Gray slammed his front door, stalking into his house.

"Gray, you're home," Ur said with a smile.

Gray just walked past her.

"I was talking to you," Ur said, following him. When they got to his room, he slammed his door in her face.

He flopped down onto his bed. So many thoughts were swirling around in his head, but he couldn't seem go catch any of them. Right after Lucy ran off, Natsu and Lisanna found him outside. Macao told them where he was. But instead of Gray telling them what happened, he just ran to the bus stop and went home.

Ur opened up the door She sat on Gray's bed, a soft look in her eyes.

"Honey, what's wrong?" she asked. She brushed his hair out of his eyes. Gray swatted her hand away. "Did something happen?"

Gray rolled onto his side so his back was facing her. "No. Go away," he said coldly.

"Are you having girl troubles?" Ur asked, just guessing. When she saw Gray tense up, she knew she was right. "Okay, what's the story?"

"Nothing fucking happened," Gray hissed between clenched teeth.

"Okay, I know you're upset, but there is no need to swear," Ur said.

Gray sighed. He forgot that Ur didn't let him swear. He could only do it when she wasn't around.

"If you don't tell me what's wrong, I'll just go get Ultear. You know how your sister gets when-"

"She's not my sister," Gray said bitterly.

"Excuse me?" Ur asked, completely shocked. "She is your sister!"

"Can you just leave already?" Gray sighed. He really just wanted to be alone to attempt to sort out his thoughts.

"Is she pretty?" Ur asked, trying to take a different approach.

"I've never seen a prettier girl," Gray said, playing with the corner of his pillow. He didn't even realize that Ur was about to trick him into talking.

"I bet thats the only reason you like her," Ur said with a smirk. She knew just how to get him to talk.

Gray rolled over to his other side, but didn't meet Ur's eyes. "Of course not," he said.

"What even makes her so special?" Ur asked.

"She's really shy. She always had her hood up and will barely talk. She only ever said one sentence to me. But even so, she's the sweetest girl I know. She's like a scared little bunny, though. If you put her in a large group she'll run off. And she won't walk anywhere unless she's holding someone's hand. But it's really just the way she'll smile or laugh but try to hide it. It's the cutest thing ever." Gray didn't even realize that he was rambling, or that he was smiling like an idiot. "But I really hurt her. But it's not like I forgot about her on purpose. We were just kids."

Ur smiled. She loved how love-sick he was. But then she processed the last thing he said. Her smile dropped. "Wait, what? A childhood friend?" she asked.

"Apparently," Gray said. "I don't remember her, though."

"Honey, that happens more times than you know," Ur sighed. Gray sat up quickly. "When a traumatic event happens to a small child, they just forget everything, not wanting to think about anything. You are probably just trying to forget your childhood, her included."

Gray thought about what Ur said. It made sense. When his parents died in that plane crash, he was so torn apart. Having to move in with Ur, a new family, was just terrifying. She was right. He did try to forget. He never even considered that there might be something good to remember about his childhood.

"I'm going to go cook dinner. Come down if you feel like it," Ur said. She kissed Gray's forehead and took her leave.

Gray laid back down. He closed his eyes, remembering the childhood he tried so hard to forget.

X

Lucy looked up and realized that she was already home. She wiped her face again before walking inside.

"Lucy, what happened?!" Layla asked worriedly. She was just going to put her shoes on.

Lucy looked like a mess. At some point during her walk home, which lasted way longer than it should have due to her just wandering around, it started to pour down rain. Many cars passed her and splashed mud on her, dirtying her clothes. At one point two squirrels attacked her, tearing her cat hoodie to shreds, which she wasn't happy about. She tripped a few times, getting bruises on her bare legs. Her shorts even got a tear in them. And to top it off, her eyes were puffy and red from crying so much.

"What happened to Lucy?" Jude asked worriedly. He was also going to the door to put shoes on.

"Mom," Lucy cried, latching on to Layla. Layla hugged Lucy back, not even careing that her fancy dress was getting muddy. Since it was a Friday night, Layla and Jude were going to go out for dinner.

"Go get Lucy cleaned up," Jude said. "I'll go call and tell our friends we aren't coming."

"No," Lucy said, backing away from Layla. "You guys go. I wanted to be alone anyways."

"We can't-"

"Alright," Layla agreed, interrupting Jude. "I can tell you need some time to think something out. I'll go change then we can leave, Jude."

