Juvia stood outside a school. She hesitated to move. She'd been there about 15 minutes. She sighed a few times already. Sometimes she glanced to the way she came. Then she sighed again.
"Hello!" A small voice startled her. A girl, around her age, with short white hair approached her. She smiled all the way from the gate to where she was standing. The blue-haired girl tries to smile, despite her nervousness. She greeted her back.
"I saw you standing here for minutes ago. Are you coming in?" The white hair asked, smilingly. Juvia's cheeks reddened.
"Yea," she replied. The other girl nodded. She led her into the school.
"You must be the new student, right?" Juvia nodded silently. "There're supposed to be two students arrived this morning. I was wondering where the other one is?" Juvia stopped. For some reasons, her shoes looked more exciting than anything else. The white-haired girl turned to her new friend. "Hrmm…"
"He won't be coming," Juvia said. The white-haired girl looked a little surprised. She heard Juvia sighed.
"Was that why you stood out there? Waiting for him?" Juvia lifted her face and caught her blue eyes. They gave a soft gaze yet calming. Her smile too.
"He said he's coming. But last night he called, he turned down the offer." The white-haired girl held Juvia's pale hands.
"I'm here." She said, smilingly. "He's not coming doesn't mean you cannot make new friends. I'll show you the beauty of Magnolia High." She soothed Juvia. Juvia nodded slowly. She wiped her almost-tearing eyes with her backhand. They giggled.
SCRREETTT!
A black cab stopped in front of the school. A boy with spiky, black hair came out of it. He roughly kicked the door closed while shouting something. Obviously, he pissed.
"Or, maybe he just late," the white-haired girl added.
The boy walked straight to them, with a scowl in his face. He stopped right in front of Juvia.
"Gajeel-kun came," she said, smilingly. A 'tsk' heard.
"Alright! Since both of you are here, I'll bring you to the office before I show you around. Let's go!" she said excitedly, with her hand up in the air. She walked ahead of them when she turned around, introducing herself.
"My name is Lisanna. Strauss."
"Juvia Loxar," Juvia said. Bowed a little.
"Sounded like straws," Gajeel grunted.
"Watch your…" Juvia stepped in between them.
"Gajeel Redfox. His name is Gajeel Redfox." Gajeel smirked. Lisanna sighed.
"It's okay. Just don't say that in front of my sister." She walked, led them to the school office.
They arrived at the school office and Lisanna brought them to a teacher, Gildart-sensei. After that, they went to see the school principal, after his own request to see them.
"Master, we're coming in~"
As they entered, the one called Master was panicking doing something till he fell off his chair. A few seconds later, he came back. He was small man with white hair.
"So, Juvia Loxar and," he looked at their files, "Gajeel Redfox." He smiled. "Welcome to Magnolia High. This is Lisanna Strauss, our head of welcoming committee. I hoped you already acknowledged each other. That's all. Thank you." He returned to his work.
The three students looked at him blankly. Gajeel almost turned around to leave when Lisanna grabbed his hand, stopping him from leaving. Her sweet gentle face turned furious.
"Master!"She banged his huge table. "That's all? What are you thinking you're saying? You should encourage them since they are going to be our new family!" The principal looked at her calmly.
"Generally, I don't have anything to say. But I do have something to say with them personally." He stared at the two new students. "Well, I think you should leave first. Lisanna."
Lisanna glanced at her new friends before looked back at the small old man. Grunting an 'ok', she left.
"I'll be waiting outside." The door closed. The principal invited them to sit.
"I received your school payment, Miss Loxar. Thank you. And Mr. Redfox, I heard about your declination of our offer. Was it because of your withdrawal of your scholarship?" Juvia's eyes widened. Her mouth opened to say something.
"I didn't come here to accept the offer. I came to return this." He put a small white envelope in front of the old man. The principal smiled.
"Gajeel-kun…"
"I slightly frustrated not to have you in our school. Maybe I can discuss with your sponsor…"
"No need to do that. I'm not attending any school, if you worry about losing me to other rival school."
"Gajeel-kun.."She tried to interrupt.
"I'm leaving. Thank you for the offer, by the way." He stood up, stepping to the door. Juvia after him.
