User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 419: The Message of Fire, Review/@comment-4933386-20150207121341/@comment-25111584-20150207133319

We don't know anybody else's reasons for not meeting up. We should wait till we hear them before condemning them, not that I'm saying that you're doing so.

We already know that some of them are together, like Lisanna and Mirajane. Who knows, they might actually have tried to meet up with Lucy, but she avoided it because she was 'afraid'? We don't really know ...

On the other hand, Lucy has said that she wants to see them, but is too afraid. ... For one year. A whole year. It doesn't really seem that good a reason, doing so much work to track them down, but not finishing the job by meeting them.

The reason given for her isn't very convincing. More like she didn't meet anybody because it was required by the plot, so some half-baked excuse was given. *shrugs* It's just weird, but nothing too bad, so w/e. :P