The hidden smile

Today was just another regular day in Fairy Tail high. All the students are scattered around the school waiting for classes to start.

"Look! It's the legendary student!" A student whispers to her friend as the top role model of the school passes her not bothered about her comment.

Lucy Heartfillia is the number one student in her school. She is known for her outstanding grades, her physical capability, her gorgeous looks and her amazing magic abilities.

Ignoring the whispers and mumbles, Lucy continues to looks forward and walks slowly to her classroom. When Lucy opens the door to her classroom a bucket of water falls down onto Lucy's head and the students inside suddenly stop what they were doing and stared at her.

"Sorry!" A certain pink *ahem* salmon coloured head walks up to Lucy and apologises to her. "That was supposed to be for Gray!" He continues to explain to Lucy but she doesn't listen to word of it and walks to her seat silently with an expressionless face still drenched in water.

With a few quiet words of chants, Lucy's clothes are suddenly dried off with air magic. She gets a few stares but the others weren't surprised. Lucy takes her seat, which was at the back of the classroom and reads a book to pass time.

While Lucy reads her book, the whole class was fighting. They started to fight a while ago. Desks, notebooks, textbooks, chairs, you name it, were flying everywhere. However Lucy paid no attention as she thought today is just another regular day. Hopefully…

"QUIET DOWN ALL OF YOU!" The stern voice of Guildarts sensei captures everyone's attention immediately. "I want this classroom fixed in five minutes!" He threatens them. All the students quickly fix the classroom too scared to experience Guildart's punishment.

"Good. Today I will be talking about…" As Guildart's continued to talk, Lucy drifted off into her thoughts. He was considered to be a fun teacher but Lucy didn't see the point of it, she just wanted to go to school and go home. Lucy never really paid attention in class; she usually just went home and studied there. She started to make small paper cranes out of boredom.

"That is why in this project I have put you into groups of three!" Guildart's said while giggling and grinning slightly. Lucy turned pale, she hated working in groups; whenever she worked in groups they usually made her do majority of the work. Lucy sighed to herself and looked down. Guildart's took out a piece of paper and started to read off of it.

"Let's see, Lucy, Natsu and Gray! You guys are in the same group." Lucy frowned and jerked. "Those two are really noisy" Lucy mumbled really quietly to herself. As Guildart's stated the other groups, Lucy started to become anxious. What if they don't like working with me? What if they complain about how I work? What if they call me a freak? Lucy's eyes started of twirl and make weird shapes from anxiety.

"Lucy!" Lucy snapped out of her thoughts and looked up to find Natsu and Gray sitting in front of her. She blinked and just stared into their eyes.

"So what should we do for the project?" Gray asked her. In response, Lucy just shrugged and raised her shoulders. She didn't actually know what to do since she wasn't paying attention.

"You're really quiet." Natsu pointed out while grinning at her. "Anyways I think we should just do a presentation." Natsu folds his arms behind his head and leans back on his chair.

"Well yeah. It's simple enough. Are you okay with that Lucy?" Gray asks her. She nods and continues to make paper cranes under her table. Natsu notices she was fidgeting a lot with something under the table so he grabs one of her arms.

"What are you doing?" Natsu asks with a slight bit of curiosity in his voice. Lucy who was surprised used her magic to form a fist made from water to send Natsu flying to the other side of the classroom.

"Hahaha!" Gray grabbed onto his stomach in pain from laughing too much. "You idiot!" Gray continued to insult to fire mage who was passed out. Guildart's who was now pissed off told off the three of them for disrupting the other groups. They all apologised and Guildart's laughed it off and told them not to do it again.

"Wow Lucy! You sure do pack a punch." The injured Natsu said as he rubs his painful head.

"I'm sorry… It's just reflexes" Lucy apologises "Please don't hate me" Lucy thinks in her head Here it comes, the both of them are going to call me weird or a freak.

"You're funny Lucy. Why would I hate you for something that simple?" Natsu laughs and Lucy blushes slightly. He was the first person that hasn't called her a freak.

"So you do talk and show some emotion! You should speak more often. You have a cute voice" Gray says while grinning. "Stop flirting with her Gray" Natsu stares daggers into Gray. Lucy who was flustered (she tried not to show it though) by the both of their comments starts to giggle lightly.

"What's so funny?" They ask in sync.

"Nothing" Lucy smiles brightly at the two of them and they both blush. She was cute but she was even cutter when she smiled. Just then the bell rang.

"See you guys tomorrow I guess…" Lucy gets up from her chair and packs her books in an orderly fashion.

"Why don't you hang out with us? You're funny. You seem fun to hang out with Luce even if you are a bit strange" Natsu gives his signature grin at Lucy.

"Luce…?" Lucy sweat drops from the sudden nickname "I don't really hang out with anyone though…" Lucy murmured as her expression went back to a blank one.

"That's okay. Hang out with us! I'm sure you will like the people there," Gray proposed.

"What do you say Luce?" Natsu asks. Lucy thinks for a moment trying to reach a conclusion.

"Okay. I can hang out with you guys if you don't mind." Lucy tells them. "See you during Lunch then?" She asks while blushing a bit. She didn't have anyone to call friends until now.

"Okay!" Gray says. Lucy waves goodbye to them and walks off to her next class.

It's been a long time since I have had a conversation like that… They seem like fun people to be around even though they are loud. But, I shouldn't get too close to them. I don't want to experience that pain again; I don't want to be hated. Lucy thinks to herself as she goes into her next classroom.

End of chapter 1

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