An Unexpected Couple
Chapter 1
DAY – WEDNESDAY
"Where shall I put these?" Asked Gray,
"Huh? Oh...um, around the edge of the fountain," Lucy replied as she gestured her head towards it,
"Okay," he said and he immediately got to sticking the fairy lights around the edge whilst being careful to not let them drop into the water, "Hey Lu? What do we have left to do?" Questioned a petite girl called Levy,
"Uh, dunno. Erza, can you get the check-list please?" Responded Lucy as she climbed down the ladder,
"Sure, um...We still need to paint the sky and moon, then we need to make the posters." Said Erza, she put the paper down and continued to set out tables and drape white coloured table cloths over them. "Okay, the posters are done the just need printing, and the sky and moon – crap, I'm sorry guys, we over-run by about two hours," she apologized chuckling slightly "You go home, I'll pack up," she glanced at the clock which already read ten minutes to nine.
"Sure you don't want us to help?" Asked the petite blue-nette,
"I'm sure, see you tomorrow!" They said their goodbyes and Lucy covered the paints and put the other equipment away, she locked the door to the hall that they were using for prom. "Sorry, we ran over a little bit but here's the key," she said to the janitor as she handed him the key,
"Don't worry, it's fine and thanks." he replied, Lucy said good bye and she walked home, after about twenty minutes of walking, she got her house key and opened the door to her home.
"Hi mum, hi dad, sorry I lost track of time." she yelled as she closed the door behind her.
"Oh, hi sweetie, didn't you get our calls?" said her mum, Layla.
"Probably not the service is terrible by the school,"
"Okay, well your dinner is in the microwave," Lucy said goodbye, heated up her dinner and made her way up to her room. She opened her laptop and started to watch a video on random beauty hacks, soon after she got ready for bed and drifted off into a soft slumber...
BEEP BEEP BEEP, Lucy let out a groan and turned off her alarm, got out of bed and put on a pair of jeggings, a polker dot blouse and a navy hoodie on top. She picked up her school bag and went downstairs as she closed er bedroom door behind her, Lucy picked up an apple and a drink then lefter her house whilst shouting "See you later!" to her parents. As she walked down the street she heard a familiar voice calling out to her: "Hey! Lu!" It was levy, as soon as Lucy noticed her she ran over to Levy, Gray and Erza, "Hi!" just as she stepped on to the pavement a black and red bike sped past,
"Who the heck was that?"
"No clue," Replied Gray
"Well if we go any slower we'll be late!" Erza said
"She's right, c'mon!" Levy said and they broke into a fast walk, they talked about the usual: what lessons they had, the gossip and rumours going around and of course...Prom! After minutes of walking they reached Fairy Tail High, "See you later!" Gray called out as they parted, a few classrooms later Erza left then it was just Levy and Lucy, soon they got to their class room, they took their seats just as the bell rang. "Today, class, we'll be doing atoms!" nearly the whole class groaned "Yeah, yeah, I know you'd love it!" the teacher talked on and on and on...about twenty minutes before the lesson would end a scrunched up ball of paper hit Lucy on her back which read: 'Meet me by the lockers at lunch, Loke' Lucy looked behind her to find loke looking hopefully at her, she nodded and smiled. When it finally got to lunch she went to the lockers "Hi, Loke! Sorry, but can we make this quick, I've got to do the prom posters," she asked as soon as she found Loke,
"Yeah, all I wanted to ask was-was i-if you... you wanted to go to prom with m-me?"
"Yes! I'd love to!" Lucy's eyes lit up
"you know, 'cuz we live so close and all..." little did Lucy know that Levy and Erza were watching her and listening to the conversation
"Oh, yeah...well see you later, bye" they said good byes and as soon as he wasn't looking Lucy's face fell,
"Aw, Cheer up Lu!" said Levy
"What- Were you listening to the whole conversation?"
"UH...maybe but I thought you were doing the prom posters?"
"I am, I just needed to sort that..."
"Well lets go! C'mon Erza!"
"She's here too? WERE YOU STALIKNG ME?"
"Calm down, we were looking for you anyway," Said Erza as she came out from behind a locker, the trio walked to the IT block to collect the posters and they all split up to spread the posters around the school, about ten minutes before the end up lunch they all bet up, once again, by the lockers both Erza and Levy had used up all the posters but Lucy still had one left. "I swear if one of those posters even touch my locker, I'll-" Grumbled a teen with pink hair and a black leather jacket,
"You'll do what?" asked Lucy as she took the last poster and pinned I straight onto his locker,
"Lu..." Levy said a bit nervously, the boy raised an eyebrow, took the poster and ripped it up,
"Hmph...Much better..." He smirked as he walked off,
"Someone's having a bad day..." Lucy pouted as they walked down the corridor
"Yeah, I'd stay away from Natsu," Suggested Erza
"Oh that's his name..." the bell ran to mark the end of lunch "Well, see you later, bye Erza!"
"Bye, I'm guessing I'll see you later for prom decorations?"
"Yup!" the trio split as they walked to their next lesson, Lucy's next lesson was Maths, one of the only lessons she and Levy weren't together for. However this lesson was extremely boring, they had a supply teacher: Mirajane, she was nice but very boring, she was a good friend of Lucy's though as she owned a nearby cafe which a lot of her friends, "Hey, teacher-lady! Stop making us find your 'x' because I'm pretty sure he ran away and ain't coming back!" Shouted Max, who is one of Lucy's class mates, and the entire class burst into laughter "What did you say?" Mirajane now had a dark aura around her,
"Nothing!" he replied as he sunk into his seat,
"Thought so..." Mirajane was now looking as friendly as she did before, it was another long half hour but Lucy was saved by the bell, she didn't know how much longer of that she could take...
END OF CHAPTER
NEXT TIME:
The second the bell rang and Lucy was out the door and already on her way to the prom hall, as she walked through the door she noticed Gray sorting lighting out on the stage, "Hi Gray! Where's Levy and Erza?"
"They're getting paint from the supply cupboard,"
"Okay," she replied as she polished off table decorations, after five minutes Erza and Levy arrived with the paints, they greeted each other and carried on with the previous task. Soon after a lot of cleaning, painting and decorating the prom hall was officially ready, it only took them an hour and a half, "I'll lock up again, but I'll meet you by the front gate?" Lucy said.