So... This is my first multi-chapter story for the Fairy Tail archive. I have to warn you guys in advance, that there might be some really cliche plot lines so I'm sorry and I hope you enjoy. I don't own Fairy Tail.
In the high school section of Fairy Tail Academy, it's was clear that there were several different groups of people; from the honor students to the delinquents, the athletics to the artists, the book worms and the special skilled classes. It's obvious who was who and who hung out with who.
Before it wasn't like this. It wasn't so obvious who belonged in what group, it was more clustered in the past. A white haired girl knew this. She remembered her unique group of friends who she had hung out with in junior high, all of them were so different with their interests and dislikes, however they got along perfectly, despite the fighting (which was still enjoyable in it's own way).
Exactly what had happened for there to be this kind of change? What made it so they would drift apart from each other? What made them so different?
"Mira-san!" This beautiful white haired girl's name was Mirajane Strauss, the student council treasurer and a reader model for the famous magazine 'Sorcery'.
"Good morning Lucy," she greeted her blonde friend with a smile.
Lucy smiled. "Good morning!" She is the heiress to the Heartfilia Railway, a huge company that specializes in transportation. She is also extremely well known in her creative writing program for her interesting and well written novels that possess a variety of genres.
"You seem like you're in a cheerful mood. Did something good happen?" Preferably something with a certain pink haired boy...
"Yeah, last night someone came to my house and offered me a chance to publish one of my stories!"
"That's great, did you tell Natsu about it?"
Lucy's face cringed a little. "No. There's no reason for me to tell that person about this. I doubt that he's interested in books or reading," she said, with her voice hinting at disgust and hatred. Lucy quickly returned to normal when she saw her blue haired friend. "Oh, there's Levy! I have to tell her about this! I don't think I can make it for lunch, Mira-san. Sorry!"
"Morning, Lu-chan!" Levy McGarden is a petite little scholar with amazing translation skills and reads every second possible. Kind and smiling, someone no one could possibly hate, someone who can't have any problems, right?
"Yeah..." Mirajane walked into the student council office to start her day. She greeted the scarlet haired girl who was already busy at work. "Good morning, Erza."
"Morning, Mira." Erza Scarlet is the student president, honors student, and one of the top members in the fencing club; in all a model student who is respected and feared for her strength and abilities. "I've taken a look at the budget estimates for each club from yesterday's meeting and revised them. Do you think you can take this to the staff meeting for me? I've got fencing practice at the same time."
"Of course," she told the student president with a smile. "Do you think you're going to make it for lunch today with everyone else?"
Erza looked up from her work and questioned. "Today? I'm sorry, I don't think I'll be able to make it today. I already told someone that I would help them out with understanding some lessons in literature."
"Is that so? Then don't worry about it."
"I'll make it up to everyone some other time," Erza swore. But even if she was there, almost everyone else wouldn't be there.
Still, Mirajane said with a smile,"Got it. I'll tell everyone."
"Great, I-" She stopped in mid sentence and felt something disturbing. Immediately, she looked out the open window and saw a blue haired teen with a cigarette lit and breathing it in deeply. Quickly, she took it away from him and snuffed it out. Then reminded him,"Smoking is forbidden on school campus. Next time you do this, it's detention for a week."
"Lighten up, kaichou. It's not like I'm handing them out for the entire school. That is my medicine. I need my daily dose or I start beating the shit out of people." This boy is Jellal Fernandez, one of the school's few, but existing delinquents. He surprisingly isn't afraid of Erza. At all.
"Fernandez-" He swiftly stood up and walked away, ignoring her. Erza punched the wall out of irritation, leaving a small, but very noticeable hole. "I swear if it wasn't for that guy..."
"Weren't you friends with him once, Erza? There could be a reason why-"
"Just because we were friends once doesn't mean that he isn't a disgrace to this academy. He's a bad influence on others and he doesn't even bother to try with his classes, he's nothing but stain to this academy." That 'present' is gone, it is now only a memory. Erza sighed and tried to regain her composure. "I'm sorry, I'm being rude."
