August 6, 2015

"I'm sorry, who are you again?"

I was just sitting there in class when he unexpectedly greeted me with a determined grin on his face. I had only met him the day before and if I recall, he was actually quite handsome (not like I'd never tell him that; he looks kinda like an idiot and I don't want to boost his ego).

He had wild spiky pink hair and eyes that shone a bright fiery green. His uniform shirt was slightly wrinkled, the tie was sloppy and the sleeves were pulled up to some point above his elbows. His right prosthetic arm was covered in hand painted flames of red, orange and yellow with even a few bits of white thrown it. The paint itself also needed to be redone, given that it was starting to chip off and was now covered in white bandages. From what I also remember, his left leg would also be a prosthetic.

Which means, he was exactly like me. And here he was, standing right in front of my desk.

"My name is Natsu Dragneel. You're Luigi, right?" he smiles and I got annoyed.

"It's Lucy!" I shout and he apologizes, slamming a poster on the table for me to look at.

"I want you to join my club!" he shouted this with pride, it seemed and I picked up the paper.

It seemed like a normal flyer for a club, given that it looked like a unicorn threw up on it from all the glitter glue and crayon marks. And in big, bold red letters was the name of this supposed club. And I read it and I asked the kinda cute pinkette grinning at me:

"Quick question though... What the hell is an Amputee Club?"

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I grew up in a big house in the countryside with only my parents, my brothers and my one sister. However, my mother died when I was very young so, I don't have many memories of her. The memories that I do hold of her are usually of when she told me stories to help me when I felt lonely. When she died, my father ignored me and since we lived in the pretty secluded house, there weren't many children my age to play with. I wasn't completely alone though.

Before I was born, my mother would get sick a lot so, she never thought she could have a child. So, she then adopted three children to live with her and I happened to be the miracle baby. Growing up, I had two big brothers and an older sister to call my family.

The eldest of my brothers was called Capricorn or as I like to call him, Goat. He was always mature for his age and wore sunglasses everywhere he went for no reason. Mom trained him in martial arts and he won several tournaments for it so, needless to say, he was pretty overprotective of me when she died. One of his largest pet peeves was when his white hair would always grow out too fast, blending in with his extremely pale skin. By the time he turned twelve, he'd have a mullet in less than three days! Although, he doesn't usually mind about his goatee, just as long as he shaves everyday.

My older elder brother was called Cancer, the fabulous crabman! If Capricorn was the mature one, Cancer was definitely the one most connected to his feminine side. Mom found him kinda interesting when she first adopted him, since he enjoying looking at all the fashion magazines instead of the monster trucks on television. So, she taught him everything she knew on makeup and hair and clothes and everything, to make up for not being able to teach me when I became older. He himself is a pretty gorgeous guy, tan skin, bright red hair in dreadlocks and sunglasses gleaming green in the lenses whenever he had a fashion breakthrough.

And finally, there is my sister, Aquarius, a real life mermaid. Capricorn and Cancer always described Aquarius as a rebel in her youth, being such a tomboy and getting into fights at school because of it. She was short, had royal blue hair and dark blue eyes, which people saw as pretty strange. She was extremely frustrated with some personal issues and no one knew how to handle her situation. So, one day, Mom took her to a pool and fell in love with swimming. She was then known as the mermaid of her swim teams for being so fast in the water and from winning so many championships for her school. Nowadays, she's the assistant coach for the gym class and coach for the school's swim team. She also has a boyfriend named Scorpio, one of the school's Earth Science teachers with a love for things that involve sand.

I had them for awhile but, they were so much older than I was, at least ten years apart. When my father died of cancer in middle school, I kinda locked myself up and I couldn't bear to ask my siblings to help. Then, I had my accident and my arm was taken from me. It sucked, no doubt about that but, I was finally able to let them in after so long.

Nowadays, I lived with them in a nice apartment building that's kinda owned by my family: the Celestial House.

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The bell signified the end of the school day. Aquarius wasn't in school today so, I have to assume that she's home sick. Then again... Mr. Scorpio was absent today too. Whatever, I'll nag about it to her later-

A piece of paper fell off my desk. It was that boy's poster. What was his name again?

Right. It was Natsu Dragneel, Mr. Zeref's brother, I think.

He told me to join his club so out of the blue this morning. Yet, out of all the clubs in this school, I've never heard of one like his. An Amputee Club: a club filled with nothing but people with missing limbs and disabilities that make them different from the normal. It's probably the only place the school I could fit in pretty well... I vigorously shake my head. I told him that I'd think about it and that's what I'll do so, don't go jumping to conclusions yet, Lucy!

As I finally reached the gate of the apartment complex, I see my cousin, Loke, with his ginger hair in a wild state, face slightly flushed and cheeks covered in glittery pink lip gloss.

"Aries again, cuz?" I ask, smirking at him.

"She's my muse, cuz. Can't live without her." he sends a smirk back as I walk up the step to the door where my family stayed.

"I'm home-" the next thing I knew, I get a fish slap to the face.

"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT TIME IT IS?!" I hear the shouts of Aquarius as she held the dead fish in her hands in anger.

