Where we left off

Everyone nodded their heads and agreed, "Yeah, Lucy. Stay down until the doctor comes back."

At everyone's disapproval I stayed in the bed and looked away from all their worried faces. It wasn't like I exactly wanted to be the center of attention right now. I sighed, "You know, you guys can go back to school right. I already know they plan on releasing me today. Besides, it's not exactly something any of you would understand." I glanced at Natsu's eyes and he looked the most hurt out of anyone in the room.

"I'm not leaving you after what's happened. We are your friends now. Learn to accept it." Natsu looked me in the eyes and I couldn't help but to stare into his. He looked so upset by everything, tired and upset. Nothing was going to be the same anymore, but I had to distance myself.

"I want to be alone. I have some things to think about..." I muttered and looked away again everyone could clearly see the emotional wall that I was putting up, but somehow Natsu was trying to break it down.

"Don't push us away, Luce. Think about it. We are your friends. We came to get you out of that situation and we want to stay by your si-" Something cut him off. Apparently it was me. Well, the tears forming in my eyes to be exact, "Lucy... Why are you crying? I already told you that you are safe." His eyes were wide and mine were shut trying to block out the painful memory of what had happened, "Please do- OW!" He was cut off again by a smack to the shoulder by Erza.

"Natsu, you made her cry. Good going." Gray, Gajeel, Erza, Juvia, and Levy all gave him a scolding and I shook my head as I wiped my tears.

"Guys, please. I just... It's been tough wrapping my head around it all.." Then I remembered my dream and smiled slightly, "I'm going to be okay, so please. Just go."

Gray was the one to speak up now, "We'll leave, but Natsu is going to stay regardless of what you say. I'm sorry, but you should really just accept us as your friends. We care about you."

"LOVE RIVAL!" Juvia grew dark and glared at me while hugging onto Gray's arm and I saw the apologetic look on Gray's face as he saw his girlfriend out of the room, "Juvia will go back to school then. Bye, Gray!" She said as they shared a short kiss.

"Bye, Juvia. I will see you later." Gray said with a sideways smirk, "Sorry about that, Lucy. She gets jealous easily." It was a bit weird to accept the reality that I had friends considering I never really had any, "So, welcome to the friend group." He grinned and it looked good on him.

"I don't deserve friends. Bad things happen to people who get involved with me." I stated and everyone looked kind of shocked, "I don't mean that in any sort of way, but you guys shouldn't have come to help me. You were messing with fate." I muttered and Natsu tilted his head.

"Luce, he was going to kill your father if you didn't spill a secret of some kind right? I wasn't about to let that happen. Besides, look at you. You are alive and breathing because of us. You came to this school to learn and make friends, but you have and now you aren't letting us any closer." His words were cutting a hole into my wall.

"I don't want you getting any closer for a reason that I can't share as of right now, Natsu. When this is over I will tell you, but right now it's dangerous for all of you to get involved with me." I looked away, "They will only use you against me if you get close. That is why I can't make any ties with any of you."

"Lucy, that is stupid." Levy stated like it didn't matter, "That's the whole idea of being a friend is that you don't care if you get put in danger. It's fun when you think about it."

I shot a look at Levy to show that it was not fun to think about that the idea of anyone in this room getting hurt because of me would break me. It wasn't long after that look came that I could feel panic set in and I looked around, but I was seeing the scene with my mom. My hands gripped the sides of my head as my eyes darted around the room. I was going insane. I shut my eyes as the tears started flowing, but the image didn't go away. I had curled into a ball. I couldn't hear them anymore. All I heard was the squeal of car tires. Though I felt a warm hand wiping something away from my eyes, but I was terrified to open them.

Everyone saw that I wasn't in a good mental state and they stayed to try and calm me down. However, when I opened my eyes again the doctor was there and everyone was explaining to him what had happened. The doctor nodded and wrote something down before walking out again. Once he was gone the other's turned towards me and I looked dead. I covered my face and shook my head, "Don't look at me like that, you guys... I'm only human." At least I thought I was, seeing the future was just a power I had.

They gathered around and then Gray sighed, "It really bothers you that much, huh?"

"Well, yeah, I don't want anyone else getting hurt because of me. So, please stay away." I said with an urgency. I was so tired from all of my panic that I forgot that the doctor was in here, "So.. tired..." I mumbled as I slipped into a sleep.

