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"Lucy, over here!" Lucy noticed some of her friends call over to her as she got out of the car. Her sister Jenny followed behind her as they got out.
They had made it to school, which for Jenny would be one of her last days before heading to college.
This type of school held only the most prestigious families such as the Heartfilia's, who were well known here at FairyTail Prep, a private school run by principle Makarov.
"Hey Jen!" Jenny looked over to see her own crowd of friends.
"I'll see you later," Jenny waved to her little sister before heading off.
Lucy made her way to one of her friends, Levy McGarden.
Levy's family was also well known. Her mother was a well known doctor with a reputation and wrap sheet that made everyone want to feel sick, just so they could have her look at them.
Her father worked often, a right hand man to Jude Heartfilia. They grew up together and stayed friends, always having each other's back.
"I bet your moms excited about having your dad as Mayor finally!" Levy smiled and said as Lucy arrived in ear shot.
"You have no idea." Lucy rolled her eyes, holding her own smile.
"That is so yesterday. I on the other hand, well I'm already looking forward to summer." Lucy looked away from Levy to see Juvia Lockser. Who she almost forgot was even standing there for a moment.
Juvia and Lucy weren't really "friends." More like "frenemies?" They seemed to have each others backs, but for all the wrong reasons, and in the wrongest terms of endearment.
Juvia's parents divorced a few years ago. Her father moved away and her mother became distant to everyone including her own daughter.
From then on, it was like Juvia had changed from being miss happy go lucky..to miss bitchen misfit.
"Juvia I almost didn't see you there..." Lucy smiled through clenched teeth.
"Of course you wouldn't, since your line of perception is way too small to comprehend the finer things in life." Juvia smirked as she flipped her hair.
"Can you two not do this so early in the morning? Like seriosuly I haven't even had first period yet." Levy crossed her arms.
"You are so cute when you're upset." A boy with black hair had suddenly put his arms around Levy from behind.
"I'm not upset babe." Levy rolled her eyes as she looked up at her boyfriend.
"Good morning ladies." Rogue greeted before kissing Levy's cheek.
"Oh it's always a good morning when I'm around. So if you don't mind, Juvia needs to spread this beautiful aura to everyone other than you losers. Ta-ta for now." Juvia blew a fake kiss and walked off.
"Oh she's spreading something, and it is NOT beautiful." Lucy crossed her arms now.
Levy and Rogue chuckled before the final bell rang for classes to begin.
"I'll see you after class." Levy waved to Lucy as she and Rogue went their seperate ways.
As Lucy made her way to class, she wondered where Gray was. He usually came early in the morning to greet her and walk her to class since they both had first period together.
It was unusual for Gray to be late or even miss school without telling her.
"Alright class settle down, I know you're all super excited for school to end already so you can all get 'turnt' and "hashtag lit' this summer..." Mr. Clive made air quotes as he said these things, as if they were going to make them seem more cooler to even say them at all.
He looked around the room to empty faces. Which then told him that his method of trying to be "hashtag relatable" wasn't going to be trending this year or the next.
He cleared his throat before continuing.
Lucy kept looking at the door, hoping Gray would pop in at any moment. She slipped a quick eye to her phone to see if she had any missed calls or texts from him.
She sighed to herself as she felt let down by her lack of popularity from her phone.
Maybe worrying about him not being here was somehow a sign that she loved him? She couldn't help thinking if this was love...or was it just because Gray was her boyfriend; and she HAD to be worried about him?
"So moreover, make sure you guys don't mess up your futures this summer. Get a job, take summer classes, do activities that won't make you hate yourself in ten years."
Mr. Clive then started to go on about STDS and how to use a condom.
Lucy cringed along with the class before placing her head on the table.
This was going to be a long day... Lucy thought with a sigh.
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"Why does it always feel like the beginning to summer is always slow coming? I know it's only a few days away, but I really need it to just be here already!" Juvia slammed her lunch tray on the table.
It was finally lunch and everyone was feeling as if they were hungover.
"Whoa, what happened to your 'beautiful aura' from this morning?" Levy made air quotations with a smirk.
"That Juvia disappeared after third period. Like why would Mr. Clive have to talk about growing up and getting old circle of life blah, blah, blah. Like I don't need to know; that while I'm still beautiful, everyone around me will become wrinkled and withered! Now THAT is a scary future." Juvia crossed her arms and pushed her tray of food away.
"Yeah well he talked about teen pregnancies during second period." Rogue sat down next to Levy.
Lucy looked up, but didn't really make eye contact with him.