Mirjane knew not to press on the conversation topic any longer. It would just backfire on her and strain her own relationship with Erza. So she asked, "Is there anything else you need me to do?"
In another part of campus, Lucy and Levy were chatting about Lucy's publishing offer."You're going to accept right, Lu-chan?"
"Yeah, chances like this don't come very often and I've always wanted to see my book being sold in stores. They said that they would send me a couple of copies when it comes out. I'll give you a copy too, Levy-chan," she promised.
"Then I get to be the very first reader! I'm sure it'll be great, when is it going to come out?"
"We're still talking a couple of things over, but it should be out in a couple of months."
"I can't wait!"
When these two first met in middle school, they were in the library grabbing the same book and found out that they had the same classes. They got along very well with each other over the years due to their similar schedules and interests. They're so close, even in high school. They haven't drifted apart.
Suddenly the friends could hear two people's voices that were arguing with each other loudly."You bumped into me first, icicle!"
"No, it was you, flame mouth!" The black haired teen is Gray Fullbuster, an ice sculpture. Due to his talent, he is often seen with shaved ice and other cold foods. Incidentally, he isn't wearing his school uniform properly, actually he wasn't wearing it at all.
"It was you, underwear freak!" This pink haired boy, yes his hair is naturally like that, is Natsu Dragneel, a student famous of his glass crafting skills. He works in hot temperatures, so he only eats spicy foods. These two have known each other since elementary school and have been rivals ever since.
"I'm not the one who was running and ruined everything!"
"THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT WASN'T YOUR FAULT, ICE FREAK!"
"IT WAS YOU, FLAME FREAK!" Aren't they great friends?
The problem was that Gray was walking with one of his sculptures in a cooled box to deliver it to his teacher for a grade, however Natsu, who was running to show his glass making teacher his newest work. They had bumped into each other causing both of their projects to shatter on the floor and they both needed that project to raise their grades.
"Hey, I don't really know what you guys are arguing about, but you guys should pick up this stuff before someone gets hurt," Lucy said, trying to calm the flames of their conversation. The colored shards reminded Lucy of an old childhood memory. That beautiful rosy pink of her past. "Levy-chan, let's go another way."
"Sure, the library's closer that way anyways."
"Damn it, why can't you bastards not block the hallway?!" a heavily pierced boy asked carrying a box of scrap metal. Gajeel Redfox, an old delinquent that's talented in his metal shop skills. He often sees Gray and Natsu on the way to metal shop, and after a couple of incidents, not including what happened in middle school, he acts like he hates them. "Hurry up and get out of the way!" And maybe he does hate them.
"Gajeel-kun, calm down." This blue haired beauty is Juvia Lockser, captain of the swim team. She's rather quiet and keeps to herself, but surprisingly good friends with Gajeel due to some things in the past. "Juvia apologizes for Gajeel-kun's behavior, Gray-sama, Natsu-san."
"What'd I do?!"
"Gajeel-kun forgot to say 'please move out of the way'. It's rude to order people around like that."
"LIKE HELL I'LL SAY THAT!" Levy and Lucy flinched at his outburst.
"Gajeel-kun, you're yelling too much."
"WHO CARES?! Just shut it, Juvia!" Juvia looked down. Gajeel noticed that he went a little too far. "Ah, my ba-"
"Juvia will head to class now. Juvia will see Gajeel-kun at lunch," she told him, walking past Levy and Lucy and out of sight.
Everyone just looked in a daze before the boys returned to arguing. "HOW LONG ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE? I DON'T HAVE ALL DAY!"
"JUST SHUT UP ALREADY, YOU AND GRAY ARE ANNOYING!"
"WHAT WAS THAT, HOT HEADED IDIOT?!" Levy and Lucy already walked away before the boys' 'conversation' involved them. Erza came over from the noise and hit all of them, then made Gray and Natsu clean up the mess.
"Make sure to behave yourselves," Erza reminded as they entered their classroom.
