Author's Note:

Hey~ I am back with chapter 8! WOOP! Sorry for the long wait I hope the chapter length will make up for it. On a brighter note I am happy to say that last chapter got the most reviews per chapter out of all of them. So thank you! I am sorry for that cliff hanger. Being a reader also I know the pain. Now I would like to announce the follower of the chapter... bored-outa-my-mind97! It was a close call. Thanks to all the reviewers, followers, and people who favorite. Now on to the story...

Two Days Later...

Levy's POV:

Selfish. I am so selfish. Selfish for lying to Erza. Most of all selfish for keeping Lu-Chan to myself and for keeping up the plan and making it. I have seen the tears she shed. The pain she has felt. I saw Natsu's too. Yet... I still keep it up. I feel so much guilt and remorse. I try reassuring myself with false truth like it is better now or this fate is inevitable. Even though I try it never works. I sigh as I hear another sob echo through the dorm. Lucy. Why couldn't you have listened to my warning? Then you wouldn't have to feel pain or make Natsu feel worse then he already did. Really now I am blaming Lucy how selfish could I get? Yet it still wasn't fair though even without me. It was so unfair. From the first victim of Natsu's misfortune to Lucy's. Yet I know hating it or anything I try to do will not stop what force is doing this to Natsu's loved ones.

"Levy..." I hear Lu-Chan call from the other room with a scratchy voice for crying so hard.

"Yes." I say as I walk into the room to be met with a terrible sight. It was Lucy. But not happy Lucy. A broken one. One with bloodshot eyes that had big dark rings under them showing she had hardly slept the past few days, hair so tangled it looked like a bird made a home inside of it, and ghostly pale skin.

"Why do people pretend to be something they are not? I mean they seem so nice but... they are actually just liars. Liars that only care for themselves." she told me with the same scratching tone from earlier but now it was worse because her bloodshot eyes seemed to look into the depths of your soul. I was a little worried she had figured out my scheme but I answered the question anyways.

"I don't have an answer for that." I respond. She looks over at me and smiles a sad smile then says "Who does?" I new it was a rhetorical question so I didn't respond. "Levy-Chan you wouldn't lie to me would you?" she asks.

"I would never dream of lying to you Lu-Chan." I lie. Ironic isn't it? She grins slightly and says "Good."

"Lu-Chan I think you should get some rest." I tell her and she nods in response.

"Goodnight Levy-Chan." she tells me even though it is the middle of the day.

"Goodnight."

Gray's POV:

I knock on the front door of Wendy and Natsu's house. I am welcomed in by Wendy because she was the one that requested me to come over. "What happened?" I ask Wendy in a worried tone because she rarely asks me over it is always Natsu. "It is Natsu-niichan He won't come out of his room. I have tried making his favorite spicy curry and other things but he just won't open the door." she says to me with tears about to spill out of her cute brown orbs. I frown. If Natsu won't come out for spicy curry something is seriously wrong.

"I will see what I can do." I reassure her. "Oh thank you Gray-san!" she tells me while giving me a big hug and grin.

"No problem Wendy." I say while ruffling her hair and walking upstairs.

I pound on Natsu's door.

"Natsu open up." I yell at the door. No response comes.

"Come on Natsu I am not an idiot I know you can hear me." I say trying again but I only get the same result as last time. Nothing.

"You are acting like a child open up." Of course I am still met with silence.

"It's not healthy to lock yourself in your room. You know?" After a few minutes of silence he opens the door.

"It is abou- Dude you look like crap. What happened." I said while looking at a sight I hadn't seen since he met Lucy. He had huge dark circles around his eyes that had a tint of red showing he had been crying and he had lost some weight so you could tell he hadn't eaten since Friday.

"You are a jerk. You know that?" Natsu says while glaring at me.

