Chapter 2: Why This Pain?
The end of the day had arrived with the ringing of the bell. With that Levy knew that the theater room was about to be filled with all her fellow members of the Drama Club. As always, the first people to roll in were Lucy, Natsu, Erza, and Gray a.k.a the Drama Club's executive line up.
"Hey you guys!" Levy exclaimed, greeting each of them as they came through the doors. "Hey Lev!" Lucy and Natsu responded in unison. "Hey Levy." Gray responded next, leaving Erza to say her hellos, "Hi Levy. How are you?"
"I'm great Erza, thanks for asking. Hope all is well with you."
"Yes, today went as perfect as it could." Erza answered with a smile. As Erza sat down on the steps of the stage, Natsu began making his way to the back of the stage near Levy. "So, what's on the schedule today, Prez?"
"Well, first up, we're going to be accepting any new members who come about today? It is our first meeting of the new semester." See, winter break had just finished and it was the first of the year, but Levy never let a break stop her from planning club meetings. She was the president after all.
"Before we get any new prospective members to sign up, we're going to do a little introductory session just to get this first meeting going." Levy continued.
Lucy moved closer to the bunch, followed by Gray. "I don't think I ever got an introduction to the club." The blonde announced.
"That's because you transferred so late into the semester… We were already into our last performance. There was no time to introduce you to the club. Besides, it's just a formality anyways." Gray responded to Lucy's comment, hoping she wouldn't feel as though she missed anything.
She shrugged with a light nod, "I guess you're right… I did come late to the party, but it worked out in the end."
"That it did! That was probably one of our best shows since I've been here." Natsu exclaimed, also trying to make Lucy feel better.
"I concur, it was rather successful." Erza interjected.
"I agree with all of you. All of our hard work and effort really payed off last semester, so let's try to do that again!" Levy added her own encouraging words before she got ready to get everyone in place for the meeting.
"Okay, we have 10 minutes before people start to show. Members and prospective members alike so let's review the agenda and get to work!" The blunette proclaimed while handing each of them a sheet of paper that served as the agenda.
"Aye!" The three exclaimed in unison while accepted the sheets from their president.
Those minutes passed and people started rolling into the auditorium. All the members who walked in said hello to all the execs of the club and sat in the front rows by the stage. Soon after, new people began to show and one of the first to walk in was Levy's new crush.
As soon as Levy spotted him, her heart began to race and her butterflies returned, but as soon as they came they went because, while she was staring at him, she noticed a girl being rather clingy to him and she had even kissed his cheek.
Levy felt as though her heart went into a thousand pieces. It was a feeling like one she hadn't felt before, this was all still so new to her and she wanted to cry. Unable to move at that moment, she took a deep breath and began the meeting.
"Good Evening everyone, my name is Levy McGarden and I am the president of Fairy Tail Academy's Drama Club. To my left, we have Erza Scarlet, our Vice President. Take it away Erza…" Somehow, Levy was able to pull herself together and say the intro before giving the next bit to Erza.
Erza continued to introduce the rest of the executive team. "To my left we have our treasurer, Gray Fullbuster; to his left is our historian, Natsu Dragneel; and to his left is our secretary, Lucy Heartfilia. To all our returning members, welcome back, and to all of our new faces, we hope we say something that will interest you in our club."
With smiles, the team finish the evening with a bang, leaving many wanting to join. Including, Levy's crush and his mystery lady. They came up to sign the new member sheet, and Levy stood there nervous as could be.
"Hey, aren't ya that girl from earlier?" he asked, as he signed his name.
"Yea, that was me," she chuckled nervously, "I'm very happy to see that you and your… friend are interested in our club." Feeling as though her tone had changed when she said the word 'friend', she tried to discretely calm herself down while smiling.
"Yea… It was mainly her idea, but I decided why not give it a shot…" He responded, never taking his eyes off of her. Before the blunette knew it, she was blushing. She felt so embarrassed that it caused her to blush even more.
'I don't need to feel this way especially since he has a girlfriend. Get it together, Levy!' She thought to herself.
"Well, nice meeting you again… Levy." At that, the dark haired boy was again gone, but this time with a blue haired girl on his arm. It made Levy's blood boil causing her to take another deep breath.
Thinking about it, she had still not gotten his name. She realized he had just wrote it down so decided to look at the paper. Levy saw the name 'Gajeel Redfox' written in black at the bottom of the page. Right above it was 'Juvia Lockser'. That must've been her.
'It's better that I stay into my studies anyway.' The short girl thought as to try and make herself feel better. It hardly worked but she knew it'd get better.
After all the new members signed the new member sheet and the old ones signed the returning sheet, Levy handed them off to Lucy.
"I saw you talking to the new guy! What was that all about?" The blonde asked with much enthusiasm.
"It was nothing, really. I just bumped into him earlier and I was just apologizing again." Levy tried to cover up the true nature of her feelings.
"Is that all?" Lucy pried subtlety.
"Yes, that is all." The blunette had a slight agitation in her tone causing Lucy to stop. Then everyone said their goodbyes and made their way home.
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