Hiya! Yes, I apologize for the very long update but I have been very busy lately (more like whenever I had the chance to write a chapter I'd do something else sound more like it) and had a small writers block. Sorry for the short chapter, but I only really wanted to have one scene in here since I'm not too fond of making two and the scene itself wasn't supposed to be that long anyway. Again, sorry for the late update, I'm going to try harder next time to update this earlier (of course once my other stories have been updated.) Thanks for those who reviewed, favorite, and followed last chapter! Please leave a review and favorite! Farewell and Enjoy!

-Let there be midnight

Me No Own Fairy Tail

The Attic's Little Secret—

Live With Me!

"We can't just leave him hear alone, but what we can do is let him live with me."

"What do you mean?" Erza looked straight at her with confusion lacing her features, pushing a strand of scarlet hair behind her ear.

"Since we can't leave him here like Gray said, he can live with me." Lucy explained once more, thinking she got her point across to them.

"I don't follow." Loke said with a shake of his head. Lucy sighed and rolled her eyes a bit.

"I live alone, right? Well, I've got a guess bedroom in my apartment that he could stay in and it'll be nice having someone else there to keep me company, it'll just be like having a little brother!" she explained happily. Erza, Gray, and Loke looked at each other as they thought about it before turning towards Lucy who was already fantasying what she and her new "little brother" were going to do when they go back home.

"It is the best suggestion, but are you sure you'll be able to support both you and him?" Erza asked, Lucy's fantasy breaking like glass as she was suddenly slumped over with a dark cloud over her head.

"I'll have to work extra hours…" she said somberly, her friends' sweetdropping at the suddenly mood change coming from the blonde.

"I'm sure we can help out…" Loke tried to reassure, but it didn't work out as Lucy was still calculating the cost in her head and how much food she would probably have to spend a month, plus the clothing she would have to give him. The prices kept getting higher and higher in her head making the depressing cloud hanging over her get even far more depressing.

Everyone except for Lucy looked up towards the sound of soft feet walking towards them. Cautiously and like a small child, Natsu peered around the corner with wide eyes only to step back a bit as if to hide himself when he saw the three looking at him and the depressed Lucy.

"I see you're awake." Erza said kindly, putting on her sweet smile as she waved the pink haired teen over who watched her movements closely. "Would you like to join us?" she added when she saw that he didn't make a move towards the open seat next to Gray. Slowly, almost too slow, Natsu moved forward but kept a cautious eye on the four of them until he was seated on the couch and squished as far as he could against the armrest. Natsu fiddled with his thumbs nervously as he also bit his lip, his mismatched eyes zooming to everyone in the room like a hummingbird.

"So, Natsu," Erza started, leaning a forward as she placed both her forearms on her knees. Natsu shrank backwards into the couch, thinking that she was far too close to his comfort. "I wanna ask you a few things, do you mind?" she asked with a tilt of her head. Natsu shyly shook his head. "Okay, first do you hate living here by yourself?" She waited patiently for him to answer, which took a few moments.

"I hate it… scary noises come when it's dark, I get really lonely when it's light, I get really cold when everything's white, and I'm always hungry…" he answered softly, moving his gaze to his lap, then deciding that it wasn't safe yet to do it, the mismatched eyes went to Erza again. Erza nodded, acting like she understood completely when in fact, she really didn't understand.

"Alright, I understand that. Then since you don't like it here, how 'bout you live with our friend Lucy here." Upon hearing her name Lucy looked up with the depressing cloud instantly disappearing, blinking her brown eyes at Erza in confusion before realization dawned on her when she caught sight of the timid Natsu, nodding her head as she suddenly smiled brightly.

"It'll be so much fun living together, we'll be like a family!" she said happily, forgetting about all the cost she had calculated in her head just seconds ago. "We'll do so much fun stuff that you'll never be bored! But you will be alone when I have to go to school, and I guess I can have you come to work with me, maybe you'll even get to help out!" she added, Natsu blinking at her owlishly as it took him a minute to process what she just said.

"I-I don't know what to think…" Natsu said truthfully, feeling a bit conflicted with his emotions. He was excited by the fact that he was going to finally leave the house that he has never left and he was scared all the same. He didn't know how he'll do with change, he didn't know what would happen since he didn't really actually think that there was another world outside from what he seen through the grimy windows, just thinking about it made him curious and afraid. What would he see? How many people would be there? Would it be dark or bright? He didn't know.

"It's alright; you have some time to think about it since we'll be staying here for two weeks." Erza said, catching his attention, Natsu's head snapping up to look at her. He felt his shoulders relax at that, relieved that he wasn't being forced into something he still didn't know about far too soon before he actually figured out what was going to happen fully.

"In the meantime, I think we should be getting to bed seeing as it's almost 2 A.M." Gray piped up, standing up and stretching his arms way above his head and yawning, his eyes closing as he did. Natsu watched with wide owl-like eyes as the others proceeded to stand up and agree with the raven haired teen. He watched their movements as they started to leave, Loke being the first one to notice that Natsu hadn't at all gotten up from his squeezed in position on the couch.

"Aren't you tired?" Loke asked curiously, the others stopping in their movements to turn around a look. Natsu shrunk at the sudden looks, his skin itching since he wasn't used to this many people at once, plus them all looking at him made him feel even more uncomfortable than just their presences.

"I-I'm fine…" he mumbled, voice barely audible. Loke looked behind him to see Erza giving him a nod of the head, telling him silently to let him be since she didn't want Natsu to feel suffocated by their presence.

"Alright, see you in the morning." Loke bid his farewell as they exited the room and went upstairs, Loke having to go to the second guest room since his room was trashed from the earlier events.

Downstairs, still sitting on the couch, Natsu relaxed fully from his tight and squeezed in position, drawing up his knees to his chest as he buried his head in-between the space of his knees and chest.

"Natsu-chan confused…" his voice whispered like a small child would, barely there but at the same time loud as it echoed in the room. Outside the owl hooted once before it went silent and flew off, the night becoming an eerily with the silence that coated it like a thick layer of paint.