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"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...


An Unexpected Couple

Chapter 2


DAY - THURSDAY

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

"Okay, see you in a minute..." Levy replied as she, Erza and Gray left the hall to wait outside. Lucy placed the lids on the paint which had been used, locked the doors, placed the key at the main office and walked outside to her friends "Hi, I'm Ba-" Lucy called out as she walked onto a grassy, sandy path however she was cut off when a very familiar motorbike stopped suddenly in front her causing a huge cloud of dust and sand to fly into Lucy's face,

"Hehe, sorry!" yelled a familiar voice as they drove off, once the dust had cleared, Lucy dusted off her clothes and walked over to Levy, Erza and Gray, "Sorry I took so long, a certain pink haired biker made me eat dust...and I know he is NOT sorry"

"Eh, it's okay, well seen as we finished the decorations how about we go to that new cafe in the mall?" asked Levy

"Yeah, okay, lets go!" and the four teens walked off and into their local mall, they stopped at the new cafe that levy mentioned, they ordered, found a table and sat down.

"Sorry, guys, I gotta sort our limo and my suit, see ya later," Gray said a to the trio of girls

"Okay, well see you later!" Lucy replied
"Bye!"

"So," Erza said as she finished the last of her strawberry milkshake "Once you've done shall we look at our dresses?"

"Yeah, sure..." Lucy replied glumly,

"You okay Lu?" asked Levy

"Yeah, I'm fine, So are we dress shopping or not?" Lucy downed thet rest of her iced tea and the trio of girls began walking to any boutique they could find,

"Hey Erza!" Yelled the sweet voice of Mirajane

"Hello, we're just off to look at dresses for prom, would you like to come?"

"YES! I can ensure that you'll all have the perfect dress!" Mirajane was now jumping up and down and getting extremely exited, they continued to walk till they got to a particulary pricey shop called: 'Blendy's Boutique' and the owner was one of Mirajane's friends,

"Here we are! I will find the perfect dress for everyone of you,"

"uh, Mira isn't this shop a little-"

"Pricey? Yes but don't worry Lucy, the dresses here are very good quality! So c'mon!" Mira dragged Levy and Lucy whilst Erza walked behind them. Mirajane wasn't lying when she said the dresses were good quality, every dress was stunning and was made out of extremely fine materials, there was one that Erza immediately fell in love with, it was a fitted dark blue dress that complimented each curve on her body, the bodice had a sweet heart neckline and was embellished with diamonds which disolved at the waist line, there was only one flaw: It was VERY expensive.

"I see that you've found the perfect one," said a lady with flowing hot pink hair which fell to her back.

"Wha? Oh yes, it appears I have,"

"Oh and my names Sherry, Sherry Blendy!"
"I assume your the owner of the boutique?"

"Correct!"

"Hello Sherry, I see you've met Erza! This is Lucy and -" Mirajane said but she was interrupted as a girl with blue hair that was only a bit darker than Levy's, "Juvia!"

"Hello, Juvia has come for a dress preferably better than what ever Love rival's getting..."

"Love Rival?" Sherry stated slightly confused

"She means me, she thinks I like Gray and I don't, besides I'm not stupid enough to mess with her she's extremely protective over him," Lucy replied putting her hands up in defence.

"Oh, well lets get Juvia sorted first, I have the perfect dress!" Sherry was now getting extremely exited like Mirajane did earlier. She dived into a storage cupboard and brought out a blue and white dress, it wasn't as fitting as Erza's but equally as beautiful, the main dress was blue but it had a belt at the waist and accents at the bodice in white, Juvia was apparently extremely pleased,

"Juvia is so grateful, Juvia shall buy it!"

"Okay," Sherry said as she took the dress to the till and with one swipe of her card the dress was officially Juvia's,

"Juvia thinks her card is dead..."

"Who cares? It's your Prom dress!" Mira shouted

"Well, I'm going home but Same time tomorrow?" Lucy suggested

"Yeah, bye!" They four said good bye to Lucy as she left the boutique, the walk home was pretty quick, until she got to the school,

"What the..." she muttered as she began to smell smoke, "Oh my god..." The school was still intact and it looked completely fine but the smoke was coming from the building, Lucy stared for moments just wondering what could have happened, before she knew it she was in the smoking building, she ran into the hall to find nothing but ashes and burnt wood, there was one thing that caught Lucy's eyes: The Sabertooth prep emblem.

"Oh, Lucy I didn't expect to see you here," the principal Makorav said with horror in his voice, "I'm so sorry I-I don't know what happened,"

"It's OK I'll just come b-back tomorrow..." Lucy replied she was now down her knees holding in tears, they had spent the entire school year planning this, everything was perfect, and now everything was gone.

"You should go home..."

"Ye-yes sir..." Lucy left with tears rolling down her cheeks as she walked home

"But this does work for a perfect punishment..." he said to himself "Perfect for a pink haired biker..."

Lucy once again woke to the sound of her extremely annoying alarm, she got and got ready for school, the same routine as every single day, she closed the door as she said "Bye!" to her parents.

The walk was boring and slow, even if she was walking quite fast, there was one thought she couldn't get off her mind: The burnt remains of the prom hall, was it a dream or reality? She had a mini debate of this in her mind as she walked, another puzzling thing was that Levy nor Erza nor Gray were walking with her, she normally met them about fifty metres from the school, but Lucy did leave a little bit earlier, after a few minutes of walking she reached the school gate, to find her trio of friends waiting for her. "Hey, Lucy!" Gray called out to her,

"Hi, I-I've got something to tell you, a-all of you..."

"Okay..." Levy said slightly unsure as the tone in Lucy's voice was nervous.

"U-um, well, you know the prom hall..." Lucy said as she looked at the ground, "It-it's been burnt down, everything...b-by Sabertooth Prep..."

"WHAT?" the other teens shouted with anger.

END OF CHAPTER


NEXT TIME:

"Don't forget about the meeting later" Lucy said as the bell rang, "Well see you later!". Science was another one of the lessons that Lucy and levy weren't together for, their current topic was physics taught by Laxus Dreyar, who was strict and also the grandson of the principal, "Today," the teacher said as he handed out some exercise books "You'll read through chapters seven to ten and answer the questions in your book, silent reading as I'm marking some tests, off you go."