Hello readers! I hope that everyone has had a good weekend so far since it's Sunday right now. And it's only been four days since I published the last chapter, but there were so many good reviews that I just HAD to post a new chapter today! So sorry that it's a little shorter than usual, but I hope you all enjoy it:)

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Dark Horse: I's so happy that you enjoyed the chapter! And maybe your question will be answered one day...? There is a whole lot that Natsu doesn't know about (poor Natsu lol.)

Otaku Sophie: Will Natsu ever find about Lucy's secret? I guess you will just have to wait for more chapters to come out mwahaha. And trust me, there will be a WHOLE LOT more Nalu in future chapters. Nalu is my #1 ship so of curse there are going to be cute (maybe even sexy...) Nalu moments. But thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy this chapter:)

Packer4Lyf: Yeah, Lucy is pretty OC in this fic, although I guess it's just the plot of the story that makes her like that. And I've just always loved fics like these that are 'darker' and deal with more darker themes, so I just wanted to try to write one myself. So thank you for reading, and I hope you like the chapter:)

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Chapter 13

Waking up the next morning to the annoying beeping sound of my alarm was not my favorite way to wake up. It took me a few moments to remember where I was and what day it was. I looked around to see that I was in fact in my bed, and my covers were wrapped around me, although I have no memory of getting into my bed in the first place . But I dismissed the thought as I got out of bed and decided that I needed to get ready.

I did my normal morning routine, but as I was walking around my room I found a written note by the side of my bed. I picked it up and read the sloppy handwriting slowly.

I hope you get a nice rest, and I'll see you at school tomorrow :)

-Natsu

I smiled slightly at the note, feeling warmth inside because he was worried about me. I still couldn't Believe that he came all the way to my house last night. When did he leave though? He must have left right I had fallen asleep. I don't even remember falling asleep, though.

Suddenly, fear went through my head. Did he go down the window like he did to get in? Or did he go down into my actual house? I was hoping that he went through the window because I don't want him to see my house. Firstly, I hate people coming to my house, Secondly,it's more than likely not very neat at all.

And I confirmed the second fact by going downstairs and seeing the meaty living room. Given, it wasn't as messy as it usual is. But there was still a few empty beer cans on the floor. This is also the first time I've been here since my father left for the business trip. Which I'm still worried about, because I have absolutely no idea why he was acting so strange, but I have plenty of other things to worry about.

I started walking into the kitchen trying to get ready for school when I accidentally stepped on something. I looked down to see a small square box, and I picked it up to take a closer look, curious to see what it was.

Cigarettes. That was the first word that I saw printed on the tiny box. It was a mostly filled box of of cigarettes, and only about one or two were missing from what I could tell. Why is there a pack of cigarettes in my house? It must have been my father's, but I've never seen him smoke before. But maybe that was just another thing I didn't know about him. It's not like I know that much about him in the first place.

I stopped thinking about it and put the pack in my book bag in one of the pockets . And Then quickly packed everything else in my bag, hoping that I have enough time to get ready.

I looked at the time, and realized that my bus would be here any second. So I quickly got my stuff and raced outside, and he bus was just stopping In front of my house.

I Hopped on to it and then saw my group of lovely friends in the back.

"Hey, Luce." Natsu yelled, jumping out of his seat.

"Good morning, Natsu." I replied softly.

"Lu-Chan!" Levy whinnied. "We haven't hung out in a while."
"We hung out at the Halloween thing." I said.

"That's not the same, though."
she sighed. And she wasn't wrong, I've missed hanging out with her like we used to, but both of us are just busy and can't hang out as often anymore. "Your right." I said. "I Guess I have just been a bit busy lately."
"Not too busy to not hang out with me!" Natsu cheered.

"So you had time to hang out with him and not your best friend." she said as her arms were crossed around her small body.
"That was not my fault!" I defended myself.

"Ice freak! Stop looking at me!"
"I'm not looking at you flame head!"

I couldn't help but sigh as I heard those two fighting yet again. Honestly, they are in high school, they should be more mature than this. But I guess that that's just what made them them. And I would be lying if I said that things wouldn't be boring if they weren't like that.

Then once again, this bus ride was going to be filled with yelling and fighting. And all from our little group of people. No wonder why we don't get along with the other people in school. We are all just too loud and annoying.

Luckily we have Erza, and she is able to calm everyone down. Without her, i'm sure that Natsu and Gray would have torn down the school building by now. But thanks to her that hasn't happened… yet.

So we spent the the rest of the ride talking quietly with one another. This time I sat with Natsu because he practically begged me too. He's been all over me for a while, which i'm not really complaining about, I'm just surprised that's all. And I do enjoy being with him, even though he can be a bit hard to deal with at times. He is very loud and happens to destroy things when he gets angry. But he is a very sweet and nice person at heart. He loves all of his friends, and he tries his best to make sure that everyone is happy. He is always there whenever i'm sad, and he just always makes me feel better when he's around. He just makes me… happy.

Natsu pulled me out of my trace, causing me to me to blush slightly for some reason. And like always, we walked into the school building like usual. And so the school day began.

The beginning of the school day was the same as always. We all went to our normal classes, and I did my work and wrote my notes. It was all very normal and boring. Just going to class after class, and trying my best to write good notes. Also knowing that someone is probably going to was to copy off the notes that I took. Which I don't mind, as long as all my friends pass their classes I'm fine with them coping of my stuff. What are friends for?

Also like usual, throughout the day Natsu and I would walk passed each other and we and he would yell hello at me. Even if he was across the hall, he didn't care who heard, he would always say something to me.

And like we usually do, we walk down together down to lunch to wear we would be meeting up with everyone else.

Then, when I got down to lunch was when things started to feel slightly strange.

