Hello everyone! I just wanted to say a quick thank you for some of the reviews left on my last chapter. I was so happy when I saw them that I tried to get this chapter out as fast as I could. I would have posted it earlier, but school got in the way. But I have a snow day today (YAY!) so I actually get to post it!

So here's a few thank you's for the people who reviewed the last chapter:

Dark Horse: aww thank you so much! I'm really glad that you enjoyed the chapter, and I hope that you like this one as well:)

NaluLover977:You are going to find out who told Cana about Lucy in this chapter! I really hope you like this chapter, and can I just say that I love your username. As a fellow nalu lover, it's amazing. Nalu for the win!

Chapter 12

I know that running out of Cana's house with no type of explanation was probably not the nicest things to do. But I just needed to go talk to him. I knew that as soon as he sent me that text that there was something off. He knows something. I need to talk to him. I looked back down at my phone, rereading the message.

Seemed as though you had a fun time last night. You probably have a major migraine though. And your welcome, by the way,

I knew that as soon as I got that message that I had to go talk to him. The problem is that I don't know where he is. I'm guessing that he would beat his house, and I'm just hoping that I make it there. I've only ever been to his house once, so I'm not entirely sure if I know where his house is. So I just kept walking and hoping that that I would somehow be able to magically get to his house.

Sadly, I didn't just pop at at his house, which would have been the best thing to happen. But all I did know, was that his house was somewhere past mine, so I figured that was a good place to start.

So by now I was practically running to my house, and I know that I more than likely looked like a hot mess, but in the moment I didn't care. But soon enough, I realized what street I was on, and I soon saw my house and ran up to it. I stopped at the front of the driveway, trying to catch my breath, and figuring out where to go from here. And still like before, I had no clue where to go.

"You look like a mess." someone said behind me. "I guess you really did have fun." they practically laughed.

I looked behind me, and there I saw a familiar face. "Gajeel."
We both looked at each other, no expression on our faces. "Bunny girl." He said.

"Bunny girl?" I asked, confused.

"It's the new nickname I gave you." He snickered.

"What? That's a horrible nickname."

"Then deal with it. Because that's what it is, Bunny girl."

"Ugh. whatever." I sighed letting it go for now, because I had way more important things to talk to him about. "Why are you at my house?"

"I wanted to talk. And I thought that you might want to talk to me."
We paused for a moment, the silence wrapping us in a blanket. But I soon broke the silence. "Look, I just want to know how you know where I was last night" He didn't say anything, but something started to click in my hazy head of mine. How did I know notice it sooner! "You were there! At the party! That's the only reasonable explanation. What were you doing there?"

"Look, I can explai-"
"What." I cut him off. "It was you? The one who told Cana where I was. You told her I was in trouble. You told her that I was with Sting." Still, he didn't say anything. "Well? Are you going to say anything?"
He took a deep breathe, and started to talk. "Look, we all have our secrets. You have yours, and I have mine. Somehow though, our little secrets happened to cross paths. But it'll be better if we don't walk on the same one."
"So you do it too, then?" I asked, and he nodded his head. But only just slightly as I could barely tell if he was moving his head or not.

"What I do in my spare time in none of your business." he said sharply, probably knowing that I was going to ask more questions.

"Yeah, of course." I replied. I respect his privacy, and he doesn't have to tell me anything. "You won't tell anyone, will you?"
"No." he said bluntly, and I trusted him that he won't." I won't tell any of your secrets, and you won't tell any of mine. And we both silently agreed on that. "Just be careful, Bunny girl."

"Again with the Bunny girl?"
"Just, don't get hurt or nothin. Levy wouldn't be able to handle it."

I smiled slightly at his mention of levy. "Don't get hurt either. She'd miss you."

"Pft. She'd get over it."

"She wouldn't." I said. Then started to turn around and walk up my driveway to my house.

"Wait!" He called out. "What do you mean!"

I laughed. "Isn't it obvious?" Looking at his confused face, it dawned on me that he actually didn't know what I was talking about. "One of you just needs to confess."

"What-"

"Bye, Gajeel."