"That hurt you know." I respond while holding my heart with a fake hurt expression adoring my features. He scoffs and then says rudely "Like I care." I then look around for a piece of paper and spot one on his desk. I pick it up and then begin tearing it and say "This is what you are doing to my heart. How could you murder it like that." He glares then says "Like you had one in the first place." I sigh well lighting up the mood with my comedy talents is obviously not working.

"Well someones grumpy and that is because?" I ask trying the comforting friend approach.

"Why do you care?"

"I don't know maybe because your my friend and your putting little Wendy to tears down stairs." I truthfully tell him. Making guilt cross his features because he hates making Wendy sad.

"I will tell you but I don't understand how you don't know what happened. It happened at school Friday."

"What class?"

"Biology." my forms into a O "I usually sleep in that class since Juvia usually does all the work. Since I am practically god to her." He then sends me a glare that tells me he will scold me for that later. Since the Lisanna incident he thinks girls are treasures and that are not to be wasted because any second they can leave.

"Lucy." he says while looking away.

"What happened?" I ask with a sense of deja vu.

"I don't know." he tells me truthfully. "How do you not know?"

"I just don't I mean one minute we were fine smiling, grinning, laughing, and teasing. But after lunch she wouldn't return any of it not even a smile and once we got to biology. It was one of the worst classes of my life because she said goodbye." he then looked at me seriously with his tired onyx eyes and said "She never says goodbye." I knew that hurt Natsu more then any physical pain could because he gets easily attached to people a month to normal people feels like you know him or he knows you for a life time and Lucy was the same.

"That sucks." I said with a lame attempt of encouragement .

"You think I don't know that." he tells me.

"Well just remember it always get better. Because everyone has a fairy tale. Yours is just a little more messed up then others." I knew that would cheer him up because he loved making fun of me when I watched chick-flicks with my sister.

"I think you have been watching to many romance movies with Ultear." he tells me with the worst attempt for a smile.

"There is my fairy tale Natsu!" I say with a grin.

"Gray have I ever told you that you are kinda super crazy." he says with an actual small grin adoring his features.

"If my memory serves correct you have indeed called me that. Also I would like to inform you that grin looks better then the one where you look constipated but you still look and act like an idiot."

"Yet again Gray showers me with complements." a he tells me with a sarcastic tone.

"I don't need your sass."I tell him with a smirk.

"Whatever stripper." he tells me as I look down to see yet again I am missing my clothes. I yell a couple cuss words and go look for them. After I find them I ask "You wanna play video games?"

"Sure."

We play video games for a few hours but I had to leave since Ur would kill me if I wasn't home to watch chick-flicks with Ultear.

"I gotta go Pinky" I tell him which caused him to pause the game and look over and say "Chick-flicks?"

"Yeah." I groan but secretly I enjoy them but hey everyone has their guilty pleasures.

"Ok see ya Icicle." He insults me back fro the pinky I said earlier.

"Make sure you hang out with Wendy tonight because it looked like she was about to explode earlier also eat I don't want to hear your stomach all day tomorrow and most importantly get rest I mean your already an eyesore so lets not try to make it worse. Ok?"

"Sure whatever mom." he says playing his game again.

"I really don't think a mom would call her son an eyesore but you're an idiot so I guess I forgive you." I tell him but before he could give a terrible comeback I was already downstairs.

"Is Natsu-san ok? Wendy asks me.

"He is never really ok because less face it your brother is messed up." she giggled "But he is pretty much perfect considering he just lost one of his best friends." I say with a shrug and smile. I see a little guilt cross her features but I just ignore it.

"Thanks Gray-san!"she tells me grinning.

"No problem. Call if you need anything."

"I will. Bye Gray-san."

"See ya" I say as I walk away. What was that guilt on her face about a few seconds ago. I sigh because for some reason it felt more important then to just brush it off.

