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"Jellal, no," Natsu pleaded as he grabbed onto the older man's arm, "Do not leave me here."

The other sighed and turned around partially just so he could pry Natsu's hand off of his arm. It actually took an effort- Natsu was much stronger than he looked, which made him wonder why he felt so uncomfortable here. "Listen, I'll be right back. I left my wallet in my room, just hold my spot on line for me."

"I can go back and get it for you!"

Jellal scoffed, "Yea right. The moment you get inside, you're going to forget about me and play videogames."

Natsu had no response, it was very likely he would do that.

"The dorm's not far away, I'll be back in no time. Just wait here for a few minutes. What's there to be afraid of in a gym?" with those words, the blue-haired man turned and started walking up the path that led to the university's living communities.

"Jellal...!" Natsu let out one last childish whine before huffing in defeat and leaning against the wall the line of people were pushed up against. The semester had just started and the university's gym was having a first week special where students could use the equipment for free. Of course, the moment college students heard the word free, they all got up bright and early and started lining up in front of the gym half an hour before it even opened. Honestly, Jellal didn't even look like the muscle-head-extreme-workout type.

Nor was he, actually.

Natsu did have muscles, but those were from running around and jumping off roofs every day. He was always getting in trouble and running away from teachers and other disciplinary officers back in high school. Doing actual workout at a gym, though? No, he didn't like it here. It always felt like everyone was doing it for the sake of an image. Natsu did all the exercise because it was a side-effect from running around so much. (He had once mentioned how this ticked him off to his best friend and he got beat up so he didn't say this out loud to Jellal when he found him here.) Oh, and it didn't help that his sensitive nose gets overwhelmed by all the body odor everyone emitted. Ugh, he skipped gym class all the time for a reason.

So why was he here? Well, this morning, Natsu had woken up bright and early for a run around campus only to realize he had left his ID card (which got him into his building, suite, and room) on his desk. He was lucky that it was a Saturday and he didn't have a class to rush to. Standing awkwardly outside the dorm building, he quickly sent out a mass text to everyone in his suite asking for someone to let him in.

The only one who responded was Jellal.

Natsu had ran over to the gym quickly in hopes of being able to get back into his room sooner, but it turned out that Jellal wanted him to wait in line with him until the gym opened. The gym needed to check his ID or something before he could go inside. And then, of course, problems arose again- Jellal had left his wallet his room.

Now, Natsu was stuck waiting awkwardly and out of place in line. Anywhere else, he could easily strike up a conversation with a person next to him, but he didn't want to talk about how much he could bench or how many push-ups he could do. The thought just brought up the unpleasant smell of BO.

Two minutes after Jellal had left, the doors opened and the line started moving. "Oh shit," Natsu cursed under his breath as his turn came closer and closer. He didn't have his ID and Jellal would get mad at him for losing his spot online.

When it came to his turn, Jellal still hadn't returned yet. The lady behind the reception desk gave him a smile, "Your ID, please?"

"Uhhh..." Natsu struggled to find words to say. Could he stall any longer for Jellal?

Just as he decided he might as well tell the lady the truth, that he didn't have his ID and he was holding the spot for his suitemate, a voice called out, "He's with me! I can vouch that he's a student."

The lady's head turned to face a young woman with long red hair and a stunning figure. Natsu thought his eyes had popped out of their sockets and landed on the floor, "Wooow..." he breathed. She was hot! The tank top and the shorts only made it all the better... Thinking back, Natsu could remember a couple of hot girls back in high school, but he had never seen them wear anything more revealing than their gym uniforms, which... weren't revealing at all. Not to mention he skipped half the time so he never saw much. It wasn't as though the woman standing before him wore anything super revealing, but Natsu felt his throat tighten and butterflies flutter in his stomach.

"Oh... Well, alright, Ms. Scarlet," the receptionist lady said with a nod, "Mister, do you remember your ID number? If not, just give us your name and which building you live in."

