Hello guys. It's been quite long. You may notice my inconsistency as a writer here. I know. So I decided to start a new fiction, of course it's about Jellal and Erza. I can never stop shipping this couple. Never. So, you may have read the summary before you're starting to read this fiction, but the "6 years later" is going to be put on hold. I will tell first about the high school life for about 4 or 5 chaps. After that, we're going to time skip. So I hope you guys enjoy, as usual I'm not that perfect in English, so I hope you don't mind any grammatical errors. Let's go!

Disclaimer : I don't own anything, including Fairy Tail.

The Secretly Aphrodisiac

Chapter 1

The cool autumn's air was breezing on Magnolia High School. Jellal Fernandes was sitting on the first year there. Unlike any other, Jellal is a really shy boy. Hardly made any eye contact with everyone, always staring at the tip of his shoes, and his voice was always so weak and trembling. It was another day of school. Jellal sometimes spaced out during classes, because he had already learnt and understood what the teacher was going to explain on the day. During his aimlessly attention at class that day, he stared at this young girl that he likes, with a bright beautiful scarlet hair. He sat 3 rows behind her, so he thought it's actually fine to stare at her. That young girl, Erza Scarlet, was always the brightest in the class. She could easily answer any questions given to her, she could explain anything in front of her class easily, and she was so friendly to everyone. Everything that Jellal can't, Erza can. They both were on the same rank if it's the matter of intelligence. But in social matter, Jellal would be beaten flat.

The lunch break bell rang and Jellal about to take his lunch to his favorite place of the school, the library. So many books with different genre were piling on those shelves. At the library, Jellal was also accompanied by his fellow reader too, named Levy McGarden. Sometimes Levy offered many different kind of books and Jellal always accepted the offers. "Hey, Jellal! It's nice to see you." a young girl stood in front of him. "O-oh! H-h-hey Levy…" Jellal looked down to his shoes, again. Levy chuckled a bit, "Looking for another book? Well, I have this one. Just finished reading it yesterday. So fascinating. It's about Arcana and stuffs. I know you like some mythology recently." Levy explained. Jellal looked at the book for a while and then took it, "T-thank you. I-I will read it." Jellal said. Levy smiled at him as Jellal was looking for an available seat. The seat that put him some distance from everyone.

"Ah, Levy!", a cheerful voice approached. "Lu-chan! How are you?", both of them hugged each other. "I'm alright. I'm just looking for another novel. For inspiration of course.", Lucy said. "Well, how about we look together. I've been thinking to read some kind of novel." Levy chuckled. "Let's go!", Lucy pulled Levy hand to the novel section. After they have arrived, they began to search the novel. "So, how was Erza on your class?" Levy asked. "Well, nothing much. Being her usual self, smart, attentive, and discipline." Lucy said. "You should be glad you are not in the same class as Natsu and Gray. Sometimes they can't take the fight outside of class.", Levy sighed. Lucy laughed a bit, "I know! They need someone like Erza to keep them quiet.", Lucy looked around a bit and she noticed Jellal. "Hey, Levy. Is Jellal always coming here?", Lucy asked. "Hm? Oh, he is. Sometimes I read with him. We somehow have same interest over books. But he is so shy, and that's kind of cute.", Levy whispered. "Is that so. He's in my class. I sit next to him and sometimes he just read books from the library and pay a little attention at class. But still, he managed to get great scores.", Lucy said. "Ah, really? You know, maybe you should talk with him. I kind of pity him because he is always in the library. He told me that when he was in the cafeteria, he almost fainted because how crowded and loud that place. But it's no good to always hang at the library with no friends, except me. You should give it a try, you're a nice person.", Levy said. "Okay.", Lucy agreed. "Thank you, Lu-chan!", Levy hugged her.

