Lucy pov

I opened my eyes. The room had poor lighting. I scanned the room. Erza was asleep at my feet. Jellal had his eyes closed and was sitting in a chair. Levy was also passed out by my feet.

I sat up. Erza jumped up. She scared me "Lucy?!" She said. Waking up the other two. I smiled. Erza jumped at me and hugged me. So did levy. "Lucy!" Levy hugged me tighter.

"Don't do that to us again!" Erza said as she sniffled into my shoulder. "I won't.." I hugged them back. Jellal stared at me and smiled. I felt pain shock through my stomach.

I flinched and groaned. They both let go and sat back. "Sorry" levy said. I grabbed my stomach. "What happened?" I asked her. She frowned and sighed. She grabbed the chair behind her and sat down.

"Lissana.. Beat you.."

"You had some internal bleeding.. They did surgery on you the other day. It.. Shouldn't leave a scar"

Levy handed me a mirror. I grabbed it and looked into it. My reflection bounced off, I seen my self with my head in bandages. I lifted my shirt up, it was all wrapped up too. The memories came back.

I remember now.

"Lu-chan.."

I gave it back to her. I sighed. "What did I do to deserve this?" I said. "Where… did I go wrong in life?" I asked. They all stared at me, their eyes dim and their smiles were gone. "What did.. I do?" I whispered. I wanted to cry.

"Lucy"

"Just… what did I do wrong"

I started crying. "Nothing. You did nothing wrong" erza hugged me. I cried into her shoulder. She did too.

After what seemed an eternity of silence and tears we stopped. I wiped my face of the tears I cried.

"Natsu.. Came here by the way" I wiped my face. Levy smiled at me nervously. "He left you some flowers.." I looked to the side and seen a bouquet of flowers sitting in a vase of water.

"I kicked him out." Erza said. She smiled. "I let him in for a bit though. Jellal.. Held me back" I looked at my lap. "How long have I been out?" Again they all looked down. "About 2 days.. From shock" I felt like something was taken away from me. time.

"Natsu.. Left you a note too. Well.. A letter" Erza handed me a peice of paper. I opened it. They all left the room. Shutting the door behind them. I breathed in before I started reading.

"dear Lucy,

I'm sorry I can't say this in person. I'm probably a coward for not facing you. But I wanted to say a few things. Without you interrupting me. I didn't want to see your face either. I'd cry if I do.

1)I'm sorry. I'm sorry, for all of it. Leaving you. Hurting you. Making you sad. I shouldn't have done that, ever.I' be able to make up for it. But I'm sorry. And I'm not asking for your forgiveness either. But I'm sorry.

2) I'm trying hard to forget about lissana. I can't forgive her either. Not for what she's done to you. And erza told me everything. From when it started, to now. After hearing that. I... Couldn't can't believe my self sometimes... I.. Can't. Why didn't you tell me before? Why did you hide it from me? You know I would've helped you anyway I could've"

Liar.

3) I like you-"

I stopped reading. My heart beated faster. I held the note to my chest. My head spinned. He liked me? I shook my head and breathed out.

I kept reading.

"I like you too. I always did. I think I'm... Just starting to realize it now. I'm such a fool, a stupid fool. I should've notice it before. All this time I thought it was lissana. Remember? I'm such an idiot for not realizing sooner.

I'm sorry"

I started to cry. Again. I seen the tear fall into the paper. I sobbed my heart out. I felt.. Empty. Lost. Confused would be the word. He liked me? Then why?…

Why would he leave me?

I wiped my face. I couldn't cry anymore. I don't want to cry anymore. It made me feel weak. And powerless. I reminded me of the times lissana teased me. Humiliated me. Hurt me.

I laid back and waited for the others to come back.

…

"Dad?"

My dad stood there. He smiled. "Oh thank god you're okay" he came and hugged me. I hugged him back. He held me tight.

"Lucy.. We wanted to talk.. About school and the girl who did this to you"

"Who was it?"

I sat there. I looked at my dad. "Lissana Strauss" erza sat beside him. Jellal and levy waited outside. "What exactly did they do to you" I lifted my shirt. Their faces changed when they seen my bandages.

"Typically they beat me up. Outside of my own school. Laughing as they kicked me. Punched me. Called me down. Lissana was the one who did it all really"

My dad looked like he was about to cry. He stared at the ground. "I knew you shouldn't have gone to that school.." My dad whispered. He was right. I remember fighting and arguing with him about going to a public school for once.

