This story will soon reach its ending. But not on this chapter. I think there will be two more. Feel kinda sad…haha

I didn't own Fairy Tail.

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Gajeel sat his coach staring straight to a bookshelf in front of him. Arms crossed over his chest. Sometimes he glanced to the clock on the wall. Suddenly the door cracked open. He didn't move from his spot. Not even his eyes.

"Oh, you're home!" Lily just home from his karate class. "I missed you, man!" He chuckled while putting his bag on a table. He headed to the kitchen to have some water.

"That old bastard…my old man…he died." Lily didn't respond. Not even surprised. "You knew it, right?" Gajeel asked.

Lily took another gulp of water.

"Who told you he died?" he asked.

"Zeref." Gajeel still staring at the wall. "All this while…you knew where they were, right?" Lily glanced to the boy. "Zeref and…my father."

"So, you regret? Now that he died," Lily asked him back.

Gajeel stood up and faced the older man.

"I'm so stupid." He chuckled. "The one that knew everything was with me all the time."

Lily walked to the boy. Before he could say anything, the boy hit him on his face. He pushed backward a few steps. His mug fell onto the floor. It broke into pieces.

"You make me a fucking idiot!" he shouted to his face. "You pretended you care! But all you cared was that fucking organization!" He punched Lily's face again. Pushed the older man onto the floor. "All of you are the same! You! My father! All your care is that fucking organization!"

Lily tried hard to restrain himself. He knew that boy very much. He was upset, that's why he acted that way.

"All I did was for your own sake," Lily said.

Gajeel smirked.

"I thought I can trust you." His voice lowered. "Seems I can't trust anyone. Including you." He grabbed Lily's t-shirt. "Do not confuse me with your words. You never care about me. Just like my father. Both of you are the same!"

Gajeel let him go roughly. Made the older man's head hit the hard floor.

"Gajeel…"

Lily exhaled heavily with his hands spread to his sides. He slowly stood up on his feet. The boy didn't respond to his call, giving his back to the older man. Lily grabbed his shoulder fast and punched the boy in his face. Gajeel fell onto the floor.

"I always listen to all your dissatisfaction toward your father. Everything! Even though I knew that everything was completely wrong! I always listen!"

Gajeel sat up and raised one his knee, and brushed his hurt jaw.

"Your father…he is a good man. He might not legally right, but I knew him as a good person. He cared about you but he didn't know how to show it. He did everything to protect you. That's also why I'm here."

Gajeel rolled his eyes, tried not to believe what he heard.

"He knew how much you hated him." Lily sat on the coach. "And he knew you hated the organization and Jellal." He looked at the boy's face, but Gajeel turned his face away. "Then he took his sickness as a reason to leave. He thought that you might have a better life without him."

"I may have better life if he didn't leave those sick people behind," Gajeel said.

"One more thing, you are not his custody. Your mother gave you up to your father."

Gajeel glanced to the older man for a moment before he turned away.

"I guess nobody wants me," he whispered, but cleared enough to Lily's ears.

"You got me, man!" Lily patted the boy's shoulder. "And your father called a few times asked about your being. He cared about you."

Gajeel snorted.

"Still, he shouldn't leave."

He rose to his feet. Lily smiled bitterly and jumped onto his feet too. He patted the boy's shoulder before walked to his room. Gajeel stared to his friend till he disappeared in his room. No matter how he said that he hated him, that old bastard stills his father. Couldn't change the fact.

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School looked the same after a few days of truant. His friends were sorry for his lost. But he liked one comment. 'Welcome to the club, buddy!' It was Natsu, the pink-haired boy in Juvia's class. The dumb boy with his dumbass grin; how he'd ever thought that way? Whatever, he's dumb anyway.

Juvia would be organized a party on weekend. She looked so excited, giving out the invitation cards to her friends. How idiot she was, who would give invitation cards for wild party? Whatever. Somehow, it felt good to be back. Heh…

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Let's go to Juvia's party!