Hey readers!

Here's a new chapter! And a shout of thanks to Martygruvialover and a lovely guest for taking the pains to review! *laughs sarcastically*

And another shout of thanks to Serena Dragneel and Jcl107 for following this story! As long as someone reads this, I'll keep writing it! But I love it when someone reviews! Based on Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life.

Chapter Four

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail or Middle School, but I do own this fan fiction.

It was a busy day for Ultear that day. So, she decided to let Carl take care of her siblings. And he took them to have lunch in the arcade. Partly because he wanted to get in the good books of Ultear, and partly because he wanted to play games for a cheaper rate rather than renting them.

Meredy came back to their table after playing a few games to finish her lunch. Carl saw her and smirked. When she climbed to her seat, he flashed a car model at her.

"Check this out! I won this in a game!"

"Right after you snatched it from me. Technically, it's mine, Bear." Meredy said with a scowl.

"With my money. My money, my car. And what's with the 'bear' business?" Carl retorted. "My name is Carl." He said, putting a great emphasis on the 'r' in his name.

"Well, first of all, 'Carl' rhymes a lot with 'snarl' and second, you're like, abnormally hairy." Meredy said with a face.

"Huh, whatever. Anyways, finish your lunch fast. We need to get to your house as soon as possible, because if I miss the recap of Game of Thrones I'm totally screwed." Carl said with a serious face.

"What about dessert?" Meredy asked with a cute pout.

"Not gonna work on me, so…" Carl said, but was interrupted when a hot waitress came into their midst.

"Hello! Should I get the bill for your meal?" She said in a mellow voice.

"Yeah, we'd like tha-" Gray started saying, but was interrupted by Carl.

"Oh, no! We'll take the bill after I buy these lovely children some dessert right? They're my friend's kids, you see. I take care of them time to time because he's so busy."

"Did you just call us your friend's kids? And that he's so busy?" Meredy said with a bewildered look on her face.

"Such lovely kids…could you please get the dessert menus?" Carl said with a nervous laugh.

The waitress smiled and walked out of their presence.

"Now, look here the two of you, I'm gonna go fetch some honey for myself, and I don't need the two of you to ruin my plans when some sexy babe comes in front of me. Here's the credit card, and don't spend more than 20 dollars, got it?" Carl said with a smirk and walked towards the waitress.

"Like we're gonna be able to buy anything good in 20 bucks…" Meredy muttered.

Carl had thrown a wiped tissue on his credit card. So disgusting, Gray thought. He was absent-mindedly drawing a bear like version of Carl. And then he disappeared into the land of daydreams.

"Hey honey! Don't run away from me honey~" A bear version of Carl was chasing a cartoon version of the hot waitress. She ran into a thicket of trees. He followed her. "Where's my honey~"

"Hey honey~" The bear looked up and found her sitting on the branch of a tree. "I got your honey right here." She said pointing at a beehive.

He raised his arms, hopeful, only to have that beehive land up on top of him, with all the bees surrounding him and stinging him. The hive blocked his way and he tripped and ended up sitting on a porcupine, jumped in the air and ran for his life.

Gray found himself grinning at the end of the daydream. He stopped tracing random lines on the piece of tissue and tucked it inside his pocket so that he could copy the drawing of 'Bear' in his new diary.

Back at home, Natsu crept through Gray's window and found him sitting near his desk.

"Bad news, snow cone." Natsu said before sitting on the bed and panting.

"Stop calling me that, lava brains!" Gray said with an irritated tone.

"You just called me 'lava brains'. That's rich coming from you." Natsu said with a 'dude-are-you-serious' look.

"Just spit out the bad news."

"Fine. We're out of funds. Without funds, Project R.A.F.E can't operate."

"You aren't serious!" Gray exclaimed.

Natsu nodded. "Sorry dude, but I am. The pink dye, even with the bargaining, came for 30 bucks. The last 30 bucks."

Gray swore. "What the f***, man!"