It was when I woke up that the doctor came with a prescription and the release papers that I signed. Apparently the school was taking care of the medical fees. I walked out silently behind my friends who were all talking about something going on at the school. They were all smiling, but I was suffering. They had probably caught on that I was hurting from how I always some how ended up crying on my videos.

When we got to school Levy was the first one to say something, "I'm going to walk Lucy to her room. She needs to rest and I'm pretty sure she wants to be alone for a while."

I shook my head, "I can make it there myself. You go with them and have a good day, okay? I do want to be alone." I stated and then started walking off, but that just caused everyone to follow after me. At least until I had entered. They stayed outside the building.

I walked to my room to open the door and find a mess. My sheet music everywhere, my set up destroyed. I stared at the mess in disbelief. Then I realized that my camera had been stolen. I fell to my knees. I had bought that camera specifically to record my time at school, but to my surprise it was used to torture me. Emotions were running through my mind. Sadness. Anger. Despair. Emptiness. My whole world was just crunching in around me and that's when I let out a scream of pain as I tripped over my mic stand and then hit my arm on the bed.

My screamed seemed to trigger a response from my friends because they ran in faster than I could care to imagine. They froze at the door when they saw me on the ground holding my arm like I was in pain. The anger was very clear on my face as I started desperately picking things up. My entire life was thrown on the ground and I don't know if I was ever going to be okay again.

Natsu stepped in and helped me up and sat me down, "Luce... Please calm down. It's going to be okay. We'll help you clean this up." He reassured me, but I was so torn up. I just ended u nodding.

"Thanks..." I muttered and started picking things up again and this time everyone joined in. They were shocked with the amount of sheet music I had. We organized it all by song and then put it in a neat pile on my desk. Then Natsu helped me organize my set up which seemed like a blessing to me. We both went for the mic stand and smacked our heads together, "Ouch!" I hissed and he grunted like it barely hurt him and I felt something change inside me. I had a crush on him for the longest time, but right now I could feel the blush build on my face he was so close.

So close.

We both turned away at the same time and he picked up the stand and started fixing it up. I was a mess. Everyone just chuckled and Erza shrugged. She seemed to know that something like this was going to happen, "Sorry, Luce. Didn't mean to smack into you like that. Is your head okay?"

"Y-yeah, my head is fine. Well, it's not fine. It'll never be fine, but you know what I mean." I blubbered and then shook my head, "Is yours?"

"Yeah! My head is great. Well, not great, but you know." He stated and I felt the hidden message behind it and it made me curious, but I didn't say anything. We just continued cleaning the mess that was made of my dorm room. When we were done everyone had work to go do and I was going to make a video to explain that I was okay to all my viewers, but Natsu stopped me. "Luce, we don't have to do the collab if you don't want to, but please just stay safe and you might want to delete the videos of the streams on your account. He posted them all."

I nodded, "No, we can still do the collab. Besides, I told you I would and I don't break promises." I smiled softly and we shared a hug. It was warm and comforting. I wish it could've lasted forever, but he had to go study and I had some things to do, "Good night, Natsu. Thanks for the help. It... means a lot." I smiled and waved as he left down the hall.

I shut the door and got to work. I opened my computer and set up the lay out for the video. My speech was still kind of messed up from all the screaming I did, but I spoke into my mic to explain to everyone what had happened. "CelestialStar here with breaking news. I know that some of you think that those streams were just skits, but I am here to tell you that they were not. I still require a sense of anonymity, but because my camera was stolen by the man who was beating me up for the last three days. Well, I'm not exactly sure how long it was... Time kind of blurs when you can't see what time it is. Anyways, not my point. My point being that, they were not skits and anything you saw in that was real. I was saved by a friend at school who seemed to notice something that no one else seemed to. I was very fortunate to get out." I paused slightly and then sighed, "Thank you all for not freaking out. If you have any questions I will do another Q&A session later. I will also be getting a new camera so that you can all see my face. Starting tomorrow. Anyways, CelestialStar is now shooting off. I will see you all in the next video. Bye!" I took the video and I edited low noncopywrited music into the background, a picture of my messed up room was the backdrop. After that I posted the video and went off to buy a camera.

Upon my return, I worked on all of my late work from the last few days. I had no will to want to work, or even smile with the time I was having. I did the work regardless, but it was frightened by a knock on my door. I hesitantly opened it to see Levy on the other side. She smiled and then asked to study together. I turned to look into my room and then nodded, "Sure, come on in. I was just starting to work on all the work I missed anyways." I stated.

