You'd think a girl with an extremely wealthy father would be popular in high school, but this isn't the case for the shy and petrified lucy heartfilia. But to be honest Lucy was glad she only had Levy. Lucy'd never talk and she never wore short sleeved tops, even in the summer. you see when Lucy was 3 years old, her mother died protecting her. Now her father beats her and cuts her and so on. The only way Lucy could become happy or express her feeling was through music, mainly her songs. Lucy didn't have to tell Levy what was going on in her house, Levy knew already, she could see it in Lucy's eyes.

Lucy and Levy were happily talking along by their lockers when they heard squeals and screams come from the school's entrance.

"Lev-chan, What's that about?" Lucy asked grabbing her books and hugging them close to her chest.

"You know the band Popstars?" Levy asked with excitement, Lucy gave her friend a small nod.

"Their coming to this school!" Levy spoke excitedly,

Lucy's Pov

"Look! I-It's them! It's the pop stars!" My only friend in this school squealed with excitement.

I myself didn't understand what all the fuss was about, yes, there were four very popular boys who were 'rock stars' or whatever coming to learn at our school, but they're normal people too it's not like they're superhuman or anything. I really don't understand why all the girls were screaming, and fainting and crying, none the less I let Levy drag me along with her to the front of the school where the limo had pulled up. Four guys in flashy outfits and strangely coloured hair got out of the car acting like they were cool and better than others, I rolled my eyes.
As I stood in the centre of the crowd of screaming females the only one not caring I noticed one of the band members look in our direction. The girls in the direction practically all faint, I caught Levy with a heavy sigh.

'I still don't see the point in me being here... Their just overly confident douchebags' I rolled my eyes at the one who winked in our direction.

I told Levy I'd meet her later and went to walk to my locker on my own. She nodded and had told me she had some exciting news for me. I assumed it had to do with the four new students as her eyes were all sparkly and happy ask she spoke. I told her I'd meet her in the music room after our second lesson to talk.

There was still quite a long while until I had to get to class so I walked with my books hugged close to my chest to the music room to sing a new song I'd written to help me deal with my home life. It didn't take long for me to find myself in the music room with a guitar, I began playing in my quiet voice.

Human by Christina Perry:

I can hold my breath

I can bite my tongue

I can stay awake for days

If that's what you want

Be your number one

I can fake a smile

I can force a laugh

I can dance and play the part

If that's what you ask

Give you all I am

I can do it

I can do it

I can do it

But I'm only human

And I bleed when I fall down

I'm only human

And I crash and I break down

Your words in my head, knives in my heart

You build me up and then I fall apart

'Cause I'm only human, yeah

I can turn it on

Be a good machine

I can hold the weight of worlds

If that's what you need

Be your everything

I can do it

I can do it

I'll get through it

But I'm only human

And I bleed when I fall down

I'm only human

And I crash and I break down

Your words in my head, knives in my heart

You build me up and then I fall apart

'Cause I'm only human, yeah

I'm only human

I'm only human

Just a little human

I can take so much

Until I've had enough

'Cause I'm only human

And I bleed when I fall down

I'm only human

And I crash and I break down

Your words in my head, knives in my heart

You build me up and then I fall apart

'Cause I'm only human, yeah

I wiped the tear that had escaped my eye from my face and let out a small sigh. I pulled up my sleeve to look at the marks left on my body by my father and glared at them. That's when I noticed shuffling sounds coming from the other side of the music room door. Frightened that it may be a few kids from the dumb 'anti-Lucy squad' I quickly picked up my things and hid as the door opened to reveal four voices yelling at each other making me flinch slightly at their raised voices, nothing usually good came from angry yells.

"I'm telling you she rolled her eyes at me!" One voice grumbled, he seemed annoyed and it froze me into place.

"Oh shut up Loke! Just because one woman has the sense to realise a douche bag when she see's one, you get all moody," Another lower voice poked fun.

"It might be funny to you Gray, the one with the ice heart but I have a reputation of being a lady killer. If she's rolling her eyes at me that means more than one will be, which means I'm not an all-around lady killer!" The voice that was previously addressed as Loke practically yelled. I jumped and shivered at the annoyance in his tone.