"Yes ma'am," Natsu and Gray said as she nodded in acceptance of their response.
"Remember that you two are students of Fairy Academy. Behave properly and responsibly or the reputation of the academy will decrease to your level."
"Yes..." they droned out.
"Sheesh, kaichou. You really don't know the meaning of 'lighten up'." Erza turned her head towards the student with his feet up on his desk. As always, Jellal, nerves of steel. "Isn't acting freely one of the school's precepts or whatever? I'm pretty sure you said that at the opening ceremony."
"Fernandez, already today, you've been causing trouble for others around you, twice. Perhaps it will benefit you and others around you if you were to be silent and not intrude on others' conversations. Besides, how would you even know about the precepts if you never even attend the opening ceremony?"
"But I've done nothing wrong, kaichou. You're always so quick to blame me." Before Erza could say anything, he stood up. "Don't worry, you won't have to listen to me say anything." He jumped out the window and Erza was emitting rays of anger.
"Erza gets really upset around Jellal-san doesn't she?" Levy whispered.
"Yeah. Erza can normally handle anything, but Jellal-san can always make her act like that. If they didn't argue with each other all the time, they'd be a pretty good couple," Lucy whispered back really hoping that Erza doesn't hear that.
"Lucy... Please mind your own business," Erza demanded with a glare.
"I'm sorry!"
"It's still your fault underwear jerk," Natsu stated.
"How was that my fault!? You were the one who was running!" he defended.
"That's it! We're settling this the old fashion way! Put your dukes up, we're handling this right now!" Can't believe he just said that, but Gray put his fists up anyways. Then Gajeel comes into the fight, just because he wants to punch one of them, or both.
"Okay, it's time to start class!" Gildarts-sensei announced before anything got broken. Everyone got into their seats and an unpleasant silence erupted from the class. Gildarts-sensei rubbed his head and questioned,"You guys are seriously weird." Before this whole class was more lively, awkward, and friendly; how'd it end up like this?
All classes stay the same, aside from electives, from middle school to high school. In elementary school, everyone was just put together in random groups, but the class was all the same. Gildarts-sensei has had to teach this class before, but that was back in middle school. He's still surprised to see how everything's changed this much. It's probably because the main group broke up. The group that held the class together. It just fell apart, it all fell apart. High school does many things to people, so that perhaps, was not unusual. But that doesn't mean that it doesn't have any effect on people.
Mirajane took notice of this, however at the time she finally noticed, things were already too fallen apart. She couldn't fix anything on her own. She couldn't repair the distance her friends had set among them unless they wanted to close it themselves.
"What should I do about this, Fried?" she asked her green haired companion who was the only one who bothered to join her for lunch. Fried Justine is a college level student at Fairy Academy, but comes to the high school division occasionally during lunch. And today he was the only one who showed up since Bisca and Alzack were off on their romantic lunchtime together, which is her only successful couple for this year, while everyone else was busy with other things.
"Do nothing. There's no reason for you to be troubled by this," Fried told her as he read his book.
"Yes, there is! They're my friends, but no one ever talks to each other anymore. There has to be some way that I can get everyone back to normal and maybe set them up..." So it is Mira after all.
Fried closed his book. "There's no way you can accomplish that with the current circumstances. Why don't you find a new hobby or some more friends?"
"But matchmaking isn't just a hobby to me, it's at least a third of my life," she protested. "Everyone was a lot closer before... If they were avoiding me because they were together, then that should be great, but it's not like that at all!"
"I suppose it was more enjoyable back then." Mirajane sat there, wondering what she could do. That's when a solution began.
Juvia walked into the cafeteria with Gajeel. "I'll treat you for lunch so hurry up and pick something. You're dripping all over from your swim practice."
"Thank you, Gajeel-kun." Her hair was dripping wet and left a trail of water everywhere she walked. "Juvia would like to eat gratin," she decided after looking at all the choices for lunch. Coincidentally, Levy and Lucy were just a little ways away from them, were talking about something. Gray and Natsu walked into the cafeteria at opposite entrances and that's when things got...messy.
