HEY GUYS! Sorry it's late I know, I'm not even going to try to Excuse myself. I've been really busy and will continue to be busy this summer. SO Chapters may not come out as soon as you want them too. This chapter is short but I had to end it where it is so I can move on. On the plus note I am going to start having more Nalu moments after this so get ready. That's all I have to say and I am sorry.

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Chapter 9 My long awaited Reunion

"You think you can just apologize to me and it'll be alright?" Aquarius yells at me in my room.

I've summoned her and tried to apologize. Aquarius was like an older sister to me but I can't hope she'll go back to being like that. She's strong at heart and really stubborn too. I don't think she'll forgive but I can try.

"Aquarius That's not what I meant-" I try to explain to her.

"Not what you meant? Lucy you're older now I get it and I know you want to smoothen out the past but everything has consequences, doesn't matter how old you were, how you were feeling, or if you regret it. It hurt. It really did hurt being told by someone you loved that they didn't need you. At first I was like oh well, she'll get over it and things will be the same. but then you never called us again. As time went on the gap between us grew. That day became more of a painful memory. You waited too long. So many years. I waited for you." She tells me.

"Aquarius I-"

"I know we went too far with your parents. I knew that. So I waited for you to call us again so we all could make up and get over it but You didn't summon us. Not one of us. Then your words really applied, that you didn't need us. It sank in more and more Lucy. Finally I believed it, You didn't need us. You didn't need me."

She looks at me with a glare. Tears emerging in my eyes. I try not to blink so I don't cry. It gets a little hard to see and my eyelids are begging to release the waves from my eyes.

"A-Aquarius, I'm not justifying myself. I want you to understand. I don't want to leave things like they were. I want you to be my friend again but I know it's selfish of me to have that hope." I tell her being as strong as I can.

"That's right Lucy; you are being selfish for that hope. I didn't want you to leave. I wanted to stay by your side. But That can't happen. We make you a monster, remember? And as long as you are with you will never be loved by your parents or your sister!" She shouts at me.

"I don't care about that anymore! No matter what I do, they will never love me! No matter what I did! I gave up on that! I don't even live there anymore. They sent me away to a boarding school. They don't care for me and they never will. That's why I'm trying to repair my relationships with you guys. So I can finally forget what happened in that house."

"So you're using us to forget? Again you are thinking of yourse-"

"That's not it! Come on Aquarius. Do you really think that of me?"

"I don't know what I think of you now."

Things fall silent. No more apologies. No more explanations. No more words. Aquarius glare dropped into sadness. I stared at the floor. I want to say something but I don't. I want to tell her more reasons why I'm sorry but I won't. I want to convey more of my feelings to her but I can't.

"Lucy..." She calls my name quietly catching my attention.

I stare at her waiting for her to say something. she looks into my eyes. I see a mix of emotions. Waves of sadness, Storms of anger, and a small tiny shine of content.

"You- I know what you are trying to do. I understand wanting to erase the past but I also know that's it's not that easy. Words can never be taken back. They can never leave the ears of those who heard them. It's the same about the past. It won't disappear. It can't change." She slowly tells me.

"The past can't change but that doesn't mean we can't change. We are not in the past. I am not in the past. I am in the present. I am trying to make change so the future doesn't look like the past. So I am not stuck thinking about my parents or my sister or what I did. I'm thinking about what I will do. I want to change. I'm making an effort to change." I speak my mind for the first time.

Aquarius gives me a more loosen look. I sit down on my bed.

"I just don't want to be stuck in time. I've already lived long enough wasting time on my past. I want to live now. I want to finally be free to be me. I'm not asking for your forgiveness. Honestly I liked to have but I'm not asking for it. I want you to understand that I'm sorry and ready to repair or relationship. And if you don't want that we can build a new one. A clean slate. If you just don't want anything to do with me, fine, I will leave you alone. All I want know is if I do call you in a desperate situation will you have my back?" I speak slowly ending in a question.

She didn't answer. She just gave me one glance and disappeared but one thing that I did notice with her glance, one important thing, is that she looked like she was about to cry. For that one moment that one glance, she seemed to understand my words. I reached her. She heard me. Now all I have to do is wait. Time will heal all the wounds. No, Time doesn't heal wounds, it only teaches us to live with the pain.