Author's blabber:

Hello, my dearest readers! How did you like my latest chapter? Hope you liked it! If you are wondering why Teresa has parents, it is after her dragon had left her, she was taken in by the Amano family when she was found loitering around their village. Further explanation in later chapters. Anyhow, pls enjoy chapter 4!


[Author: alright, for those people who don't remember what had happened in the last chapter, this is a 'previously, on 'Falling in love with my rival'']

"Jesus Christ, calm down, will ya? You really don't wanna make a scene on your first day here and give the students a bad impression of you. It will ruin your reputation," Rogue whispered into her ear, not wanting to make a bigger scene than the one Teresa was causing. Luckily, there were no students nearby, so nobody saw what was currently going on. When Teresa heard what Rogue had said, somehow, deep down inside her, something snapped. Somehow, she suddenly got free from Rogue's grasp and before he could react, he felt his face forcefully being turned to the right. He widened his eyes in shock at the stinging sensation on his cheek while the rest of the boy stared in shock, Sting being the most shocked and concerned for his best friend. Teresa sent him a cold stare that said 'I've had enough of you' and walked off, after grabbing her bag from Erza, with the rest of the girls behind her, who shot glances every now and then at the gang of boys.

Rogue just got slapped in the face. By a girl. A girl named Amano Teresa.

[Author: alrighty then, let's start on the next chapter!]

[Catching Fire's POV]

The boys watched in shock as the girls walked away. Natsu was still knocked out by the throw, and Rogue was, well, covering his left cheek which had a red hand print that was rather visible. Sting went over to Rogue's side out of concern.

"Dude, bro, are you alright? That looked rather painful," Sting said in a worried voice while Gray tried to wake Natsu by shaking him

"Natsu, you ass, WAKE THE HELL UP!" Gray yelled while shaking Natsu.

"I'm fine, really, there's nothing to worry about,' Rogue said, still caressing his left cheek.

"Dude, are you sure you're alright? That looked like one heck of a slap just now,' Gajeel said, a little concerned.

"I'm fine, Gajeel-san," Rogue replied, his bangs covering his eyes.

"Ya still wanna call dibs on her? The way things are going, I think making her yours is gonna be rather...DIFFICULT," Laxus said in a low voice, arms folded across his chest. Rogue slowly looked up, and the boys saw a flash of determination flash across his eyes.

"Well, I don't really care, 'cause I'm gonna MAKE HER MINE," he said in a low voice, and the guys stared at him wide-eyed, frozen.

"Um, did someone KIDNAP Rogue and replace him with an ANDROID? 'Cause this is seriously WEIRDING ME OUT," Sting asked, being the first to recover from the shock. As soon as he had said those words, Natsu regained consciousness and began looking around and asked,"What did I miss?"

"Well, let's just say, Teresa slapped Rogue in the face and he just said that she is HIS," Freed replied, recovering from the shock the second Natsu had spoken. That seemed to have woken the rest up from the 'fantasy' they thought they were in. Romeo was still trying to take in everything that happened.

"Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, Rogue-nii just got sla-!" Rogue clamped Rmeo's mouth with his hand before he could finish his sentence.

"Calm down, geez. It's not much of a big deal. Calm your asses down. Anyway, shouldn't we get going for classes? Or we'll be late," Rogue said, before walking towards the direction the girls had left. The others looked at each other before shrugging to one another and tailing Rogue.

"By the way, exactly what did you see Natsu?" Gray asked out of curiosity, while the other guys leaned in to hear what they were saying.

"Oh, she was using the toilet and was about to pull up her pink panties...OH," Natsu said before blushing madly, while the some of the boys had a nosebleed and others blushed slightly at the image.

[Fairies of Music's POV]

"Teresa-chan, please calm down! I'm sure Natsu didn't mean to do that!" Lucy exclaimed desperately as she kept up with Yukina's quick pace that was bound to cause her to be far from the girls.