Wanting to continue from earlier, both threw aside what they were holding and began to fight. Pieces of Natsu's glass were thrown into Gajeel's beef bowl while Gray threw a couple of books at Juvia, both were completely unintentional, but...
"SALAMANDER YOU-!"
"SHUT UP, I'LL DEAL WITH YOU LATER! WE'VE GOT SOMETHING TO SETTLE GRAY!"
"JUST WHAT I WANTED, FLAME HEAD!"
"NO, WE'RE GOING TO SETTLE THINGS FIRST, SALAMANDER!" Gajeel threw his lunch tray which accidentally hit the back of Levy's head and some of the beef landed on Lucy's uniform.
"BRING IT ON! I'LL TAKE BOTH OF YOU ON AT THE SAME TIME!" So they started punching each other like there was no tomorrow. No one could figure out who was going to win. Just when it looked like Natsu was, Gajeel punches him right in the stomach, then Gray kicks Gajeel in the stomach, then Natsu punchs Gray right back and- It's just confusing.
Meanwhile, Lucy was angry for two reasons; Levy got hit with a tray and her uniform was messy. She only found it appropriate to solve this one way. Get in the fight herself. "Natsu, you idiot!"
"What?! If you got something to say, join the fight, I'll beat all of you!"
"Why you-!"
"What are you going do? Hit me with a book? I'd like to see you try" He's testing her, knowing that she had little physical strength to do anything to hurt him. They glared lightening at each other.
"Lu-chan, calm down!"
"Shut up Shorty! If the blonde and Salamander want to fight let them fight." There goes Levy's last restrain. She walked over with a lunch tray and hit Gajeel right in the head. If she had her purse, she could have probably done more damage, but the fact that Gajeel's anger just increased doesn't change. "WHY YOU LITTLE-!"
Juvia, being the concerned friend as she is, says, "Gajeel-kun, don't do-" She slipped on a chunk of beef which slide on the water, sliding into the group. When she crashed, she found Gray on top of her with his hand on her chest. "Gray-sama, you pervert!"
"This is not what it looks like-" Juvia slapped him and the chaos continued. No one knew what to do, because they didn't want to get involved with that fight. But some people just happen to get caught up in things like this. Jellal, who was only in there because Ultear and Meredy forced him to buy lunch, slipped on Juvia's trail of water and ended up punching Natsu.
"What was that for?! You bastard!" Natsu yelled as he punched Jellal. Now, with Jellal's personality, he couldn't help but punch Natsu again as payback. Back and forth, they all just kept yelling at each other, punching each other, and throw each other into wall and across the tables. When there's chaos like this there is only one person who can stop it.
"SHUT UP YOU BRATS!" Yep, Vice- Principal Makarov works magic on any and all students. Though slightly perverted... "All of you go to the detention room this instant!"
"Yes sir!"
"Really, those people never learn do they? Mirajane?"
"I just got a great idea!"
"Erza, make sure that they don't do anything," Makarov commanded as he left the room.
"Yes sir." Erza glared at all of them causing them, except Jellal, to flinch in their seats. "How dare you all make such a rukus. You're high school students and yet you act as though you were elementary students. You are meant to be role models for the younger students." She must be extra upset since she hasn't had her strawberry cake yet.
While Erza was scolding her fellow classmates, Makarov along with several other staff members are pondering on what to do as a punishment. This wasn't the first time that they've fought like this. "What do you propose we do about those brats? It's not like we can just expell them or suspend them."
"Then why not have them fix all their messes?" Macao-sensei suggested. "Just look at all the bills for the things they broke!"
"That won't help either. No matter what you do to them, they'll just do it again," Reedus-sensei reminded them.
"That doesn't change the fact that they still need to be punished," Wakaba-sensei said.
The staff members 'hmmed' in wonderment. What's a good way for them to be punished and to learn a lesson? An answer will come.
