"Ne, Erza. Isn't there a welcome back dance happening?" I asked. It was now lunch time, and we were all eating in the caf. Oh yeah, I have to go yell at Laxus. Meh, I'll do it after I'm done eating.
"Mhm. Although it's where the girl has to ask the guy. What was it called...ah! It's called a 'Sadie Hawkens' dance. There was an announcement this morning, were you not paying attention?" My scarlet haired best friend answered, looking at me with a stern look.
"Sorry, Mom. I was talking to Gray." Speak of the devil, all of the guys rushed in, running at our table like a plethora of angered rhinos. Natsu slid in the seat next to me, Gray jumped on top of the table and sat there, Loke shooed off his girls then took the seat across from me, and all of the other guys went to line up. Everyone who was at the table before, visibly lurched forward from the impact.
"Can you guys come into the cafeteria like NORMAL PEOPLE?" Erza screeched, getting up.
"Oh yeah, gotta go order my food. Bye!" Natsu and Gray booked it, while Loke just ran to hide behind me.
"Erza, calm down. I'll buy you strawberry cake?" And that calmed her down. She nodded, smiled, then sat back down and continued her food. Everyone in the cafeteria gave a comical; "phew." and returned eating. Loke took the spot beside me.
What do you have for lunch?" Loke asked me. I peered down at my tray.
"I got a salad and bought some strawberry milk." As she said that Erza was already drinking her milk. "Oh, and I'm forced to share it with Erza." Loke chuckled lightly, and I decided to join him.
Soon a petite bluenette rushed in, carrying three large novels and taking Loke's previous seat across from me. And beside Gajeel.
"Sup shrimp." The metal head (literally) said, a smirk aligning his lips. Levy looked up, and her cheeks tinted a light pink.
"H-Hi, Gajeel. Lucy I brought some novels. The literacy teacher loaned them to me." Levy handed me some books, and I smiled as I took one out of her hands. It was labeled; Frozen Keys. The word frozen immediately reminded me of Gray, probably the reason why I took them. "Knew you'd take that one." Levy winked, and I blushed.
"Oi Gajeel. Levy wants to know if you'd like to attend a book signing next week?" I smirked, Gajeel turning to Levy with a questioning look. I was suppose to go with her, but maybe she needs some time with her crush. Levy's face turned bright red, an she began tripping over her words.
"Sure, shorty. Dunno why ya didn't just ask me yerself." And with that she began jumbling her words, nodding feverishly at his acceptance. I just laughed, along with Erza and Loke who had been watching the entire scene unfold.
"We're baaaaaaaaaaaaaack!" A certain pink haired weirdo exclaimed, pushing Loke aside to reclaim his seat next to me. I chuckled as Loke began mumbling incoherent words. "That lunch line was totally fricken berserk! I almost killed trying to get to the front."
"Where's Gray?" I asked, right as Natsu began digging into the 'mystery meat..' It came with a side of spicy curry, and Natsu will eat anything spicy. I think he's the only one that actually likes that crap, in the entire school. Even the lunch lady wears two pairs of gloves while pouring it.
"Ishe pwincesh shtill in the wine up." He swallowed, "Oh, there he is." Everyone sweat dropped as barely anyone understood the first part of his answer. Gray sat down next to Levy, and I put the book beside my food.
"Yo!" He greeted, to which I greeted back with a wave. He had a bento.
"Where'd you get that bento? I thought you were buying lunch like Natsu?" He shook his head, then opened the bento, only to close it right after.
"That weird chick Juvia gave it to me."
"Why did you close it?" Erza asked, noticing his strange behaviour as he pushed it towards Natsu.
"Look at it." He said, sweat dropping as I took it and opened it inbetween Erza. As we opened it, a picture of Gray's face was sculpted with multiple different colors of curry, and me and Erza, along with Loke, Natsu, Levy and Gajeel, all bursted out laughing. This girl was strangely good at this kind of stuff. Gray crossed his arms and put on a scowl, grabbing my salad and just taking a forkful of that.
"Hey! My greek salad!" Everyone laughed once again, and I joined them along with Gray. Then, something popped into my head. "Oh yeah!" I exclaimed, standing up and grabbing my bag. "I have to go beat up Laxus." Everyone got confused looks, which I waved off. Erza and Levy stood up with me, them being the only ones who actually know why my brother was going to be six feet under soon. Loke, Natsu, Gray, and Elfman stood up too, wanting to see the fight.
"Be a man!" Elfman yelled, making us all burst out laughing again.
We walked into the halls, laughing and making jokes about Gray's odd bento. We soon reached Laxus' locker, where he was talking to a really beautiful girl with long white hair. He looked to be genuinely enjoying his conversation. I pushed everyone to behind a wall, where we secretly eavesdropped on their laughing and chatting.
"Isn't that your sister, Elfman?" I asked, to which Elfman nodded.
"Why is Mira-nee talking to laxus? I thought she had student council." He proclaimed.
We were all huddled into a little circle, talking about the two seniors. Until Natsu blurted out, rather loudly,
"He liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes her!" He rolled his tongues, and before we knew it, we heard booming footsteps in our direction. Erza bopped Natsu on the head, yelling about how he probably heard us. Oh how she was right.
"LUCY. LOKE. GET YER ASSES, ALONG WITH YER LITTLE FRIENDS, OVER HERE." Laxus boomed, and Loke and I visibly paled. We all stalked towards the now angry blonde, and the smiling beauty.
"H-Hey Laxus. How was classes?" Loke tried, but to no avail.
"What is up with you little pieces of-"
"Now now, Laxus. It was just harmless fun. No need to yell." Mira piped up, silencing Laxus immediately. He let us off with a death glare, to which I decided I would yell at him when we get home.
The bell soon rang, signaling we had only five minutes to haul our asses to our next class, or we get detention. I had math now, along with Gray, so we split up from the rest of the group and booked it towards Mr. Macao's class.
"You're brother is fucking frightening." Gray said, smiling as I began to chuckle.
"He's a good guy underneath all of that scariness." I smiled warmly.
"Lucy after school, is it alright if we talk?" Gray said, his face turning all serious, making me a tad hopeful, and nervous, at the same time.
I nodded quickly just as we entered, and we sat beside each other in the back row. Looks like Juvia also has this class as her face went happy when she saw Gray, the furious when she saw me. I gave a little wave, which only seemed to piss her off more, as she sat on the opposite side of Gray.
"Good afternoon, Gray-sama. I couldn't find you at your usual lunch table, everyone said you left with the others to go talk to Laxus-san. Did you eat my bento? If so, how was it?" I almost bursted out laughing just at the mention of that bento. I quickly threw a hand over my mouth, a few traitorous snickers were able to escape. Juvia sent me a killer glare.
"Sorry." I mumbled, and then looked over to see Gray trying to hold back his laughter too.
"It was...odd. I mean, how the hell did you get all that different coloured curry. And how the fuck did carve my face into it? Now that's just creepy. Juvia, from now on I'm going to be straight forward with the people, and things, I do not like. And, sorry. I just don't like you like that." Gray finally let out, leaving the blue haired girl looking down at her toes.
I saw little drops of water fall from her face and land on her shoes. Gray immediately looked guilty, and as she looked up and smiled, with tears streaming down her cheeks and falling off her chin, I started to feel bad as well. She walked out of the classroom with stride, but we all knew she was broken inside. She didn't come back to that class after that, and I decided I would look for her and apologize as soon as this class was finished.