"Puh-lease. A boy walking into a girl's bathroom on accident? Don't make me laugh. That's humanly and inhumanly impossible," Teresa said, walking away, not facing Lucy or any of the girls, then she stopped and turned her head slightly and pouted,"And I believe I have told you many times: DO NOT ADD A -CHAN AFTER MY NAME!" The girls chuckled and laughed at Teresa's expression and the tone of her voice when she had said that. Then they heard Mira stop laughing and gasp slightly.

"Oh! We're here girls! Our classroom for Sex Education!" Mira exclaimed, looking upwards. They looked up, and sure enough, there was a small sign saying '2MermaidHeel'. They slowly walked into the classroom and saw that many seats were taken up and some were empty. At the front, stood a very tall man with short, orange hair, and he wore a pair of baggy pants and bandages around his chest (just describing from the anime), and a slightly torn coat draped over his shoulders. He looked at the girls with a stern face and asked,"I'm Gildarts, the teacher for Sex Ed. You girls from 'Fairies of Music'?" The girls didn't even flinch at the face he was giving them and simply nodded. Then his faced suddenly turned into that of a goofy and almost perverted one, causing the girls to flinch.

"Yes! Another bunch of cute, lovely ladies joins the class! Welcome to Sex-Ed class and you may sit wherever you-" he got interrupted by the sound of the classroom door swinging open and banging against the wall.

"KYA~! NATSU-SAMA! STING-SAMA! JELLAL-SAMA! (just imagine Erza seething with rage on the sidelines)" The girls in the classroom (excluding the girls from 'Fairies of Music') squealed as the ten boys entered the class. Natsu, Sting and Jellal gave their fangirls their signature smirks and the girls all swooned. Teresa silently snorted and turned to face away form the boys, obviously still angry about what had happened less than five minutes ago. Rogue noticed Teresa and frowned sightly. 'You're gonna be quite the challenge, I'll give you that,' Rogue thought to himself as he walked over to a random table and settled comfortably into his seat, and noticed that Sting had settled into the seat next to his right.

"GRAY-SAMA!" Teresa and the girls flinched and slowly turned around to see...Juvia drooling at the sight of a naked Gray wearing nothing but his boxers. Gray looked down and noticed his clothes were gone, AGAIN. He yelped in shock and was about to run out to look for his uniform when he saw that Juvia had already gathered his clothes. He gave her a quick 'thanks' and rushed to out his clothes on. Juvia literally had hearts in her eyes.

"Jesus Christ, you don't think-" Teresa began.

"-she's in love with-" Yukino.

"-that Gray Fullbuster?" Lucy finished. The three girls looked at each other, before bursting into laughter. Rogue, who was sitting behind them, just watching them, interest glistening his eyes.

"Juvia in love with Gray Fullbuster. That's a rather interesting pair if you ask me," Teresa managed to say before getting the feeling that someone was watching her.

[Teresa's POV]

I felt the feeling of being watched and turned around to check out who was behind me, and low and behold! There sat the guy that I REALLY did not want to see: Rogue Cheney. I grimace inwardly while shooting a glare at his direction. He seemed to have noticed it and stared back at me with his ruby red eyes. I quickly whipped my head around to NOT make any eye contact with him right now. Heck, I don't to make any form of contact with him!

I quickly looked around to see if there was any seats available that I could move to, but to my dismay, all the seats were taken up. My eyes scanned across the classroom and saw who were sitting next to who. The table were all arranged in twos, so everyone was seating as a pair. I was Yukino, and we were nearest to the window. Behind us was Sting Eucliffe and Rogue Cheney, next to us was Lucy and...NATSU DRAGNEEL?! What is he doing next to her?! I saw Natsu whisper something to Lucy (which I'm curious about and I'm guilty of it), making her laugh. I stared at them for a moment before smiling, then turning my attention back to the teacher. Then I heard Juvia squeal.

"Mererdy! Ultear!" She exclaimed, and all of us girls looked towards the direction Juvia was looking. Sure enough, a pink-haired girl and a raven-haired girl appeared at the doorway, waving and smiling at Juvia.

