A Lesson in Love

Prologue

~Erza~

Everyone at school knew I was gay. I'd come out in year eight, so by now everybody was used to it. It was just another fact about me. Sure, there were homophobic comments, and at first it would get me down but I soon just didn't care what anyone said or thought. I built up a kind of invisible armour around myself, blocking out all the nasty words and horrible people. I made myself be tough. Because the only other option was letting myself worry about what others thought of me, and that would just lead to almost perpetual unhappiness.

I learned that if I wanted to be happy and achieve things I had to put on a mask, paint a picture of confidence and control. To a certain extent, I had to make people fear me. All of my peers were scared of me, and I think most of my teachers were a little wary too. It's not like I had no friends. It was just that my friends knew not to cross me, but we did have a good and happy friendship.

And I'd never even thought about dating. I knew of a couple of other lesbians in our year, but I'd never really spoken to them and I didn't want to. I'm sure they were perfectly nice people, I just didn't want to date. I didn't see the appeal in it; letting down your gaurd, exposing yourself and all your weaknesses and vulnerabilities to someone. Allowing yourself to become attached to them so that they were the biggest part of your life. And all that for a relationship that was 99% certain to fail, and only 35% likely to last more than a month or two. It was too much hassle. And more than that, I was too scared to expose myself to someone like that. If it ended after them seeing what I'm truly like, that would be like a crack in my armour. And I couldn't afford to have cracks.

No, I was certain that I wanted nothing to do with relationships or dating or anything of the sort. Until I met Lucy Heartfilia, that is...

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Hi guys! Whoo Fairy Tail fic yeah! Erza/Lucy is actually one of my favourite ships from Fairy Tail, but I barely ever see fanfiction for it soooo I thought I'd write one! Chapter 1 should be up hella soon, and don't worry, it's a lot longer than this short prologue. Please vote/comment, I really appreciate it. Bye for now guys!

Tabby~~