Lucy pov

I felt my stomach turn again. I couldn't breath almost. It was her. The girl who dispised me the most. Who made me cry a million times and spread a million rumors about me behind my back.

Lissana Strauss.

"Hey natsu!" she said in a sugar coated voice. Natsu smiled at her. I looked at the two. Natsu looked happy, but not compared to lissana. She was practically bursting with joy at the seams.

Lissana kept glaring at me when she wasn't fawning over natsu.

"Hey lissana. Longtime no see" he held his hand out. Like he did to me. But she squealed and hugged him. It caught him by surprise.

"I missed you!" She said in that voice again. It sickened me. He pulled away. And smiled nervously. "Natsu you never called me when you were gone" they continued on talking about each other.

I walked away since I couldn't stand it anymore.

One of the girls bumped into me. She scoffed. "Watch it" she spout. "Sorry.." I said and continued walking. I looked back, natsu was talking to lissana. Not noticing I left.

I opened my locker. Erza approached me, giving me a look. She looked towards natsu and lissana. She scoffed. "By the way,I never liked lissana. She's a fake" she said. I could tell it was a try to cheer me up.

"Yeah.. She is" I said. And shut my locker. Erza leaned against the locker.

"Come on Lucy." She said and walked away. I stood there. And stared at the two. I watched as lissana and natsu walked together, talking to each other non stop.

She stopped when she noticed I wasn't behind her. I looked at natsu and lissana one last time. And finally went with erza.

A week later at gym and class, natsu didn't bother following me around like usual. A couple of times he'd tried talking to me. But lissana was forever holding on to him

In gym he wanted to play with me.

"Natsu! Let's go and play over here."

She grabbed his arm and dragged him across the room. I looked for erza and played with her until the game started. Erza kept looking over me and at the two.

I decided to ignore them. They aren't important to me anyway.

In class natsu wanted to be partners with me for a project.

"Natsu can you please be my partner? Becky doesn't want to be mine"

I sighed. And looked at the text book. Natsu held my arm "I'll see you after" he smiled and let go of me. I waved and smiled. I could already see lissana glaring at me again.

They sat two desks away. Lissana kept laughing like everything was funny. Natsu slightly laughed. But he kept looking over to me. I had to go alone since erza was in a different class for the moment.

At the end of the day natsu didn't walk home with me

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Two weeks later we were finally able to go back to the arcade. I went with erza and jellal again. I saved enough money to buy tokens.

I sat in the stool. The arcade wasn't packed, so we were lucky this time. I was playing pac-man. I pressed one player instead of two. Erza and jellal were having a dance off somewhere in the room.

I continued playing. I kept losing. But my high score was finally rising more and more. It made me happy.

I moved on to a different game and played a few rounds. I heard the Bell on the door jingle. I looked and seen natsu. I waved and he looked at me.

"Hey Luce" he approached me. I smiled and continued playing. "Woah you're good at this" I laughed. At the moment I lost. But I had the highscore.

I spinned around and faced natsu. "So. What brings you here?" I said. He looked around. "Nothing. It's boring everywhere and I heard you were coming here so.."

"So..me?"

He nodded. "Let's play then. Since you're here" he smiled. "Bring it" I smirked, so did he. We ran to the front and got natsu some tokens to play.

We versed on pac-man.

I ended up winning. I celebrated my victory sharing pizza with the 3 of them. Natsu bought the pizza since well..I made a deal with him.

I smiled innocently at natsu from across the table. He growled in annoyance. "I shouldn't have agreed to that deal."

"You're the one who made it!" It was true. He did. I said if I won he has to buy me pizza. If he won I would buy more tokens for him, over 500 at least he said.

"Don't be such a sore loser natsu" erza said with a mouthful of pizza. "I agree." Jellal took another sip of his soda.

"Ah. I'm so stuffed. I'm going home" I said and got up. Everyone else stood up and left out the door with me. "I had fun erza. See you tomorrow!" I said and waved at the two.

Jellal and erza waved back and went the other direction. Soon it was just me and natsu. I stood outside. "Can I walk you home?" He asked me.

I nodded and walked away. Natsu followed behind me.

"That was fun. I hope we could do that again."

"Yeah we should" natsu stretched his arms out and breathed out. "But no more deals." I laughed. "Okay." He laughed too.

It went quiet. We crossed the street and went on the side walk. "Natsu.." I said. He looked at me. "What was the real reason you came to the arcade?"

"Oh that? Um..lissana was suppose to meet me there. But she canceled last minute"

"Oh.." I said and looked at the ground. I knew there was something that had lissana involved. "Is..she nice to you?" I asked. I never heard of lissana being nice, to her friends, no one.

"Yeah she is. She always gives me the leftovers of her lunch and stuff like that… "

I smiled. But inside I felt..jealous? It made me feel weird whenever I heard natsu talking about her. But I was the one who made him talk about it just now.

I breathed in and looked at the stars. They were barely coming out. But they were still shining bright.

"Lucy? What does it mean... if my chest tightens?"

I looked at him. He stopped and looked at me next. "What do you mean by that?" I asked him. He sighed and shrugged his shoulders.

"Like..whenever I think about or i'm around lissana. My chest automatically tightens. Is it like a disease or?"

It made me laugh. He looked at me dead serious. I stopped and smiled. "I think it means you like her" I smiled again.

Realisation went in my head. I felt that same feeling before. But mixed with me feeling like I'm losing something.

"Really?" He stared at me for an answer. "Well is it…a good way or a bad way?" I asked him. "A..good?" He said. I nodded my head. His eyes widened and he went red. Like a tomato red.

"Oh.." He said and covered his mouth. I felt my gut twist instead of turning. And I couldn't help but feel…

Jealous?..

I ignored it and tried to be happy for natsu. "Natsu do you know what this means?" He shook his head. He stared at the ground. "You have a crush!" I exclaimed.

He kept staring at the ground.

"Well..what now? What does that mean?" He said. I smiled. "That means you like her." I put my hand on his arm. He looked at me. "So.. Do I ask her out?"

It was like a sharp pain through the heart when I heard those words.

"If..you want. It's really up to you"

I waited for his answer. He made a face. "Nah. I like me and lissana..like this I guess. Just for now though" I mentally sighed.

When I got home. I felt confused and everything at once. I didn't know how to feel really. I felt jealous of lissana I knew that.

Not of natsu though.. I hope.

I sat on the floor of my room hugging a pillow. I felt my chest tightened as well. I couldn't face the facts. I think its my hatred of lissana.

I didn't want my friends getting mixed up with lissana. I don't want them to go what I went through. I never wanted to trouble my friends.

I sighed. I ignored everything I was feeling. Every last bit of it.

I sat in my room thinking. I should probably ignore these feelings until.. Whenever. I should focus on my friendship with erza and natsu. Not some petty feelings of hatred.

If lissana likes natsu back. I'll be happy for natsu. More than happy.

I hugged the pillow tight.

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I guess I'll be putting in nighters again for the next chapter.

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