"Juvia! Long time no see!" Mererdy exclaimed, before rushing over to Juvia to hug her. Ultear walked over and smiled at Juvia, who returned it with a warm smile.

"Long time no see, Juvia," Ultear said.

"Right back at you, Ultear-san," Juvia replied, smiling, before a male voice rang out.

"Oh! Ultear, Gray, there you are!" The one who had spoken was a boy with spikey, bluish-silver hair, and next to him was a girl with hot pink hair tied into twintails.

"Lyon!" Ultear and Gray exclaimed at the same time, before all three hugged each other.

"Why does Ultear-san know Gray-sama? Is Ultear going to be Juvia's love rival?" Juvia asked with a deadly tone, clutching tightly onto Gray's arm, who laughed nervously while Lyon silently seethed with jealously watching them, and Cheria was glaring at Juvia while half crying half tugging onto his sleeve to get his attention.

"Nope, Juvia, I am childhood friends with Gray and Lyon, 'cause my mother taught them Ice Molding magic, so we are sort of like sister and brothers," Ultear replied, laughing at how cute Juvia looked like when she had asked the question. Juvia blushed slightly and smiled at Ultear.

"Well, at least Juvia knows that you aren't her love rival," Juvia said, before fangirling about Gray again.

"Class! Get back to your seats!" Gildarts bellowed, and everybody rushed back their seats, and settled quickly. Jellal and Erza ended up sitting next to each other, as well as Gray and Juvia, Levy and Gajeel, Mira and Laxus and Freed and Loke.

"Alright. Just like per usual, I'm gonna draw lots on which boy and girl will come here today to do 'that'," Gildarts said, before his hand dived into two boxes, one with 'boys' and the other with 'girls' on it.

"Holy shit, not again," I heard Sting complain from behind, and I raised my brow at Yukino, who shrugged in return. We looked back to the front, to see Gildarts holding a piece of paper in each hand.

"Let's see...Lucy Heartfilia and Natsu Dragneel!" Gildarts exclaimed, and I heard Lucy exclaim a "WHAT?!" I glanced at her direction, and saw her and Natsu Dragneel stand up from their seats and slowly trudged their way to the front of the classfoom, where the teacher's desk was at. I noticed Natsu leaned over slightly to whisper inti Lucy's ear something, causing her to whip her head to face him, blushing madly, making my curious and confused at the same time. When they had reached the teacher's desk, Gildarts began giving them some instructions, causing Lucy to bite her lip while blushivg furiously while Natsi had this rather annoyed look on his face.

My eyes scanned across the room to see most of the students having this disgusted look on their face while the rest of the girls of our band seemed just as confused as I was. I saw Gray lean over to Juvia, Jellal lean over to Erza, Gajeel lean over to Levy, and Laxus lean over to Mira to whisper something in their ears, causing them to blush furiously and stare at them with looks of ridicule at the boys. Then I noticed Sting was leaning over the front to whisper to Yukino, who reacted by blushing lightly and putting a head on her mouth. I turned around to see Rogue Cheney, who was resting his chin on his propped up hand, with this extremely bored expression on his face. I frowned and pouted slightly at the idea of what I was about to do.

"Alright, first of all, pretend you are at...say, a bar, and you've just met," Gildarts said, and Lucy and Natsu pretended to start conversing.

"So, you're THE famous Natsu Dragneel? What is someone as famous as you doing in a bar?" Lucy asked, pretending to be truly surprised.

"Well, I noticed a certain pretty blonde lady and couldn't help myself to coming to see her," Natsu replied, winking at Lucy, causing her to blush slightly and smile back.

"Well, she must be rather attractive to have gotten your attention so badly," Lucy said with a hint of humour in her voice, causing Natsu to laugh a little.

"I guess your right, missy," Natsu replied, flashing her his famous signature grin, causing Lucy to laugh.

"So, wanna come over to my place tonight?" Natsu asked, smirking as Lucy's blush got deeper and she smiled back.

