Here is another chapter

Just remember I'm not a fan of putting characters to speak in third person like Juvia sooo don't expect it.

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"Thank you..." Natsu stops at the red light and looks at her with a confused expression. "For what?" He notices her smile and blushes a little. "Thank you for being there for me, I don't think I ever thanked you before or at least not in a while." Natsu gives her a caring smile "Your welcome. I will continue to stay by your side." He starts to stare into her eyes, thoughts of how much he cares for her enters into his mind and next thing he knew, they were inching closer to each other. Natsu's heart couldn't stop beating so fast and it finally felt like it was going to explode when both their lips met. They shared a gentle kiss. Lucy realized her actions she backed away and started apologizing. Natsu chuckles and reassures her "Lucy it's okay. I'm really happy because... I really like you." He confessed. The blonde blushes being taken aback by his words, Natsu found it so cute to see her blush because of him. He reaches out to hold her hand, they intertwined. Lucy looks down staring at their hands with a small adoring smile then looks up at Natsu "Natsu I..."

"Hey man, wake up!" Gajeel shouts interrupting Natsu's dream. Natsu gets up and glares at Gajeel, who takes a step back with his hands up "Whoa man, don't try to kill me with your glares now. We have to go to school." Natsu grudgingly walks into his room and begins changing. He begins thinking back to the dream he had. "Does that dream confirm my feelings?" He mumbles to himself. "What dream? What feelings?" Gajeel walks into his room without permission and sits on his bed looking up at him. "Bro, you have to stop walking in my room like that." Gajeel shrugs it off and asks the same question "Yea yea, now tell me what dream and what feelings?" Natsu looks at him serious "Hey man, I actually want to talk to you about this later. Let's meet up at the gym during lunch." Gajeel gets up walking towards him "Sure thing." He pats the pink haired teen on the back.

Lucy and Levy are waiting for the boys to come to the living room. The blonde is zoning out thinking about Ezekiel and debating if she should make him transfer schools. "Lu-chan your stress is showing on your face. What's got you like that?" Levy asks. "I'm debating if I should transfer Ezekiel to another school. The kids might shun him or bully him but, I know he wouldn't want to transfer because of Asuka. I'm also upset because the stupid mom of the kid that ended up in the hospital is 'letting us off' by paying for her son's hospital bill. I know she wants to sue us but she knows we have a higher chance of winning because her son started the fight and he bullied Ezekiel for so long. For so long..." Lucy starts tearing up "For so long Ezekiel hasn't told me anything about this." Tears started falling down her cheek. "Am I a failure as a mother? Can I not even have my son's trust?" Levy hugs Lucy, Lucy sobs quietly on her shoulders.

"Lucy, you are an incredible mother. I'm sure Ezekiel didn't tell you because he didn't want to burden you." Lucy sobs got a little louder "You go through so much, please don't forget that Grandeeny and Igneel said that they will deal with the parents of those boys." Levy starts rubbing Lucy's back trying to soothe her. "Why don't you have a talk with Ezekiel about transferring and just about everything. Why he didn't tell you. How he feels about it. How you feel." She Pulls softly away from Lucy making them look face to face, Levy smiles gently wiping Lucy's tears. "I love you, Lu-chan. You are a loving mother and friend. You will get your happy ending." Lucy tightly hugs her not planning to let go and Levy starts rubbing her back again.

Ezekiel steps out Grandeeny's room and sees his mom and Levy hugging. He walks up to them then his ear twitched as he hears his mom crying. "Mommy... What's wrong?" He lightly yanks on the hem of her shirt. "Is it my fault? Is it because I got into a fight?" Lucy quickly pulls away from Levy and got on her knees she places her hands on his shoulders. "No, it's not because you got into the fight. It's cause..." Lucy hesitated. "Lucy do it now," Levy tells her as she walks to where the boys are to keep them from coming out the room. "Ezekiel, do you hate me?" He shakes his head furiously. "I love you so much!" Lucy smiles "Do you trust me?" He nods his head. "Then why didn't you tell me that those boys had been bullying you repeatedly! Why didn't you let me know? I only got called one time at your school but you never told me that they kept going since then. Ezekiel, why?" She looks at him sternly and he hesitates to answer. "Did they threaten you?" He shakes his head. "Did they threaten Asuka?" He shakes his head. "Were you scared to tell me?" He shakes his head. "Then what was it Ezekiel!" Lucy is flustered.

"I..." He looks away. "didn't want to bother you with my problems." He starts crying, Levy was right. "Why do you think that I would be burdened? Ezekiel, I want you to tell me these things. I don't want you to hide anything from me." She gently turns his head so that he can face her. "I love you, you're my pride and joy, don't ever think you are a burden, that what you go through will burden me because it will never ever burden me." Ezekiel made a look of disbelief. "Really?" She nods her head. "Promise me you will tell me anything that troubles you." She sticks her pinky out and Ezekiel intertwined his pinky with hers. "I promise."

Lucy brushes through his hair with her fingers. "I'm happy." was all she said and it was all she needed to say for him to brighten up because that's all he ever wants to do, it's to make his mom happy. "I have to head off to school, be good with Grandeeny and Igneel okay?" He nods his head and returns to Grandeeny's room.

