This segment is brought to you MarsSonofGalaxies. If you haven't noticed by now, I don't particularly like writing A/N for this story. I was just going to answer his questions in PM, but I figured if any of you had similar questions, I'd answer them, one go. Thanks for asking these questions, if any of you ask questions I believe are necessary in your review I'll answer them here. :
1)Will the video be explained? (Who filmed it and how and who leaked it?)
Response: This will all be explained, but in due time my friend. Due time.
2) Aren't the all girls acting hypocritical? (Like, haven't they done that before?)
Oh yes, absolutely. I want the female students to come across as hypocritical, considering alot of them never liked Lucy. (I said alot, not all) Okay, picture this:
You're a normal average girl at school. You've had a crush on this boy in your class since forever. Suddenly a new girl transfers to your school word is, she comes from this snobby girls, private school. She's blonde, pretty, and has the second biggest chest you've ever seen. Suddenly all the boys in your class, turn into brainless idiots and start flirting with her. Your crush does too, and suddenly your back to square one, being invisible. The worst part is, this girl thinks she's all that, by the way she treated her 'best friend' and by the way she treated the most popular boy at school. Like dirt. You realize you hate this girl but because everyone else seems to like her you keep it to yourself. One day a video is shown on an assembly of Little Miss Perfect masturbating to that boy. It's not that you've never done it before, it's just she treats him like dirt but has the nerve to please herself with him. Suddenly, everyone starts ragging on her and you join in too. Just to pay her back for all she's done to you, wether she knew it or not. Now, you finally begin to feel like you've gotten your just desserts.
And this is just one scenario. There are hundreds I could make up and have all of them end the same (sorta).
3) Thanks Mariah Carmichael-yes for pointing it out. I made an editing mistake last chapter, but I fixed it now.
Sorry that took so long, now on with the chapter.
Also I apologize in advance.
For all the filler.
Chapter 4: And a Roach! I Also saw a Roach!
Suspects
1) Lisanna Straus-?
Reason: Jealousy
Means to do so: None, doesn't know where I live etc, etc. Also to be honest, she's not that intelligent.
2) Juvia Lockser- Crazy
Reason: Being a brainless, overly violent moron. She believes everyone is out to steal her man, and by her man, I mean, in her mind. Also she's Lisanna Strauss' shadow.
Means to do so: None humanly possible, but with this girl, if there's a will there's a way.
3) Levy McGarden-?
Lucy took a long pause and viewed what she just wrote. Levy McGarden, her best friend was on a list with all her enemies. Well at least she thought she was. Who knows, who Levy is now, she doesn't seem to be friends with anybody even though she hangs out with alot of people. However, feelings aside, this is a suspect list and out of all people, Levy would have the most leeway to do this. She was her 'best friend' therefore equating to her, knowing more about her than anyone else. She continued writing.
Reason: No idea
Means to do so: Quite a few of them actually. Knowing my real last name, knowing I like recording video diaries for my mom etc.
4) Any of the boys- Really Lucy?
Reason: None. Unless they're secretly, cruel, sick fucks.
Means to do so: Be like Natsu. Enough said.
Speaking of Natsu, Lucy thought a little harder about that one. Spending a little more time with Natsu these past couple days, she realized he wasn't as big a ditz as he let people think. You know if Natsu really wanted to...
But Natsu wouldn't do that! What was she even thinking on that one. Natsu had too much of an innocent heart to do so. He was also a little naive.
However, even though she kept telling herself this, she still couldn't stop her pen from reaching the paper, and inevitability write his name.
5) Nagsu Dragneel
As she looked at the paper, she felt so utterly stupid for writing down his name, yet as she wrote down "reason" and "means to do so" her mind began working like clockwork and it started to make sense. Like, more sense than Juvia, or Lisanna, and especially Levy.
Reason: Revenge (for all the name calling and rude things I've done) and/or to make me his
Means to do so: I'm still not completely sold on his story about following me all the way home. I know Natsu knows alot of people. Perhaps he just plugged into some of his connections to get what he wanted. Just like he did for the video. Perhaps he knows someone who works at the manor. Perhaps they recorded me and gave the footage to Natsu. Maybe he orchestrated everything that happened that fateful day. Yes, and he figured with my life ruined, he would be my savior. My knight in shining armor, if you will.