Natsu nodded, finally tearing his eyes away from... Ms. Scarlet- gosh, he needed to get her name, at least! He quickly told the receptionist the information she needed and practically ran over to join Ms. Scarlet.

"Hey, uh, thanks..."

"You can call me Erza," she replied with a smile as she pulled her hair up into a ponytail.

Natsu smiled, "Erza! That's a nice name! I'm-"

"Natsu, I heard from your conversation outside."

So she was paying attention to him! The thought made Natsu's ego soar-

"Jellal and I have known each other for a while so since you guys are roommates, was it? Means that you're a student."

-Aaaand it sank. Of course she'd be interested in Jellal. That guy has girls' heads turning towards him the moment he steps into a room.

"We're suitemates," he mumbled, deciding that he might as well correct her.

"Oh," she chuckled, "He's a good guy, I'm sure you guys will have fun living together."

"Ha...ha..." Natsu laughed nervously.

"By the way, are you really afraid of gyms?"

"Huh?" Natsu blinked. Why was she asking about him? He thought that she was into Jellal? But he noticed that there was a curious sparkle in her eyes so maybe, just maybe, he had a chance with this gorgeous woman. "Oh, naaah. It's just that people smell bad after being in here for a while so I'd rather run around outside."

Erza raised her eyebrows, "...Do I smell?"

"No!" Natsu said quickly, "You smell... wonderful, actually."

Erza gave him a smile and looked slightly to her left. She's embarrassed, Natsu realized with a smirk. "Well, since you're here waiting for Jellal, why don't you work out a bit? You know, before the smell gets too bad?"

She stopped at a bench, "You said you run around, but do you bench?"

"Of course!" Natsu replied right away. Seeing Erza raise another intrigued eyebrow, Natsu quickly cleared his throat and drove away the apparent enthusiasm, "I mean, I do some heavy lifting."

"Oh," she replied, "Well, how much do you think you can lift?"

"Ehh~ Maybe around a hundred-fifty?" he didn't want to seem too impressive, gotta keep the thirst in check, he thought to himself with a chuckle.

"I can do better."

"What?!" woah! No matter how hot she is, Natsu refused to let anyone say they were better than him at something like weight-lifting, "I was just kidding! I haven't done any benching at a gym so I don't know my maximum."

"Wanna bet? You probably can't do even two-hundred."

"I'll do three-fifty! If I can't, I'll treat you to a shake."

"You're on!"

With that, the two of them got into position with Erza spotting and adding weights for Natsu to lift. They started with Natsu's supposed maximum. He lifted a hundred-fifty easily. Next was two hundred, it was just as easy. He could see Erza raise an eyebrow, she was impressed! At two-fifty, however, Natsu did begin to feel a bit of strain.

"Hey, you sure, about this? I don't want you to get hurt."

"Of course I'm sure!" Natsu huffed, "Don't take me for some weakling!"

With an uncertain frown, Erza moved to add more weights. At that exact moment, Jellal walked in, "Natsu! You're supposed to have been waiting for me- Erza?"

Erza let out a surprised gasp and dropped the weight she was holding... right onto Natsu's stomach.

"Arrgh!" Natsu cried out in pain and curled over, pushing the fifty pounds of metal to the ground. If it weren't for the six-pack he had worked up over the years, he might've really died.

"Oh my God, Natsu! I'm so sorry!" Erza quickly apologized, "Sorry, I'll catch up with you later, Jellal! I have to bring Natsu to the infirmary!"

"I'm... I'm fine-" Natsu wheezed, but Erza wouldn't hear any of it. He was about to protest more when his eyes nearly bugged out of his sockets for the second time that day as Erza picked him up bridal style with ease, "E-Erza?!"

"What? Actually, don't talk! We need to let a doctor look at you!"

Natsu looked back at Jellal, but his suitemate only looked away and coughed in an awkward apology.

