Lucy's P.O.V

I feel the slight vibrations from my fingers running up my hand, my palm tingling. I open my eyes slowly, wanting to just go back to sleep and not leave my bed today. I turn off the alarm and climb out of bed. Trudging to the bathroom, I start the shower steam slowly filling the small space. As I shower i almost lose my nerve and go back to bed, but I can't disappoint my dad again.

I stare at my new school uniform laid out by my desk, trying to move as slowly as possible, I don't want to go through what i did at my last school. I however feel a buzzing coming from the ring on my finger, My dad letting me know breakfast is done. I quickly get dressed and brush my hair out, bouncing down the stairs to the kitchen.

My dad waves at me, asking me how I slept. I told him ok, sitting at the table and starting to eat the pancakes and sausage he made. I chew slowly, my stomach in knots, the food barely going down. I only manage to eat half of it, My dad giving me a reassuring smile and squeezes my hand. He tells me that this school will be different and to trust him.

I go back to my room grabbing my backpack and white board, pull my hair into a side pony with a ribbon and fasten my mom's charm bracelet. I wave good bye to my dad and walk to the bus stop. I sit down on the bench, watching the morning go about, the birds flying in the air. I wish i could hear them like my books describe, but i can feel the cool breeze on my face.

The bus pulls up and my stomach drops. It's an old fashioned bus, so they will only say the stops, I won't be able to know when to get off. As i climb aboard i spot an older woman sitting near the front, quickly scribbling a message on my board. Tapping her shoulder I show her my message.

"Could you please let me know when the bus stops at Sakura street. I can't hear" I try and smile at her, but it quickly falls when she glares at me and turns away. I slowly sit back into my seat, unsure about what to do now. I stare out the window, trying to read the sign and keep tears from falling. My thoughts go back to my first day of school at my last school.

It was well into the school year, cliques were made and people knew where they belonged. I climbed upon the school bus, it was a public school unlike the private one i attend now. I quickly took a seat and pulled out my book, not wanting to interact with those around me. After a few more stops a girl sits down next me. I didn't know at the time, but she was trying to talk to me.

She taps my shoulder and I look up at her. She smiles, but she looks annoyed. I watch her mouth move, unable to know what she says. I scramble to pull out my white board. I scribble on it, trying to make my writing as legible as possible. "Sorry I'm deaf, what did you say?" I smile at her, maybe we can be friends.

I stare in confusion as she starts laughing. She then turns in her seats, her hand cupped around her mouth. Every one starts staring at me, all laughing. I didn't know I did something funny, i feel uncomfortable. I squirm in my seat, and quickly write out another message. "Did something funny happen?" this just makes them laugh more. I quickly pick up it, they're laughing at me.

I'm pulled out of my horrible memory as someone taps my shoulder. I glance over to see the woman from before smiling sheepishly at me, and pointing to the next stop. I smile at her nodding my thanks. As the bus stops I get up and quickly step off, starting towards my new school Fairy Tail.

Once I reach the schools gates, I stop again, nervous about what the day could bring. I slowly walk to the office, waving a shy greeting to the office lady. I write another message, and she nodded, getting up and leading me to the principal's office, where I'm greeted with a surprise.

"Good morning Lucy, how are you today?" He signs to me. I stare at him in surprise, but feeling relaxed and happy.

"I am good thank you" I smile widely, feeling a little better about the day.

"My name is Mr. Makarov, why don't I take you to class." I nod, nervous once again. As we walk I watch the students rush to class around me, some of them stop and talk to Mr. Makarov, and gesture to me or wave, some students even sign hello and good morning, maybe this school won't be so bad.

He stops outside a door, and smiles reassuringly at me. He opens the door and waves to the teacher, some students crane their necks trying to see what is going on. She smiles at me and signs.

"Hello Lucy, my name is Ms. Sarah, I don't know much sign language but I will do my best."

"Thank you that's very kind of you. Everyone here is very kind."

"Are you ready?" I nod, clutching my hands in front of me. She walks back into the classrooms, and I follow, waving goodbye to the older principal. I feel my knees shaking, and clutching the straps of my bag tighter.

I watch her mouth some words to the class, their eyes widening and looking at me again. I finger my white board and wave at everyone. I quickly write a message and show it to the class. "Hi, my name is Lucy, I'm...deaf."

One of the girls stands up, She's short and has blue hair, tied back with an orange headband. I smiles at me and I watch in amazement as her hands move fluently. "Hi, I'm Levy, can we be friends?" My face starts to hurt from smiling so hard, I nod really hard.

"I would love too! Is sign language common around here, everybody seems to know it."

"It can be taken as a second language, and we have some students that use it to communicate."