"Guys lets go!" She yells for them and they come rushing out the room. "Can you tell us why we weren't able to leave the room?" Natsu asked for the tenth time. "None of your business. Hush and let's go to school if we rush we can make it." Levy responds. The teens got in their cars, Lucy went with Levy since her car is still in the shop.

During the car ride, the girls are jamming to the music Levy has on blast. Levy stops at a red light, the blonde looks at it and then remembers the moment she had with Natsu in his car. She shook her head which grabs the bluenette's attention. "Lu-chan, what's wrong?"She asks. Lucy looks over at her "Levy, I want to talk to you about something during lunch on the roof." Levy looks at her with a confused expression but reply's with a sure.

The teens actually made it in time for class, they all burst through the door to their classroom "We actually made it!" Lucy yells. Levy bends over trying to catch her breath "I... I can't breathe... I need to work out more... Oh gosh..." Her friends laugh at her and she puffs her cheeks. Gajeel walks up to her, picks her up, and places her on one of his shoulders. "Don't worry I will carry you everywhere so you don't have to exert your bookworm self." Levy hits him on the head. "Put me down!" He obeys.

"Okay, you guys if you're done then take your seats." The teacher announces. Lisanna snickers along with... Grey. Lucy's eyes widen seeing his face, her hands start shaking with fear. The other three looks the way she is and sees what she sees, all their expression turn to pure anger. "Whoa, what are those looks for? I didn't do anything this time." He laughs mocking them. Lisanna wraps her arms around him "Yea, please don't look at my boyfriend that way."

"What?" Was all Levy could say as a reply. She looks over to find Juvia purposely looking away from those two. Levy knows that she loves Grey deeply, this must hurt her so much. "Do you not have good hearing nerd?" Lisanna sarcastically asks but, Levy paid no mind to the white-haired teen she kept looking at Juvia. Grey follows where she was looking. His smirk turns into a frown and he looks away now putting on a act.

Juvia looks up and she notices Levy staring at her. "Levy, I'm alright. I now see that the guy I loved is a lustful monster. A man whore and I'm tired of getting hurt." She looks at Grey who end up looking back at her. "Loved?" He asks making Lisanna look at him confused. "Yes, loved I would be an idiot to still keep thinking I can have a future with you." She says sternly.

"You know you were the only one I didn't tell because I didn't want you to see me as a bad guy!" He yells at her making Lisanna flinch. "Oh, how nice of you. You didn't want me to see you for who you are. You wanted to deceive me basically!" She rebuttals. He was taken aback, he honestly didn't know where he was going with this argument. "You want me to think of you as a good guy? Then become one." With that, she puts her earphones in.

"I didn't know I was teaching drama." the teacher mumbles to himself.

Grey keeps staring at her and Lisanna stares at him, she tries to turn his head so he can face her but he pushes her hand away then gets up abruptly and leaves the class, leaving Lisanna there in shock. "Whats their story?" Natsu asks but, Levy remained silent. Lucy's hands stop shaking when he left the room and the fear left her. "No matter how much of a jerk he is. He always has a soft spot for Juvia." Levy whispers to them.

"Okay, class! Drama is over now it's time for math class." The teacher announces getting tired of his class drama. Lucy walks over to Juvia and taps on her shoulders. Juvia takes out her earphones as she looks over at Lucy. "Hey, Juvia... Do you want to hang with me and Levy during lunch?" Juvia honestly doesn't know how to react but she still accepts Lucy's offer.

"Should I give up teaching now or later? Maybe I should ask the department to switch my class subject to drama and everyone would get straight A's." The teacher is exasperated at this point. The class really wants to laugh but they knew that he wasn't in the mood at all to be laughing along.

Now the long-awaited lunch has arrived, the boys went to the gym and the girls went to the roof of the school.

Let us start with the boys... Natsu and Gajeel were by the gym eating their sandwiches. "Okay, let's get to the point. What was your dream about and your feelings?" Gajeel asks. Natsu takes a deep breath "Okay yesterday Lucy and I almost kissed in my car. My dream was based on that but, in the dream, we actually kissed and she was blushing looking so cute. I confessed to her in my dream and she was going to respond but that's when you woke me up." Natsu explains the dream. "I'm a go off of a limb here and assume that you're confused about whether you truly like her because of your dream." Natsu nods his head. "Well, if you had a dream of kissing her and confessing then I'm pretty sure that means you like her." Gajeel states. "I guess but I don't understand why I feel this way so quickly. I mean we just got over the whole me bullying her thing just two weeks ago. Isn't this too fast, aren't my feelings developing too fast?" He asks desperately.