A few hours later, after a checkup to make sure Natsu had no broken ribs or ruptured organs, he was sitting on the couch in the common room of the suite in a daze. The entire time he spent in that clinic, Erza had kept apologizing over and over again and in the end, she promised a date- well, not really, it was just lunch, but Natsu couldn't help letting his mind fly forward- to make it up to him.

About half an hour after Natsu had returned, Jellal walked in, "Oh, who let you in?"

"Sting came back," Natsu mumbled as he stared off at nothing.

"Hey, are you okay?" Jellal asked as he closed the door behind him. He was sure that Natsu was much stronger than a fifty pound weight, but he was behaving... odd. First of all, he had never in the past week (essentially, since he first met the pink-haired boy) seen him sit down quietly.

"Huh, um, yea, yea, I'm fine! Fine!" Natsu said quickly and the room fell into silence once again. Deciding that he didn't want the conversation to get any more awkward, Jellal turned to walk towards his room when Natsu spoke up again. "Hey, um, about Erza?"

"Hm?" Jellal turned around to face Natsu again.

"Uh... Well... what's your deal with her?" he mumbled, a faint blush dusting his cheeks.

Jellal's eyebrows shot up in surprise before his lips twisted into the half grin that the ladies on campus loved so much, "Ohh~ Got the hots for Erza, don't you?"

"S-Shut up!"

"We met freshman year," Jellal shrugged, "And she asked me out once last year. I turned her down."

"You turned her down?" Natsu asked with wide eyes, "How?! Why?! Erza's... Erza's... gorgeous!"

Jellal shrugged again, "I'm not... looking for a relationship." He was in his junior year of college and many girls have asked him out over the past years. He had liked some of them back, but he decided that now wasn't the time he wanted to be in a relationship with anyone. All of that business can wait until school was over.

"Well, then..." Natsu mumbled, "Is it alright if I go on a date with her?"

"Of course?" Jellal answered in confused tone, "Why are you asking me for permission? Date whoever you want."

"I mean, we're suitemates and-"

"If I said no, would you not date her?" Jellal cut in. When Natsu didn't have an answer, he turned around and walked into his room. Natsu's naivety was beginning to annoy him.

Two weeks passed before Natsu saw Erza again and despite how entranced Natsu had been when he first saw her, he had actually completely forgotten about her over the past two weekends. Of course, the fact that he had gotten into a drinking contest with a girl at a party on Friday didn't help. And the fact that he had his first exam Friday morning which led to attending the party afterwards had made him forget about anything other than integrating the natural log.

"Natsu!" a familiar voice called out to him as he hurried through the dining hall. He had been in class the whole day and he was starving! Why did he think it was a good idea to make his schedule this cramped? Oh, right, because the freshmen signed up last and he couldn't get into the better timed classes.

"What?" Natsu yelled, irritated because he really wanted to get food as soon as he can and he hadn't even gotten on a line yet. He turned to face whomever just yelled at him and quickly took a breath in surprise when he saw Erza. "E-Erza! I-I didn't mean to yell-"

Erza laughed, cutting him off as he stared at her. He was sure that was the most beautiful sound he had ever heard in his entire life. "Would you like to join us for dinner?" she asked, nodding at the two girls that sat at the table with her.

"Sure!" Natsu said quickly. Erza was stunning, but the two sitting with her weren't bad looking either. "Just let me get some food first," he couldn't stop grinning.

For the rest of the month, Natsu ate dinner with Erza at least twice a week. Sometimes they had lunch together as well and on weekends that they could both wake up on time for, they'd have breakfast. At first, Erza's friends would join them at each meal or one of Natsu's suitemates (excluding Jellal, who Natsu decided inviting would be bad for his game plan) would tag along. Eventually, however, their meals would leave just the two of them at the table.