"Really!? I'm not the only one?" As we talk, she repeats everything back to the rest of the class. Soon the teacher steps forward and points me to a seat in the back, next to Levy. As I take my seat she told me that she will help me with any of my classes as it can be hard to get all the notes. Thanking her i turn back to the teacher, and try to follow along as well as I can. She signs things every so often, but mostly speaks.

Suddenly everyone starts moving and packing up their things, I scramble to follow Levy to our next class. She asks to see my schedule and I show it to her, she smiles widely at me. She takes me to my next class, apologizing saying she has a different one this hour, but will see me next hour. I feel nervous again, which is just silly after the day I've had.

The teacher asks me to greet the class again, he doesn't know how to sign but he wrote with me on my whiteboard. Standing in front of some new classmates, only a few from my last class in the sea of students. I quickly write out another message and show it to the class. I watch a boy with pink hair and a scarf jump up and tries to sign at me but he's moving too quickly for me to catch it.

The teacher walks up to him making calming motions, laughing at his energy. After he calms down he looks at me again, giving a toothy grin. He signs slower this time but his energy is still present.

"Hi I'm mute! You're like me, but not really, but we are the same! Oh my name is Natsu"

My shoulders shake at his signing, I grin at him, "Nice to meet you". The teacher places me near the front and tells me that he will give me copies of each lesson after class, because he teaches a little quicker than he can write things out. I appreciate the gesture, this school is amazing.

When the class ends Natsu runs up to me, grabs my wrist and starts to drag me off to who knows where. I tap his shoulder, he looks back at me, I show him my schedule. He stops dead, smacking himself on the forehead. He makes apologetic hand gestures, I wave it off. After figuring out my next class he leads me, luckily we both have the same class again.

The day passes in a blur, lunch coming in no time. Turns out Levy and Natsu belong to the same group of friends. Lunch was one of the best I've had in a long time. I meet many interesting people. Levy introduces me to Gajeel, Juvia, Grey, Erza, Mirajane, Lisanna, Wendy and Romeo. I let everyone pass around my whiteboard so Levy and Natsu don't have to interpret everything for me.

"Did you just move here?" Juvia writes out. She's beautiful with wavy blue hair and sparkling blue eyes. I can tell she has a thing for Grey, even if he doesn't want to see it. Grey has dark hair and eyes, and seems to take his shirt off a lot. No one does anything about it, i assume its normal then. I nod in response to Juvia's question, and Mirajane, or Mira as Levy said for short, writes the next question.

She has long white hair and bright blue eyes that seem to shine with joy. "Where from?" I take it back and write the obscure small town. I can tell no one knows where that is. Mira scribbles another question. "Why did you move?" I stare at the question for a minute, embarrassed and scared to answer, everyone frowns at my hesitance.

"I had problems at my last school. My dad wanted to try one last school, he said this would be the last time we move" I stare down at the table, my hands gripping my skirt underneath the table, tears asking for release. I feel a hand on my shoulder and look up to see everyone smiling at me. Natsu is the one who touched me, he starts signing.

"I know how you feel, I have been to 6 different schools. Everyone just doesn't know how to deal with what they don't understand. You don't have to worry about that here, hasn't today been better than any so far?!" He smiles at me, a big toothy grin, it makes me feel better, I don't feel like crying anymore. I look around and see Levy finishing repeating Natsu's words, everyone giving me a big thumbs up.

"What do you like to do?" Lisanna writes this looks just like Mira except younger and with shorter hair. I scribble everything as quickly as I can. Handing it back to her it read, "I like to read a lot! I wish I could write too, but that's hard to do." She reads the last part and looks at me in confusion. I point to my ears, then she understands.

"It would be hard to describe noises that you've never heard."

"Ya but I can feel vibrations, so that's something" She grins at that.

"What does it feel like?" Grey wrote down the question. I think hard for a second, trying to find the right words to describe it.

"Well pop music pulses in my chest, and softer music makes my fingers and toes tingle but it's harder to feel. I like drums, they feel really nice" I blush as I hand it back to him. He just nods, appreciating my response, Gajeel makes a grabbing motion for communication device next. He has long messy black hair and red eyes. He's also covered in piercings and wears a headband around his forehead.

"What're your favorite foods?" I giggle at his question.

"I like sweets, but Japanese food is really yummy too, like omelets!" This seems to make him laugh. This continues for the rest of lunch before Erza writes it's almost time to go back to class and that I can just follow her because we have the next class together. She has striking red hair and soft brown eyes. I can tell she has a strong outer personality but is really a nice person and cute.

At the end of the day, I have so many new numbers in my phone and a skip to my step. When i reach the bus stop I almost can't stop myself from dancing, i bounce up and down, so glad at how the day went. I jump in surprise when someone grabs my shoulder I spin around to see Natsu waving at me.