Lucy's POV:

Levy says I need to get some sleep but she has never had Natsu Dragneel lie to her Because they are the sweetest and best lies but hurt the most when reality sets in. One moment you are smiling and laughing then the next it was all fake and you realize that nothing gold can stay. Even the strongest gold can break and I guess that is what happened to me. Natsu my strongest gold didn't stay. Maybe the only thing that can stay is fools gold but I guess that is not true because when you find out the truth it is then just a rock. A rock that filled you with false hope and happiness. Maybe they should call it a Liars Rock. The name surely fits it better. I sigh. Plaguing myself with thoughts of the very subject that brought me to tears isn't going to help myself at all. If anything it will make it worse. I then think of a better idea of releasing my negative thoughts. A poem. It is the best a way to write which is what I love and express my feelings which is what I need.

"Fake smiles adored your face when I met you,

and I really did not enjoy that view.

So I became your friend,

but only if I knew how it would end.

Because when I figured out you lied,

I stayed up all night and cried.

Yet now I am missing you,

and there is nothing I can do."

That didn't help because a poem is just paper and not a person. Not Natsu. It was weird how who I wanted to cry into and complain about Natsu to is Natsu himself. He always knew what to say and how to comfort me with actions and words. And I miss it. Oh how I miss it so much. His arms around me telling me it would be ok and I was one step away from happiness. It wasn't true because now I am no where near happy. Lying away at nights doesn't make me happy. Wondering what would of been if you never met Lisanna. Would we have ever been friends? Or whatever that lie was but then I think maybe it wouldn't have been a lie and are friendship would be real. I hate thinking like that. Because I could make a million different "What if..." statements but it wouldn't change that he lied to me and he will never comfort me again like he did when I was being threatened by a girl who went by the name of Minevra.

Flashback:

I can't believe Levy-Chan making me go to the store to get food when she is the one that ate it all. I sigh as I pick up a box of cereal off the shelf next to me. A few minutes later I had finished grabbing everything I needed I went to the cash register and checked out.

"Seventy-two dollars is your total." said the brown haired cashier. I gave a smile to the cashier while on the inside I was boiling with rage at Levy-Chan for making me spend almost eighty dollars. I then handed the polite brown haired girl the money.

"Thank you have a good day!" she called out enthusiastically after me.

"You too!" I replied as I walked out with the bags in my hands. As I walked down the street I saw a cat's tail stuck under a trashcan. Of course being the kind person I am I go over in help it.

"It is okay kitty I will help you." I tell the small cat. Why I am even talking to it in the first place I have no idea. I then heard a snicker and I turn to see a busty black headed women. She had dull green eyes and wore way to much eye shadow.

"Look at what the cat brought in." she said as the smirk on her face grew. I stood up from the position I was in after I helped the cat which soon bolted from the ally I had found my way in to. I was going to do the same but then she pulled out a gun and said "I wouldn't move unless you want a bullet in that pretty little head of yours."

"What do you want from me?" I asked starting to tremble.

"Well what can you give me?" she asked wickedly. I had just spent the last of my money on the food I bought for Levy.

"I have nothing to give." I said with my voice trembling more then I would of liked.

"Oh really then what is that on your neck?" she asked while coming closer to me and in a few seconds she was right in front of me. I was scared because I knew exactly what she was talking about it was my mother's locket and her dying gift to me.

"No." I said quietly then I felt the gun pressed against my temple. She then whispered in my ear "What did you say?"

"Please don't take it." I sobbed. I then herd a click from the gun showing she would shoot if I disobeyed her one more time.

"I didn't ask what you wanted." I hear her say angrily. "I am sorry." I sob out over and over again but I wasn't saying it to the women threatening me ,but to my friends and mom. "I don't want an apology I want that loc-" she starts to say but gets interrupted by the sounds of sirens. She then bolts from the ally like I saw the cat do earlier. I then fall to my knees trembling and sobbing because of how scared I was. Then a cop came up to me and asked me questions like "Are you ok?" and "Can you give me a description of the person?" I answered them the best I could with the state I was in and they soon told me I was not the first and they have classified her as Minevra. Then soon took off after they knew I was in good enough condition to go home and told them the direction she went. I then started my way back to my house.

