This is an extra long chapter!
Hope you'll like it ✌🏻
Btw, it's really dramatic. I cried, but I'm a crybaby anyway, so idk if you'll cry.
Anyway, I don't want to bother you anymore. Bye ❤️
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Lucy was on her way home at 7 am on a Saturday. She hoped to never see her house again, nor the face of her father. The word 'hate' couldn't describe her feelings towards him enough, literally. She hoped she could just sneak inside the house without her dad noticing.

The doors made a cracking noise as Lucy got in, no one was in sight and she felt relieved. She let out an sigh of happiness and quietly started to climb up the stairs.

Right before she touched the doorknob she felt a tight grip on her shoulder that tossed her down the stairs. She opened her left eye as the other was shut in pain. She looked at her father, who furiusly walked down to her.

He grabbed her by the neck and tossed her across the room. She ended up in the living room that was all dusty and messy, mostly because Lucy spend most of her time either in school, her room or in the basement.

"You fucking whore! How dare you spend the night somwhere else that is not in this house?!" Jude yelled at his daughter who had terrified look on her face, she knew what was coming, she trembled in fear as she remembered the last time she hung out with her friend, 3 years ago.

~Flashback~

"Come on! Nothing bad will happen if you stay a little while longer!" The blue-haired girl said as she pulled Lucy by her wrist.

"Uh, I'm not sure... My dad isn't going to like it." Said fourteen year old Lucy. Her dad was abusing her back then, just not as bad as he does now. Back then he would just yell and scream at her, maybe slap her few times. But, this time, it's going to be a lot worse than Lucy could've ever imagine it.

"Ughh! Just come on!" The girl said as the two of them went to hang out at the park a little more.

Lucy came back 3 hours later than she was suppose to and, of course, her dad noticed. He dragged her by her hair in the basement and that was the first time she saw the basement, that was her first time being tortured and Lucy will never forget it.

He slapped her countless times, he didn't stop untill her cheeks started to bleed and bruise. Then, he cut her hair to make her look like a boy. Jude kicked her on the face, stomach and legs. There were bruises, a lot of them, but he didn't stop.

When she didn't have any more energy to struggle, he tied her to the chair and left, only to come back 2 days later. She spent 2 days sittng on the same metal chair, without food, without water, without shower and without the sun. She was on the verge of death.

He then looked her in the eyes and said the words she will never forget "You deserved this."

~Flashback ends~

Lucy didn't want to be left in that dark room for two days if not longer this time, she did spend the night somewhere, for crying out loud. He could keep her in there for week.

~3 days later, Thuesday~

Jude kept Lucy tied up to that chair for 2 days, she knew that he only let her go because of the school. If in the moment was summer, she would've get out in a week or so. She was lucky, the school saved her this time.

~In the school~

"Oi, Luce!" Yelled pink-haired student as he want to the blonde who was in front of her locker. He wore his uniform and his signature smile, however Lucy was not in so good condition.

She was left in that dark room for two days without water or food. She had black bagsunder her eyes, pale face and a lot of bruises on her arms and legs that were covered by her hoodie and jeans.

"Oh, hey Natsu.." She said, her voice weak. Natsu noticed and his smile faded. He put his hand on her locker in order to close it, he succeeded in his action.

"What's wrong? You look so pale a-and your voice is so weak! What happened?" He asked in concearn what caught Lucy off guard, once again, she didn't know why would Natsu care about her so much.

In fact, Natsu didn't know either. He wondered why he started to care about Lucy so much in such a small period of time. Just a week ago, he would call her names and bully her with others, but now, he... doesn't want anyone to hurt her again. One more thing, he was really worried when she didn't come to school yesterday. He thought that she maybe, killed herself. It was a pretty stressful day for him, he didn't have her phone number or anything. The only way he could see that she's alive was to see her in school.

"Nothing, I just didn't get enough sleep this weekend." She lied, well, not entirely. Natsu looked at her and slightly grabbed her wrist, she cringed at the pain from the rope that was tied around it for 2 days, but Natsu didn't saw it. He led her to the roof.

"Listen, you said your dad was strict about your friends and stuff. Tell me, did he do anything to you?" He asked as they sat across eachother. Lucy looked at the view she saw from the roof.

"No..."

Natsu looked at her, her hair was flying as the wind blew the hair away from her neck. At first he was stunned by her beauty he never noticed before, but soon after, he noticed something that looked like a hand-print on her neck.

"Luce, what's that?" Said Natsu and lightly touched her neck. Lucy flinched and backed away, hand covering her neck.

"Nothing. We should head to class." She said and stood up to walk away, she felt an arm grabbing her wrist. She hissed at the pain and Natsu saw it.

"Why does your wrist hurt?" He asked and wiped her sleeve up. She tried to back away and shake her hand back, but she didn't have enough strength to mach his. He looked at her arm in pure shock that soon bacome sadness. Her whole arm was covered in eiter bruises or cuts.

"Luce, w-what is this?" Natsu said, his voice cracking. Lucy looked it him and her tears started to fall like waterfall. She tried to stay strong and wipe them away with her free hand, but it was pointless, Natsu had already seen her tears.

"I-I... It's not what you think!" She yelled and finally snached her hand back from Natsu. She pulled her sleeve back down and turned around to leave. There's no way he wants to be my friend now. I fucked up, again... I'm sorry you had to see that Natsu, I really am.

As Lucy was on her way to leave, she felt a tight hug coming from her back. Natsu put his arms around her shoulders and pulled her closer to his body. Lucy felt something warm and wet on her shoulder. She knew exactly what it was. Sadness filled her entire body.

"Please, t-tell me what happened... I want to help you, Lucy..." Natsu sobbed in her shoulders as his whole body trembled. Lucy bit her lip, she thought what to do. Is she going to tell him?

"Okay.. I'll tell you, but not here." She said and Natsu let her go. She turned to look at him, she saw his tears were still falling. This was the moment she lost her doubt in his words towards her. She trusted him.

As her eyes widened, she came closer to Natsu. She kissed him on the cheek as her free hand touched his other cheek. Natsu widened his eyes at her action, but still put his big and strong hand to her smal and soft one. Leaning in her hand, he felt his cheeks heating up.

Few minutes passed as she laned on his chest. His head resting on her head as they both held each other in their arms.

"Thank you," They looked at each others eyes as they both said the phrase in the same time.

"Thank you, for what?" Lucy asked Natsu as he smiled.

"Thank you for choosing to open up to me.. What's your thank you for?" He asked, looking at her eyes.

"Thank you for being my friend and thank you for accepting me when you saw my arm.." She said as they both smiled at each other, locking their eyes together.

"We should go..." Lucy said and snapped Natsu out of his gaze. Lucy always felt uncomfortable looking at someone's eyes, but somehow, while looking at Natsu's, she felt safe.

"Y-Yeah!" He said and whay both walked back inside.

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You finally found out why was Lucy so scared to hang out with someone, yay!

Who was the blue-haired girl playing with Lucy?

Did you cry while reading this?

Why does Natsu care so much about Lucy?

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