"Loke, your such a womanizer that it bothers you that one girl rolls her eyes at you?" The teasing tone of the one addressed as Gray sounded with a laugh. I wanted to leave but if I came out now the ones here would think I was spying.

"You two idiots shut yer traps. We came here cause salamander heard something and he wants to know who was singin'." A deep gruff voice mumbled at the other two, who instantly shut up.

"Hey help me find them, they've gotta 'ave heard us and hidden!" A hyper voice spoke out as a figure stood in front of the curtain I hid behind, I closed my eyes as he opened it.

"You! You're the girl that rolled her eyes at me!" an orange haired male in a suit with blue sunglasses on. I realised the ones in the room staring blankly at me were the newer students. My body froze up in fear as they stared at me all with different expressions.

"You were the one singing just now!" The boy with pink hair, a red shirt that looked like it had scales on it, ripped jeans and a scarf on, said with a toothy grin, I nodded hesitantly in response, I mean they'd just think me even weirder if I said no.

"Anyone else noticed the girl frozen in fear that Natsu is casually talking to?" A shirtless raven haired male spoke,

"U-uhm..." I tried to speak but I couldn't find the words.

"Oh, so ye can talk bunny girl?" A tall long black haired male with piercings instead of eyebrows spoke. I shivered and nodded ignoring the fact I was called bunny girl, why on earth was that an immediate nickname?

"What's your name princess?" the orange haired male spoke,

"L-Lucy" I whispered fear very evident in my voice but the boys seemed to not notice, or assume it was shyness due to them being pop stars,

"I'm assuming you already know our names like half the female body of this school." The shirtless raven-haired boy sighed obviously thinking I would be some fangirl,

"A-Actually I'm one of the few that doesn't stalk you," I spoke softly, but they looked at me in complete offence.

"'Nd why not bunny girl. Our music is awesome!" The piercing guy growled offended.

"Music is banned at home," I whispered. I began to walk past the four with my eyes to the floor, please let them stop talking to me and not ever come near me again, please forget me.

"If it's banned then how did you learn guitar and how to sing." The pink haired male spoke before I got to the door.

"It may be banned now but it wasn't always. A-Anyway. I... I have to get to my class" I said before I left closing the door a little harder than I usually would.

I quickly ran to my classroom and sat in my seat which was secluded from everyone. I was unfortunately in a different class to my best and only friend Levy which meant I was secluded from the entire class as they saw me as a strange little rich girl that never spoke.

Soon enough the room began to fill out, Me in the far right corner and the rest of the class as far away as they could possibly sit from me on the left of the classroom.

"Alrighty class, as you all know we have four new students joining us today!" Our perky biology teacher, Bisca, said clasping her hands together in a happy excited manner. The girls of the classroom started to whisper and giggle amongst themselves happily as Bisca carried on her explanation.

"Boys, come in and introduce yourselves," Bisca said happily as she waved for the boys to enter. Sure enough the boys I had encountered in the music room only a few minutes before entered the classroom.

"There's no point in us introducing ourselves since I'm sure pretty much everyone knows us." The orange haired guy spoke confidently as he winked at the girls that stared dreamily at him.

"Do it anyway!" Bisca said happily obviously thinking of me in my situation, the teachers knew of the no music stance as my father has made it clear to them that any festivals or our annual singing festival I was banned from attending.

The boys complied with her request and turned to the fawning class, I looked down at my small black songbook and began to scribble away as they introduced themselves.

"I'm Natsu! The one who actually sings, and comes up with the lyrics. Unlike these three idiots." The pink haired boy grinned, I glanced up as he looked around the class and his eyes landed on me in the corner, his smile widened and I averted my gaze downwards back to my book acting as if I didn't care, well it wasn't really acting.

"I'm Loke, bass guitarist and backup vocals. May I add that you ladies are looking very lovely today." The orange haired male in a suit said winking at them again I rolled my eyes again. I suppose you could say that flirtatious people get on my nerves rather easily.

"Gajeel. Drummer." The man with many piercings said simply with a scowl on his face as all the girls still swooned over him while I shivered in slight fear, how on earth did they find him at all appealing, he had a frightening 'annoy me and I'll punch you' vibe, but I guess all they see is a pop star.

"Gray, Main guitar, and joint vocals with flame-brain over there." The raven-haired male said, he looked indifferent but a little kinder than Gajeel.

