First Day

The school loomed up in front of Lucy. She sighed, her first day at Fairy Tail Public School.

Why did my dad decided here? All my friends were in private school. She sighed again, clutched her bag closer to her chest and stalked up the stairs to the door. At least they didn't have uniforms.

The halls were crowded with students leaning against lockers, talking to their friends, laughing. Lucy had no idea how to make friends anymore. She had made those friends when she was little and now, at seventeen she was completely out of practice. She followed the signs on the wall to the main office.

At the reception desk there sat a bored looking man with reddish brown hair. He was drumming his fingers on the key board clearly not caring who the clicking sound annoyed.

Gildarts Clive. Lucy read the little plaque on his desk. Secretary. Lucy suppressed a giggle. She hadn't seen many male secretaries in her life.

"Um, my names Lucy Heartfilia, I'm supposed to talk to Principle Dreyar." The "secretary's" eyes swiveled over to her, finally noticing her presence and bulged out of his head. Lucy could have sworn he wiped blood from his nose.

"Oh! UH….uh I'll get him right away." He scrambled from his desk and disappeared into a door to his left. Lucy put her hands on her hips letting out a huff. Then Mr. Clive poked his head out the door.

"Principle Dreyar will see you now." Lucy brushed past him into the office. The door shut with a thud. The Principle's high backed chair was turned to face the back wall.

"So you are Lucy Heartfilia huh?" An intimidating voice said from the chair.

"Correct!" Lucy squeaked.

"I expect great things from you." The chair swiveled to face Lucy and she almost burst out laughing. He man in the chair was tiny! His white hair puffed out on either side of his head, the top completely bald. His fluffy mustache matched his hair. Upon seeing Lucy he had about the same reaction as his secretary.

Perverted old men. Lucy huffed. Principle Dreyar passed her Lucy's schedule.

"Class begins in ten minutes, so hurry to home room! Welcome to Fairy Tail!" He hopped up on his desk and over it, beginning to shoo the teen out of his office when there was the sound of commotion outside his door.

"Oi Gildarts! I've been working out lately, I can totally take you on."

"Nope, not in the mood."

"Oh come on! I'm all fired up!"

"Why'd you get sent down here again? School hasn't even started for the day."

"Well I kinda punched Grey."

"Ugh! You two are impossible!"

"Hey he deserved it! Stupid perverted ice brain…" Lucy could hear a chair scoot out and footsteps towards the Principle's door. The door opened and Mr. Clive stuck his head in.

"Makarov, he's here again." The Principle sighed.

"All right send him in."

"Oi idiot get on in here!" Mr. Clive called out to the reception area.

Lucy was surprised at the character who strolled into the office.

"Hiya Gramps!" The first thing she noticed was his hair. She wasn't really sure red was the right way to describe it. No it was, well it was pink. A boy with pink hair, strange. He wore a black muscle shirt a leather jacket slung lazily over his shoulder. His black jeans clung to his muscular frame. A red dragon tattoo took up his right shoulder, but the strangest thing was that he was wearing a white checkered scarf, in August. The boy saw Lucy looking at him and he narrowed his eyes.

"Whatcha looking at Blondie?" Lucy held up her hands in surrender.

"Nothing!" She then scrambled out of the office. As she retreated she could hear the Principle.

"What did you do this time brat!"

Lucy found her home room rather easily. She approached the teacher's desk and cleared her throat. The woman looked up at her over her spectacles.

"Yes?" She sounded sour.

Awesome a grumpy homeroom teacher…

"I'm Lucy Heartfilia, I'm a new student."

"Oh, I'm Ms. Porlyusica. Stay right here and ill introduce you once the class arrives." Lucy nodded and stood awkwardly at the front. Many students had already gathered in the class. They cast Lucy unsure glances then would whisper. The curvy blonde was also getting stares from the male populace that were making her even more uncomfortable. The final bell rang and the students quieted down. Ms. Porlyusica stood.

"Class this is Lucy your new classmate. Please be nice and help her get use to this school." Lucy raised a hand.

"Hi." She smiled shyly. Just then the boy from the office strolled into the class.

"Mr. Dragoneel, nice of you to join us." He shrugged and took his seat near the back. Unfortunately, Lucy noticed the only seat open was the one directly in front of him. She grumbled and took her seat. She could feel his eyes boring into her back. Thankfully the girl sitting in front of Lucy turned around in her seat and flashed Lucy a friendly smile. She was pretty and petite, her short blue hair pulled back in a yellow head band.

"Hi! My name's Levy!"

"Hi Levy."

"I just want to ask if you want to eat lunch with me." Lucy was slightly taken aback by the sudden request."

"Um sure."