The two of them would talk about various things alone. They didn't have any classes together with a two year difference between them so they often talked about their hobbies or their homes or occasionally about one of Natsu's professors that Erza had as a freshman. From these chats, he learned that Erza really liked competitions. It wasn't just who can lift more weights at the gym, but she liked to run and fight, too- things that Natsu could relate to. She knew karate and could smash several bricks with just her fists and could flip someone three times her size over her shoulder.

"Isn't that judo?"

"You really think I only know one style of martial arts?"

It turned out Erza knew many. Natsu didn't believe her at first, but then he wound up on the back of his head with his ass up in the air. Yea... he believed her now, he didn't even know it was possible for him to land in such a way.

Another thing he discovered that made Erza's eyes shine were swords. Apparently she was part of both the fencing and kendo clubs. In fact, it sounded like she enjoyed sword fighting more than any other competition. She talked for an hour about all the different swords she had for different tournaments she participated in. Natsu could swear that the 'swords' used for fencing and kendo were not made of real metal despite what she was describing.

"I blocked to the left and then I," she picked up her paper cup as demonstration for the sword, "stabbed forward and won- OH MY GOSH, I'M SO SORRY NATSU!"

The cup was full of water. And Natsu just got sprayed headfirst with half a cup of water.

Erza hurriedly pulled napkins out of the napkin dispenser and started dabbing water out of Natsu's face. Natsu, who was shocked by the sudden shower, didn't say anything for a while. Then, without truly thinking about the consequences of his actions, he reached out and grabbed Erza by the arm, stopping her from cleaning the water off his face.

"Erza, will you go out with me?"

The older woman stared at him with wide eyes and a blank expression. Natsu, realizing what he just said, drew back and let go, quickly stuttering out an apology. However, Erza, reached over and caught his hand again, "Yes! Yes, I'll go out with you, Natsu!"

Natsu swore he heard bells of victory ringing in the distance.

No one can blame Natsu for bragging about his new girlfriend, but Sting was really getting tired of it. He was already pretending to flip through the channels on TV to show that he wasn't interested, but Natsu just spoke loudly and quickly and occasionally doing hand gestures and Sting just wanted to smother himself with a pillow. Because if he smothered Natsu with a pillow, he was afraid that his corpse will still continue talking.

"Natsu, I get it, you got yourself a great girl. Now would you just shut the hell up?" Sting said as he turned the television off and got off the couch and walked back towards his room.

"Aww don't be like that, Sting! It's alright, I'm sure you'll find a great girl, too! Oh, and I got a date tonight so have the drinking contest with Cana for me, okay?"

"Shut up, Natsu!" Sting yelled as he slammed the door behind him.

Despite his suitemate's attitude, he couldn't help but continue to grin after him as he leaned against the couch. Turning to the other person in the room, he asked, "So how about you, you got any plans for the night, Jellal?"

Jellal, who had been reading a book on the armchair, looked up, "Not really. I figured I'd go over a few notes for my geology quiz tomorrow. Why?"

"I was just wondering," Natsu answered. Afterwards, silence fell between them. Natsu didn't notice it, however, as he just continued to think happily about Erza and the coming date.

"Hey, Natsu," Jellal finally spoke up and the younger's head turned towards him, "Is this your first time in a relationship?"

"Yea."

"Hmm, I see."

"Why?"

"Be careful with Erza."

Natsu furrowed his eyebrows. Why? What kind of warning was that? Natsu was about to inquire further when an alarm on his phone went off. Half an hour until his date! He had to get ready! "Ohh, I better get dressed, I'll talk with you later, Jellal!"

"Hn," Jellal answered with a nod, his eyes never once leaving his book.

For the next twenty minutes, Natsu ran in and out of his room, sometimes in his underpants, trying to get all the right hair products and colognes and occasionally stopping by to ask Jellal for his opinion in what Erza might like. Finally, he had gone out to pick up Erza. After he left, Sting came out of his room and turned on the TV, "Finally. I thought he was never going to leave. Now I can watch my game," he mumbled.

