Installment 4: Grading Papers
"Do you really have papers to grade for gym class?" Lucy asked Natsu with a raised eyebrow.
Sending her an offended look Natsu replied "Unfortunately yes, I do. I'm just like any of the other teachers of this school. I can't just slap a grade in the gradebook depending on if they participate all the time."
"Oh you can't?"
"No, I don't have it that easy, unlike you do right now."
"I do not have it easy, I probably grade more papers than most of the teachers in this school!"
"Yeah, but who's using who as a foot rest?" Natsu asked with a raised eyebrow.
Lucy felt her cheeks heat up a bit with that statement. It was true that right at the moment the two were sitting on Lucy's couch grading paper. Lucy was using lying the full length of the couch and using Natsu's lap as a footrest. "It's not like you mind!" Lucy accused.
"Got me there" Natsu said before going back to grading papers.
Goddamn that man for being so unreadable, she couldn't tell if he meant that flirty or just sincerely. Going back to her papers she let silence engulf them again. Of course she knew it would never last for long with Natsu.
"So what did you make your kids write for you know? This is the fifth essay this term right?" Natsu asked.
"I made them write about a character of their choice that we've read about recently and argue whether their believable or not" Lucy answered.
"Ah" Natsu replied.
"Plus this is not the fifth one this month" Lucy replied with a huff. She watched as his lips curled up into his normal smirk before asking "So what are you grading?"
"Oh just the norm. It's a requirement now to make gym students write an essay about the benefits of gym class and exercise."
"Really? Interesting."
"Yeah, you should read some of the stuff fifth period wrote, it's gold" Natsu said hitting the one paper he had in his hand.
Leaning forward and holding out her hand she demanded "Hand it over, let me read."
Looking over at her with a sly grin on his face, Natsu stuck his tongue out and said "Nope, for gym teacher eyes only."
"Awww no fair, you always look at my students work, let me look at yours" Lucy pleaded.
"Hmmm" Natsu said tapping his chin "No, but I'll read it out loud if you care so much."
"Yes" Lucy said as she settled back on the end of the couch.
"This is done by the one kid who always runs into walls."
"Oooooo, this should be good."
"Gym is important cause we run and exercise and stuff. We sweat a lot which makes us stay thin. Gym also helps teach you how to deal with concussions."
"Wow that was…" Lucy said before trailing off.
"There's more, this is what nail file girl said" Natsu said before clearing his throat "Gym is important because helps teach us about sports and stuff. But it doesn't teach cheerleading, which sucks. It also teaches us how to catch a ball without chipping our nails."
Taking another breath he continued "Gym is nothing more than a way to confine us inside and trapped under the schools iron rule. It teaches people how to be violent and possible ways to kill people. Gym has no importance other that brainwashing students further to comply with the government. Gym helps teach us how to be soilders by the high school age and lower."
"Wow that's…..deep? Who was that by?" Lucy asked after he finished.
"That kid named Michael that thinks that the government brainwashes everyone and is run by aliens" Natsu said with a straight face.
"You might want to recommend him to Erza" Lucy said.
"I already did. So what did your kids write?" Natsu asked leaning over so he was lying on her legs.
"Get off me you fat ass" Lucy said kicking his side until he finally relented and got back up.
"Geez Luce, so cruel."
"I don't need you crushing my legs. Anyway I'll read you some of these. There pretty good though, so they won't be like yours."
"Hey, their just a bad class."
"Whatever" Lucy said with a laugh before picking up her first paper.
A/N: I would just like to thank everyone for the comments and such. Also I would like to ask, who would you prefer to see in the story later on, Dan Straight or Sting Eucliffe?