Everything was fine, although I started getting a headache right before lunch had started. I didn't think much of it, and decided to just let it be and figured it would get better over time.

It didn't.

It started hurting even worse. Like a pounding in my head. It hurt so bad I could barely hear anyone around me. Like the whole world was muffled.

So I quickly mumbled something along the lines of "i'm going to the bathroom." hoping that they wouldn't think anything of it. So I ran to the bathroom and quickly got into one of the stalls.

Once I was in the stall I could think about nothing else but the pulsing headache that was causing me to murmur in pain. No one ever uses this bathroom, since it was the older one so I was hoping that no one would walk in.

I don't know why my head was hurting so much, but I could barely concentrate long enough to even think of an explanation. All I knew was that it hurt. A lot.

I didn't know how much time had passed, but what could have been hours or seconds later, someone knocked on the bathroom door.

Knock knock knock. Then a voice. "Yo, bunny girl, you okay?"

I could hear the words softly over the pounding of my head, and guessed it was Gajeel by how they called me.

"Bunny girl," he said again. "Come out."

"Gajeel?" I said softly, not knowing if he heard me.

"Yeah it's me." I don't know how he heard me because I talked so quietly, but I guess he just has good hearing. "Just come out."

For some reason, I trusted him, and slowly began to walk out. When I opened the door out of the ladies room I practically fell out and he luckily caught me.

"Whoa, Lucy, you okay?" He asked. I couldn't answer so I just nodded my head. He said something else, but I didn't know what, and then we started walking somewhere, but I couldn't tell where we were going until I sat down.

We were back at the secret garden. Or at least, that's what I liked to call it.

"Gajeel." I whispered. "Why are we here."

"Here." He said, handing me something. "Drink this." And so I did, and I barely noticed the burning taste going down my throat. After I drank it, I started to feel a lot better.

"Feel better?" He asked, and I nodded once again, as I saw him take a sip as well.

"Thanks." I said.

"No problem."

"So." I said quietly. "How did you know I was in there?"

"I saw you walk out and knew exactly what was going on."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"I can just tell."

"Tell what?" And what did you give me."

"Do you really want to know?"

I Didn't say anything, and just leaned back so that my back was against the wall. We both say in silence for a while, neither of us needing to say anything. We just sat in a comfortable, but slightly tense silence.

I just tried to think about what happened before when I was in the bathroom. And tried to figure out why I felt so sick, and what caused my head to hurt that much. But nothing came to mind, and I just sat there curious about everything.

"Should we start to go back to class." I asked him.

"You can if you want to."

I looked at him strangely. "You're not going back to class?"

"Nope."

"You're gonna fail."

"No I'm not."

"Pft, whatever you want to believe." I said,getting up. "I can't be making a habit of missing class after lunch." I knew that if I started doing that more often it would cause me to develop a bad habit of skipping class. "What time is it anyway?"

He looked at his watch. "1:30"

"1:30?" I said. "We only have one class left until school ends."

"That's why it's not worth it to go to class." He said, obviously not having any interest in going back to class.

"What do you do then?" I curiously asked.

"What do you mean?"

"When you don't go to class. What do you do? Where do you go?"

He seemed to be thinking something over. Almost like he was thinking of he should tell me or not. "Depends. Sometimes I just stay here, sometimes I leave the building in general. I can go wherever I want."

I didn't know what to say, so I just nodded.

I tried to think the situation over in my head, trying to think over whether I should go to my last class, or say fuck it and leave. I knew that the right choice was to stay. To just go back to class and make some lame excuse if someone asks where I was. I could just be the good girl that everyone knows I am.

Or I could leave. I could just walk out and do whatever I wanted. Which the bad girl in me wanted to do more than nothing. I've always like breaking the rules, going against he cried so to stay. But I never really do it. At least, not with the fiends I know from school.

At school I'm always polite and nice, and I always get good grades. The teachers always love me, and I'm one of the best kids in the school.

But when I'm out at night. With Cana, or at a party where no one knows me. That's when I feel it. The adrenaline going through my body. Doing all different kinds of things. Meeting new, interesting people. Partying, having fun, doing things that make me feel better. I loved that. And it's a part of me that I know I can't tell people. I keep it to myself, and that's how I like it. I have two sides of me, two personalities. And each personalities needs to stay on there side with their group.

The only people that even know about my lives are Cana and Bacchus. Gajeel knows too, but he barely knows anything so he doesn't really count.

But Cana is really the only one I trust with talking about anything. I know that I can trust her. I think that she's really the only person that I can really trust.

And while thinking this all over, I made my decision.

"Fuck it." I said, and turned toward Gajeel. "So where do you want to go."

"Wh-what? You are actually skipping class again?" He sounded surprised.

"Yeah, I mean there's only one more class, no point in going back." I said casually. "So, how do we leave without anyone finding out?"

He basically lite up, and smiled widely. "Follow me."

I laughed quietly, and quickly nodded and followed him.

We started walking towards the other side of the garden to where there was a door which I haven't noticed before. I thought that it was strange that it was there, but I didn't think much of it. So we walked out of the door and surprisingly we were in a familiar looking place.

We were in the special place that Cana would meet me at.

"This is a creepy place that I use to get out of here." He says. "Basically no one knows about this place."

I didn't say anything for a few moments, still unsure of what I should say.

"Hey Gajeel." I finally said, my voice held a question.

"Yeah?"

"How did you find out about this place?" I curiously asked him.

"Someone told me about it."

"Who?" I asked. "Who told you about it?"

"From a friend."

Yeah, this chapter wasn't too exiting, but I needed this chapter to be a little "boring" to set up more exiting things to happen in the future. Anyways, I hope you all liked it, and please to leave a review if you did.
Thanks for reading!:)