"No! Wait-"

"Maybe another time." I said, walking away. "We could get a drink together sometime." I laughed, and walked into my house, locking the door behind me. But could have sworn that I saw the tiniest hint of a smile when I looked back.

I then walked up to my room, closing the door, even though I knew that no one was home. Suddenly, I was reminded of what my father had said to me. I didn't know why he was acting so strange. He never cares whether I am home or not, but yet he made such a big deal over it. And this whole trip for work this is making me kind of nervous. I mean, he goes on trips all the time and doesn't usually even say anything. But I know that something is different about this trip, but I just don't know what. And my head was still hurting to much too even think about the subject for too long. So I quietly took of my cloths and out some more comfortable ones on. Then, looking through my bag, I found my phone. When I turned it on, it was buzzing like crazy from all the messages that I had received. My eyes widened from all the messages and missed calls. I even had a few voice mains. And they were all from the same person.

Natsu.

Why would Natsu call me so many times? To figure out why, I looked through the messages to see why he tried to contact me so many times.

"Lucy, are you home?"

"Where are you?"

"Are you okay?"

"Please answer me."

"I just want to make sure that you're okay. I'm worried."

"Call me when you get these."

My eyes skimmed over all the messages, all of them saying summit things. Even the voice mails were all of him asking where I was. I sighed, but smiled and felt a warmness inside me at the thought of him thinking of me. I don't know why he was worried about Me, but he was worried. And I don't know why that made me so happy to think that he was thinking let alone worrying about me.

But I cleared my thoughts, and pressed the call button. It barely rang once before he picked up.

"Hey, Na-" I tried to say before he quickly yelled.

"LUCY!" He shouted. "Finally! Are you okay?! Why didn't you answer? Are you hurt? Are you-"

"I'm fine!" I had to yell for him to stop. "Really, I'm completely okay."

"Then why didn't you answer? Do you know how worried I was?!"

I sighed. "I just wasn't on my phone. It's been off since yesterday." Which isn't really a lie, but I just can't tell him the complete truth yet.

"Are you sick." He asked, concern in his voice.

"Um… Yeah, I guess you could say that."

"Oh. Do you need anything? Because I could come over-"

"I'm fine really. But if I need anything, I'll call."

"I'll be here when you need me." He said cheerfully. "I'll go so you can get some sleep. But don't forget to call!"

"Bye Natsu."

"Bye Lucy, talk to you soon." And I was smiling as I hung up. But I knew that if I didn't hang up, he would just find a way to start up conversation. And I wanted nothing more than to just take a nap. But of course, no matter how hard I tried, sleep just didn't happen.

My mind kept racing on what had happened. On what had supposedly happened with me and Sting freaked me out. How am I going to be able to face him again? Sure, I like Sting, but not in that kind of way. Besides, we don't even talk that much. The only time we ever really talk is when we're out at some kind of party, or the rare chance that we talk on the phone. But I just can't believe that I kissed him. I don't even remember it. Does he remember it? Im sure that he was pretty drunk as well, so be might not even remember what happened. I could be freaking out over nothing. That's it. He probably doesn't even remember. It's fine. It's going to be completely fine. I hope.

I kept on pondering over my situation for I don't even know how long. It could have been minutes or hours. I had no sense of time. But before I knew it, I was drifting off into sleep, and falling into a dream. A dream that wasn't only a dream, but instead, a memory:

I was there. It was that day. A day that I would never forget. I was young when it happened. But this day was a few years after, and I was a bit older.

I was standing over my mother's grave, as I do every year on the anniversary. I go and quietly stand in front of the gravestone, and I try my hardest to talk to my mother. I don't only go on the anniversary, but I used to go all the time. But this day was different. It was different because of my father.

My father became very different once my mother died. Since I was so young when she passed, I don't have many memories of her nor many memories of my father before she left. But once she did die, he acted much more stressed, and yelled more, and I just remember that I didn't want to be with him anymore. It felt that he didn't love me.

But that day was extremely hard. This day was always hard on my father, and he usually ignored me more then usual. Most of the time not even looking at me. But this time he did communicate to me, but not in a way I ever wanted.