"Well, thank you, boys, for introducing yourselves to us. As there seems to only be that space left please take your seats around miss Lucy." Bisca said smiling kindly.

The entire female population of the class glared daggers at me, I completely ignored them as it was their own faults that this happened as they were the ones that arranged these seats.

"Hello! I guess you're stuck with being sat near us for a while!" Natsu spoke in a happy tone with a wide grin spread across his face. I blanked him completely and carried on scribbling in my little notebook, it was easier than trying to stutter out words in front of the class, they'd think it favouritism anyway.

"Don't even bother with trying to talk to her, she'll just blank you or tell you rudely to go away. She's a real piece of work." A female classmate sneered towards me. I again ignored her spiteful words and looks, I had once tried talking to the class but when they found out my last name changed their attitudes and thought me rude and haughty for being how I am so I gave up being nice and told them to leave me alone if they disliked me that much.

"Well, It's worth me trying, isn't it! She seems rather interesting like this!" Natsu said cheerfully, what a poor choice of words, thanks for making my life worse you dumb rock star.

Class went on as normal, well, more like half the class stared at the new students drooling while the majority of what was left of the class just glared at them in jealousy. Thankfully soon the second lesson of the day ended and I was able to go meet the only person I ever want to talk to. Unfortunately, my escape from the classroom was blocked by the three females who hated my existence more than I did. I called them the 'anti-me squad' or 'Anti lucy squad' when Levy is around.

"Stay away from the band members." The centre girl, Sorano otherwise names 'Angel' said her icy blue eyes glaring daggers at me.

"Sure thing, I'm not interested in them, Can't blame me if I happen to be with them," I replied, I didn't want to go near those egotistical dorks anyway, they seemed too nice to be real.

"Look here you- wait did you actually comply with what we asked?!" the girl stood to Sorano's right, Flare, said shocked I actually didn't put up a fight this time.

"Yeah, I don't want to go near them. I'd rather not go near you three either but that seems impossible thanks to you constantly trying to threaten me to do your dirty work, which is surprising since it never works." I sighed exasperatedly. Would they ever just leave me alone?

"You just love to be a little sassy bitch don't you," Sorano growled clearly irritated that I told them what I thought, but in all fairness I wanted them to stop bothering me and Levy soon because I'm sick and tired of having to pretend to be strong.

"Nope, you lovely ladies just bring out the best in me." I sarcastically stated pushing passed them,"Look I won't go near them just leave me the hell alone you attention whores" I hissed as I walked passed. I was not in the mood to take their shit today. I just wanted to talk to Levy about the band that are unfortunately sat around me.

"Wait there you slut, we weren't finished!" The third of the 'anti-me squad' growled grabbing my arm making me wince, She must've been new because I haven't seen her before. She just had to grab the place that hurt most, didn't she? I shrugged her off before turning to glare at them.

"Yes, you were. Now go away" I grumbled walking off at a faster pace to where Levy was waiting for me. It didn't take long to get to the music room.

"Lu-chan! What took you so long!" Levy said throwing herself at me in a huge hug. I winced slightly in pain but hugged her back nonetheless.

"The 'Anti Lucy squad' wanted to tell me to stay away from the new students because they think I'd get in the way of their bad attempts at flirting." I sighed, Levy laughed.

"I hope you didn't agree because you'll be with them most of the time!" Levy grinned widely and my eyes widened.

"I did agree, though I told them it wouldn't be my fault if I were around them but, why would I be near guys Levy-chan?!" I asked nervously, I had forgotten she had something to tell me.

"Uhm, well... They're kind of... my childhood friends?" Levy spoke with a wide awkward grin.

"W-W-What?!" Levy smiled sheepishly as I looked at her in complete dumbfoundment

"What do you mean 'They're your childhood friends'?! Why have you never mentioned this Levy-chan! And you know I won't be able to deal with it well!" I rambled, It's true I can stand up for myself against girls, it's easy because I know how they think but, not being prejudice against guys or anything but I'm completely terrified of them, I don't know how they think. I become completely useless around them, I can't talk to them at all without shaking, whispering or becoming completely immobile.