Please.
Lucy crumpled up the piece of paper and hastily threw it in her bin. This was so stupid.
The words of Erza and Principal Makarov kept ringing through her head.
Detention.
Suspension...
Sex tape...
Call your father...
Bring the police...
Expulsion.
She rubbed her temples and groaned. She let her mind wonder to the meeting she had with Titania and the administators on Wednesday.
They were punishing her for something she didn't do. But since she had no proof, she was the one suffering the consequences. Boy were their fingers twitchy, every so-called often they kept bringing up calling Lucy's father and kept touching their phone, but luckily, Lucy managed to thwart all their attempts. Lucy knew all to well, if they called her father he wouldn't hesitate to take her out of school and game over, maybe even worse. They kept saying things like "it could be classified as a sex tape" and "bring in the police" and all sorts of nonsense. She was honestly scared out of her mind during the meeting but Erza comforted all throughout, during all the breaks the principal and the others took to debate, Erza took her side through all of it. In the end, through a little more coaxing from Erza, Principal Makarov gave the blonde an ultimatum. He gave her a deadline. Lucy were to prevent proof, that she wasn't the culprit behind the video and that she didn't intentionally record it. If she had a suspect in mind, bring evidence and a logical reason to do so. They stressed to her that failure to do all this, meant they had the liberty to take matters into their own hands.
So now, Lucy was on a mission. A mission to clear her name and bring the person who did this to her to justice!
She flopped herself onto her circular shaped, king sized bed. She extended her arm and pressed play on her radio. Walk it like I talk was on. Garbage, her father would say, but deep down Lucy secretly liked music like this. She liked rap, and hip hop, techno and r&B too. She liked k-pop music and rock. She wasn't just all proper. The song then ended and Lucy looked up.
Staring down at her was her mother. Strong and smiling. And in her arms was a newborn baby. That, was Lucy.
She reflected back in time to when her mother was alive. Oh how she loved her mother. Her father too, but this was before he underwent his "transformation". She remembered getting constant hugs and kisses. She remembered playing hide and seek. She remembered running around the mansion garden getting her mother to chase her. She remembered picking flowers from dad's flower garden picking off all the petals playing the "he loves me, he loves me not" game. Then when she was done she would throw them in the air like confetti. Present Lucy let out a chuckle. She remembered her dad was pissed that day, but before anything bad could happen to her, her mother came to her defense. She smiled lovingly at the portrait.
Then she remembered the day her mother died.
Her smile began to disappear. The sky was dark and it rained that day. It rained and it rained and it rained. Harder than it ever rained before in Magnolia. She embedded that day in her mind.
No sunshine.
Her dad became frigid and mean. Even more so than before. He never listened to her, never looked at her. Then, as time grew, they became like strangers living in the same house. He enrolled her in that God - awful all girls school despite her many, many protests. Then, things seemed to have taken a turn for the better in her life, when she transferred to the local high school, Fairy Tail. Sure she acted a bit awkward around everyone, but it was her first time being around so many people, especially so many boys. Then came along Natsu and everything that the staff at the manor and her father told her kicked in. Never trust boys who act like that, they only want one thing. Thus, was born the name Lucy constantly called him; f-boy.
When the video came out everyone's personalities took a 360° turn for the worst. Weren't they all her friends just a minute ago? That's when she realized things weren't going to get better for her anywhere. Not at school, home, nowhere. Her life was cursed and she was bound to be unhappy for the rest of it. Then Natsu comes along again. This time not as a another enemy, but, as a friend. An actual, true as the deep blue friend. Maybe her life wasn't bound to be an endless hell.
She stared out her window.
The tree outside her house was now almost bare. The brown and orange leaves continued to fall, then the chilly breeze swept it away. It was like a system getting ready for winter.
Autumn.
She continued staring out the window until Virgo, her personal maid, knocked on the door bringing her out of her reverie. The violin teacher was here.
The room was deadly silent other than sweet, sorrowful sounds of Lucy's violin, playing "O Come All ye Faithful". The woman looked at Lucy intently, nodded every so often when she got a certain tone right. Right now she was playing flawlessly.
