Summary: Natsu is your everyday jock. The guy everyone likes; girls want him, guys wish to be him. Lucy is your typical nerd. She has straight A's her nose always stuck in a book. They're just your typical stereotypes. But what happens when the popular man on campus and the geek have to work together for an English project? Maybe their typical stereotypes aren't so typical.

This fanfic is a NaLu. High School AU

Rated T for language and suggestive scenes

Warning: Lisanna is mean so if you like her just be warned that I'll be taking digs at her. Sting will also be a jerk (I love both Lisanna and Sting, but they are also the best bad guys ;P)

Also take note that Natsu is a jerk to Lucy in the beginning and will continue being a jerk until I decide it's time for them to fall in love.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail sadly T.T If I did, Lucy and Natsu would have been together a long time ago!

Now... ON TO THE STORY ;P

Lucy's POV

*Sighs* "Why can't the guys from my books be real?" I ask laying my head on the desk.

"What are you doing?" Levy laughs.

"What do you mean?! I can't concentrate cause I'm in love with a fictional character!" I all but scream.

Levy just stares at me and continues to giggle.

"It's not funny! The heroine in all of my stories always gets these smart, amazing -not to mention HOT- guys. And I'm stuck here with..." taking a quick look around, I see three guys in the classroom. The first guy is smelling his armpit, another one is snoring loudly and drooling all over his table, and the last guy is drawing inappropriate things on the desk. "...with these apes." I say, sighing again.

"Aww, come on Lucy. Don't be like that. Who knows maybe your prince charming will come through that door at any moment."

"Yeah right! No one I've ever met at this school has even come close to reaching the standards of prince charming. They're either jerks, punks, or... just... plain creepy."

The bell rings before Levy can counter argue my statement. Shaking her head, Levy moves to her seat at the front of the classroom.

I love that girl, but sometimes she has her head in the clouds for too long and doesn't face reality.

Getting out my binder and waiting for the class to begin, I see the 'popular' kids come through the door. Oh, yes the preps, the jocks and cheerleaders, the idols of the school, the ones everyone wants to be... how they annoy the hell out me. Why they act like they're better than everyone will forever escape my knowledge. Not only that but they have to pick on people to make themselves feel important.

Watching them, it's obvious they pick on others often. The way it all looks so natural to them. The nerdy-looking guy in the front of the room, a couple of seats away from Levy was just minding his own business, doing homework or something when they had to go up to him and mess with his things. Stealing his glasses, his homework, and pulling his hoodie over his face.

I don't know why they have to act like that, no other group of people say or do the things they do. Not the geeks, drama kids, anime dorks, punks, sports junkies; none of them pick on people, so why do the popular kids?

And it all comes down to the ring leaders. Lisanna and Natsu.

Lisanna, of course, is the Queen of the school ruling right next to her King, Natsu.

However, everyone knows the Queen has frequent affairs with the King's right-hand man, the Knight, Sting.

No one will say it aloud though cause they fear the wrath of the Queen, who can and will bury you. When I think about it, I do feel bad for Natsu, but then I see the way he treats people and that sympathy disappears.

The Queen and the King are made for each other, let them rot from all the praise they get from the ridiculous Court who follow them around and encourage their behavior.

They usually just pick on some random kid for a day and then move on to the next victim, but sometimes they'll find one person to torment and won't leave them alone... which is exactly what happened to me.

Flashback- Story telling time

It was Freshman year, about halfway through the first semester. By then everyone knew about Lisanna and to stay away from her unless you wanted to commit social suicide. Which is exactly what I did.

It was during lunch in the cafeteria. Everyone was there, all eating their lunches, chatting with each other about mindless stuff like a test next period or whatever they watched on T.V. the night before.

That's when Lisanna and her gang walked in. They started scanning the area for an easy target to pick on. Just a typical, everyday occurrence.

But there was just something off about that day. I just couldn't stand by and watch anymore.

When Lisanna finally settled her eyes on a girl sitting alone, I froze. I recognized her from my English class. She constantly had her nose in a book, like me. She seemed like a good person, I nearly went up to talk to her at least a million times, but my nerves always got the better of me and I would chicken out.

As Lisanna made her way to the girl, I jumped out of my seat. As I neared them I heard Lisanna say, "Hey." Really sweetly, like the word she said was dripping with sugar.

The girl looked up surprised and smiled shyly at her and replied with a meek little, "Hi," back.

Lisanna laughed turning to her faithful followers, making them all laugh in turn, as she said loud enough for the surrounding area to hear, "Aw, how pathetic! She actually thinks I want to talk to her, Hahaha"

The girl deflated and had a look of pure sadness on her face. And if that wasn't enough to make you feel bad for her, Lisanna wouldn't stop and continued to mock the girl, "What? Cat got your tongue, Oh wait no because no one would come near you, not even animals. Isn't that right Little Miss Nobody, you're just a LMN aren't you. Sad really, you're just pathetic—"

With every word Lisanna said my anger grew, until I couldn't take it anymore and before I could realize what my mouth was saying, I blurted out, "And what does that make you?"