"Lu-chan, calm down, You'll be fine. Your dad stopped, didn't he? Why are you still so terrified they'll hurt you?" Levy asked calmly, I winced at the words she'd said realizing I'd told a lie to my best friend the beginning of our second year. It was the only way I could keep her safe.

"Um, I-I don't know... Maybe my brains just still trained to fear them? I mean he'd done it for 13 years.." I spoke awkwardly refusing to meet her eyes,

"Lu-chan. He has stopped right?" Levy asked in a completely serious tone, her eyes staring up straight into mine. I felt terrible for lying to her, I wish I could have told her the truth but it was better to keep it from her it was so much better so she wouldn't get caught up in it.

"...Yes" I hesitated.

"You hesitated." A gruff male voice sounded, no, shit, no.

"I-I didn't," I spoke holding my forearm looking at the floor.

"Gajeel! I told you to wait for me to bring her in!"Levy said irritably but smiled at him nonetheless.

"Levy-chan," I said my voice shaking,

"We'll talk about your hesitance later, but now you're coming to meet my childhood friends!" Levy said grabbing my hands and dragging me further into the room where Natsu, Gray and Loke were arguing. Their loud voices made me flinch with every word they spoke.

"Oi! Knuckleheads! Levy and her friend are here!" Gajeel growled at them.

They composed themselves quickly and looked towards the small bluenette with big smiles. I stood slightly further behind her trying to hide my presence.

"Levy! Great to see you again! It's been so long!" Loke said smiling, he hugged her and I noticed Gajeel look slightly irritated at that fact,

"Nice to see you too Loke! It's been around 5 years since you all left. It was quite lonely without having you noisy bunch around me all the time." Levy giggled.

'Maybe while they all converse I could escape?' I thought as I began slowly backing away.

"Where d'ya think yer heading bunny girl," Gajeel said as my back bumped into his chest.

"U-Um..." I shivered and moved away from him quickly.

"Oh, Lu-chan! Were you trying to escape? It's hard to do that with these guys here trust me, I used to try to get away when I was younger, come here I want you to get along with everyone!" Levy said in a perky way, She smiled and looked me in the eyes, I could tell she knew I had been lying to her earlier and wanted to help me, I wish I could leave but Levy is the only one who knows anything and She's always understood me. Levy dragged me to the centre where Gray, Loke and Natsu stood. Gajeel following behind and stood next to his band members.

"You're the girl in our class that was singing earlier!" Natsu blurted out, I looked at him in horror at the secret he had just yelled out.

"Oh Natsu, you're mistaken, Luce hasn't sung for years! Her father banned music and her from creating music years ago!" Levy said with a smile.

I knew she wasn't lying, that's what I told her. It's true that is what my father did but... I still sang when I was sad or lonely. It made me feel closer to my mother. If anyone knew that I was singing my father would soon find out and I'd be severely punished like when I did anything wrong or if I got a lower than my average score in any of my classes.

"I think your friend is lying to you, Lev. I know it was her!" Natsu said indifferently looking at me with a determined gaze,

"Lu-chan?" Levy looked at me with concern. Brilliant. Now I have to tell her.

" I-It's true, I was s-s-singing. What I told you about it being b-banned is true but, I still sing if I'm upset. I-It makes me feel c-closer to her. I'm s-sorry I lied to you but if h-h-h-he found out in a-anyway..." My quiet talking drifted off, I shifted awkwardly on my feet, I didn't want to talk about it in front of these people. Not in front of these boys who probably thought bad of me, I clung to my wrists looking at the floor, I could feel myself begin to shiver from their eyes staring at me.

"It's alright Lu-chan! I understand, we can continue talking later, I know you must feel uncomfortable talking about it in front of these guys. Anyway, boys, the thing is with Lucy and her father it's a difficult relationship so we can not hang out with you in public, or well it'd end badly for her. But it's also a good idea for your image as musicians to not be seen with two dorky girls all the time," Levy smiled at them, I could tell she wanted to say something different and was glad she didn't. The guys looked perplexed and slightly irritated,

"I don't give two shits about our image, if I want to hang out with ya in public shrimp I'm gonna" Gajeel grunted ruffling her hair affectionately.

Smiling at him Levy nodded shyly, the bell rang loudly as the rest of them were about to speak up, silence fell and looking slightly depressed Levy told us we should get to class, we walked most of the way to our respective classes together before having to part way, we agreed to meet up for lunch, I made sure to walk a few meters behind the boys to make it seem like we hadn't been anywhere near each other.

