AN: Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima!

Hey ^_^ I'm so glad so many people liked 'With Someone Else'! XD I really enjoyed writing it and I loved everyone's reviews! XD Thank you so much! ^_^ So here's the first chapter of my new 'Thursday' story – hope you like it! It's my first time writing in this style so any pointers would be much appreciated! ^_^


Chapter One – How We Met

My name is Levy, and this is my little story about how I ended up with the strange man standing beside me, holding my hand as I push as hard as I can while I scream at him, and how he ended up being the one to change my last name. Every single one of my friends growing up thought I'd marry one of my two childhood friends that were always by my side, cheering me on from the day I met them when I was only five years old. They were only a year older than me, which was probably what caused that little change in my life that led to me being with someone else. I spent a year apart from them when they left for high school, you see, and that was when I met my best friend, Lucy.

I was sitting in the library when I heard someone come in. It turned out to be the new pupil, Lucy Heartfilia – I couldn't believe it when she told me she loved books and writing! She even promised that I could be the first to read her first ever novel; she wanted to be a writer when she grew up. I loved books and later developed a love for languages when I got older, deciding that I wanted to be a language tutor. This little bit is important believe it or not, because without Lucy I wouldn't be married to the man next to me – in fact I probably would have never talked to him again after that first week when I met him. And the importance of wanting to become a language tutor? Well, I did become a language tutor, but I'm married to one of the biggest non-readers in the world! Who'd have thought it?! Lucy did, I guess – but now I'm rambling! It all started when I was twelve – yes, twelve – and my first week of high school...

I walked in through the large front doors of my new school with my best friend and our friends from primary school. Jet and Droy had even walked me to school since my house was on their way. I'd missed those days; it had been a whole year and here we were, together again! We recognised some of the older kids in the hallway as we walked towards the assembly hall. Natsu walked straight up to Gray to pick a fight – so predictable! Our friend, Lisanna, was asking him to stop. She was so sweet and her boyfriend just loved to fight. I looked at my best friend and squeezed her hand, hoping to remind her we were only twelve which meant she'd probably get over her little crush on Natsu.

Lisanna's brother, Elfman, appeared behind Natsu and demanded that he continued towards the assembly hall without picking fights, like a real man. Elfman was only thirteen – a year older than us – what could he know about being a man yet? Cana winked at us as we walked passed her locker, Lucy and I smiled back at her with huge grins. It was a silent agreement to meet up at break, but that was two whole periods away...and I was about to meet one of the biggest guys I have ever met! Well, we were about to meet a couple of huge sixth years – the "Buddy System".

The Buddy System is where a sixth year has to look after three first years for a week. They were the ones that got you to your classes on time, and the ones you had to go to if you were in trouble with another student or you had lost something. I wouldn't have dreamt of bothering mine. Lucy's didn't seem much better; hers was not only smug, but also seemed to have a fixation on her chest that had already started coming in (unlike mine, which even now is still slightly below average), and he was absolutely huge, certainly well over six foot! Even worse for Lucy was that she ended up with both Natsu and Lisanna – don't get me wrong, we were good friends with both, it was just very unfortunate considering Lucy's feelings and that she was going to be stuck with the two of them and "Laxus" for a whole week.

The other sixth year that our little group from primary school got stuck with was a total pervert! He was as creepy as he was tall – and he was tall! I know I'm short but why did we have to get the three tall, well toned sixth years? I say 'we' as our friend, Juvia, had him as her Buddy along with two other girls; Sherry and Yukino. This was why I wished I could swap with Natsu or Yukino. If I swapped with Natsu, then I'd be with Lucy and Lisanna, which would save Lucy. If I swapped with Yukino, then I could be with Juvia...and Yukino could be with the two guys I was stuck with that she clearly knew. I was not only stuck with a giant, but with two guys that clearly knew each other, were very close, and had absolutely no interest in me. This week was going to be one of the worst weeks of my life!

