I am so sorry you guys! . I have been super busy lately with everything happening in my family life. It's all so crazy and insane and I hope you all can forgive me for not posting in a super long time. Hopefully this extra long chapter makes up for that. And with that here is the next chapter. Disclaimer: I wish I owned Fairy Tail, but I don't… All that credit goes to Hiro Mashima.

*Natsu POV*

'Sick. Absolutely disgusting…' I was trying to go to sleep when suddenly I heard the noise coming from Grays room. 'I can't believe the dumbass would do this. AGAIN!' After everything was finally quiet and I was slowly drifting to sleep, I heard a knock on my door and I groaned. I got out of bed to go and see who was knocking.

The one person I wasn't expecting to see was at the door, looking at me with annoyance. "Where the hell did you place their rooms Natsu? Some of us actually need sleep to function."

"Sorry Lissana, I thought I put their rooms far enough away from each other." I said while rubbing my face sleepily. I saw her staring at me and started to get slightly uncomfortable under her stare.

"It's fine Natsu. I trust you and believe you." Lissana explained to me. But the instant she said that my mind immediately went to what Lucy had been saying to me earlier. 'Still cant believe everything that she said. But she trusted me with this information so it should be true. I'll have to check later.' I thought to myself as I stared at a spot behind Lissana. "Hello? Earth to Natsu. What are you thinking about?" Lissana had asked me.

I didn't know if I should tell her what I was truly thinking about or if I should make up some lie. I had a sinking feeling that she would get a bit upset about my thinking of Lucy. But the truth would come out at some point, so might as well be blunt with it. "Honestly, I'm just thinking about Lucy. She was talking to me earlier about some stuff and it's just been on my mind." I looked to see Lissana's face a certain shade of red and her eyes looking at me with disdain.

Right after that I was being pushed into my room all the way to my bed. "What does she have that I don't Natsu? Why are you so much closer to her than you are me? I've known you longer! We've dated! Why!?" Lissana broke down in front of me and I had no idea what to do. I just stood there like an idiot unsure of what to do. 'I wonder if this is why people call me dense. Because of situations like this…'

I whispered her name softly and just stared at her as she sat there on the floor in front of me crying. I held out my hand to help her up and she looked at my hand and took it as she sniffled. "I'm sorry Lis. It's not a matter of affection though. I've just got a lot of stuff on my mind right now." She nodded and crawled onto my bed and I frowned. "That does not mean you get into my bed though Lissana…" I trailed off as she looked up at me with those adorable puppy dog eyes that I am such a sucker for. "Fine, just this one time you can sleep in my room. But no more of this."

I sighed as I got into my bed and under my covers. I slowly started drifting off to sleep when I felt a hand on my chest and I looked over to see Lissana still staring at me. "Natsu, why don't we do something fun before going to sleep?" She had started moving her hand farther down my chest until she was at the hem of my boxers. I stiffened and I had a feeling she could tell. "Aw, come on Natsu. It's not like we haven't done something like this before."

'She's testing my limits. And I cant take this.' I thought to myself before I tried to jump out of my bed. But just as I was about to jump she sat down on my chest and rubbed her hands all over my chest, shoulders and neck. "Lissana, you should not be doing this. We had our time together. But you decided that going abroad and meeting some other guy was more important to you. " I felt her stiffen at the mention of whoever that other guy was and she looked down at me.

"Natsu, that was just a fling. You and me, we are meant to be together. We have something that is real. You just have to let the past go. " she whispered into my ear and I shivered slightly. 'I shouldn't be doing this. I like Lucy now. She would be heartbroken if something were to happen between me and Lissana….'

I was in a bind, so I just reached my arms around and I hugged her to my chest. "Lissana, you know we cant do anything. I do still care for you. Only I don't care for you like a lover. I care about you because you are one of my friends. And friends should not be hurting their other friends. I love you Lissana. But only as a friend…"I whispered into her ear as I pet her hair.

I heard her sniffle and her whisper ever so quietly "Natsu, you really are an idiot…" before she went quiet and limp signifying that she had fallen asleep. I sighed in relief noting that I need to tell Mira to keep and eye on her youngest sibling.

I closed my eyes for the final time that night as sleep finally took over me and I slept until the following morning. Dreams taking over my mind as Lissana slept on top of me.

