Fairy Tail: Civil War.

Chapter 7- How long?

"Lucy, where have you been?" Asked Levy to her best friend, the one that she hadn't heard a word from since a whole year. "You've suddenly stopped writing me."

"You suddenly stopped writing us." Said Mira ushering to herself and the entire guild who chuckled at her words softly along with the blonde haired girl, who was hugging her form while looking at all the familiar faces she had missed dearly.

"No, seriously, you used to send a letter to the guild daily, but suddenly stopped 1 year ago. Why?" Asked Levy to her which made Lucy sigh.

"I'm sorry that I didn't communicate with you for a whole year, it's just that, we've been moving around a lot throughout this mission, so it was hard to keep in touch with you all for a while." Said Lucy, smiling tiredly at all of her friends. "I'm sorry if I had caused you any worry because of my silly action."

"What are you taking about Lucy?" Chuckled Macao at her. "You don't to apologise to us!!"

"Yeah!! You did nothing wrong!" Added Max to Macao's statement sanding the blonde haired girl a smile which she immediately responded to with a smile of her own.

"Yeah, Lucy didn't do anything wrong." Said Juvia, smiling over at her blonde haired rival which she had missed a lot. "Lucy at least tried her best in writing Fairy Tail, and all of her friends appreciate that, right guys?"

"Hell yeah!!"

"Totally!"

"No doubt!!"

"Thank you guys, Juvia." Said Lucy nodding over at the blue haired who smiled at her lightly.

Thought Lucy could see the hurt adoring the girl's deep dark blue eyes, Lucy knew very well the reason for them, and it certainly wasn't because of her sudden cut of contacts with the guild.

"How are you, Juvia?" Asked Lucy to the blue haired girl who's eyes widened at Lucy's words, a fake smile quickly with zero hesitation making it's way onto Juvia's features.

Lucy smiled sadly at this, feeling pitty for the blue haired girl who she knew was hurting badly.

The blue haired girl hadn't seen Gray in 2 years, and she was sure that the girl missed him deeply.

Why was she hiding it?

Lucy frowned at her thought.

Really, why was she? Juvia never missed a chance to show how much she loved her "Gray-sama" dearly, so why wasn't she crying a river over the dark haired boy?
"Juvia is fine Lucy." Said Juvia, the same fake smile still plastered on her face. "So don't worry about her."

Lucy felt the need to cry at this.

She was getting seriously emotional lately.

"That's good." Said Lucy eyeing the girl with care, as Juvia giggled at her, the same smile still persisting to stay on her face.

"Lucy?" Called Gajeel over to the blonde haired girl, who peered at him curiously.

"Yes, Gajeel?"

"Laxus wants to talk with you for a minute."

Lucy gulped at this.

She knew.

She knew the two dragon slayers would quickly found her out.

Wendy did before, so what made them any different?

"Is that alright?"

Lucy gave him a shaky nod, slowly getting up from the table she was seated on, saying her goodbyes to everyone who chuckled at her, as the blonde haired girl excused herself from the circle she was the center of.