"Hey, Luce! Why so far behind us? Come walk 'nd talk with us," Natsu called to me making me jump,

"Oh, uhm, I-I… Uhm," I didn't know what to say, I'd just get in their way, plus if anyone saw me with them, they could be working for father or tell the anti-Lucy squad and I don't know which one is worse at this point.

"C'mon, what's to be afraid of, we ain't gonna hurt ya, we just wanna get to know the girl Levy can't stop talkin about" Natsu said with a big stupid grin on his face, I inwardly sighed, I can't exactly be mean to Levy's close friends, that would be unfair. I caught up with them slightly still standing a bit behind them, they seemed to slow their walking pace because soon I was in the middle of them as they essentially interrogated me,

"How long you have you and Lev been friends?" Gray asked cooly as he miraculously walked beside me without a shirt,

"U-Uh, w-where d-did you're s-shirt go?" my face going bright red,

"Shit," Gray cursed under his breath and dropped back soon reappearing with his shirt of looking more irritated,

"T-To answer you q-question a-around t-ten years," I said not wanting to avoid the question, I felt slightly at ease but then again still terrified as we walked into class, unfortunately, we were the last to arrive and the glares I received turned 10 times worse,

"So you arrived a year after we left, damn, it would have been fun to play as kids Princess," Loke said flirtatiously, I tried hard not to roll my eyes at the nickname and stayed silent, I wish I didn't but I'm glad I had because the glares just got worse.

Throughout class the boys tried their best to converse with me but every time I was going to reply I'd chicken out due to the eyes on me or I'd be cut off by someone throwing something or talking, I didn't know what to do, I know I'd have to get use to these people, but I didn't really want to deal with the jealousy of others.

Soon enough lunch came and I, unfortunately, had the task of leading the boys to the cafeteria where the entirety of the anti-lucy squad, which was about 10-20 pupils out of all the years in the school, were. As soon as the spotted me with the group Sorano the loudest and the leader of the group glared daggers at me and her along with 4 others came up to me once the boys noticed Levy and began walking to her,

"Oi you slut, I thought we told you not to go near them," Sorano hissed,

"I didn't go near them, they came to me. They're my best friends childhood friends, not like I can exactly avoid them, but if you wish to tell them that go ahead, don't blame me if I can't do anything to change the situation because I would love to have nothing to do with them," I said in a rather robotic voice, I'd been practicing this since the first break, I knew this would happen at some point,

"Well don't talk to them you usually have some form of rude remark to others you don't want to talk to," Another girl piped up, she was from my class and obviously annoyed I was on talking terms with the boys,

"Oh, I'm sorry I don't take orders for fake ass bitchy girls when all I want is for my best friend to be happy, she wants me to get along with the boys I'll do that. You lot and you're plastic tits can fuck off back to where you came from because I refuse to let you drag me down," I glowered at them, I then stalked off out the cafeteria, I wasn't hungry anymore. I guessed Levy wouldn't notice my absence since there would be four new presences at her side. I made my way to the Library and grabbed a pile of books to study and enjoy through the hour we had of lunch, I was walking to my favourite reading spot when a rough hand landed on my shoulder causing me to jump and drop the books I was carrying.

"Luce, you alright?" the childish voice called from behind me and I turned to see the pink haired doofus stood there with a large grin spread across his face,

"Y-y-y-yeah, s-s-s-sorry, yous-s-startled me," I said softly looking at all the books on the floor with a light sigh, I knelt down to pick them up and Natsu began to help.

Normal POV

"You dropped these" Natsu said as he held out some books she dropped. She looked at him with a little shock, she'd never known a male be this kind towards her. She reached out and took them cautiously.

"Th-thanks" She squeaked. Natsu smiled though it quickly turned to a frown when he noticed all the scars on her wrists, his eyes followed them and saw some towards her neck and shoulders that had previously been hidden by her hair.

"What'd you do to your arm?" He asked pointing out the scars, He was thinking she had inflicted them herself at first. Lucy quickly pulled on her sleeves and hugged her books tightly as she looked at the floor.