*Lucy POV*

I was getting ready for bed when I heard some weird noises coming from the room next to mine. I went over to the wall closest to that room and blushed brightly the minute I could hear what was going on. I shook my head and backed away from the wall. 'I don't care who it is, but I wish they would hurry up already so I can go to bed in peace…' I thought to myself as I pulled my shirt over my head to change for bed.

I walked over to my dresser where I had put all my clothes away in earlier and pulled out my pajamas, shorts and a tank top, and put them on. I then walked over to my balcony and stood on it as I watched the ocean and I looked up at the stars and smiled softly. Looking to see the different constellations my mother had taught me before that horrible accident. My smile faltered as I looked down and thought more of my mother. "I miss you mom" I said aloud to myself "You would love it here. The people are nice and you would just love Levy. She reminds me of you…" I was totally aware I was talking to myself. But I didn't care. I looked up at mine and my mom's favorite constellation, The Archer.

I stayed out there on the balcony for what seemed like hours just staring at the stars and then looking out over the water to see something jump out of the water and I stared in awe as I saw it happening again and again. 'Is that a pod of dolphins?" I thought to myself as I watched the majestic and beautiful creatures jumping out of the water. "So beautiful" I said to myself as I stood there watching them swim off into the moonlight.

I smiled to myself as I watched them swim off and when I could no longer see them I walked back into my room and sat down on my bed and grabbed one of my books I had brought with me. I pulled out "Zodiac" By Romina Russell (AN: This is a really good book and I highly recommend it to those who have not read it yet) and started reading it. I managed to get all the way to chapter five before I started feeling sleepy and decided that I should probably go and brush my hair and teeth before officially going to bed.

I walked into my bathroom and started brushing my teeth remembering to gently go over my gums and then I rinsed my mouth out with water and mouth wash. Afterwards I brushed my hair and braided it off to the side. I walked back into my bedroom and laid down on the bed under the covers with my book still out and the lamp on the night stand turned on so I could read more until I fell asleep. The last thing I remembered before falling asleep was reading about the thirteenth constellation. And that's all I could dream about, the happenings in the book…

~The following morning~

I woke up from a nightmare about 6:30 in the morning. I sat up and looked around my room and realized that I was not in my bedroom at my house. Remembering the events from the day before I remembered that I was on the boat of Natsu Dragneel.

I sighed as I sat up and got out of bed. Walked right over to my bathroom to see how bad I looked this morning and then brushed my hair out and left the bathroom to walk out to my room and put on my black board shorts and my teal and white bikini top. I pulled a white tank top over that then went to leave my room. I opened my door and left to head towards the kitchen. I walked down the hallway and tried to remember the way to the kitchen. Finally I made a turn that I recognized and walked into the kitchen.

I walked right over to the fridge and opened it to pull out eggs and bacon. I then made my way over to the stove and turned it on, pulled out a pan and started making the eggs. I made a few fried eggs and then I made some scrambled eggs. 'I'm really glad I asked the chef to teach me how to cook now. Hopefully everyone will like this.' I thought to myself as I started making the bacon. I was pulling the first batch of bacon off the pan and setting it on the plate when I heard someone walk up behind me and I turned to see Erza standing behind me.

"Good morning Lucy. Did you want any help finishing up breakfast?" she asked me.

I thought about it for a second and remembered that I had not yet made the toast. "Did you want to grab the toaster and some bread and make toast?" Erza nodded and went to go and start making the toast. "I'll show you what to do when you are done making that first one so you know what to do with the others." I told her as she put that first set in. I went back to making the rest of the bacon and put all the bacon on one big plate.

"Lucy, I do believe that this first toast is done." I turned around and walked over to see that she had made that first set of toast.

I nodded and took the toast from her and smiled. "Ok so now you are going to grab a butter knife and cut the toast into a triangle and put butter on it." I showed her how to do it as she went ahead and put the next set into the toaster. "You got it?" I asked.

Erza nodded and smiled. "I can do the rest Lucy. You go ahead and do whatever it was you were going to do." We smiled at each other and I nodded as I went to go and grab plates and eating utensils. I also grabbed cups for drinks while I was thinking about it.

When I looked behind me from the pantry to see who else had walked in. I stopped what I was doing when I saw Lissana and turned my head back around to pretend that I was looking for something else. "Morning Erza! Everything smells amazing!" I heard her say to my scarlet haired friend.