Mirajane opened the door. "Excuse me sensei, I might have a good idea for a punishment." The staff looked at her wearily. They knew she was once good friends with all of them, but what kind of punishment was she thinking of?
"Don't worry, her plan is really amazing," a light hearted voice stated. Next to Mirajane, there was a small person with long blond hair, but without shoes. This is Mavis Vermillion, the owner and Headmistress of Fairy Academy. "I approve of her plan and give full permission."
Makarov hesitantly asked, "What is it?"
"Moreover, you all need to learn that your actions have consequences and you must be able to fix whatever mistakes your consequences have, understood?"
"Kaichou, you talk way too much," Jellal stated, just waking up from his small nap. It's amazing he was able to sleep through all that.
"Why you-"
"Erza, good work," Mirajane said as she walked into the room and handed Erza her cake which she immediately started to eat.
"Mira-san! What are you doing here?" She just smiled at Lucy as Makarov entered the room.
"Brats, your punishment had been decided!"
"Gramps, since when do you actually give punishments?"
"Silence, Natsu!" He coughed and continued. "Mirajane brought up several good points during our meeting, therefore your punishments will simply e that you are to spend the rest of the year with another person in this room and learn to relate to others. That includes any and all extracurricular activities for at least an hour after school. If you don't, you can clean up the plumbing systems everyday!"
"Why do we have to do something like that Gramps? All of us can't stand each other," Gray reminded.
"Shut up! That's why that's the punishment! Just think about what I have to go through whenever you guys break something! Learn to look through another person's perspective!" He's got a point. There were way too many documents and the distract almost closed the school after that one incident... "There's an odd number of you though. Erza, you will also be joining them as well. Learn from this experience."
She really didn't want to, but since it was Makarov, she had no choice. "Understood, Master."
"Then the pairs will be Natsu and Lucy, Gajeel and Levy, Gray and Juvia, and Jellal and Erza. Don't destroy anything or else you'll have even more of a punishment."
"Wait a second! I can't spend any time with this insensitive jerk," Lucy protested.
"I don't want to spend any time with you either, cosplaying crazy... writer person!" Nice, Natsu... Nice...
"I am not crazy! Or interested in cosplaying!"
"Yeah? What about those pictures from elementary school when you were acting like people from your novels by dressing up like them?"
"That's different!"
"Not really!"
"Shut up! Do you want to clean the plumbing and all the classrooms instead?!" They quickly shook their heads and remained quiet. "Any of you other brats got a complaint? There's a lot of other punishments I could give you." They all shook their head. "Mirajane, make sure they are properly punished. If not, report it to me immediately."
"Yes sir." Looks like Mirajane was going to enjoy this. Everyone was glaring at their new partner. Hm... Now then, what's going to happen?
"I can't believe this. I didn't even do anything and I ended up in this situation," Lucy muttered as she was trying to type out some of her hatred. "Anyways, how long are you going to stay here? I have places that I need to be!"
"Shut up! I've got to finish this before I get home! Don't bug me," Natsu shouted before he blew into the rod to form a colored glass orb.
Lucy glared at his back and continued to type out random bits of stories that were floating around in her mind. With what's going on now, it would be unlikely for these two to be friends in the past right? Unlikely, but not impossible, because they were once great friends in the past. A pair of really wonderful friends. But there's that nasty word 'were' in there.
There's a lot of things in the past that are a pain to deal with, they're a pain to handle, and they're a pain to overcome. Sometimes the past can't be overcome at all. Then it will because a shackle that grows and grows because one cannot even face the past.
"How's your dad?" he asked, tried of the awkward silence that was infesting the room.
She scoffed. "Don't pretend that you care. It's better if you actually told the truth."
"I wasn't the one who was acting like a spoiled brat," he muttered, remembering their last real conversation years ago.
She slammed her laptop down and stood up with a glare of anger. "What are you bringing that up for?"