Lucy on the other hand was very distracted. She kept looking out the window to the beautiful world on the outside, but why?
"Lucy? Lucy? Lucy!"
"Huh, what?" Lucy was snapped out of her daze.
"Lessons are finished."
As the teacher packed up and left, Lucy silently chastised herself. She realized she's become so accustomed by Natsu's frequent unannounced visits, that she was literally standing around waiting for him to come. How absurd!
Virgo came in the room and told her to get changed for her next class, ballet. She took out the hair tie keeping her hair in a pony tail and took off her shirt, leaving her in only her underwear, red singlet and pair of black shorts. Before she went any further she went to close the window.
She looked out the window once more, a face came swinging upside down with spiky pink hair and a warm grin.
"Hiya Lucy!" Natsu said.
Let me just tell you, when Lucy screamed, all the birds in the surrounding area flew away.
"Princess! Are you alright!"
Virgo bust into Lucy's room only to find Lucy on the ground on the other side of the bed, smothering an unseen Natsu.
"Yep I'm fine. Fine, fine, fine just uh... saw a squirrel."
She raised an eyebrow.
"All that for a squirrel?"
"And a roach! I also saw a roach!"
"You saw a roach? Well princess allow me," Virgo was cut off as she was about to walk around the room. Lucy smothered Natsu more between her beasts.
"No need! I killed it in my panicked frenzy."
Lucy smiled sheepishly at the more growingly suspicious maid. However when she caught sight of the tan, muscular legs in between her master's own legs she blushed. Before she got too excited she had to follow protcal first.
"So you're okay? There isn't a rapist here or anything?"
After a little more assurance from Lucy that everything was alright, the maid finally left. When she closed the door on Lucy, she was face to face with almost half the mansion staff.
"Is Miss Lucy alright?"
"We heard her scream."
"Virgo, what's going on?"
"Quiet everyone, quiet! The princess, has a boy in the room."
Just as the staff was about to let off a universal roar she quieted them down, then rested her ear on the door and gestured for them to follow.
On the other side of the door, Lucy was raising herself off of Natsu, while he looked like he just got a taste of heaven.
She blushed covering her chest.
Pervert.
"That was a close one, huh Lucy."
"Natsu, what are you doing here?"
"Duh, to check up on you silly. And I think the better question is, what are you doing here?"
"This is my house."
"Yeah but it's Saturday! A beautiful Saturday, at that you should be outside! The gang and I were going to the arcade today, for example.
Lucy raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah but we'll be going outside on the way there, you'll be in your house all day!"
"I can't Natsu, I have to get ready for ballet, then go to gymnastics, then start floral arrangements, then etiquette classes, then Ladies Club."
"Wow! Well what are you doing all that for?"
"Daddy's building the perfect future wife."
"What?"
She shook her head.
The pinkette stared her down intently, as if he were evaluating something. When he finally came to a conclusion, he sporadically picked her up bridal style and carried her out and away from her house.
"What the! Natsu let me go! Let me go you deranged lunatic!" She cried, violently pounding his chest in the process.
"No way future wife!"
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Future wife?
She literally pounded his face in.
"Don't ever call me that again. Especially not in public. Need I remind you pinky that I still hate eff boys."
Poor Natsu literally withered up like a puppet being punished by its master.
"Now where are we..."
She stared in awe at the beautiful picture layed out before her.
"Magnolia is really beautiful in the fall." She smiled.
The sky was full of orange, brown and red leaves. The air smelt like punpkin, and cinnamon and hott lattes. People walked the leaf littered streets in sweaters and scarves. Many of the local shops were decorated for the season. She felt a chilling wave of de javu, the entire scene reminded her of a time she used to roam outside. A time when her mother was alive.
She felt Natsu's hand envelope around hers. She ignored the constant ringing of the cell phone in her pocket and the cold brisk wind on her shoulders of a magnolia fall. Natsu smiled at her and slowly but surely she smiled back at him. He wrapped his precious scarf around her bare shoulders.
"M'lady," he said and he raised her hand to his lips gently kissed it.
Yeah eff me, I know. I'm sorry guys, but this chapter was also a setup chapter, setting up for alot more plot development next chapter. Okay, you're right, no excuse. This is my last filler chapter scouts honor.