I feel everyone's unbelieving eyes on me as the whole cafeteria goes silent. My whole face started to turn red from the unwanted attention, but I refused to look away from Lisanna.

Chuckling she turned to me saying, "And... who are you? Miss Nobody's lapdog?"

"Oh that's original. I bet your brain feels as good as new considering you never use it."

I hear some whispers going around the room. And try to block them out so I can concentrate on the person in front of me. Lisanna.

She looked a little shocked at what I said to her, like no one has ever dared to challenge her before.

I took her silence as my opportunity to sit next to the girl who she was picking on a second ago. With my back to Lisanna, I start eating my remaining PB&J sandwich.

"Hey, Fatty! Who do you think you are, talking to Lisanna like that!" One of the girls behind Lisanna said.

"Well... I'm pretty sure my name's Lucy." I explain to the girl.

That's when Lisanna finally came out of her frozen state and re-entered the 'conversation.'

"You're just an ugly, fatty. You and Miss Nobody over there are perfect for each other. Two wanna-be losers, one's a no-name the other's a pig."

"You know somewhere out there is a tree who's working hard producing oxygen for you to breath. I think you should go apologize to it for wasting its effort by speaking." I replied, my back still to her.

This time I heard chuckles coming from around the room, it wasn't loud, most of the students were afraid that if they laughed Lisanna would be after them too, but chuckles were still heard.

Lisanna shot deadly glares at the crowd of people and the chuckling stopped instantly. When it had gone silent, I became really nervous because I refused to turn around and look at Lisanna.

Next thing I knew, I could feel Lisanna's breath on the back of my neck as she leaned in and whispered in my ear, "You'll regret this for the rest of your school life because I'm now going to make your life a living hell here, and no one will help you, I have ties with people in high places. Hahaha it won't just be me you'll have to worry about, you'll have to watch yourself on all sides. You'll be a perfect example to all those who try to oppose me."

With that she stood straight up and left the cafeteria.

Once she was gone the place started to get loud again. However, I stayed silent, I could still feel the chill that ran down my spine as she said those words.

What finally broke me out of my trance was a small little voice that said, "Thank you."

I blinked and turned to the side of me and saw the girl who I helped. She was smiling a small grin and she didn't look sad, but happy even.

As a grin spread across my lips, I reached out my hand and said, "No problem, I'm Lucy."

"Levy, nice to meet you."

End Flashback

Just as Lisanna promised, I've been picked on, talked about, attacked from all sides. Both from girls and guys. But hey, I have Levy and we're now best friends, so there's not alot to complain about.

We're known as the school's wanna-be losers now; me the Fatty and Levy, Miss Nobody.

When Lisanna started dating Natsu later that year she got him to pick on me and Levy along with his followers and most of the guys in our grade. And that's how it's been for the past few years; attacked by both Lisanna's followers and Natsu's. Now we're seniors and Levy and I are used to the name calling and pranks that they do to us.

"Hey Dirt Poor, what are you staring at?" I hear Natsu call from the front of the room.

Right, who could forget about that nickname they have for me. It's one of the newer names they gave me.

They came up with it mainly because of the clothes that I wear; old, baggy t-shirts, regular jeans, and old, worn converses. If I'm not mistaken they also got my original nickname, Fatty, from the large t-shirts I wear and for the fact that I tend to bring a lot of food for lunch- but what can I say I usually don't have breakfast in the morning because I'm not hungry when I wake up, so when lunch rolls around I'm starving. And baggy, worn clothes are comfortable. It doesn't really matter to me, I stopped caring what they called me along time ago.

I blink when I hear my 'nickname' being called and realize I've been staring directly at them for a while. I blush and look down at my desk and start to mess with my hands. I hear them laugh at something Lisanna said and I just roll my eyes and look up to Levy, who looks back at me, giving me her small smile, which gives me strength.

Smiling at her, I feel my red face go back to normal.

Just as I finish taking out my things for class, the bell rings and the teacher walks in.

As he starts taking attendance, my mind starts to wonder again.

I sigh internally, why am I stuck in the middle of the classroom?

All the main characters, in every book I've read has either sat in the front of the room near the door, like Levy, or in the last row by the windows, like the populars. And here I am near neither window nor door, not in the front row or the back row. Just the middle... but not even the middle-middle; it's like the middle-left.

Yes, this is my life. I'm the supporting character, nothing interesting to see here. Just another nerd who gets picked on by the preps. Nothing special or extraordinary about me.

And that's how I plan to keep it; just a Plain Jane, nothing more. That's all I want people to see me as, so I can keep my secrets, secret and my life away from the school, away from prying eyes.

So, I'll just sit here as the supporting character, in the middle of the room, getting straight A's, and keeping my head in a book; being the geek everyone thinks of me to be, take the bullying and keep my head down. I can't help but sigh mournfully at the thought.

"Lucy Heartfilia," my Teacher calls.

"Here." I answer.

I let my eyes wonder past people's heads to the window and stare at the outside world as time moves on.