After the argument this morning, I knew that Gray would need his friends so I had called Natsu and told him that a guy called Lyon came over and Gray was pretty shaken up about it. Natsu immediately started to panic and he brought Jellal and Gajeel over to the house within the next half an hour which gave Juvia enough time to calm Gray down.

"Hey Gray. We heard what happened are you alright?" Natsu said giving Gray a hug. Since they were all friends since school, surely they would understand more than we would.

"What did the bastard say to you?" Gajeel asked

"Do we need to go and kick his ass?" Jellal asked

Gray sighed heavily and shook his head. "No guys. That's not necessary." He looked around the room and he realised that everyone was in the room with him. He hung his head down as if in shame. "I'm so sorry that you all had to hear that this morning. I'm sure that it was not the hangover cure that you all needed." He laughed quietly at his own joke "I need to explain everything to you all, as I know only some of you would know why I wanted that man no where near Juvia." He said looking particularly at Natsu who's eyebrows furrowed. He clearly definitely knew the story and it was not nice what we were about to hear.

We all nodded our heads and made our way over to the living room sofas. We all sat down sitting in the living room next to our partners, still dressed in what we wore last night. Natsu put his jumper over me after he realised that I was a bit cold and held me against him for warmth.

"His name is Lyon." Gray eventually started with his head down, his black hair covering his eyes. "He is my brother"

The girls and I all looked at him stunned but no one said anything. We knew that this was not the time or place to say anything. Gray needed to get this off his chest.

Gray scoffed "Well I call him my brother but we have no relation what so ever. Both of my parents died on the same night when I was young and I had no where to go, so I took what I could from my house and ran away. A few miles away from my parents house I found my adoptive mother Ur's house and managed to convince her to let me stay with her. She eventually got me to confide in her where I was originally from and managed to get the paperwork signed so that she could officially be my adoptive Mother. I even visited my parents graves with her so that I finally had closure since I didn't stick around for the funeral."

"When I first arrived to Ur's house, there was another boy. Lyon, as you girls now know him as. He was another boy that Ur had adopted when he was only a baby. Apparently someone had left him on her doorstep so she took him in straight away and never looked back. We got on so well. We never fought, always played nicely together and we both grew up under Ur's care knowing that we felt loved. We felt like a really family."

"It wasn't until a few years ago that things went sour. Lyon and I had drifted apart a little as I got more into my music and the band and started to get successful. I think to be honest Lyon had gotten jealous because he would do what he could to make sure that he got more attention than I did. If I passed something in school, he would have to pass two things in school. When the band got signed, he had just been given a promotion at his job to a management position…..He was always one upping me."

"It all happened one night, a few years ago just after we had the first album out and I had come back from tour. We were immensely popular and I had managed to keep my past life a secret from the press. As far as anyone was aware, I was part of a happy family with a mother and a brother. No one ever asked about a possible father. I had just arrived home after the tour to find out that Lyon had blabbed everything about my past life to the press. The fact that I was adopted, that I had ran away from home after my parents died…everything. There were many investigations later on about why I had run away from my family and why I had not gone into the fostering system like I should have done. I was being sent fan mail from people telling me that I was a fake! That I was lying to the fans about who I really was. Ur was such a great support and fought by my side all of the way through everything. That was until Lyon went too far and I snapped."

The girls and I looked at each other with concern. The boys already knew the story but I could not help but wonder how could this get any worse? We sat silently while Gray carried on his story.