I was so happy when I got to my first class – history! The three guys all ignored me, the giant just assuming I'd follow. He hadn't even said a single thing to the three of us but the boy with longish black hair walking in front of me – "Rogue" apparently – seemed to stare up at the guy in awe. I took a seat next to Lucy who was completely silent. We sat directly in front of the teacher, and this would be our seats until after Christmas when we switched from history to geography. I would rather have stayed in history but I guess you have to try everything, right?

The bell rang and the giants appeared at the door to collect us, along with other sixth years. I looked up at his face as I notice light glinting off something as I walked towards him. The guy had a piercing! I was stuck with a giant with a piercing! His bottom lip had two silver-coloured balls under it, one above the other. Maybe the bigger guy with the scar over his eye that Lucy had wasn't as scary-looking as this guy after all? No. I was glad I had the shorter of the two – even if I was as tall as his black hair was long. He had it tied back in a ponytail, as per the school rules that all girls here found annoying; hair over a certain length had to be tied back. I just had a ribbon in my hair to keep it out my eyes – it wasn't long enough to need tied back.

Second period was art. It was a simple introductory lesson so I spent most of my time staring out of the window. I was sitting next to Juvia, who I believe was glad to see a familiar face. "Bixslow" apparently had a bad habit of making weird, pervy jokes with his tongue lolling outside his mouth, and the other two girls were just as quiet as she was since they didn't really know each other. According to Juvia, it had looked like "Sherry" had been about to say something a few times but changed her mind after having another joke thrown in her direction.

Break finally came. Fifteen minutes where we could all sit together and talk! Juvia and I had to find Lucy, Lisanna and Cana. However, when the bell rang for the start of break, one of the "Buddies" was missing...and it had to be mine. My partners walked straight up to "Yukino" to join Bixslow's group as if it was perfectly normal and maybe even prearranged. I sighed and followed Juvia who just smiled at me sympathetically. She hadn't been joking about Bixslow! In fact, the guy still hadn't even changed much several years later, but I'll get back to that!

Third period arrived, and still no sign of my "Buddy" – I couldn't even ask Bixslow or Laxus where he was because I didn't even know the pierced guy's name. The two times I'd seen him, Rogue had managed to get one grunt from him and that was the closest any of us got to him 'speaking'. However, third period was when I discovered my dream. German, or more precisely, I discovered languages. I decided during that period that I wanted learn as many languages as I could – I didn't know I could use them as a job back then. Ich heiße Levy – "I'm Levy", yup, I learned my first phrase of another language! Lucy and Juvia could already speak a little French, but I'd start learning that in third year. Lisanna was the fourth person at our little four-person table. Natsu had joined with Sting, Rogue and Yukino since Sting liked the idea of becoming "rivals" with Natsu.

Fourth period was English, and there was still no sign of my "Buddy", so I joined Lucy's group this time since I was in her class. I'm pretty sure Lucy was glad of the break; Lisanna and Natsu were holding hands the whole time – they only became "boyfriend and girlfriend" over the summer. Thankfully Sting and Rogue kept with Bixslow's group or there probably would have been a few fights on the way to English. I sat next to Lucy once again, our stomachs growling due to the difference in timetabled lunchtime. Lunch was now one o'clock and not twelve. Oh the joys of high school!

Lunch went the same as break, but this time the two sixth years disappeared off on their own with their friends, "Freed" and "Eva" who were both fourth years. The group could finally actually catch up! They were sitting around a table with Gray, Elfman, Loke, Jet, Droy and Cana who were all second years, along with Mirajane – Lisanna and Elfman's older sister – and Erza, who brought her boyfriend, Jellal. The three of them were third years. This was the first of us five first years meeting Erza's boyfriend. Jellal Fernandes. Not one of us expected what was in store for him in his future! Cana hadn't even seen it coming, but then again she developed a habit of wandering off in third year at breaks and lunches to go meet one of the older boys – turns out he was a sixth year who liked to bring "liquid" to high school.