"I'm just saying, maybe if you weren't such a brat your dad-"
"Don't give advice when you don't know anything!" Silence lurked between them, only the faint flickering of embers gave sound. Lucy's eyes were filled with nothing but harsh hatred. Hatred towards the person in front of her and that man. "Don't you dare act like you know anything. You have no idea how any of that feels! So don't preach and try to defend someone like my dad, don't act like I was the one who was always wrong!"
"You were still a brat," he stated, calmly to her harsh words. His expression was unchanging and unreadable from the start.
"That's why you can't understand anything, that's why you'll never understand!" Lucy grabbed her things and headed out.
Natsu simply rubbed his head as the embers continued to dance around the heated glass. "That didn't go well." In all honesty, there were a lot of options he could have used before but his emotions had gotten the better of him that day. And today it happened once more. Even though he thought about his words, they couldn't help but to be laced with his emotions.
Lucy continued her stride as she walked out of school with her cell pone in her hand, pressing at the buttons. "He hasn't changed at all, that insensitive, flame breathing, dragon obsessed-"
A car drove up besides her and she stopped ranting to herself. "Really, you'd think with such beauty, someone like you would have less of a sharp tongue," a smooth voice commented as the window rolled down to reveal a man with spiky orange hair. "Need a ride?"
"Loki! Perfect timing, I was just about to call you," she exclaimed with a sudden happiness filling her. She got in the car. "When did you get back in town?"
Loki is Lucy's cousin who cares for her like how he cares for his precious little sister Michelle. He's responsible, yet a bit of a playboy even though he has his own cute, loving girlfriend, Aries. "Just a few hours ago. I haven't stopped by the house yet."
"Did Aries come with you too?"
"She had something to do. She says sorry that she couldn't come and visit."
"Did she say that about 50 times?"
"Yeah. But that makes it easier for her to accept my apologies when I do something stupid!" he said with pride. Wait, who says something like that with pride?
"I feel sorry for Aries for having a boyfriend like you." One who always seems to be flirting with other girls, or retaliates when girls flirt with him.
"It is because of her affection that I have been able to change! True, there are other girls who are persistent due to my kind personality and my dashing good looks," Way to be humble Loki. "However, even after meeting Aries, I still cannot help myself with a beautiful girl offers me a night or drink with herself-"
"You're really hopeless, Loki." Despite his words, he really is a caring person.
"So nothing's changed with me, but it looks like something has for you. What's wrong with you, princess? You seem down."
"Things at school are unbelievable."
"Oh don't tell me, that pink haired guy actually confessed to you," he guessed, as he turned a corner. "That was way sooner than I would've expected."
Her expression turned dark. "Don't even joke about that, Loki."
He instantly knew that he overstepped a boundary. Changing the subject, he told her, "I brought you back presents. Aries helped me pick them out." Lucy gave a small smile. They continued to talk about more cheerful things. They stopped in front of a large mansion that resembled a castle almost. "Is Uncle here?"
"He went on a trip yesterday," Lucy informed. Jude Heartfilia is and always has been extremely busy, practically ignoring his own daughter's existence. Lucy didn't care if he was there or not. Whenever he was there, they would talk, but the conversation when end in screams, glares, and threats. It's only natural that hatred would exist like that.
"Great, we've got time to mess around. Let's order out and get movies."
"This is why you're one of my favorite cousins."
Back at school, the swim club was wrapping up practice and all the girls were already out and ready to go home. All except one blue haired girl. Juvia's head emerged from the water. "Gray-sama, swim practice is already over and the hour needed is already over," she called out to the boy reading something on the metal bleachers. "Why is it that you are still here?"
"Oh..." Looks like he was too focused on reading. He packed up his bag, but noticed that the girl was still swimming. "You're not going home yet?" Juvia didn't answer him and continued to swim. "Hey!" Juvia stopped and looked at him through her swim goggles. "Aren't you're parents going to get worried if you stay too long?"
"Juvia's parents work aboard," she stated. "Gray-sama shouldn't be concerned about Juvia. Juvia can take care of herself."
"It's getting late."
"Gray-sama shouldn't worry about Juvia," she said quietly before continuing to swim.