"Levy-Chan I am home!" I called out soon arriving at my dorm to soon see all my best friends that are girls in the dorm.

Then all the girls run at me screaming my name and asking "Are you ok?" I then tell them I am ok and then the whole story of what happened. After they were sure I was ok they all left even Levy she said she had a project to do with a guy named Gajeel. I then herd my phone buzz and when I looked to see who sent me a text I was surprised to see about 30 text messages from Natsu and 10 missed calls. I then decided I should give Natsu a visit to show I was ok. I then grabbed my phone and key to the dorm. After about a half hour of walking I was at his house. I then knocked on the door and after a few moments Wendy answered.

"Lucy-san I am so glad you are ok!" she said smiling and ran into my arms with happy tears at the corner of her eyes. Wendy is like my little sister since I hang out with Natsu so much. I smile down at her and say "I am happy to see you too." She then lets go and says with a more serious face "You really need to see Natsu-niichan it is like he is having a panic attack." I then start to worry if he is ok so I ask "Is he in his room?" she nods and I then run to his room.

"Natsu?" I ask as I slowly open the door. I then see him look over at me with a scared and questioning gaze almost like if he was asking "Is that really you?"

"Oh god Lucy. I thought you died." he told me as he walked over to me and hugged me tightly like if he let go I would disappear.

"I thought I did too." I say with a fake smile and laugh.

"You know I see right through that." He tells me with a small smile and the says "I also know it is ok to cry." I smile a small thankful smile and then I start to sob into his arms as he whispers confronting things like "She can't hurt you now." and "You're going to be alright."

End of Flashback

Natsu. He could see through me as well as I could see through him. So I wonder if he could miss me as much as I miss him.

Natsu's POV

The Next Day:

Today is going to suck. Today is going to suck. Today is going to suck. Today is going to suck. Today is going to suck. Today is going to suck. Today is going to suck. The words run through my head over and over again like a broken record. Why am I already doubting this day? Well because I have no idea why she said those things Friday and I have a feeling it is only going to get more confusing today. Yet even with that gut feeling I got dressed and got in my car and started to prepare for this dreaded day. After a few minutes of driving and preparing myself emotionally I arrived at school. As I arrived I the hallways were filled with gossip as always but this time I was actually interested about what they had to say because it was about someone I know. It was about Lucy.

"Did you hear what Lucy did to Natsu on Friday?" said a brunet to her blonde friend.

"I know I mean seriously who does she think she is?" replied the blonde.

I then stopped listening because they then went on and on about how hot I am and whatever. After dropping my stuff off at my locker I arrived at homeroom. At least I don't sit by Lucy. I reassure myself. As I sit down Gray starts firing insults and complements at me. I wonder if that's a side affect of stripping or if he is just an idiot. Soon the teacher walks in and takes attendance then he announces we are changing seats today. I really don't care were I sit as long as it is not by Lucy.

"Natsu." I hear my named called by the teacher so I look up "You are sitting by Lucy Heartfilla." I wonder if I bang my head on this desk over and over again I will die because any option is better then this option. I then grab my stuff and move to the very back two desks. Why all the other rows have five desks in one row and this only has two I have no idea. As soon as I sit down I start to feel the glare of the one and only Lucy Heartfillia. After ten minutes of her glaring at me I was over it. So I turn and look at her and was going to say "Can you stop" but then I notice the slightly red eyes and the faint dark circles showing she was trying to cover up the fact she had been crying and got no sleep with makeup. So of course being the idiot I am the words "Why have you been crying." slipped out of my mouth. Then her glare got angrier showing she wasn't pleased at what I just asked her.

"Well let me fill you in Dragneel. A guy who I thought was my best friend lied to me because he only thought of me as a replacement." She whispered angrily in my ear. Of course I got angry so I went in the exact way I didn't want this conversation to go to.