"That would be ashamed wasting your talent." They stopped. "Miss Loxar, please call Lisanna in." Juvia quickly went for it.
The girl whose leaning against the wall quickly entered the room.
"I'm happy to have these children. Please bring them to their classes." He gave the head of welcoming committee the new students' files. He smiled to Gajeel before the three students left.
Lisanna brought them to Gajeel's class first. His was 3A. She surprised to see Gajeel in that class, the first for the third grade. Well, he didn't look like a brilliant student or something. After that they went to Juvia's class, which also Lisanna's.
Gajeel's POV
I entered the class after that white girl told the teacher. She told me to introduce myself. I did. Before I get to my seat, a girl with red hair asked something.
"The student with scholarship, he isn't you, right?" Damn! Why the hell that scholarship was so important? I told her no. What? I didn't any sponsorship now.
I went to seat behind the red-head. She turned to me and told me her name. She was Erza Scarlet, the student council's president. How come could a girl be the president?
Next to her was a girl with long, white hair. She looked like that white girl before, but a longer-haired version. She just smiled to me when the red-head talked just now. Somehow, her smile was somewhat creepy. Not as sweet as it should be.
Agh, so bored! I'm sleepy already. That female teacher, her height not even reach my chest, her voice very slow. She wrote something on that whiteboard that I didn't understand a thing. Or was she drew something? There's nothing like a flower or its parts and not even a bee.
I guessed I just take a little nap. I couldn't sleep well last night. It was because that blue girl. She cried right after she knew I turned down the offer to this school. If it wasn't because of her, I must be sleeping happily last night, and I might be still sleeping by now.
Juvia's POV
Juvia entered the class. Lisanna went to her seat. The teacher was a tall man with dark blue hair. He wore a white suits. The class silent and they eyes focused on Juvia. She can't do this. Why did Gajeel-kun had to go to other class? Why can't he stay with her like before? Juvia felt like running out of class, out of school right now!
"J-Ju-v-via L-Loxar." She could hear some giggled. She gulped. She totally can't do this. When she was about to leave the class, Lisanna stood.
"She said, her name was Juvia Loxar. She from Hargeon High. She was offered to study here." Lisanna backed her up. Juvia felt like crying.
"Hargeon? Offered?" A blond girl spoke. Juvia felt not so good. "Is she the said sponsored student?" Juvia knew it. She didn't know how many people in this school know about the sponsored student. Gajeel-kun must be mad if he knew this.
Juvia went to sit next to a brunette girl. She was beautiful. Brunette hair, brown eyes. Her hair was wavy. Juvia liked that style. She wished she could make a wavy style soon. But her hair was short. And spiky. Oh, the brunette girl, her name was Cana Alberona. She was beautiful. And Juvia liked her.
Normal POV
Class 2A finished a little early for break. Juvia went class 3A to see her friend.
"Juvia wants to see Gajeel-kun first," she replied to Lisanna's invitation to have break with her.
As she reached there, she saw him. Outside the classroom.
"Gajeel-kun," she called. The guy just nodded. He was standing on one leg, his mouth biting a pen and his hands stretched out, leveled to his shoulder. And there was a thick book on his head.
"Gajeel-kun slept during class again," said Juvia. Gajeel grunted something not understandable. "How's your class? Juvia just made some wonderful friends. She hoped Gajeel-kun made friends too." Gajeel stared the blue-haired girl with end of his eyes. "Juvia sat next to a girl. She's beautiful. She has wavy hair. Juvia thinks she wants to make hair wavy. What do Gajeel-kun thinks? Does Juvia look good with wavy hair?"
Gajeel threw the pen out of his mouth. At the same time, the book fell off his head, giving out a very loud noise.
"Can you just save that crap for later? I'm busy now," he barked. Juvia just smiled. A teacher came out of the room.
"Who are you, may I ask?" She looked deeply into her eyes. "Ah, you must be the other new student. I guess you must be the sponsored student, since my sleepy student here wasn't." Juvia grinned nervously. Why everyone was so concerned about the sponsored student? Gajeel rolled his eyes.
"Juvia Loxar." She bowed to the beautiful female teacher.
"Since you are new, I let you leave early. See you, Miss Loxar, Mr. Redfox."
"Sponsored heh?" Gajeel grinned widely.