"Fine, do what you want!" Gray's footsteps echoed as he left the room. Isn't he upset?
Minutes later, Gajeel came in the room, yelling, "Juvia! Are you done yet?! I forgot my key today!" Oh right, Gajeel and Juvia lived right next to each other in the same apartment building. Due to Gajeel's inability to cook and Juvia's long friendship with him, she has a key to his place.
"Gajeel-kun."
"And I forgot where I hid my spare key, so hurry up already! Hey where's ice brain?"
"Gray-sama has already left, Gajeel-kun," she informed as she got out of the pool. "Has Levy-san already left as well?" she asked as she got her towel and dried her hair.
"Bookworm's still in the library. This punishment's so damn annoying! I can't work in the shop as much as I used to and that shorty hit me with a book!"
"Perhaps this happened because Gajeel-kun almost got metal posioning after not going to the lunch room to buy lunch and almost eating a box of screws." Actually, he did eat a few screws. "Then it was payback for being so rude to Levy-san during the lunch break."
"That was Salamander's fault!"
"Juvia doesn't see a difference in who's fault it was. Gajeel-kun still involved Levy-san by hurting her with a tray. Shame on Gajeel-kun! That aside, Juvia will get ready in 10 minutes."
"Huh? Why don't you go right now?" She dudn't answer. "Don't tell me you still haven't gotten used to any of the other girls here." Juvia stiffened. "It's been 3 years since we've transferred, go get some friends already."
"Gajeel-kun shouldn't say anything. Juvia cannot be friends with anyone here." Now Juvia, you know that isn't true. You were close friends with everyone before. But what caused her to leave the group, wasn't because of something that happened because of the people at this school. No, it happened because of a few other nasty girls from another school. Why is it that people believe those cruel over those who possess kindess?
"Sheesh, girls are cruel to each other."
"It couldn't be helped, we were love rivals."
"I don't think it was like that." Actually it kind of was...
Juvia was about to walk in the locker room when a group of girls came out. She immediately squirmed away as they were talking loudly about some sale. "Ah, Juvia! Do you want to come along too? We're planning on going shopping, there's a sale on all the Heart Kreuz items at the mall," a girl with the name Bisca said.
"J-Juvia is fine."
"Really?"
"Yes..." The group walked away and Juvia was depressed once more. As soon as all the girls left, Juvia asked, "Gajeel-kun. Why can't Juvia move forward?"
"Beats me."
"Mou! Gajeel-kun is an insensitive meanie! Juvia hopes that Levy-san will hit you with a purse next time!"
"Juvia! Don't curse me like that!" Gajeel's going to get hit with a lot of things...
"You take way too long, Kaichou," Jellal commented as Erza was diligently working on student council papers. Normally she wouldn't be working on them all by herself, but the other members had something that they needed to do so Erza offered to do it all.
"Be quiet. Do something productive with your time. Such as studying."
"Kaichou, stop acting like you're always right, it's annoying." Erza's pencil snapped and Jellal picked up his phone. "Hello, Ultear? Yeah... Okay. I'll met you guys in five minutes. I am not paying tonight, I paid last time!... Okay, half." He began to mumble curses towards his freeloading friends and grabbed his bag.
"You're going to ruin your life again?"
Jellal stopped. Her question was a hushed whisper. It could have just been his imagination, but he knew that he heard her. He always heard her. "Like you care, Kaichou. The only thing that goes on in your mind is your perfect life," he sneered with a glare. The girl did not match his eyes. "Typical..."
He shut the door and she wondered what changed between them. Was it him? Or was it her? Or was it neither of their faults? Far too many things change when it comes to growing up. It's exhausting to keep up with everything, but it must be done or one will simply be trapped within the past. She knows that, he knows that, everyone knows that. But if they know that, why can't they walk forward from that past?
I hope you all enjoyed the first chapter. I can only guarantee at least 2 chapters a month for now, but I'll try my best in typing up new chapters quickly. Leave a review if you have some time. Please and thank you. ^_^