"Wanna bet how long he'll last?" Jellal asked.

Sting frowned, "Isn't that a bit mean? To think he'll get dumped so soon?"

"Oh, no, I don't think he'll get dumped."

"What? You're saying he'll dump Erza? No way, not with how excited he is."

"So you're betting never?"

"Well..." Sting shook his head, "Why're we doing this anyways?"

"For fun. I'm going to say he'll last about a week and a half."

Natsu didn't have a car, not yet. His dad said he would give him the old one if he did well on his first semester. So for the time being, he had to either walk everywhere or take the bus. Taking the bus for a date, however, sounded rather...lame so he planned to call a taxi. When he met up with Erza, she had a better idea.

"Let's run."

"...Run?"

"Yea, the restaurant isn't that far away, right? Downtown?"

"Yea, but..." Natsu stared at her wide eyed. Under normal circumstances, he wouldn't mind running there at all. The distance wasn't that bad, only about six or seven miles. He had run further back in high school, "The only way to get there is through the highway."

"So?"

"You want us to run five miles down a mountain on a highway then through downtown?"

"Yea!" Erza said like it was the most normal thing in the world.

"But-" before Natsu could continue, Erza had grabbed his hand broke into a run towards the campus exit. And what the hell, this lady had fingers made of steel. "Wait, Erza! Erza, no! Stop- AHHH!" they hadn't even reached the high way and Natsu just nearly got ran over by a car.

"Erza, this is insane!" but he wasn't sure she even heard him over the roar of the cars on the high way.

When they arrived at the restaurant twenty minutes later, Natsu wasn't sure why he was still alive. Erza had ran down the road like she was completely used to this with Natsu flailing behind her. He would've expected her to run at the edge of the highway, at least, but not Erza! She liked going where ever she liked so she zigzagged between the lanes. Natsu thought he nearly died several hundred times in the first ten minutes. Pretty soon, he caught on that as long as he followed Erza's path, he could avoid most of the cars.

They had both broken a light sweat by the time they sat down at a table, Natsu was thankful that he ran a lot each morning. The last thing he wanted to do was look pathetically weak in front of Erza. Dinner was fairly uneventful with them chatting and eating like a normal couple. They even saw a few of their friends nearby. Natsu recognized Loke from his calculus class with a girl. The blonde girl looked familiar, maybe he had a class with her too.

As soon as the food arrived, Natsu started digging in without thinking. He had ran all the way here, of course he was starving! All that energy used... Besides, Erza should be used to his eating habits by now- "Ow!" Natsu yelped as he felt a crushing pain on his left foot.

"Natsu! Where are your manners?" Erza demanded as Natsu put down his fork and nursed his foot, "People are staring at us."

"Because you just nearly broke my toe!"

"No, they've been staring since before that. Now stop complaining and eat properly," there was a scary glint in Erza's eye and Natsu suddenly felt like a mouse in front of a lion. He shrunk back and started picking at his food with his fork slowly and taking smaller bites. It seemed to please Erza as she soon sat back and relaxed as well.

"Are we running back as well?" Natsu asked nervously as they left the restaurant.

"No, it's bad to run on a full stomach. Let's take a taxi back."

Natsu let out a grin of relief as he shifted through his wallet for a taxi driver's business card. He had gotten quite a few of those during his first month in college. The taxi arrived in a few minutes and it only took about ten minutes to get back onto campus. Natsu paid for the ride and walked Erza back to her room.

"Thank you for the date, Natsu," Erza said as she unlocked her room, "I had lots of fun." Natsu was about to respond when she leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. Whatever words were in his head flew out of his mind and he stood there with his mouth opened, staring at her with a stupidly happy expression. Grinning, Erza said good night, walked into her room, and closed the door. It was only after Natsu walked down the hall that he jumped and punched the air in victory.