"I'd love to," she replied.

"Alright, now, close the distance between both parties," Gildarts said, and both Natsu and Lucy shot him a confused looks. He sighed and rubbed his temples.

"Kids these days are so damn dense. Obviously I'm talking about a kiss!" Gildarts exclaimed, and Natsu and Lucu blushed furiously.

"K-KISS?!" They both shrieked at the same time. Gildarts gave them a death glare, and both of them gulped. Natsu knew when Gildarts gave that look, he meant all seriousness. Lucy was just plain afraid of Gildarts because of the face he was currently giving them. Natsu and Lucy faced each other and blushed furiously. They slowly brought their faces closer and closed the distance between them. The blush on their faces grew deeper and redder as the distance between their lips decreased. The girls in the classroom stared at the two in awe and a hint of jealousy. Then the clapping of hands were heard. Both turned their heads to the source of the clapping and saw that it was Gildarts.

'Alright, that'll do. Obviously you two are kissing virgins, 100% sure that you two are not experienced," Gildarts said, sighing. The two blushed at his sentence and hurried back to their seats, blushes permanently staining their cheeks.

"Okay, everybody, today we will be talking about how a man and a woman develops a bond between each other and has a boy-girl relationship. So, first..." Gildarts kept blabbering on about dates, kissing and then sexual intercourse, and I felt like puking. All the girls of the band were blushing furiously at Gildarts' words, while the other girls of the classroom had looks of disgust on their faces. I cannot believe this, I mean, who does this to their students?! WHAT THE HECK IS OUR PRINCIPAL THINKING?!

[Lucy's POV]

OH MY FUCKING GOD. WHAT IS OUR TEACHER THINKING, MAKING US ALMOST KISS?! WHAT'S WORSE IS THAT IT WAS THAT NATSU! I looked up to see Natsu's flustered face. He looked back at me with eyes that seemed to say, "Sorry, he's always like this." I turned my head away, not wanting to let him see my blushing face.

[Natsu's POV]

WHAT THE HELL, GILDARTS?! WHY LUCY, OF ALL PEOPLE?! THIS IS SO DAMN EMBARRASSING! Wait, is she looking at me? I looked back at her and saw her cute, blushing face, making me feel flustered just looking at it. I gave her a 'sorry' look, which she reacted to by turning her head away, cheeks still red. DAMN IT SHE IS TOO DARN CUTE.

[Normal POV]

Suddenly, the sound of a bell ringing pierced through the air. Gildarts closed his book in his hand and sighed, before looking back to the class.

"Alright, students, that'll be all for today. Your homework is to pair up with someone in the class and do a project about boy-girl relationships. That'll be all," With that, he walked out of the class. The minute his figure had disappeared from the classroom, Teresa rushed over to Lucy and gripped her shoulders.

"LUCY! Are you alright?! Did HE do anything to you?!" Teresa exclaimed in a very worried voice, pointing to Natsu to emphasize the 'HE' part. Lucy laughed nervously at Teresa's reaction. She should have known better that Teresa would be this frantic after Gildarts forced them to do THAT. She smiled and shook her head.

"No, Teresa, nothing happened, so calm down," she said, and instantly, Teresa calmed down, before turning to glare at Natsu.

"You. You really didn't do anything, right?" She asked in a serious yet scary tone that was compatible to Erza when she's angry, which scared Natsu who immediately yelped a high-pitched "Aye!". Teresa sighed in relief and walked back to her desk to pack her things up and get ready for the next class. She noticed Rogue had walked up next to her desk, but she didn't say anything. As for the rest of the boys and girls, they were talking amongst themselves but secretly watching the two standing quietly there at the corner of the room, sweatdropping at the tension around them since they were not talking and it was quite obvious Teresa was ignoring Rogue. Rogue, noticing that the others were watching them, decided to cut the tension.

"So, what's your next class, Amano-san?" Rogue asked, deciding not to call her by her name as she may not be pleased by it. Teresa didn't even turn her head to face him but replied him nonetheless.

