Hello readers! Wow look at me, I'm posting another chapter just a few days after the last time. So this time you all don't have to wait a month to read the next chapter lol. I've been writing a lot so far this weekend, and I have so many good ideas for this fic, and others. I really wanna find the time to write som one shots, so I'm hoping to do that.

Also, did anyone notice the Melanie Martinez reference in the title?

I love this chapter, and I think you guys are really going to like it. Anyway, let's get onto the chapter:)

Natsu's POV

Sometimes things happen in life, and you have no control over it. Sometimes life just fucks you up, and all you can do is sit there and take the punches. Although, it's not easy. It's not easy to just sit there and watch as everything falls apart, but sometimes that's all you can do. Because there isn't anything you can do about it. Or maybe, maybe you just aren't strong enough.

Either way, it just happens. Weather you try to do something or not, it's going to fuck you up. Because sometimes life is really good. Sometimes it's really fucking good. And everything is happening the way it's suppose to happen. It's like you're finally getting a storybook ending. Your happily ever after.

But those don't exist.

Not really. Nothing really happens the way it's suppose to. You think that everything is going okay, and then in just a moment, just one tiny moment, everything is ruined. And all you can do is sit there and do nothing but watch it fall apart.

But what do you do? What do you do after everything is done falling apart. Do you move on? Do you just wait for more things to fall apart? Do you try to fix everything, in hope to put everything back together?

But you can't really do all that. Because life doesn't just go back to normal after something like this. No matter how hard you try, it won't ever go back to normal. And you won't ever be the same.

But somehow, we have to move on. Or at least try to move on. Try to pretend that everything's okay again, and that you're not sad anymore.

It's okay to be sad, though. When something so heart wrenching happen, it's okay to be sad. But how long is it okay for that to be? Because, you can be sad, and sit there in your shadow alone and cry. But sooner or later, you have to get up. Get up, and go to work, or school, go out, see people. At some point you really do have to move on, even if you're not ready to.

You have to move on.

You have to move on.

You have to move on.

I have to move on.

"Hey, Natsu." Someone nudged my shoulder. I looked up to see Gray.

"Yeah?" I asked.

"Uh, the bell just rung. School's over."

"Oh." I said. "Okay." I guess I didn't hear the bell ring. I must have been thinking too much. Or maybe I just wasn't thinking at all.

"Come on." Gray said, and picked up some of my books, and we both left the classroom. "Do you need to go to your locker?"

"No, not really."

He nodded. "Let's go meet everyone else at the front." Usually, after the last bell rings, Gray brings me to the front of the school, and we meet up with everyone else. And I understand why, I mean, they all are sad, and feel bad for me. They think I don't talk to anyone anymore because I'm sad, but it's really just because I can't deal with them looking at me with pitty. I can't deal with everyone asking me "how are you?" in that tone that they know you aren't, yet they ask anyway. I just can't deal with all the pity. I just can't deal.

At some point between walking and thinking, or lack thereof, I saw the group of people. Erza, Levy, Gajeel, juvia, Lisanna is there whenever she can make it. The whole group of them.

"Hey, Natsu." I heard Levy say, and I nodded my head in response, not in the mood to really talk.I saw that Gray gave the rest of the group a certain look, but I don't really take a huge notice to it. Since they have been giving each other these look a lot lately.

"Hey, Erza." Gray said. "Why don't we both help bring Natsu home." I heard her agree, but I just sighed. I mean, I know that they are just being nice, but I really don't think that I need a babysitter to take me home. I can get home perfectly fine by myself. Yet I never argued about it.

"Come on, Natsu." She said nicely, almost too nicely. And all I could do was nod, and I waved goodbye to everyone else as the three of us walked over to Grays car. Gray has been kind enough to drive me to school most days, because if I'm being honest, if someone didn't force me to go, I wouldn't go at all.

So the three of us got in his car, and we sat in silence for most of the ride. Once we got to my house, which took all but a few minutes, I began to get out, and I saw that Erza and Gray did as well.

"You guys don't have to come in with me." I said. "I can get into my house fine on my own."

They have each other a look. "We know." Said Gray. "We just-"

"Were coming in with you." Erza said, and I knew better than to argue with her, besides, I didn't have the energy too anyway.

So the three of us walked in, and the first thing I did was throw my stuff down and I walked into the kitchen.

As soon as I walked in, I automatically looked at the stove, and couldn't help but picture someone standing there, cooking.

"You okay?" Erza said. I didn't even realize that she was here.

"Y-yeah. I'm good." I said. "Do you two want anything to drink?"

"Yeah, I'll help you get some. Gray," she called loudly. "Can you turn on the tv."

"Sure." He called back, and me and Erza were busy getting the drinks and glasses, the tv playing on in the background

"-o one has heard any more information on the case. It is still a mystery on the case of the missing Heartfilia's, as no one had seen nor heard from them in four weeks since they have gone miss-"

I didn't realize I had a glass in my hand until I heard it fall or of my hand.

"Natsu!" Erza yelled in surprise. "Natsu?"

My eyes were wide, and I couldn't help it. But I shook my head and tried to calm down.

"Gray!" She yelled.

He ran in. "I'm sorry! It's just- I just turned it on… and the news… it's-it's Just everywhere."

I still said nothing, and the tension in the air was high.

"Natsu-"

"I'm fine." I said before Erza could finish her sentence. "I'm fine, guys. Really. Just, I don't want to talk about it."