"She kissed me! That was my first kiss!" Natsu said excitedly as he sat backwards on his chair, hugging it tightly.

"She kissed you on the cheek," Sting replied as he pressed quick combos on his wii-mote. He was trying to concentrate on playing Super Smash Brothers Brawl, but Natsu kept trying to talk with him, "Hey, why don't you tell this to your roommate?"

"He's not here."

"Text him."

"I don't have his number."

Sting frowned, come to think of it, he didn't have Natsu's roommate's number either. Hell, he didn't even remember the guy's name, "Did I ever meet your roommate?"

Natsu shrugged, "I don't know, he's never around. He comes back like once a week in the middle of the night to get books or something."

"So a library nerd?"

"I don't know, I haven't talked with him in weeks. But anyways, about Erza-"

Sting let out a very loud and audible groan.

Two days later, Monday morning, Natsu's phone started ringing. He was about to bash the snooze alarm on it when he realized that Erza was calling him, "Hello?" he answered sleepily.

"Natsu! I was wondering if you'd want to go mountain climbing."

"Mountain climbing?"

"Yea, it'll rain in the afternoon so I figured we should go before then."

"Sure?" Natsu wasn't quite awake yet, but any time spent with Erza was good time.

"Great, I'll meet you in front of the nature preserve in five minutes."

"Wait, in five minutes?" Natsu now sat up, confused.

"Yes."

"It's three in the morning!" he exclaimed. It was still dark outside!

"Yes, we don't want to miss class, right? I'll see you in five minutes," Erza said and hung up, leaving Natsu with dial tone. Natsu sat in his dark and empty room, conflicted. While he liked having early morning runs, he didn't really mountain climb a whole lot. And he wanted to sleep, dammit. But he also didn't want to ditch Erza, she is his girlfriend.

With a groan, he got out of bed and started getting ready for his mountain climbing date.

"Hey, is he alive?" Gray asked as she sat down at the lunch table. Gray, Natsu's best fri-enemy from high school occasionally joined Natsu and his suitemates for Monday lunch. It was one of the rare days in the week that Natsu didn't eat with Erza because of their class schedules.

In response to Gray's question, Natsu let out a groan, but kept his head down on the table.

"Erza made him go mountain climbing this morning," Sting answered for him.

"What? You couldn't handle a little mountain climbing?" Gray teased, "You're going soft."

"Shut. Up," Natsu hissed as he sat up and leaned against the back of his seat, "If I knew in advance, I'd be okay. But you try being dragged out of bed at 3AM to climb for five hours and then stay awake for class."

"Coulda just slept through it."

"No, I needed..." Natsu let out a yawn, "It's... calculus. Midterm coming... up."

"Just who's this Erza anyways, I'm surprised she made you do something you didn't want to," Gray smirked, "Someone you got a crush on?"

"Erza's his girlfriend," Sting said.

"Your girlfriend?!" Gray's eyes widened in shock and her mouth threatened to drop to the floor, "Natsu got a girlfriend?"

"Why are you so shocked?"

"Because! You're... you're Natsu. You're not supposed to be dating girls."

"What the hell is that supposed to mean, bitch?" Natsu yelled, jumping up.

"Who the hell do you think you're calling a bitch, fucking weak little douche?" Gray yelled back.

"Wanna fight?!"

"Hell yea!"

The two of them rushed outside of the dining hall to start their brawl. Sting, who remained in his seat looking over some notes for his English class mumbled, "Thought he was tired..."

Half an hour later, Natsu was sitting in the infirmy with a black eye. Sting had called Erza who came running to check on him. "What happened to you?" she asked as she dropped down to sit next to him.

"Got into a fight with Gray," he mumbled, "I would've won if I wasn't so tired!"

"Who's Gray and you shouldn't have been fighting to begin with!"

"A friend... from high school," Natsu let out a yawn, "I shouldn't have gone mountain climbing this morning. I wouldn't be so tired otherwise."