"Well you guys can count me out on any summer festivities, because my summer is totally botched!" Everyone turned their attention to Lisanna, who had also did the same as Juvia and slammed her lunch tray on the table before sitting down next to Rogue.
"Wow, this table is really getting it today." Levy said as she and Lucy chuckled.
"What's wrong with you?" Lucy asked from across Lisanna.
"Mira thinks its best that I come along with her and Elfman, to help her settle into her college dorms. Like why do I have to go all of a sudden? Ugh! My boyfriend is staying with family here for summer, and I'm not even going to be here?! This totally sucks." Lisanna pushed her tray away before planting her face flat onto the table.
Lucy thought to herself for a bit, something was a bit off.
"Lu, wasn't Mira supposed to go with Jenny and your parents to settle into the college dorms?" Levy asked Lucy in a confused tone.
"That's what I thought too...they made all the arrangements last month when they both found out they got accepted to the same college..." Lucy didn't know either why the plans had changed.
"Apparently Mira and Jenny had a fight about whatever; and they both decided to go there separately." Lisanna propt her head up now, leaning her elbows on the table.
"Well that doesn't make any sense.. Jenny and Mira are competative but they rarely ever fight." Lucy said in confusion.
"Why is this such a shocker to you? Maybe people change and your sister isn't the pretty perfectly made princess you thought she was." Juvia rolled her eyes.
"Shut it Juvia!" Levy scolded.
"No let her talk Lev. What's that even supposed to mean?" Lucy stood up defensively.
Juvia slammed her hands on the table before she spoke.
"I MEAN, that you think you live in this perfect little world where rainbows and unicorns exsist. And you and your family are the center of all the perfected little cotton candy fairies, that float around just making all your dreams come true! Wake up Heartfilia, this is the REAL world! Where we have REAL problems!"
"Juvia!" Levy stood up now.
"You know, one day Levy will see through this best friends for life crap that you two have. I'm glad summer is almost here, because that means I'm closer to graduating and leaving this miserable place." Juvia grabbed her things and walked off.
"Man...this has got to be the most intense lunch sesh that I've ever had." Rogue whispered over to Lisanna.
"Eh, I've had worse." She shrugged and placed her head back onto the table.
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As Lucy walked to the front door, she wondered why Jenny had left school so early.
I mean she knew that school was almost over for her sister, but she really wanted to spend whatever time she could together.
"So when mom? When were you going to tell me?!" Lucy heard Jenny shouting as soon as she opened the front door.
In the living room stood Jenny and her mother arguing.
Jenny didn't make any eye contact with Lucy, as did their mother.
"Just forget it..." Jenny ran passed Lucy; and went out the door.
Lucy could tell that her sister was crying.
Layla looked at Lucy for only a brief second before turning around to leave the room.
Lucy fell into shock. She dropped her book bag and ran after her sister.
A block down from their house was a little park that had a basketball court, some swings, and a playground for kids.
It's where Jenny and Lucy would go when they're feeling sad or just need to let out some steam.
Lucy found Jenny sitting on the swings alone, the park had just a few kids playing on the playground.
She walked up slowly and sat down next to her.
They stayed silent for a moment before Lucy began to talk.
"Remember when I was seven, and I was super quiet for about two weeks. I wouldn't talk to anyone, I barely ate; and I kept saying I was always feeling sick because I just didn't want to go to school..." Lucy kept her gaze to the ground before continuing.
"One day after I couldn't handle being at school anymore, I ran off and came here. I was so sad and depressed about everything. But you were there to save me. As the tears cleared, you told me that no matter what was wrong...we would always tell each other everything and it didn't matter how bad the situation was." Lucy looked at her sister now.
Jenny wiped her tears and made a sniffle before she started to speak.
"You had told me that you were being bullied at school...and so the next day I walked you to your class and told those bullies to leave you alone or they'd have to answer to me." Jenny smirked just reminiscing those simpler times.
"You beat them so bad that they were too scared to tell their parents what happened. I'm pretty sure mom and dad still don't know what happened either." Lucy chuckled.
Jenny's smirk faded just then. Lucy noticed how the mood changed completely once again.
"I...I don't think I'm ready to really talk about whats upsetting me right now not...not until I completely understand it myself." Jenny turned her head slowly towards her sister.
Lucy sighed.
"Well then I'll respect your decision but, just know that I'm always here for you if ever you need to talk." Lucy smiled genuinely before continuing, "Cause I'm cheesy." Lucy said softly, holding out her pinky towards her sister.
"But not easy." Jenny flashed a faint smile as she intertwined her pinky with Lucys' as if they were making another pact.
The two of them chuckled before staring up at the sky.