"Natsu, it's been four weeks. Maybe we should talk an-"

"No."

"Nat-"

"I'm not talking about it. I don't need to talk it."

"You're going to have to at one point."

"No I'm not."

She sighed. "Look, Natsu. You're not the only one upset about this. We all are. Okay, it's hard on all of us."

"It's not the same."

"Wha-"

"Just shut up, Natsu." Gray said harshly.

"Gray!"

"What? It's true. Just shut up." He looked at me. "It's all hard on us. Okay, we all dealing with this shit. So don't act like you're the only one who upset."

"I didn't say that I was-"

"You might have well had. We know it's hard on you, and he'll, maybe it is hardest on you. But you're not the only one affected by all this."

"You don't understand-"

"Don't understand?" He practically laughed. "We all understand too well, Natsu. But you can't just shut down because of it. We won't let you."

I felt my eyes burn, but I ignored it. "What do you want me to do? Just move on? Just forget everything?"

"Don't give up." Ezra's voice chimed in. "None of us will give up."

I didn't know what to say or do.I know that they mean well. And I know that's it's hard on them too. I sure as hell know that it's they don't understand . They didn't see it.

"911 what's your emergency?"

"I just- I just went over to her house. And she's not here- and just- there's blood- a lot of blood and-"

"Sir, sir, please calm down. What happened?"

"I don't- I don't know. There's just blood and she's not here. And nobody can find her-"

"Where are you? Where's your location?"

"I'm at 7-"

"Where is she?" I yelled. I couldn't focus on anything else.

"Natsu!" Gray yelled, trying to hold me back from throwing something. "Just calm down!"

"Calm down? How am I supposed to calm down?"

"Were all scared, Natsu. We're all worried. We just need to get through this together." Juvia put her hands on Grays shoulder, as tears rolled down her face.

I looked around the room and I saw everyone.

Gajee was trying to comfort Levy, as he himself was trying not to seem upset.

Gray and juvia were trying to comfort each other.

Erza was trying her best to keep everyone together, but her herself breaking down, and crying along with Lisanna and her sister, Mira. Everyone trying to be strong.

"I just got her." I said, and everyone stopped and looked at me as I spoke quietly. "I just got her. And now I lost her."

"I lost her, Gray." Tears formed in my eyes, and my friend looked at me with sadness. "I only just had her." Tears fell, and I couldn't stop them.

"Natsu…" he spoke quietly and carefully. "We'll get her back."

"You don't know that."

"Don't say things like that!" Erza complained. "Don't think like that."

"It's true." I said, wiping my eyes. "You can't just promise me that she'll just magically come back. Magic doesn't exist. She can't just pop up. We don't know where she is. It's been four weeks, and there had been no sign, or word from them. Sooner or later, we just," I took a deep breathe. "We have to face the facts."

No one said anything, but just soaked up the words that I spoke. No one wanted to believe them. Fuck, I don't want to. I can't. I need to hope, but, how can you hope when there's nothing to hope for?

How can you keep hold of hope, when there is nothing to hold onto?

What happens next?

What do I do?

How can, how can I just go about and live my life, and act like everything's normal and fine. Nothing is normal. Nothing Is fine. I have so many questions. Questions that I don't know if they will ever be answered.

"I didn't know you were one to give up, Salamander." A new, but familiar voice came in.

"Gajeel?" Erza asked. "How'd you get in?"

"I saw you three through the window, and the door was open." He said to her, and then looked back to me. "Why are you giving up?"

"Giving up…?"

"Never give up. That's what you taught me. So why are you giving up now?"

"I- I don't k-"

"Don't just give up. Don't lose something so special to you."

I took a deep breathe. "I don't know what to do."

"Keep fighting. Keep looking. Just don't give up."

"Gajeel…" Erza said.

"We'll help you." Gray chimed in. "We won't give up as long as you won't."

I nodded my head slightly, but my heart wasn't in it.

"I won't give up." I said. "I'll never give up on her. I just, I just need time. I need to think of what I can do. I just- I need time."
"Yeah, yeah, that' fine." Erza said nicely, putting a hand on my shoulder. "I think we all need some time. We'll figure this out."

We'll figure this out.

It seemed impossible that we would ever figure it out.

I just don't know what's going on. I don't have any answers to any of the questions I have.I'm just so lost, and so… afraid. Afraid that I'll never find out what happened. Afraid that I will figure out what happened, and not like it. I'm just afraid. And this is really the first time that I ever have been truly afraid.

At some point, later that evening, everyone that was in my house left, and I was once again alone. Even happy was sad. Like he just knew something was wrong. He wasn't eating as much, and wasn't playing as much as he used to. He just wasn't acting like happy anymore.

I would tell him everyday that It'll be okay, weather he can understand me or not. But I somehow believe that he finds a way to always understand me, even if he can't say anything to me back.

So I just laid on my couch, which is where I usually sleep, just not wanting to go back into my room. And I was petting Happy, trying to make him as happy as I could possibly make him. But the something out of the usual happened.

My phone started ringing.

Confused, and very curious, I grabbed my phone, but the caller was blocked, so I had no idea who was calling.

I picked it up anyway, and could barely even squeak out a hello before the person started talking.

"Are you Natsu?" A woman's voice asked.

"Ye-"
"Good." her voice sounded serious. "I'm cana. I want to take to you about Lucy."

Cana and Natsu? What is Cana going to say to him? How is Natsu going to react to her?
You all going to have to wait and see haha.

Thanks for reading:)