"WHY A DEAD FISH?!" I shout back at her and we clonk heads.

"Welcome home, Lucy." Capricorn sees us and properly greets me.

"Capricorn, help me out! Didn't we say no later than 5:00?!" Aquarius shouts as Capricorn takes my backpack for me.

"You said no later than 5:00. I said no later than 7:00." Capricorn says and I get away before Aquarius explodes again.

Well, this is a normal day for me. Get up, put on the arm, go to school, come home, deal with the siblings, eat, sleep. That's supposed to be the normal routine. Yet, today was different. That guy asked me to be in his club. And he wasn't just some normal guy! He was pretty cute and seemed like an idiot but, he was just like me, missing a few pieces of himself, both physically and mentally (at least, I assume about the mental part. He seems to be too happy to be psychologically scarred.).

As soon as I dragged myself into my room, I flopped face first on the bed, being careful and minding my arm.

"What should I do?" I asked myself as I turned around to look at my blank ceiling.

"Well, it's a club for amputated people, duh." he chuckles and I place the paper back down on the desk.

"Why ask me? I barely know you." I grab my backpack and he shows me his arm.

"Because, I feel the same pain as you do."

"You don't even know me! This is the first time we've ever had a conversation!" I push him out of the way and he grabs my wrist softly.

"Wait, Luigi-"

"LUCY! MY NAME IS LUCY! L-U-C-Y! LUCY! If you can't even get that right, then don't ask me to join your club!" I get out of his grip, leaving and he shouts, "At least think about it!"

I'm not exactly good at making friends. I mean, look at how I reacted. He didn't even do anything to me and I screamed at him. So, even if I do help him with his club, what's the chance that I'll even like it? What if I'm different or something stupid like that? Who am I kidding? I'm such an idiot...

I groan, grabbing a pillow and smothering my face in it so I could muffle out my screams of frustrations.

"You're home?" I hear Cancer's scissors snipping and I pry the pillow of my face to see him in my doorway.

"Hey." I sigh as I sit up and his face twists with disgust, grabbing my frizzy blonde hair and cringing at every second.

"It was so beautiful this morning! What in god's name happened at that school?!" he immediately grabbed his equipment and getting to work on repairing my hair.

"It's called school, remember?" he chuckles as he sprays something in my hair.

"Speaking of which, how did it go? Were there cute boys?" I flinch, blushing madly and he starts laughing.

"N-No! There weren't any- Why are you laughing?!" I cross my arms over my chest, trying to wipe the damn blush off and he wipes tears from his eyes.

"I haven't seen you react like that in years! So, there is a boy!" he giggles mischievously and I became grumpy.

"No, there isn't." I said and he began brushing the split ends away.

"Well, something's got to be bothering you. I can see it in your face, Lucy." he says and my frown softens, allowing a sigh to come out of my lips.

"I don't know what to do, that's all. I guess I just really don't want to mess this up this time and you know, get run over by cars-" I freeze and he stops brushing my hair.

"The accident wasn't your fault, Lucy." Cancer pats my back and I grab my forehead.

"I know but, still..." I breathe in and I look over at him, "Cancer?"

"Yes?" he was slightly confused but, I was determined to get this right.

"You're good with people. Can you teach me how to make friends?"

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August 7, 2015

There he is. The boy from yesterday. Natsu Dragneel.

He's arguing with a raven-haired boy, who I believe is his rival (or something...), Gray Fullbuster. I can't look at him in the eye yet, at least, not after my outburst yesterday. Okay, Lucy... You've got this! Today, you're going to make a friend and make big brother Cancer proud!

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The bell for lunch rang and I see Natsu get up from his seat and Gray made a snarky comment at him, getting him all flustered as he growls. Now's my chance!

"N-Natsu-san!" I shout and the pinkette turns to me.

"Lucy?" he asks.

He got my name right this time... I breathe in and out and walk towards him. Once I was in front of him, I bowed, "I'm apologizing for my behavior yesterday! It was childish and inappropriate and rude of me since we have never conversed before then-"

"Woah, woah!" he grabs my shoulders and our eyes meet, "Calm down, Lucy! I'm not mad!" he smiles and I stand up, adjusting my arm.

"Oh... Right..." I weakly chuckle and I suddenly realized that we were the only ones left in the room.

"So, what'd ya want to talk about?" he ask, pulling up his chair and sitting his arms on the back.

"Well, it's about your club..." I grabbed at my arm.

"You thought about it?" his eyes flash green in excitement and I nodded.

"I'll join-" he jumps up, having his chair fall to the ground as he did.

"YES! YES, YES, YES, YESSSSSSS!!!" he was extremely happy to say the least.

"But!" I shout again and he stopped in place.

"I'm doing it on one condition." he looks over at me and smiles.

"Name it." he smirks and I blush slightly at how cute it was.

"I assume you're going to be the president of this club, correct?"

"Yep."

"So... I want to be your vice." I say and he smiles, grabbing my hands.

"As you wish!" he chuckles and I smile as well.

Step one on making friends: introduce yourself. Check.