The others spent their lunch talking about their first day and discussing their Buddies, apparently the three third years had been placed together under someone called "Lahar" when they'd been in first year. That didn't help Jellal's future unfortunately. Laxus and Bixslow had apparently gone to the same primary as us, I just hadn't recognised them. The same was true of Freed Justine and Eva Green. Well what do you expect from a young child that kept her nose in a book?! I, on the other hand, sat watching for the annoying pierced idiot that I hadn't seen since the beginning of second period. He couldn't be a total rebel – he had had his hair tied back...but he did have his lip pierced? And the other two sixth years hadn't been surprised by his absence...maybe I should demand to know where he had been when I find him...or ask him politely...or maybe just follow him quietly? It wasn't as if he'd answer me.

Laxus and Bixslow reappeared before the end of lunch to get them to their next class. They'd arrived early since they had PE (Physical Education, i.e. sports) which meant they had to go get changed before class. Bixslow dropped us outside Home Economics and disappeared again, heading towards the gym, while Laxus took his group in the direction of Woodwork – another class I'd have to do after Christmas, and I really wasn't looking forward to it, couldn't I just do extra English or German? Juvia and I made our muffins; Juvia make chocolate chip, saying she'd give them to Gray, while I made blueberry, looking forward to eating them with Jet and Droy on my way home. If we had one each then that would leave one for my parents to share.

That wasn't going to happen. The idiot reappeared. The bell rang and I was about to follow Juvia and Bixslow's group towards music when he appeared around a corner. He smirked at me when he seen my face fall; I'd just gotten used to the idea of chatting to Juvia while ignoring the pervy jokes...and now I'd be stuck with the grumpy silent guy and the two boys who blatantly ignored me. To make matters worse, he knew exactly what was in the white paper bag in my hands. First years always make muffins in their first Home Economics class...and I was an easy target. He snatched the bag out of my hand and pulled a blueberry muffin out of the bag, throwing the bag back at me. I tried to protest as he sniffed the warm muffin and took a huge bite out of it. He grunted and rustled my hair with a tidy smirk on his lips. I glared up into his eyes...which I looked away from the second I realised they were red – who has red eyes?!

Sadly, I now needed to work out how to share three muffins between five. This boy was going to annoy me, I could just tell! We got to Music and once again, I sat next to Juvia. Lucy would be in Art with Lisanna and Natsu. My Buddy disappeared into one of the side rooms that were connected to the classroom where we sat. I could see him through the narrow window in the apparently soundproofed door, sitting with a guitar on his knee, strumming away. He plays guitar? I guess that should have been predictable – he's probably a Heavy Metal fan. I prefer more upbeat Indie. I was suddenly very aware of someone staring at me. I looked around to find the teacher staring directly at me. I gulped.

"If you're going to sit and stare at Gajeel through the window, I'll have to move you. I don't care how 'good-looking' you think he is, it is no excuse to ignore me when I'm talking to the class."

Two things happened when I was addressed by the Music teacher. The first was that I found out my Buddy's name. The second was that my face reached a level of red that I hadn't even known was possible.


Hope you liked it! Like I said, any pointers would be great! I think I get slightly better towards the end but there is only four chapters...O:) The 'Buddy System' was actually a real thing at my High School – when I was in first year, my 'Buddy' didn't bother telling me her name or turn up to pick us up at the end of classes, so me and my friend always had to find someone else to take us :P Yes, at one point I did get lost :P When I got to sixth year, not only were we in a new school, but the system changed and I had to take an entire class (40 tiny S1s) to their next class...which required a battle plan! I had to take them to three different classes, each in a different part of the school! Our school was Y-shaped and had three floors...and I had 5min to get everyone to their correct classes! :P

Anyway! Hope you enjoyed this! ^_^ The next chapter will be up next Thursday – there is a bit of a timeskip or you'd get kinda bored going through every day of all six years! This story focuses on the interactions between them, and right now she's a first year and he's a sixth year. I'm really terrible at explaining this, but my explanation will start to make sense when you read Ch2...O:) And I can't really do the 'questions at the end' for this... Anyone who reads my Sunday/Monday one-shots – there will be 2 chapters of 'The Life of the First Mate' posted next week to make up for the Sunday just past! So they'll be up Monday and Tuesday! ^_^

ANs will be shorter in future! This is just my typical 'first chapter rambling'!