"Oh well I heard the girl was so petty she is jealous of someone who was dead." I whispered back with rage. I then saw a hurt expression cross her features but then she went right back to mad.

"Well at least she doesn't kill her loved ones and actually can move on rather then locking their self away from the rest of society." she whispered back. I froze. Who knew one sentence could hurt like you got stabbed in the heart over and over again. I then stood up and whispered "I also have heard the girl made him rethink life and the only way he could protect his friends and family is to never see them again." after I said that I walked out of class even with the teacher yelling at me and once I reached the door I ran. I didn't know where I was going to go I didn't care as long as I wasn't there.

Erza's POV:

I was surprised to say the least when Natsu walked out that door. Yet his expression was the weirdest because there was none and the only ever time I have seen with no expression is the first month of Lisanna's death. Soon the class becomes hectic as the teacher chases after Natsu. I look over to see Lucy crying and slowly I start to understand the situation ,but not knowing the full picture I walk over to and ask "What happened?"

"It is my fault." Lucy whispered.

"What is?" I ask still curious of why Natsu walked out of class.

"He is going to run away because of something stupid I said to him. Even though he lied to me he doesn't deserve that and neither does his friends or the little bit of family he has." She said with tears threatening to fall. Once the last puzzle piece fell into place I knew it wasn't Lucy's fault but mine.

"It wasn't your fault." I tell her.

"Yes it was. I told him that he killed his loved ones and locks himself away from society. Erza I attacked him were it hurt the most."

"It still wasn't your fault."

"Then whose was it? Fate itself? Sorry I don't really believe in that." she say as her tears start to fall.

"It was mine."

"Yeah I believe that just as much as I believe in fate." she told me.

"Well you should I was the one who lied. I made up all that Natsu thinks about you everything that we told you at that lunch on Friday was a lie." I told her truthfully. Her eyes widen as she began to shake her head no. "Erza you are lying it is just because you are Natsu's friend." she says.

"Lucy the only lie I have ever told you is Natsu only likes you because you remind him of Lisanna." I tell her. Slowly I see Lucy understand that I was telling her the truth just now. Then guilt crosses her features as she said "Erza can we continue this some other time there is something I have to do." I nod in response knowing I was not yet forgiven but there was a more pressing matter right then.

Lucy's POV:

After I get the nod from Erza I run out the door because I needed to get to him. I needed to get to Natsu and I knew exactly where he was before he even knew where he was going. I ran through the twisted hallways soon I was out of the school running to exactly where he would be. The park where we did our first biology project. After about 10 minutes I was getting very tired but I pressed on knowing I had to get there soon. After about ten more minutes of pushing my body to the limit there I saw him sitting on the bench looking as tired as I did. I then called out to him "Natsu." he looked surprised to see me standing there.

"Lucy." He said back.

"I am so sorry." I said.

"Don't be it was nice knowing the truth." he replied distantly.

"It wasn't the truth though." after I said that he laughed sadly.

"I wish I could believe that." He told me while he mad eye contact for the first time since I got there.

"Well you should because its the truth and what I told you today and Friday they were both lies because you are not like that."

"Honesty is the best policy." He replied. I then smacked him to see if he could snap out of his stupid gaze. I then but both of my hands oh his cheeks so he was facing me and I said "What I said Friday and today was a mistake. Because Natsu... I love you." His eyes grew wide and then he relaxed and said "I am also for what I said but I am not for this-" he said as he gave me a fiery kiss. He then but his arms around my back as I ran my fingers through his pink hair. Then we both stopped from lack of air ,but we never let go of each other and he said with his handsome onyx eyes gazing into mine he said "Lucy I love you too." and then he kissed me again.

Author's Note:

Finally done! I hoped you all enjoyed the beautiful Nalu as much as I liked writing it! Please tell me if you liked it or what your favorite part was because I love it when you quote my story in your reviews! Thank you all for reading, reviewing, following and favoriting! Until next time bye!