"Have a good day?"

"Ya i did, thank you, you were right"

"Of course I was" He waves his hands around haughtily. I glare at him in a friendly way.

"You seem full of yourself?"

"No problem with being confident" I smack him, chuchling. The bus pulls up a moment later.

"You taking this bus?"

"Yup, I umm actually saw you this morning but you know," get points at his throat, shrugging sheepishly. I wave it off.

"It's ok, completely understandable." We ride the bus together, Natsu helping me know when my stop is and agreeing to meet again in the morning. Once I get home I run to the kitchen hoping to find my dad and say thank you for picking this new school. I find a note on the counter saying he will be back later and that he will make a special dinner.

I hurry to finish my homework and study my teacher's notes so I can spend the evening with my father. I struggle with my second hour class homework because i really didn't catch anything, he really did talk the whole time, it will be a difficult class. I'll ask Natsu for help tomorrow. Soon my ring vibrates again, my dad is home.

I run down the stairs and slam into my dad giving him a hug. He tightens his arms around me too. I look up at him and smile, bouncing up and down. I watch as he laughs and walks to the kitchen. "I take it was a good day?" he signs.

"Ya! I meet someone who was mute and this girl who could sign and no one laughed at me or shunned me. One of my teacher knows some sign language and they all are understanding! I love this school thank you so much dad!" He laughs at me rapid movements, watching closely.

"Let's make dinner now and then you can tell me all about it" I jump up still elated from my amazing day. My dad lets me put on some of my music while we cook, the vibrations adding to my great mood. We made spaghetti the way my mom always made it before she passed. Instead of meatballs like everyone else does, we chop the meat up at it cooks and then mix the noddles and sauce with it. We had corn and garlic bread with it as well.

"Tell me all about your day" He sits down at the table quickly digging into his food.

"Well the principal knows sign language and he is very nice. Levy took sign language as a second language and is helping me in most of my classes. She so nice you will have to meet her dad! And the boy i told you about," i see my dad's eyes widened, "He's mute and we ride the same bus. He helped me a lot today."

"A boy? What is his name?" My dad looks a little uncomfortable and has a funny look on his face. Like he's conflicted about something.

"Natsu, i want you to meet him too!"

"Why don't you invite all your new friends over this weekend, we could have a barbeque"

"Really!?"

"Of course dear, I'm glad you're making friends so quickly and had such a great day"

"Thanks dad!" I finish my food and rinse my plate in the sink. He then goes to his study to finish some work before bed while I take a bath. After my bath i pull out my phone and see messages from Levy and Natsu.

"Hey Lucy hows your homework coming?" Levy asked

"Finished except for Mr. Barnes, I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble in his class." I message back. I then open Natsu's and smile warmly, I have meet great people.

"Hey Luce!, I can call you that right? Anyway how is your night going, I can't seem to find the effort to do homework, maybe we can start a study group with everyone? Oh and would you like to go get something to eat after school tomorrow. We always go out on Tuesdays, kinda like Taco Tuesday! Lol" Natsu sure is an interesting person, lots of energy.

I get up and walk to my dad's study and open the door slowly. He looks up and smiles at me and waves me over. I show him my phone with Natsu's message still on the screen. His eyes narrow a little as he reads the message, but a small smile plays at the edge of his lips.

"Can I go dad?" He looks up and seems to think really long and hard about it. I start to fidget, impatient for an answer. He chuckles, and nods at me, I squeeze him into another hug before running out of the room, furiously texting him back.

"I would love too! My dad said yes, and I actually was going to ask for your help with Mr. Barnes homework because he talks and his notes are ok but I'm still having trouble understanding it all."

"I will try lol but even I have trouble, maybe Levy can help, she's really smart!"

"Ok thank you Natsu, you guys have all been so helpful and kind today"

"Of course Lucy, that's what friends are for =)" We continue to text for another hour, Levy having said good night about 20 minutes ago. One I see the time I panic a little.

"I'm going to go to bed now, its late!"

"Ok good night Luce! See you in the morning!"

"Good night Natsu" As I lay my head down on my pillow I feel excitement and eagerness for tomorrow, something I haven't felt in a long time. I feel blessed with all the new friends I've made. Sleep quickly takes me and I have a peaceful dreamless sleep.

So I'm going to be using this fan fiction as practice for my own original story, kinda like a ruough draft. Tell me what you think and if i need to change anything, there will be more chapters. I know I'm working on like 5 different stories at once but I kinda go with what I'm in the mood to write about. I am still working on my Game of Deception story so don't worry! Hope you guys enjoyed this one.