"What, are you saying this is my fault?" Erza asked with narrowed eyes.

"It kinda is. No normal person goes mountain climbing before the sun rises."

"...What are you trying to say?"

Natsu shrugged in response.

"No, tell me. What do you mean by 'no normal person'?" she demanded.

With a frustrated sigh, Natsu stood up and yelled, "Nobody does the crazy shit you do! Half the things you do could be labeled as insanity! I mean, who runs down a highway on a date? Murder her boyfriend's toes for eating without manners? And that time at the pool when you shoved my head underwater for a full minute to push my limits? I could've died! You're not sane, woman-"

Natsu felt a sharp pain on his cheek as a crack sounded across the room. The next thing he knew, he was on the ground, staring at Erza towering above him with an angry expression. He had never seen her that angry before and it scared him.

Before he knew what was going on, he was picked up by the collar and a second punch was delivered to his jaw.

"You want to say that again, darling?" Erza asked as she cracked her knuckles.

"Shit, Erza, I-"

All of a sudden, Erza dropped her fists and hung her head with a sigh, "Forget it. Don't ever talk to me again."

"Wait, Erza-" but she had already turned and left the room. With a defeated sigh of his own, Natsu sat down on the infirmary bed again and ran a hand through his hair, "I fucked up."

For the next three days, Natsu kept trying to apologize. He tried waiting outside Erza's classes, but she just ignored him. The fifth time he did that, she punched him in the stomach, which left him stunned on the floor for a good ten minutes. He tried calling and texting her to apologize, but she ignored all of it.

Finally, he left one last voicemail, "I'm sorry. I'll stop...I'll stop bothering you from now on. But, I really wanted to apologize for all the things I said. You're...quirky. You've got your own traits that make you wonderful and well, I just wanted to say that. And hopefully we end at a better note."

He tapped 'end call' on his phone and laid down on the suite's couch face down. I fucked up. I fucked up real bad, he thought to himself as he heard a door open. Looking up, he saw Jellal walk in and sit on the armchair and open up a book to read.

"You knew this was going to happen, didn't you?"

"Actually, no," Jellal answered, "I expected her to wear you out, but not have you trying to crawl back to her."

Natsu frowned, "I said some things I shouldn't have." Natsu felt his voice shake and quickly buried his head in the couch again, "I hurt her. I thought... I thought that by the time I made it into college, I'd have grown up a bit. But in the end, I'm just the same. I can't get over being childish and hurtful."

"I wouldn't say that-"

"That's it!" Natsu wiped away the tears and sat up properly on the couch, "Fuck being mature, I'm in college, I can do whatever the hell I want!" With that declaration, he stood up and stomped into his room, slamming the door behind him.

"Shit..." Jellal mumbled. Technically, none of this had anything to do with him. Still, he couldn't help but worry about what might happen in the near future.

Inspiration from this video:

/watch?v=HIPJrrQlxzY

Or just search "The Six Girls You Date in College" on youtube because from what I know, ff doesn't let you highlight things anymore. (Which makes things difficult for me because I tend to highlight as I read to focus better;; )

So I wrote this on a whim, I know I still have so many unfinished fics that I haven't even looked at in months. This one was supposed to be a one-shot, but just this first one with Erza turned out so damn long (15 pages!), I might as well turn this into a multi-chap fic with one chapter for each girl.

Hopefully I got their personalities right. I feel like in an AU, all of their extreme personalities would mellow out a bit. Still, I tried my best to keep them in some relation. And for the sake of plot, Natsu isn't dead-set afraid of Erza, but I think in the end, he kinda is anyways xD Also for plot purposes is his lack of motion-sickness and Gray being a girl. I guess it's worth noting that the campus in this story is based off of the university I attend. It's in the mountains and getting to just about anywhere requires you to walk through a highway. Although, we have a sidewalk-ish thing, Natsu didn't xD