"Music. Why do'ya ask?" Teresa said, zipping up her bag and closing it. Rogue's eyes widened a little. The rest of the boys from the band who 'happened' to hear what Teresa had said (obviously they were eavesdropping), were also shocked and before Rogue could say anything, they beat him to the punch.

"Seriously?! We are having music next too!" Sting exclaimed, grinning a toothy grin before slinging an arm around Yukino's waist, who happened to be next to him. Yukino blushed slightly and fidgeted nervously at their contact, while Teresa narrowed her eyes at Sting but didn't say anything. Teresa slung her bag over her shoulder and turned to walk away.

"Don't think that just because I spoke to you earlier means that I have forgiven you for everything that has happened," Teresa said, not even looking at the girls or the boys, and began to walk off. The rest simply tailed behind her, since they were all going to the same place. Natsu slung an arm over Lucy's shoulders while Sting still had his arm slung around Yukino's waist. Gajeel was resting his arm on Levy's head, who was smiling nervously at their contact, while walking side by side, Romeo and Wendy were walking next to each other, chatting happily. Jellal and Erza walked next to each other with a rather noticeable distance between them, a light blush across their faces while Mira was standing in between Freed and Laxus, chatting away happily while smiling sweetly to the boys. Juvia was clinging tightly onto Gray's arm, while Loke was standing alone. Teresa and Rogue walked next to each other, but Teresa ignored his presence as though he never existed. Rogue, oddly determined to break the ice with Teresa, spoke up.

"So, when's your next performance, T-Amano-san," Rogue asked, almost calling her 'Teresa' instead of 'Amano'. She simply shrugged at the question.

"Who knows. Depends on when our manager sets up our next performance. What about you, Rogue-san?" she asked politely, almost surprised by the tone of her own voice while talking to Rogue, who stared at her in surprise before regaining composure and answered her question.

"Well...according to Natsu-san, he says that our next performance will be next Friday, which is about nine days from today," Rogue replied, and Teresa clearly wasn't impressed.

"Oh, really?" She said, lifting her chin upwards, refusing to look at Rogue. Rogue, realising this, accidentally blurted out what he was thinking without thinking before hand.

"Actually, in my eyes, Amano-san is...different," Rogue said, causing Teresa to look down to look at Rogue with a slightly agitated.

"What's 'different' supposed to mean?" she questioned, a hint of anger in her voice. Rogue, however, didn't notice it, and just went on talking.

"'Different' as in 'special'. I find Amano-san quite amazing, to have been able to remain this strong despite your dragon leaving you. You seem like the type who treasures those around you and want to protect them with your life. You're very caring and hold a lot of kindness towards your friends." Rogue said, smiling to himself.

Teresa stopped walking and stared at Rogue in utter shock, not like the type of shock that was because she was angry at Rogue for being stupid or something, it was more of a 'slightly take aback' kind of shock. She was rather surprised at what he had said to her. No one has ever said that about me, she thought.

"T-T-T-T-T-"

"Huh?"

"T-thank you...Rogue-kun," Teresa managed to stammer, before looking up to Rogue, red in the face, a slightly furious look on her face, which made her damn cute. The members of both bands and students surrounding them stared at her in shock at how red ad cute she was.

"D-don't you dare think this will be a usual occurance!" She exclaimed loudly, stammering slightly, face still red. She then turned and walked away briskly down the corridor and towards the music room. Rogue, still slightly shocked by her thanks, smiled slightly to himself.

"She thanked me..."


Hiya, people! So sorry for another late chapter! Btw, I need you guys to vote for a little matching-up of couples.

Mira:

-MiraLax

-MiraFre

Lisanna:

-LisLax

-LisFre

-LisBicks

Pls vote for the couple you want for both Lisanna and Mirajane so that I can write the next chapter. So, yeah, Yukina was finally nice towards Rogue! Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! Sry for any spelling errors! Rmbr, votings via reviews! Thanks!

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