Natsu P.o.v:

"Natalie, you'll be late for school if you don't get up now."

I felt someone shaking me softly, and I groaned before turning over and burying myself under my covers.

The person clicked their tongue at me in annoyance and then I was pushed onto my freezing cold floor.

"Wendy! That hurt!" I said, rubbing my elbow that had hit the ground during my fall.

"You'll be late for class. Honestly, you're worse than Gajeel." She said with a giggle.

"Don't compare me to that metalhead." I huffed, looking up at my little sister in her school uniform. Shit. School.

I pushed Wendy out of my room, onto the landing and then shut my door. I looked at the clock, groaned and started preparing for school.

I tugged my uniform on slowly and shoved my books into my bag before brushing my long pink hair with a yawn.

Suddenly I heard a distant car horn and I grabbed my bag, running downstairs. I ran past Gajeel and then ran back, grabbing the toast from his hand and stuffing it in my mouth.

"You little shit, that was mine!" He said angrily.

"Payback bitch." I said and smirked before the car horn sounded again.

I put my shoes on and then made my way out to Lucy's car.

"Took you long enough." She said with a playful smile as I got in the passenger side.

"Yeah well, we're not all early risers like you." She giggled and shrugged before pulling away from my house and starting our daily drive to school.

"You brought some money like I told you right?" She said over the soft sound of the radio.

I nodded and patted my pocket, letting her hear the jingle of spare change and rustle of notes.

"Good. You're gonna need it." She said ominously before smirking and turning the radio up so I couldn't reply.

*time skip to school*

I walked out of my geography classroom with the rest of my class and walked through the halls of Magnolia high, just like every Monday afternoon.

Someone barged into me forcefully as I was about to make my way out of school. I groaned knowing who it was already and turned in my spot to face them.

"Watch it Natalie. I don't want to catch your disease." Laxus spat at me.

"Sorry my bad, wouldn't want to make you more sick than you already are." I shot back in a bored voice.

"What did you say freak?"

"You heard me."

A small group of people had stopped to watch the exchange between us, including a certain cutie that I may or may not have had a crush on for the past five years.

Lisanna shot me a worried look from the crowd of people. "Be careful." She mouthed with a small smile and I nodded slightly.

"I'm not the sick one here. You are, and I'm not like you."

"You keep telling yourself that fuckface- I-iiii mean Laxus."

"Hey, you wanna call me that again Natalie?" He said stepping closer to me.

"Woah, don't get too close. You'll catch my disease and start thinking you're a man." I said sarcastically.

"What are you stupid? I am a man."

"Are you sure? I'm pretty sure I'm more of a man than you'll ever be. But you're not like me right?" I smirked, turning his insult back on him.

A chorus of "Oooh" went around the hall and Laxus frowned.

"Why don't we go and have a chat somewhere more... private?" Laxus said with an evil sneer.

"Are you sure? I mean, you wouldn't want rumours going around that you're friends with me would you?" I said with a fake concerned look.

I saw Gajeel and Sting leaning against the lockers with proud smiles on their faces. How long have they been there!?

"Awh, come on Natalie. Are you less confident with everyone around to watch?" He said, taking another step towards me. I saw Gajeel frown and shift slightly.

"Not at all. I just don't want you to cry in front of your 'fans'. I'm going easy on you here." I said, starting to get pissed off.

Laxus laughed loudly for a few seconds and then looked at me with a smile.

"Oh don't worry. You won't make me cry. You're just a girl after all and besides-"

He took one final step while he talked so that he was an arms length away and placed a hand on my shoulder.

"-What can you do without magic freak?" He smirked.

I saw Sting and Gajeel look at each other and then take a hesitant step forward.

"Um... Laxus... It's probably best if you don't touch her..." Sting said carefully, making Laxus look over at them.

"Like I said, what's she going to do to me?" He said while I took deeeeep breaths to calm myself down.

"She uh... Doesn't like being touched... By anyone. She goes batshit crazy, and let me tell you, its not a pretty sight." Sting saw my expression and his eyes widened slightly.

"Well... It's not like she's pretty anyway." He chuckled and he grabbed my wrist forcefully making Sting and Gajeel immediately step away in fear of my 'tantrum.'

But that's when the last thing I ever thought I'd do happened. Out of pure rage I accidently lost control of my magic.

I set Laxus on fire.

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