"Thanks Lissana. But I only made the toast." I heard Erza reply back to her. I could just imagine the look of confusion that she had given Erza as she continued on to say "Lucy made the eggs and the bacon. She woke up early to make all of this for everyone."

I think that's what made her snap. I heard Lissana say angrily to Erza "Of course she did. She's such a goody-goody wanting everyone to like her that she has to do all of this to make people like her." I gulped at her remark and looked down. 'I only did this to be nice… I know everyone here already likes me. And the only person I really want to like me is Natsu and Levy…'

"Lissana, why don't you like her? She is a very nice girl. And she's trying her best to make new friends since this is a new school for her. And a new country now that I think about it. All of us here like her already. The only thing we all want to know, is why you are the one who doesn't like her." I sniffled slightly listening to Erza's words. "Now please answer me before I have to go and get your sister involved again."

"You know what I'll tell you why I hate her." I stiffened when I heard her say 'hate'. That is such a strong word to use for someone. " I hate her because she's way too close to everyone here already. I feel like she's too close since all of you have only known her for like a day. Except for Levy who was so stupid to invite her on this trip I might add. She doesn't belong in our group. She is an outsider to me. She shouldn't even be here. She thinks she's so close to Natsu! But she doesn't even really know him! She doesn't know of all the problems he has been through-!" At this point I heard a slap that I can only assume Erza had smacked her for all of her harsh words.

"Maybe you don't know what all she has been through either." That was not Erza. "She's had just as bad problems like me. So you have no right to be saying such rude things Lissana. She may be new to our group, but do you have any idea how hard it must have been for her to open up to us? I can tell you it was hard for her." I sniffled listening to their conversation. "Now please go back to your room. I will send someone to get you when I am ready to see you again. I will not tolerate bad talking about others behind their backs." I heard a door slam making me assume that Lissana has left the room. I heard Natsu sigh and say "I cant believe someone I used to be so close to was that hateful."

"You did the right thing Natsu. If you hadn't of walked in and heard her and slapped her, I would have. And it would have been a lot harder than how you smacked her. So do we tell Lucy or Mira about this? Or should we just keep quiet about this?" I heard Erza ask Natsu.

"We need to tell Mira so Lissana does not go and tell her any lies. Lets go ahead and go and do that before I forget what all just happened." I heard footsteps and the door close again.

I walked out of the pantry and made my way out of the kitchen and out onto the deck and up to the drivers area and I sat down under the wheel and just cried. I cried about how much hate there was towards me and about how Natsu and Erza considered me to be such a close friend and about how much I missed my mom. 'Mom, I wish you were here so you could hug me and tell me everything is going to be ok. I just really need a hug right now and I feel like I just ruined multiple friendships.' I thought to myself while I cried.

It wasn't long after when I was up there where I heard people calling my name. "Lucy!? Where did you go?" I heard Natsu shouting my name. "Come on Lucy, we don't want to eat without you!" I smiled softly as I heard him say that, but I stayed there in that spot and I tried to stop crying. I heard footsteps getting closer to where I was hiding and then climbing up the ladder. I looked up in time to see Natsu's smile fade because of my tear stained face. "Luce, what's wrong?" He asked and he made his way over to me and sat next to me, wrapping one of his arms around my shoulders and holding me close.

I just shook my head and was trying not to cry again. I leaned my head into his chest and sniffled again. "I just don't understand…" I was talking more to myself than Natsu. "I didn't want to ruin any friendships but I feel like I did in some way." I said aloud for Natsu to hear.

"Luce, you didn't do anything wrong. If anything, you helped me figure out that she was not a true friend to me." He hugged me tightly and kissed the top of my head. "Stop crying, please? Let's go and get some breakfast for you. It smelled amazing when I was in the kitchen earlier."

I smiled up at him and nodded. He stood up and then held out a hand for me to grab. I took his hand and he helped me up before we climbed down the ladder to head towards the kitchen.

I am so glad I finished this chapter and half of the next chapter all on my car ride to visit family for holiday break! So happy and proud of myself! I really hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I know I will be updating the next chapter here soon so that I don't leave you guys hanging… again. Sorry about that again… Until next time! Happy Holidays everyone! ^_^