Levy walked in and shut the door behind her as I walked over to the pile of papers and books on the floor. She sat down and got her stuff out too, "Don't be too hard on yourself, Lu. I know it's hard, but we can all help you through this. You just have to let us." She smiled and worked through her English as I did my music theory.

"I know. I just kind of want to work some things out on my own though. It's difficult to explain, Levy. At least right now." She sighed and then looked down at her paper. She was busy writing a song that she would sing tomorrow.

"Oh, I saw your video. You know it would probably better to have just not addressed it at all. People will think it's all lies anyways. That's how the internet works. Especially when you run a creative channel like yours." Levy said, writing in her notebook.

"I know, but I'm not the kind that gives up without trying. Besides, I'm going to stream it, so..." I gave a small smile, but it wasn't all there. A part of me was missing and still completely lost in what happened. I couldn't believe it was real.

The blue haired girl sitting in front of me sighed, "Lu, I'll be there for moral support." She grinned and I starred at it. I felt so dead inside, like a piece of me was left in that room. I was at a loss and Levy seemed ot realize that I wasn't going to say anything. I had completely spaced out, "You know made you shouldn't go to class tomorrow. I know how hard it must've been."

"No, you don't... You probably won't believe me, but I saw it coming. I can see a lot of things coming that you wouldn't understand." I said in a dead tone, "Don't even ask the question that I know you are going to ask which is, 'can you see the future?' because yes, I can."

Levy scratched her cheek and then looked back at her papers, "I wasn't going to ask if that makes you feel better, but I was going to think it. Can you read minds too?"

I smiled more naturally this time, "No, I can't read minds. I'm just good at reading people. I could see the curiosity in your eyes and decided to answer your question." I sighed as I finished my work, "Can you check my english to make sure I didn't mess this up?"

"Of course I can. Hand it over." Levy demanded and then read through my paper like it was nothing. I was so used ot doing work fast that my grades didn't even suffer, but Levy didn't see an errors either, "Wow, Lu, you are really good!" She complimented.

"Thanks, I usually had to do a lot of work as a child, so I end up working super fast." I explained, "Guess not much has changed since I was a kid."

"No one stays exactly the same. People are constantly changing their minds and not doing what they should. It all depends on how you act when it matters. Natsu is pretty random in how he deals with situations. He can see how things end up and how they dont based on what he's already seen. He's a really carring person and he seems to care for you a lot. He... wanted me to give you his number, but I figured you guys had been talking over tumblr and YouTube, so I figured he'd already given you his number." Levy laughed and my face went a little red.

"Right... I didn't see anyone coming to save me in my dream, so I thought I was going to die like I saw, but it's kind of shocking that I woke up in a hospital. I figured you guys were just involving yourselves in a fate worse than death, but nothing has happened yet." I explained and Levy nodded.

She didn't really seemed phased by the statement, "Well, maybe we did, but we all have been in bad situations, so we really didn't care. We are all aware just how bad Phantom is. So, it was refreshing to just barge in there and take you back to where you belong."

I heard the word and was struck silent. Was this where I belonged? It felt more like home than with my father, but was this where I am supposed to be? With friends and foes alike? A smile broke across my face, "Thanks a lot. I know I was angry about it earlier, but thank you so much. All of you." I looked at the clock on my laptop and sighed, "It's late. I should go to sleep."

Levy nodded, "We'll see you tomorrow, right?" She asked like I was going to run away into the night and never come back.

I laughed, "Of course. I have no reason to not go to class. Despite how ugly my face and body look now, but nothing a little make up can't fix, right?" She said scratching and some of the healing scratches on her face and arm.

The blue haired girl didn't look impressed with her humor, "I'll see you tomorrow, Lucy. I wouldn't put anything on those until they heal. It could get infected or open up again. Please take care of yourself, Lu." She whispered as she hugged me. I was a little shocked, but I nodded and hugged her back. A few short minutes later she was packing up her bag and going to sleep. Before she did that though she changed the password and email to her YouTube account.

With that she slipped off to dream land. Her dreams seemed peaceful, but with grey clouds like something was about to happen in the distance. Like this was the calm before a storm.

A/N: Hello everyone, thank you for reading and sorry this took so long to put up. Things got a little busy with school and finals are kicking my butt. I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Lucy has finally been released from the hospital, but what will happen with in the week that will shock all her new friends? Stay tuned for the next chapter to see what the calm brings.

Much Love,

~StellarLucy