The break about to end and Jellal looked at his watch. He closed his lunch box and his book and went back to his classroom. Jellal walked the hallway while staring a little bit down. Trying to not making eye contact with anyone. Suddenly, someone bumped Jellal and made his stuffs fell. "Oh! I'm sorry! Gray shoved me really hard.", a pink-haired boy gave Jellal a hand with picking Jellal's stuffs. "Oi, Gray! You should forgive him, you know.", the pink-haired boy yelled. "What?! It's your own fault that you collide to him.", the raven-haired boy replied. "I-i-it's okay… I-I'm not p-paying attention, a-anyway.", Jellal said. "See? He's fine, dumb-ass.", the raven-haired boy said. "Well, I'm Natsu. And this sleepy boy is Gray!", Natsu smiled at him. "Hey! I'm not sleepy! Nice to meet you….what's your name?", Gray asked. "J-J-Jellal...", Jellal eyes were covered with his bangs to hide from them. "Jellal!", a cheerful voice shouting to his name. Jellal looked around and he saw Lucy walking with…Erza! Jellal was flustered, his face turned red. "Lucy! Erza!", Natsu waved at them. "You know this guy?", Gray asked. "He's in the same class with me and Erza. Hi, Jellal!", Lucy put her warm smile face in front of him. Jellal a little bit startled. "Let's go back to the class.", Erza smiled at Jellal. Ba-dum Jellal's heart just skipped a beat. Jellal had never experience things like this and he's so beyond flustered. Jellal nodded in response and walked with Lucy and Erza to class as they parted ways with Natsu and Gray.

The school bell rang and the next session about to start. It's PE. So the entire class changed their attire to the school sports uniform. They were gathered at the big sports field. The coach made them do some warm-up before they were going to do some baseball. So then class divided into 2 teams. And Jellal was so nervous because he always afraid doing team or group works. He was very shy and communicating with people gave him some hard time. Jellal was on the same team with Lucy. "Hey, Jellal! Let's win this game!", Lucy encouraged him. Jellal nodded in response. At that time everyone think Jellal gonna pull them back, because they think Jellal is a nerd. Erza team's leading a quite few points from Jellal's team. Then, Jellal was the final hitter and actually the team could win, if he can hit far. "I don't know about this, man.", his classmate said. "Yeah. Maybe we are just going to accept defeat. I mean Jellal is kind of, you know.", his other classmate said. "Shush! Don't be such a meanie.", Lucy said. "You can do it, Jellal!", Lucy cheering on him. Then, when Jellal hit the ball, an unexpected thing happened. The ball flew so high and fast and the entire students on the field dropped their jaw. Jellal ran at fast as he could and so his teammates who were at the field. The coach face was showing disbelief of how Jellal managed to hit that far. The ball was far enough and it was considered a home-run.

"The heck?!" "Impossible!" "We were almost winning…."

Those impressions came out as Jellal's team celebrating their victory. They were really happy that Jellal revived them from the embarrassment of losing. Well, people their age still feel embarrassed from losing. "Jellal, you're great!" "You saved us Jellal!" "We won!" The team cheered and Lucy ran to him and she cheerfully laughed, "You're so great, Jellal! I know you can do it!", her warm smile made Jellal feel embarrassed. Jellal didn't know what to do and he kept his head a little bit down because he was so shy. Then, he caught Erza's glance and she smiled at him. Ba-dum Two times on one day his heart was skipping so fast. Jellal faintly smiled at her.

Back at class, everyone was really tired from the baseball game and they have to endure one last session. But before the session, there was a small break. Erza visited Lucy's desk which is on left of Jellal's. "Phew! So tiring.", Lucy sighed. Erza chuckled a bit, "Hang in there, just one more session.". "I know, I know.", Lucy and Erza chatted for a while and then, "Oh. Jellal's here.", Lucy said. Erza and Lucy waved to him. Jellal was surprised. He looked around to make sure they waved at him for sure. And then, Jellal slowly walked to his seat. "You did great there, Jellal. I'm impressed.", Erza was really impressed by Jellal that he almost going to faint. Jellal lowered his head, covering his face which actually quite red. "Don't be so shy, Jellal. You really were great at that match.", Lucy said. "T-t-thanks, g-guys..", Jellal was so flustered. "You know, we should hang sometime.", Erza said. Jellal eyes widened. "True, true. Next time we should eat lunch together. There will be me, Erza, Natsu, and Gray.", Lucy said. "With you, it should be more fun.", Erza said. And so, from that time, Jellal realized that he is out from his comfort zone.

And, that will be the end of Chapter 1. I hope you guys enjoy this, but if you don't, I may consider deleting this story. I'm sorry for any grammatical errors or if my writing style made you uncomfortable. And if any of you really considerate to help me make this story looked better, be my guest, feel free to PM me. Please leave a rate and a review, you may criticize but don't give me inappropriate/unnecessary words on your review. Respect each other and you got yourself a respect. I'll try to update as soon as possible, maybe once/twice a week. Ja nee~