Lucy walked slowly up to her room. She pealed off all of her clothes. She changed into a pair of yoga shorts and a blue cotton shirt. Then she went to turn the bathwater on. When the tub filled up, she shut the water off and went downstairs. Her parents were already gone. She was going to grab a bottle of water from the fridge when the doorbell ran. She sighed and went to the door.

When Lucy opened the door, she was just as shocked as Gray was. She couldn't believe that he was standing there, on her porch, soaking wet, in the rain. She pulled him inside without thinking.

"Lucy, I-I'm so sorry," Gray said, seeing how awful she looked. He was sure there was mud caked in her hair. He didn't know how it got there, but he figured it happened when she was walking home.

"Why...here?" Lucy asked, not forming a full sentence.

"I needed to talk to you," Gray said, understanding what she meant. He was beginning to get used to her broken language.

Lucy but her lip, weighing her options. At the moment, it seemed that the best idea was to get Gray in dry clothes. She really didn't want him to get sick. She grabbed his hand and walked upstairs. She made him sit on her desk chair before leaving the room. She came back a minute later with one of Jude's shirts.

"Thanks," Gray said, taking the shirt. He was touched that she cared about him, even though she was most likely mad at him.

Lucy went to the bathroom to get him a dry towel while he changed. She completely forgot about the bath water. She just drained the tub, deciding she probably wouldn't be taking one while the water was still hot.

When Lucy came back into her room, she saw that Gray hadn't moved. She set the towel on his head. He thanked her again before drying his hair. She went over and dug through her closet. She was sure she had a pair of pants in there for him. Sting split spaghetti on his pants that weekend he was over, so Layla washed them, but she forgot to give them back. She figured Gray would fit into them.

"Why do you have these?" Gray asked when she handed then to him. He realized she wasn't going to answer and decided not to overthink it. He already guessed if was from Sting or Rogue. When Lucy turned back around he quickly changed his pants. She threw his clothes in her laundry basket, knowing she would probably wash her clothes later that night.

"Okay, we really need to talk," Gray said, putting the towel in the basket as well.

Lucy sat on the bed and patted beside her. Gray moved beside her. He looked to her cork board and sighed.

"I'm really sorry I forgot about you," Gray started. "I really didn't mean to, though. Um, I guess I'll explain who Ur is first. So a couple months after you moved my parents and brother, Lyon, died in a plane crash. So I was sent to another family. I guess you could say Ur is my new mom and Kyle is my new dad. And now I have an older sister Ultear. She's in eleventh grade at a private school. And Wendy is in fifth grade. Anyways, Ur told me that a lot of kids do this, but I sort of just forgot my whole childhood because I didn't want to remember my parents. I guess she was right. I remember everything now, though."

Lucy was in shock. She couldn't believe that his parents ad Lyon died. Lyon was two years older than Gray, so he was pretty young when he died. She could remember Gray's family going to these trips but leaving Gray with her. Layla and Jude were good friends with Gray's parents, so of course they would agree to watch him. Lucy was almost glad Gray never went with them.

"Lucy, please forgive me," Gray pleaded. He looked at Lucy and saw that her face looked sad and shocked. He figured she was still processing that his family was dead.

Then, without warning, Lucy latched herself onto Gray. She tightly hugging his neck, crying onto his shoulder. He hugged her waist, sighing in content. He's felt like he's been missing something for a long time, but now he's found it.

Gray looked over to the clock on Lucy's desk. "Luce, it's almost ten at night. I should probably go home before Ur and Kyle worry. And I'm not sure when your parents will be home, but I couldn't imagine them being happy with a guy being with you this late."

Lucy shook her head. She wanted him to stay. But there was one thing she wanted more than him go stay...

"Can you cook?" she asked quietly. She felt like a monster was in her stomach because it was growling so much.

Gray couldn't help but laugh. "I'll make us something," he said. He was actually pretty hungry, too. He never did eat dinner.

Gray stood up, still holding on to Lucy's waist. She thought she was going to fall, so she wrapped her legs around his waist. He carried her downstairs and set her on the kitchen counter. He looked through her fridge, seeing what he could make.

Thirty minutes later, Gray and Lucy were sitting in the living room, two plates of chicken stir-fry on the coffee table with two cans of Pepsi. The two ate in silence. The only thing that was heard was the clicking of their silverware on their plates.

"Tell a story," Lucy said quietly when the were finished. She put her feet up on the couch under herself and leaned against Gray.

Gray thought for a moment. "There was this one time..."

Lucy wasn't even listening to the story. She just let the sound of Gray's voice lull her to sleep.


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