"I-I Fell" Lucy lied. It was almost an immediate thing, she'd always said that to anyone who asked.

Natsu narrowed his eyes slightly but nodded in response clearly not believing her but not pushing the matter further,

"Why'd you walk out the cafeteria without eating or going to talk to Levy? I thought she was yer only friend?" Natsu asked as they stood up from gathering the large stack of books,

"O-oh, I suddenly felt ill, I was going to text her once I'd set everything up, I was gathering books for us to read and study" Lucy replied looking at the floor, she was going to text Levy but she was going to wait a few more minutes to try and make sure the boys would have gone to the music room.

"Natsu! You're supposed to have gone to the music room with the others, go catch up with them and stop scaring Lu-chan," Levy's hushed voice grumbled out from a few feet away,

"I was worried bout Luce since she disappeared so quickly," Natsu said a light dust of pink spread across his face, though it went unnoticed by the blond who was too focussed on her books.

"Go to the music room before the others actually notice," Levy sighed looking towards her blonde friend who was obviously purposefully not looking her direction.

Natsu looked between the two before he shrugged and walked off slightly sulkily, he wanted to stay and continue to talk to this extremely confusing girl. He saw how she managed to defend herself and Levy in front of those girls but how come she was so timid and afraid of him and his bandmates?

Lucy turned to smile at Levy before cowering slightly at the tone of voice Levy used when she spoke,

"Lucy heartfilia how dare you not eat lunch,"

"I-I wasn't hungry, sorry Levy-chan, I was going to come sit with you but, the 'anti Lucy squad' seems to have doubled its numbers" Lucy spoke sheepishly, she knew Levy would see through the lie she spoke and probably yell at her but before Levy could Lucy waved a book in her face which seemed to distract her from her oncoming rant,

"The Iron dragons Lover, oh my god, they finally have it, Yes, okay I will yell at you when I have finished this. C'mon before the boys finish their practice and find our hiddy hole," Levy practically squealed with glee as she snatched the book out of Lucy's hand and proceeded to drag her into their comfortable and hard to reach the reading spot. Levy and Lucy had made it hard to reach themselves as they had piled old books upon old books that they've read and studied into a small fort making it look like an old corner of the library.

The two sat on the large bean bags sinking lower and lower the more they read, they were in complete silence, completely transfixed by the books they were studying eyes running across the page at a near impossible speed. Soon though the silence was disrupted by Lucy's stomach letting out a soft grump that slowly began to get louder.

"I knew you were lying when you said you weren't hungry Lu-chan!" Levy said jumping from her book and glaring at the blond. She was more concerned about her best friends health than the noise though, the noise was slightly annoying.

"I'm sorry Levy, I just… I couldn't be bothered to deal with those girls again and if I'd have gone over to you… I just didn't want to get you mixed up in my problem," Lucy sighed, she knew it was pathetic to leave without eating because of what some girls were saying but she really hated getting Levy involved, she'd been through enough in the 10 years they'd been friends.

"It's a good thing I know you too well, here, I got you a sandwich," Levy said softly handing Lucy ha brown bag that was in her small bag,

"You are the best Levy," Lucy said before she began to devour the sandwich, Levy chuckled at her best friends and they went back to reading. The bell rang too quickly after and they went back to reading and they had to actually borrow a book out the library as they hadn't finished it yet.

"Hey, Levy, would you want to come to mine after school today instead of yours? I know it's boring with not being able to play music but Father told me to expect a guest and I don't want to be alone," Lucy asked before they separated ways, Levy beamed at Lucy almost immediately

"Sure! I love Aquarius' cooking! Plus we can finish these books and talk about them all night, so far this one is freaking awesome!" Levy said before she and Lucy walked to their respective classes. The boys to Lucy's dismay were already in their seats, she gave them a timid smile as they greeted her and she took out her small notebook again though she only read through it this time.

"Yo, Luce, where'd you and Lev go? We didn't see you all lunch," Natsu said in his hyper way his goofy grin never leaving his face,

"Hmm? Oh, we were in the library. We got some great books to read tonight," Lucy said an excited smile on her face, only books could make her this excited,

"Oh my gosh, did you see that? Did the bimbo just smile at them? For real? She must be doing that purely because they're famous" The hushed whispered spread through the room and Lucy instantly regretted answering them...