"Cool meet me at the entrance to the cafeteria when lunch starts!" Levy then turned around and continued listening to Ms. Porlyusica talk about the week's events.

Home room ended and Lucy waited till the tough guy sitting behind her exited the class before gathering her bag and leaving to find her next class.

She made it through two classes before seeing him again, and in an art class of all things. He was sitting in a window seat, his knees propped up, a sketch book across them. The mid-morning light filtered through the window made his face look gentle and not like the kid who glared at her in the office and then in home room. Lucy noticed that he was actually kinda cute. Of course that all ended when he noticed her, gave her a sour look then went back to his work.

"Punk." Lucy grumbled.

"Don't worry about him. Natsu hates everyone he doesn't know" Lucy jumped. The voice came from a girl with long red hair. She was wearing a white ruffled blouse and a blue mini skirt.

"Erza Scarlet." She stuck out her hand. Lucy took it.

"Lucy Heartfilia." The girl shook her hand with amazing gusto and nearly broke Lucy's hand with her strong grip.

Ow. Lucy nonchalantly shook the pain out of her hand.

"You can come sit next to me." Erza said walking over to an easel on the other side of the room from Natsu.

"Um okay." Lucy figured out by the end of class that she really like Erza. She seemed serious but she had a side to her that was curious and innocent.

"Hey you want to eat lunch together?" Erza asked as they were cleaning up before the bell rang.

"I would love to but I already said I would eat lunch with someone from my home room class."

"Oh okay, well I'll see you around." Erza waved as she exited the class room. Lucy gathered her things one again and turned to leave, realizing that Natsu was still sitting in the window seat studying her. He was resting his head against the wall and looked down his nose at her. She heard him make a sound then turned to look out the window.

Yesh. Better stay away from him. Lucy only had one class left before lunch. It went by fast with no sign of the pink haired bad boy.

Levy was already waiting for her when she got down to the cafeteria. She was standing with a tall boy, who was at least a foot taller than her. He wore his black hair long, and his clothes slightly resembled Natsu's. He was heavily pierced and looked just as angry as Natsu.

"Lu!" Levy waved as soon as she saw Lucy.

"Hey Levy."

"Lu this is my boyfriend Gajeel. Gajeel this is Lucy."

"Hey bunny girl." Huh? That's when Lucy remembered there was a bunny on her blue shirt. Of all the shirts to wear she had worn the most kidish one on her first day. She almost just died right there.

"So do you already have lunch?" Levy nodded and grabbed Lucy's hand dragging her away from the cafeteria. Lucy looked back to see Gajeel casually following behind them. Levy led her to some doors and up a stair case.

Lucy found herself on the roof, blinking in the sudden change from indoor lighting to bright sunlight.

"This is where we eat lunch." Levy said with glee. Lucy noticed that there were several kids on the roof already.

"Lucy!" Erza waved from her spot next to a blue haired boy. Lucy smiled back glad that Erza hung out up here so she could still eat lunch with her new found friend.

There was also a boy with dark hair with no shirt on…wait what!? Yes Lucy's eyes weren't deceiving her. He was propped back on his hands and appeared to be sunning himself like a lizard. There was a girl with her head resting on his outstretched leg, reading a book.

Perched near the railing of the roof sat another girl who looked like she was in a younger grade with blue hair along with a girl with blonde hair about the same age who stood next to her. Sitting at the blonde's feet was a boy the same age as the two girls with light blue hair.

"Lucy let me introduce you to the gang!" Levy said with glee. This girl's happiness was never ending.

She pointed to the half-naked kid and the girl on his leg.

"This is Grey and Juvia." Grey cracked open one of his eyes to look at the newcomer.

"Hey. You new?" Lucy nodded.

"Yeah just transferred here." Juvia said nothing just smiled but Lucy sensed some malice behind the smile.

"Juvia thinks all girls are her rival when it comes to Grey so watch out." Levy whispered to Lucy.

"Ah okay."

"Over here is Wendy, Charlie and he's Happy."

"Okay but what's his name."

"My name is Happy you weirdo." He said sarcastically.

"He's Natsu's best bud so he thinks he can act exactly like him. I think he thinks it will impress Charlie, but it hasn't so far. She still leaves him high and dry every time." Levy giggled when Happy stuck his tongue out at her.

"You've already met Erza I see. The boy next to her is Jellal. They have a tricky relationship. You know one of those they both are crazy for each other but things keep getting in their way." Lucy nodded wondering if her new friend Erza would tell her about it some time. They sat down and began eating their lunches, chatting with Lucy asking her questions about her life.

Lucy was happy. She was so worried that she wasn't going to make any friends but they seemed to find her anyway. This was turning out to be a great day.

That was until he showed up