Him screaming, yelling. Telling me that it was my fault. That I looked to much like her. He basically told me that he didn't love me anymore, if he even loved me at all. Although, that wasn't why this time was so much worse than usual. It was when he first started to get physical.

I was not crying or yelling. Just thinking it was all a dream. Was it my fault? Maybe I do deserve this? I'm sorry.

It hurt me emotionally so much that I didn't even want to visit my mother's grave. But I went anyway. when I got there, I couldn't say anything. Or do anything. The only thing I did do, was try to confront the bruise forming on my face. All I remember was that I didn't say a word that day, but all I did was cry. Cry over her death, my pain. Everything.

But once it was late, I knew I had to leave. But I know I didn't want to go home. How could I? After what happened. So I just walked out of the cemetery gates, my eyes and face red from tears. As I was walking out I accidentally bumped into someone. I barely managed a 'sorry' but instead looked up to see a women with light brown hair and who was a few years older than me.

"You okay there, Blondie?" She sleep. I said nothing. She looked at me and I knew that she knew something was up with me. But she didn't ask any questions. "You wanna come with me? You can stay at my place." I felt like I trusted this unknown women. So I followed her.

She took me to her apartment where it smelt of some type of substance. To which I soon learned was alcohol.

She didn't ask anything of me, but just made me realized and told me about her set. She said I could stay here, and that she would help me in anyway. I never met this woman before, but I trusted her. And it would be a long time before I ever trusted someone this much.

"Well, I'm Cana." She said. "What's your name?"

I looked at her, finally gaining enough energy to finally Introduce myself.

"I'm-"

"LUCY" was someone's lunatic voice that I was woken up to. I burst we up, confused as to what was going on.

I remembered my dream clearly, as I know exactly what moment in my life I was dreaming about. And was copied as to why I was dreaming of that.

"LUCY!" I heard again, and grunted as I gt up and went to my window which was the source of the sound.

Looking outside, I say a boy with salmon hair and a toothy grin.

"Natsu?" I asked, yelling down to him. "What are you doing?"

"I'm here to help you feel better!"

"What?"

"IM COMING IN."

I heard him say that so I slowly started to go to my front door to meet him downstairs, but once I made it to the door I heard his voice.

"Hey, Luce." There he was, sitting on my windowsill, acting like it was normal.

"KYAAAA!" I yelled. "Why did you come through the window?"

"It was quicker." He said, looking around my room. He looked around my room like someone looking at the stars. And realized that this is probably the first, or one of the very few times he's seen my room.

"Why are you at my house?"

"I brought some soup. It always makes me feel better when I'm sick."

I sighed. "I can make soup on my own."

"But it's much better when someone else makes it for you."

"I guess so…"

"Well I know so." He grinned.

He finally made me agree, and so we sat in the middle of my room and ate some soup. Natu's brought a basket with a blanket and two thermoses full of nice, warm soup.

He asked me some questions about why I wasn't answering yesterday, and I told him that I had it off because I slept through the day. I told him not to worry and finally got him to stop bugging me about it.

I was laying on my floor, with a pillow that Natsu graciously placed down for me, and I could feel myself getting tired once again. Natsu brought me over medicine, to make me feel better. And I couldn't exactly say no, so I took some, and it's not like it'll kill me. But it was like just in one moment the medicine made me so tired. IN one instant it felt like I would pass out any second.

"Luce."

"Hmh…?"

"Why don't you let me come to your house more often."

I hesitated, my head already falling back into sleep mode. "I don't know." I said quietly. "But it's not a place you want to be…" and then I fell back into dream land. But as I was drifting off, I was sure that I heard him say something.

"I can protect you." I swear I heard his voice. "You can trust me."

Can I? Can I trust anyone?

Maybe I can trust you. But I can't trust myself. I can't bring you into my mess. I can't do that to you. So distancing myself is my only option.

Can I really trust you…

This chapter was a little shorter than usual, but I hope that you can all forgive me lol. I have been having a lot of fun writing this, and since I have a snow day today I plan on writing a lot so hopefully I can publish a another chapter soon.

Thanks for reading:)