"He even tried to blackmail me for money. He told me that he had a lot more information about me that he could send to the newspapers if I did not give him the money to bail him out of the bankruptcy he had gotten himself into. I have no idea how he got the idea in his head that I was suddenly very rich because believe me, I really was not. I told him no since I was barely living on my expenses alone and so was Ur. Despite all of this, Ur had helped him out financially to get himself out of debt. It turned out he had actually turned to drugs and he gotten himself into trouble with his dealer. All I saw that night was red. I had never been so betrayed and angry in my life. I didn't recognise this version of Lyon in front of me. I kept asking myself where the brother that I knew was because it definitely was not him! How could he be like this to Ur who took us both in when we were little and raised us! He knew better than to get involved with drugs! Ur made sure of that! Lyon was not one for threatening people and trying to scrounge for money off everyone to get himself out of debt! So I lashed out at Lyon and he fought back shouting at me about how he was always jealous of me, how I was the golden boy, how the world deserved to know who I truly was and not this apparent fake that he had conjured in his mind. I had tried many times to make him realise that I was still me and that I was struggling sometimes on the tour with being constantly recognised and I just wanted to see my family again but he had not heard a single word. He left that night walking out saying that he never wanted to be apart of this family again and that we were well fakes.

"That night, we had managed to get to sleep when I woke up to the smell of smoke. I jolted awake and realised that the cabin was on fire so I managed to get to Ur's room and tried to get her out. We managed to get outside in time before the whole building caught alight but Ur collapsed. Before she became unconscious, she told me that Lyon had appeared in her room. He apparently had told her that she was responsible for everything that had happened between us all and lit a match."

"Ur died the day after from inhaling too much of the smoke. I had never seen Lyon since. As far as I was aware, he had been put away in prison under charges of attempted murder but was moved to a psychiatric ward after claiming that it had happened due to a mental breakdown and the adverse effects of the drugs that he was on that caused a form of 'bi-polar' personality."

"Like I said I had not seen him until today, when he came up to my door, he told me that he was sorry for everything that had happened, that he has been given help and was released from the ward with the proviso that he was to see a psychiatrist every other day to make sure that he was still stable. Apparently he had heard that Juvia and I were getting married, somehow got hold of my address and had hoped to make amends before the wedding day. He said that he wanted to be able to celebrate the occasion with his brother and saw that doing so would give us a chance to move on from what happened, but I can't do that. In my eyes, he was the one responsible for Ur's death. Sane or not sane."

We all sat there in silence and shock. I looked at the other boys who had eyes as wide as us in shock. Clearly they only had ever been given the basic story. Juvia gracefully took Gray's hand into hers and gave a small squeeze. "It's okay Gray-sama. We understand." We all nod.

"Listen man… if you don't want to go out tonight, we understand. We can just stay here or even rain check if you want." Natsu offered clearly trying to change the subject.

Gray took a deep breath in and sighed heavily. "No. Tonight is my stag night. I need to go out and get drunk with the lads and enjoy myself. I don't need to stay at home and mope about something that happened so long ago. It was just a shock that's all."

"Are you sure?" Jellal asks concerned. "Surely getting drunk while you are feeling like this may not be the best idea."

"Honestly guys I'm fine. I just needed to get it out of my system." He looks to Juvia who was still holding his hand looking concerned "I'm okay honestly. It can not get worse than this. Lyon may be out of the ward, but he is seeing help and now you guys know who Lyon is and why I don't want to see him. I think after what I've had to deal with this morning and last night from the loud cackles of laughter coming from downstairs, I need a drink." He jokes making Juvia playfully slap Gray on the while myself, Levy and Erza shout out a resounding 'HEY!"

"It's pay back time now" Gray says looking at us girls with menacing looks.

"Great! Let's all go back to mine, we can start from there and carry on the night." Gajeel says wickedly grinning making Gray look worried. We giggle. None of the boys have given up what they are going to do for the stag night but whatever it is, it has made Natsu laugh evilly every time it has been mentioned.

"Shall we all stay here tonight? Juvia promised Gray-sama to be here when Gray-sama arrives home"

"I'll stay for the evening, not the night. I don't want to hear a very drunk Gray try and fail to seduce you while we are still here" Levy asks making us all laugh.

"Hey!" Gray shouts back offended "Anyway. So tonight, boys to Gajeel's and the girls are staying here until late tonight." Gray confirmed.

Natsu immediately got up and pumped his fist in the air in excitement

"Okay Ice block! Let the stag night begin!"

Oooooh family drama! So now you know more about Gray's past! What do you think? Should he forgive Lyon at all? Would you if you were in his situation?

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