eye contact. She opened up to him about the subject. "I don't think you should stay with your father anymore, Erza.." Jellal bit his lip, still continuing to stroke her head. "He.. Wont let me leave.. Jellal.." Erza curled a little bit of her hair around her finger. "You should stay at my place tonight. Please? I'm going to call my mother." Jellal said, bringing out his phone.
Erza grabbed a bottle from her bag, it was a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, like the stuff Aries used the day before. "I.. Always have to carry this around with me.. For.. Emergencies.." Erza sighed, opening the bottle, she swished the clear liquid around in the bottle and it sounded like it was almost empty. Jellal looked down and clicked the 'call' button on his mother's contact on his phone. "Mom.. Pick up.." Jellal growled, waiting to hear his mother's voice say 'Hello!' like she usually did.
"Hello, Jellal? Is everything alright? You aren't home yet.. It's so late.. I hope you didn't get kidnapped or robbed or anything, dear!" Jellal's mother's voice cracked through the phone and Jellal set it to speaker. "Yeah.. Mom.. Erza's here with me.. Can you pick us up? She hurt her leg.." Jellal spoke with every ounce of worry in his deep monotone voice. "What?! Where are you, Dear?!" Jellal's mother's voice rang through his phone, Erza could tell she was scared and worried at the same time. "We're at the highschool, Mom." Jellal spoke, taking a deep breath. "Okay..!" Jellal's mother called out, ending the phone call with a shakiness in her voice.
"My mother's coming.. Let's stay put for now.." Jellal sighed, running his hands through his hair worriedly, closing his eyes for a brief moment, remembering what Erza was like as a happy little girl. He couldn't believe she was getting abused around the time she had met him, he sighed, returning to reality, he turned to Erza, who had passed out next to him with her head on his shoulder. "I'll make your father pay for what he did.. I promise, Erza." Jellal growled, petting his crush's head gently, soothing her.
"Why would you want to do that, Jellal..?" Erza whispered, getting up slowly. "I'll.. Have to live with it.. Till I go to college or something... Or.. Till I die.." Erza looked down, reaching for Jellal's hand to hold. "I wont let you die, Erza." The blue haired teen comforted his crush, promising her wont ever let her leave this earth. "I'm.. Happy you care about me.." Erza kept her head on his shoulder, keeping her tears in. "I'm sorry you know the truth about what happened to me all those years ago.." Erza mumbled, latching her arms around the boy she knows she loves with every ounce of her being.
"Hey.. Jellal?.. You know that time when I wore an eyepatch for a little while?" Erza asked, looking up at him with her chocolate brown eyes. "Yeah?.. What is it?" Jellal asked, wrapping his arms around his crush's small frame. "My eye.. Was badly hurt.. But my grandfather got me a glass eye instead of the horrible mess my eye was in.." Erza whispered, taking a deep breath in, and then exhaling.
A car pulled up next to the school, and Jellal got up slowly, proping Erza up next to him. "My mom's here. Do you want to go..?" Jellal asked. "I cant really move my leg all too well.." Erza whispered, looking down. "Well.. I'll carry you then." Jellal settled it, putting his hand on his crush's back, and under her thighs. He held her like a bride. Erza's cheeks turned bright red, and Jellal grabbed Erza's bag and slid it on his arm, continuing to hold her. 'She's so light..' Jellal thought, and then he thought of this scenario as if it were a wedding and he was her groom. His cheeks were dusted with a light shade of red. He carried her over to his mother's car and he set her down in the back seat, setting her bag next to her.
"I'll take you to our home. If you wouldn't mind, would you sleep in my daughter's room? She usually has friends over so she has an extra bed for you to sleep on." Jellal's mother smiled and drove them to the Fernandez's home. "Welcome home, Mother, and Jellal! Oh? You have.. A guest?" A little girl chirped, and Erza realized she was the short dark blue haired girl from her class, a young girl that always talked about her family. "Our class representative is here?!" The girl stopped in her tracks, she held a ladle in her hand, she was obviously making food. "Ahh! I can't believe THE class representative is in our home! Jellal! You know her?" The dark blue haired girl smiled happily, rushing back into the kitchen to continue cooking. "Yeah. Me and her were childhood friends." Jellal rubbed the back of his head nervously, helping Erza up the stairs.
"Wendy! Would you mind letting me take over the cooking for now? Mom says you have to help Erza with something." Jellal called out to his little sister, and she nodded. "Mom says you should take her upstairs." Jellal added and grabbed the ladle Wendy handed him and he continued the cooking for now. Wendy helped Erza upstairs. "I was informed by Mom that you hurt yourself. Would you mind if I took you to the bathroom and cleaned your wound? It would be greatly appreciated.. If you stripped!.." Wendy felt embarrassed by asking the class rep to strip. "It's the only way it would help." Wendy said, smiling awkwardly. Wendy closed the door to the bathroom and Erza sat on a stool and started to strip, more and more scars were revealed on her body as she took her clothes off. "You.. Have scars.." Wendy gasped, looking at how deep some of them lead to. Wendy looked at the blood stained cloth wrapped around the scarlet haired teen's knee. "It's.. so bloody.. Why?" Wendy asked, sort of worried and scared. "Its a long story.. Jellal could tell you about it.. Cause I told him earlier.." Erza sighed, and Wendy took of the cloth, and grabbed medical supplies.
Erza looked at all her scars through countless mirrors. She looked down at her feet and sighed again, biting her lip gently. Wendy cleaned out the young woman's wounds and patched it all up. Erza got back into her clothes and stood up, hugging the young medic. "Thank you, Wendy.. You and your family are just.. So sweet.." Erza nearly cried, and Wendy freaked out, hoping to stop the young woman from crying. "I cant help it.. I've been holding it in for so long.." Erza mumbled, looking at the girl's worried expression. Erza took a deep breath in and out, stopping herself. "Sorry about that.. You are just.. So kind, Wendy." Erza praised the young medic, smiling happily, a genuine smile.
"Dinner's ready!" Jellal called out to them, and they got out of the bathroom. Erza grabbed her bloody cloth, seeing the blood dry, it was like time itself stopped for a moment. The two walked downstairs and Erza set the cloth back in her bag, and the Fernandez family beckoned her to sit with them.
"Thank you, everyone.. It means a lot to me.." Erza nearly started to cry again but she held it in. "Wendy, If you don't mind, She's going to be sleeping in your room tonight." the woman said, tieing her blue hair into a loose bun. "I don't mind at all, mom!" Wendy chirped happily.
I made this chapter sooo long! It's worth it though.
~Elisiva