"I know right." Natsu said with a sad smile. He then spotted the stuff on Gray's desk. It was the tissue from earlier and his diary open with a pen. When he took a closer look, he gave a shout.

"DUDE! Looks like someone gave us a major contribution for our good cause!"
"What are you talking about, Natsu?" Gray said and came closer.

Natsu held up the tissue. On it were a few numbers imprinted. The tissue was still wet. And they were made by pencil marks.

"This explains a lot…" Gray muttered.

"So, whose credit card number is this?" Natsu inquired.

Slowly, a grin spread across Gray's face. "It's Bear's! This is so cool! So, what's the next plan?"

Natsu told him. The grin widened on Gray's face.

4 WEEKS TO B.L.A.A.R:

Magnolia Middle School was covered with color all over. Not graffiti, but paintings. They were different topics, but all complemented each other. The gym class was covered with swords and a huge image of a red-haired female in armour. The cafeteria was covered with flames with a pink haired male with flames coming out of his fist. The swimming pool had been left alone. All there was, was an image of a pale girl with wavy blue locks and deep blue eyes on the wall. Everyone who saw this, thought that it was very familiar, and it looked like someone they had seen sometime in their life.

Juvia was staring at the notice board outside the school. It was covered with colorful paintings as well. She clicked a photo of it and went out of the crowd surrounding it. She posted it on a blog dedicated to Project R.A.F.E on a certain website and found herself grinning. She then saw Gray walking with Natsu. She ran towards them.

"Hey! Aren't you the guy who clapped for me in the auditorium when I delivered my speech?" Juvia asked.

"Yeah, 'cause it was so cool!" Gray said, trying to shake of the feeling that Natsu was behind him, with a big grin on the face.

"Thanks! By the way, I didn't catch your name."

"Oh! It's Gray, Gray Fullbuster."

"Fullbuster…that's an interesting surname."

"don't you agree on the fact that whoever's doing this 'Project R.A.F.E' is a genius? I mean, I was so sick of no creativity in this school, no freedom of expression! It was so annoying!"

"Uhh…yeah! I totally agree with you!"

"I wonder who it is. I wanna meet that person."

Gray found an inspiration. "You know, there was something I wanted to tell, something kind of important…"

Natsu cleared his throat. "Ahem…*anonymous*…ahem"

"Uh…I wanted to tell you…that I really dig those boots of yours!"

"Oh, thanks!" Juvia said. "Say, would mind coming with me next week for this campaign? Do you know that some polar bear cubs are stranded on melting ice? There are some extremely kind organizations working to rescue them. I wanted to go, but you need to be with a friend so that you find it too boring, you know…so are you in?"

"Sure! Why not?" Gray said with a smile, which made Juvia turn, if Gray's eyes weren't mistaken, slightly red.

"Oh…okay! That's great! I'll be glad to go, you know! All this preparation for B.L.A.A.R, I need a break sometimes!" Juvia said with a smile which made Gray's heart melt.

"One more word about B.L.A.A.R, and I'll just 'blaarf' everywhere!"

Juvia laughed. "That was so funny! So I'll see you next week?"

"Yeah! I can 'bear-ly' wait!" Gray said, which made Juvia laugh again. He waved her goodbye and watched her go.

Natsu came in front of Gray, put his hands on his hips and said, "Dude, you almost blew our cover! I mean, she's nice and sweet, but just don't tell anyone, okay. Don't wanna end up getting hurt. And you trust me the best! One for all, all for one, here comes Natsu Dragneel! I'm all fired up!"

Gray chuckled and said "Yeah, yeah, idiot. Let's get to class."

They started walking to class. Natsu then opened his mouth and said a few words which embarrassed Gray.

"Say bro, should we tackle Rule no. 86 now?"

"SHUT UP, ASSWIPE!"

There! I hope you guys liked it!

Spoilers for next chapter: L…U…C…Y…is gonna come!

Have fun! (While I try my best to study for exams!)

The next time I update, it will be Vacation Disaster!

~Tia