"And this lissana? She goes to your old school right?"

I nodded.

"Lissana. Hates me for some reason. I don't know what. But she threatened me before she beated me up."

"What did she say."

"Telling me to stay away from natsu. Natsu dragneel is a… acquaintance of mine. She likes him I think"

"So its over some.. Boy?"

I laughed at them. They stared at me. "No. Like in hell I'd fight over something idiotic as that. Like I said. She's hated me ever since I got there"

"You didn't tell me? All this time?.." My dad said. "I didn't because I thought… I'd be a nuisance to you. You were always gone anyway"

"Lucy. Don't you ever say that. You were never a nuisance to me. And you could've told Aquarius or Virgo to tell me"

I smiled. "I know." He slightly grinned at me.

"So it was natsu dragneel and lissana strauss who did this?"

"Just lissana" erza interrupted. "Natsu.. Didn't do anything" I said. The lawyer scribbled onto his note pad.

After a day or two I was released. It was just my stomach that would be bruised. The surgery they said went okay. It wasn't too serious.

I didn't go to school though. I finished grade 6, they home schooled me for the rest of grade 7.

I was still able to go and see levy and erza. But my dad preferred for me to be at home until I was done healing. I stared at my self in the mirror. I looked at my stomach. It was now a purple bruise.

I pressed on it. I expected it to hurt, it didn't.

I stood outside. Where I last seen natsu. I sighed. It was so long ago now. I stood there. Thinking. Reliving the memories.

"Luce"

I turned around. Natsu smiled. "What are you doing here" he walked towards me. "I.. Don't know really. I had a feeling you'd be here" he stood beside me. I stared at the ground.

"Lucy?"

I looked at him. "Did.. You read my letter?" I picked into my pocket and brought it out. I showed him. He looked at it and conitnued staring at the ground.

"So..are you still recovering?"

I grabbed my stomach. I nodded. He stared at my hands. And then my head. "What did she do?" I chuckled. "Called me down. Pushed me to the ground. They laughed as she kicked me and punched me until I passed out."

He was shaking now. It wasn't from the cold either.

"So yeah. And the kicking?"

He stared at me.

"It caused internal bleeding"

He covered his mouth. "How?.." I kicked the ground softly. "That's what she's really like natsu." I said. He looked up now. Instead of down.

"And I.. Did that to you.."

"I'm scared now. Natsu. I'm scared to have friends. Or meeting new people. Anxiety. I'm always sad. Or crying my self to sleep now. Depression. I.."

He hugged me. "I'm sorry" he hugged me tighter. His head was in my shoulder. He kept whispering "I'm so sorry…". I pushed him off when I couldn't. Breath. So did he.

"I'm such a coward Lucy.. I should've told you in person.. My feelings. Everything. I should've told you"

I stood there listening to him. "I should've stayed there. At the hospital. With you, erza, jellal your friend levy. I should've been there when you woke up. And told you right then and there."

"Natsu.."

"But I'm so.. Deeply sorry"

He started crying. "I'm so sorry!" He fell to his knees. "I can't.. I'm sorry" I kneeled in front of him. I hugged his head. He burrowed it into my chest. Grabbing my sweater as he sobbed.

He let go. And stared at me. I smiled. "Don't do that Lucy." He shook his head. "I don't deserve to see your smile… I.. Gray said I destroyed your smiled.."

"You did.. At one point… but.. That doesn't mean.. It can't be fixed."

He looked away. "I.. Don't deserve it.. I dont deserve seeing you smile. I don't deserve you"

"I didn't ask for this either natsu.."

He stared at me. I sat on the ground still, so did he.

"I didn't want this life… all I wanted was to be normal. Not a spoiled rich kid.. And.. I.. Made the wrong choice. Of going to that school. Meeting you. Meeting lissana. Now look at me… I guess.. I did ask to be normal"

"This isn't normal Lucy. Nobody is normal. Or prefect. We're all strange.. Different. All in our own ways."

I sat there. Slient. Both of us stared at the ground.

"Lissana left now. She disappeared. Supposedly she transferred to a different school"

I breathed out. My knees were starting to hurt now, and dirty.

"Lucy."

I looked up at him.

"I like you."

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Done this chapter. Oh my god Its 3 am. I have to be on the bus at 7 XD. Oh well. I'm used to it.

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