"Luce!"

Lucy's head turned to her favorite and only pinkette friend in the entire school. She felt her insides get warm and jittery from the sight of her grinning friend, approaching her quickly while waving. She raised her own hand as well and returned his friendly gesture.

"Hey Natsu! How was chem?"

The boy named Natsu approached his blonde friend and let out a deep sigh, indicating something that wasn't as positive as their small exchange. He had his hands behind his head, letting his eyes drift to the window beside them. Yet another sigh left his lips before he opened his mouth again but for a different reason.

"It was dumb. I mean seriously, I just got a few significant fingers-."

"Figures."

"Yeah yeah, figures off and my entiiiiire answer was wrong. Ugh, screw that dumbass teacher."

"Well I don't know. I love chem. It's fun for me and the math part is bearable."

"Luce. . . ."

"Yeah?"

"You're in Ap Chem, shut up."

Lucy emitted a small pout and let out a "Hmft" before she smiled at Natsu. She patted his broad shoulder and bent forward a bit in such a cute-sy fashion. Her chocolate brown eyes met Natsu's onyx ones, both childhood friends admiring their orbs' features. Eventually, Lucy stood upright and had her hands clasped behind her back as she admired the view of the blue sky decorated with clouds in a variety of shapes. The two friends enjoyed the brief silence before Lucy decided to speak.

"You know Natsu, I'm always willing to make time to help you you know? I have calculus with you, chem with you, well same teacher but different class periods, and history with you. If you need a study buddy, just give me a heads up before you come over."

Natsu gave Lucy his signature bright smile and nodded, "Yeah, thanks Luce! Well one plan is going to stick for sure, I am not ever going to take BC. I can barely stand calculus AB. Derivatives and related rates, oh hell no I am OUT."

Lucy giggled at Natsu's response but the small friendly moment was interrupted with Levy's voice.

"Lu-chan~! Natsu!"

Lucy turned her head and waved at her best female friend. She waved her good-bye to Natsu and told him to text her later tonight to which he nodded happily to. Once Lucy disappeared far into the hallway in the opposite direction with Levy, Natsu walked to find his group or to be more specific, the delinquents of the school. Eventually, he saw spiky blonde hair sticking out above the other students who dwarfed in size. Natsu's voice echoed through the hallway until they reached the owner of the spiky blonde hair.

"Oi Laxus!"

Laxus gave his signature stare at Natsu who approached him and the delinquents casually.

"Gihi, Salamander you look quite happy today. What's the occasion?"

"Shut up Gajeel."

"No one was talking to you, Gray."

"Tch, I don't need some glorified light bulb to tell me what I should and shouldn't say."

"Salamander, are you going to answer the question or should I beat it out of ya?"

Natsu flicked Gajeel's head to the male's displeasure and grinned, "I'm just going to Lucy's place is all. She's going to help me with shitty calc problems is all."

"Oh yeah, I forgot that you were in that class. Well you're so dumb, it's normal for me to forget my bad."

"Oi are you looking for a beatdown you damn Ice Prick?"

"You started it Flame Brain."

Just then Laxus slammed both of their heads together and both delinquents fell onto the ground with a thud, "Shut up, both of you. Did you both forget we have a fight after school against those damn Sabertooth brats? Save your goddamn strength, dumbasses."

"Screw you, Laxus. I'll still be fired up enough to beat the shit out of them."

"Natsu said one smart thing for once, and I actually agree with it."

"Why you-."

"Hmft, suit yourselves then. Don't come crying to me if you both exert too much energy."

Both boys just huffed and looked in the opposite direction. Laxus then began to walk away from the group, leaving them all in the end of the hallway. They all looked at each other in confusion before Gajeel called out to Laxus with a questioning look clearly visible on his metallic features.

"Where do you think you're going?"

Laxus's voice was dull and neutral as his legs continued to walk away from the group, "I have something important to do."

"Then we'll go with you."

"Suit yourself then."

He waved nonchalantly which intrigued the three who decided to follow him. Curious thoughts and ideas were buzzing through their minds. They were all confused when Laxus stopped in front of the group of smart girls, Lucy's group to be exact. There were three of the brightest female students of the school (Lucy, Levy and Erza) accompanied with their friends. All of them looked up at the broad blonde male delinquent who looked down on the blonde female in particular. Lucy's back was against the wall where she had already laid on while she talked to Levy about a wonderful book she just finished not a long while ago. Natsu's brow arched in curiosity but his curiosity was quickly replaced with shock then possessiveness when Laxus's large arm was strongly placed on the side of Lucy's head. The action surprised both groups and any other students nearby. To be surprised was both cliched and an understatement, large buff male delinquent and one of the brightest and pretty girls of the school being in a scene like that.

To Natsu's own surprise, he felt a need to wedge himself between the meathead's moment with his best friend but he didn't want to intervene just yet when he saw Lucy's flushed expression.

'Does Luce like him?'

Lucy held her breath from the sudden action from the sinfully attractive male while a blush made its way to paint her cheeks a rosy pink color. Both blondes stared at each other for who knew how long, but to Lucy it felt like a century.

"Blondie, go out with me."

Hey Everyone!

I hope you all liked the first chapter~ This is just regular Fairy Tail story with no magic, well if you count Natsu spraying Siraicha sauce on someone magical then I guess there is magic in that haha. Reviews would be greatly appreciated since this is only my second chapter story! I'm honestly unsure on how long this will take but hopefully upcoming schoolwork AND tutoring 3 days a week this summer won't hinder the progress of this too much. Thank you for reading and have a great day :-)!

Sincerely,

teabubz

P.S I don't own the picture but thank you for the artist who made it! It's wonderful!