"Not everyone is the same. People don't see everyone the same either. What may take a boy a year to finally like this girl, it may also take him a couple of weeks to like the other girl. Right now, your the boy and Lucy is the other girl." Gajeel responds. Natsu smiles "Your right, so my feelings shouldn't be something to question... Should I tell her-" Gajeel puts his hand up as to tell Natsu to stop what he was saying. "Natsu, now you need to think with common sense. She has a trauma that was caused by whoever raped her. If you tell her that you like her then you must be prepared to know there is a higher chance of her rejecting you. Actually, for all you know, the confession could trigger a memory. Usually, I tell guys to confess no matter if they get rejected or not but Lucy is more than just rejecting you." Natsu looks sad as he realizes that Gajeel is right, he was being too rash when he thought about confessing. "Right now let's help her get past her trauma. Natsu I know I'm not the only one who wants to know who raped her. I planned on investigating but I know Lucy won't like that so I'm holding back but you Natsu get closer to her." Gajeel smiles sincerely, which surprises Natsu because he never saw Gajeel smile like that before.

"I'm sure that one day she will open up to you. Please, be patient and just treat her special like she is." Natsu makes a big smile. "Thanks, I plan on getting close to her... I plan on being her hero." Gajeel laughs at him making Natsu blush with embarrassment. "Wow look at you saying some cool lines." He just kept laughing. "I like this new Natsu," Gajeel says and Natsu took those words to heart. He realizes that he really did change just thinking about who he was a few weeks ago disgusted him, he also likes the new him. "Well conversation is over, now let's eat in peace," Gajeel says breaking Natsu's thoughts. Natsu looks at him with a plain look. "You just love interrupting what goes through my mind."

"Gihihi."

The girls are on the roof just sitting, chilling, and laughing. "Lu-chan didn't you say that you want to say something to me here." Levy brings up. Lucy had a little hope that she would've forgotten but it's still okay that she didn't, she did mention it to her at the house after all. Juvia was about to get up till Levy holds onto her hand. "Where are you going?" she asks. "I was going to leave, I don't want to intrude on something that wasn't meant for me to hear." She says humbly. "Don't worry Juvia, I can use more than one voice on this," Lucy reassures her.

"So, yesterday... I was in Natsu's car because mine broke down and during the car ride. There was a red light so of course, he stops the car there you know... I was just staring at Natsu realizing that I haven't really thanked him for what he has been doing for me. Then he looks at me and asked me why was I looking at him and I thanked him, he said your welcome and that he will always be there for me. We just stared into each other's eyes... we leaned in but a car honked at us because the light was green so we didn't kiss." Levy's eyes began sparkling and Juvia is casually drinking her juice. She gave them both a sad smile which causes Levy's eyes to stop sparkling and be replaced with a concern expression.

"I apologize to him saying that it was just the moment, and it was just the moment. I don't love Natsu in a romantic way. When I told him that it was just the moment he lied to me saying that it was okay... Does me almost kissing him mean that I love him? I really don't feel that kind of love for him, it's too soon... I always had a fear of men when it comes to getting really touchy and all that stuff. It isn't a fear that cuts off my interaction with men completely but there's a limit to how far I will go with a guy. The limit is holding hands and it took me forever to get that far... So, I guess what I'm asking you guys is... Do I love him just cause we almost kissed at the moment?" Lucy looked at them with a sad conflicted expression.

Levy doesn't know what to say, when it comes to not knowing love, because of her strong love for Gajeel. To both Lucy and Levy's surprise, Juvia is the one who answers. "No, I don't think you love him romantically. I have been in your place, not exactly with the fear of men but I've been there... I was with Grey in my room as you guys know I loved him and we were just sitting on my bed talking about anything then we just stared into each other eyes. We both leaned in and kissed." Juvia starts making a sad nostalgic expression. "I pulled away because I know he doesn't love me the same way that I love him because he sees me as a dear childhood friend, he will love me as a childhood friend but not a lover. I realized that being in the moment doesn't always mean both parties love each other the same. Lucy, it honestly wouldn't make sense to love him in that way with your fear so don't worry it happens to some people. Besides when you have doubt like that in your head then you don't love him romantically because if you do truly and surely do then there wouldn't be such strong doubts." Juvia finishes, she looks up to see Lucy and Levy with teary eyes. "W-what?"

"Thank you Juvia. You must have gone through a lot too with that disgusting monster." Lucy says. "Yea, I did but I don't plan on spending much time with him anymore. A small part of me really wants to trust that he will change but It's hard to see that future with everything he did... By the way Lucy, I'm sorry he did such horrible things to you, I never thought he would sink that low." Juvia bows her head and tears were falling on her lap. Lucy and Levy hug her "You must be hurting so bad Juvia." Levy says, Juvia just broke down, she cries hard and loud, she couldn't hold in her pain anymore, she never thought he would cause her this much pain. "Juvia you can stay and hang with us from now on... We love you and we will always be there for you." Levy says to comfort her. "Thank you... Thank you..." Juvia just kept repeating thank you until she grew weary. Levy placed Juvia's head on her lap for comfort, brushing through her hair with her fingers and Lucy sat beside them humming a calm tune. The girls were on the roof for the rest of lunch.

I'm going to say this right now... I'm more surprise than you guys are that I updated this quick lol

Love you guys, I hope my chapters aren't bad now. Also, Juvia is apart of the gang now and there is her relationship with Grey.