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~Lucy~
Where was the orchestra hall? How did I not know this?
I have been going to this school for like three years. I bumped into several people as I walked around confusingly. Finally, I had to ask a teacher.
"Excuse me, do you know where the orchestra hall is?" I asked in my best polite voice. The teacher smiled and told me the directions. I thanked her and rushed off before I would make Natsu late.
When I arrived at the orchestra hall, I gasped. It was huge and round. How have I never have even come in here again?
I walked in just as the bell rang. Good, at least I wasn't late.
The orchestra conductor/teacher saw me and smiled,
"Why if it isn't our first chair cello player. You can set your things down and grab your cello, ad head on over to your seat." I smiled. I set my stuff down and walked to where the cellos were. I looked at the nametags on the cases and found Natsu's cello. I pulled it out and grabbed the long stick thing with the hair on it.
I should have done orchestra. Why didn't I do orchestra?
I stood up almost knocking the cello over. I walked to the only empty spot in the room, which was right next to the small podium where the teacher sat. What was her name again? It was Mrs. Evergreen or something like that. Wasn't it? Yes it was!
I sat down and looked around at the rest of the cello section. There were holding their cellos by leaning the very top and long part against their shoulder with their hand resting on their cello. I copied them as Mrs. Evergreen began to speak about trills or something like that.
Man, it was only the second day of school. How come she was talking about such things with weird names, but apparently everyone was nodding like they understood, so I once again copied them, nodding as if I understood everything. Why the hell didn't I do orchestra?!
She then asked us all to take out our music. I just stared at her, not knowing what to say or really what to do. My stand partner looked at me, and smiled. I smiled back as she pulled out her own music and let me share it. She opened up her folder to reveal little black dots on black horizontal lines. I just stared at the music dumbfounded.
What the hell was this? I saw tiny little Italian or French words underneath it. That didn't make any sense.
How come the words were a different language? What the heck? Mrs. Evergreen then raised her hand and gave it a flick. I gripped the stick and pushed it against the strings. It created an awful loud noise that stuck out like and elephant in a field of mice. Mrs. Evergreen stopped the orchestra immediately with another flick of her hand. She turned to me and glared at me,
"Was that some kind of joke Mr. Dragneel? If it was then stop it immediately and play like you mean it." I nodded scared and said,
"Yes ma'am." She nodded approvingly and raised her hands again. She once again flicked her hand and the orchestra started playing. This time I didn't press the stick against the strings, this time I just made the movements as the stick just barely hovered above the strings. I saw that Mrs. Evergreen noticed right away, but she didn't mention anything. I let out a gasp of relief.
Finally, after a full hour of music, the bell rang loudly. I got up and packed up Natsu's cello and went on to my things, but Mrs. Evergreen called out,
"Natsu Dragneel, I need to speak to you in private." I closed my eyes and opened them, ready for this. I walked over to her podium slowly. When everyone had left the orchestra hall she turned to look at me thoughtfully.
"Is something the matter Natsu?" I shrugged.
"I don't know," I mumbled in return.
"What's wrong Natsu? I saw how you were gripping the bow, and it was definitely not correct. I also noticed how you shadow-bowed the whole entire piece without even touching the strings. You are first chair Mr. Dragneel. I don't expect this sort of behavior from you, so tell me what is the matter?" If only she knew. I thought to myself in my head.
"I'm just experiencing personal problems in my life right now Mrs. Evergreen." She frowned.
"Do you want to talk to me about them?"
"No," I said back to her.
"How come you don't?" she asked concerned.
"Well, they're quite personal. I don't want to share all my secrets with my teacher. That's just weird," I told her while shrugging casually. She shook her head and said,
"No, Mr. Dragneel. That isn't weird at all, but I won't pressure you to tell me, but try and keep it together because it really is affecting your playing." I smiled at her comment and nodded.
"I will Mrs. Evergreen. Don't worry, I'm trying to handle my problem." She smiled at my response.
"Very good. Now run along. I guess you probably want to be heading on home. Don't you?" I nodded like for the twentieth time. I grabbed my things and rushed out the door.
~Natsu~
I saw Lucy come running out of the school doors.
I smiled. She saw me almost immediately and beckoned me over. I walked over to her and asked,
"Where were you?"
"Mrs. Evergreen needed to talk to me on my playing. Apparently, I was just awful," she told me sarcastically.
I grinned and opened my mouth to say something, but she kept talking.
"Look, I have to go try out for football for you and you need to go to book club. Got it?" I shook my head and said,
"Look, don't try out for football. It's really okay with me." She shook her head too.
"Okay fine. I won't try out for you. I'll try out for your dad. I was only with him for ten minutes, but even I saw how much this meant to him. Okay? Oh, and book club meets in well, the library. So… we can meet after we're done with our events. Understand?" I nodded. I saw her take off to the football fields, and I turned around to head to the library. Book club… here I come.
~Lucy~
The locker room was a nightmare.
Almost every guy was shoving every other naked guy and talking about girls. All I did, was stand off to the side of the lockers as the jocks tried to summon me over there to join them in their little boy fest.
I just ignored them and got dressed. I hated being a guy, and I still haven't figured out the whole "go to the bathroom" thing yet, so that was a bust.
When we got out to the fields, the coach was explaining the rules, while for some odd reason calling us "ladies" at the same time. I struck that as ironic, for the coach had no idea how right he was.
When we got situated on the field I was behind some big scary boys with big muscles. I was the "quarterback" or something like that. The dude with the football started shouting numbers and kept saying "Hut" which also struck me as odd. What are we? Cavemen?
I chuckled to myself, but stopped abruptly as the ball landed in my hands. I just stared at it and started sprinting forward. I kept running as I dodged big heavy boys who wanted to hurt me. I just kept running and running until I crossed a white line at the very end of the field. I sat down as my team cheered.
I just nodded, exhausted. The coach came up to me and patted me on the back. He said to me,
"That was some serious running Dragneel. I don't think I have ever seen you run so fast. Well, Dragneel, you're on the team for sure, just to let you know. Now stop taking breaks and get your ass off the ground and get back into position!" I jumped up and ran back to the place where I was. I smiled to myself, for I had just done awesome on my first football tryout, and Natsu was on the team.
I guess I wasn't a complete failure at football. I was actually pretty damn good.
I smiled to myself larger and shrunk down to start the game over.
Lets make it a replay, shall we?
~Natsu~
At first, book club seemed boring, but when people jumped on the tables and started whooping like gorillas, I started paying attention.
A girl named Flare suddenly stood up and said,
"Everybody! Welcome to our first book club meeting. Now give everyone's attention to our superb president, Lucy Heartfilia!" Almost everyone started whooping and clapping. I looked down at the speech that Lucy made for me to say.
"Hello fellow book readers, I am Lucy, as you just heard. Now we need to welcome those freshman students who are brand new to high school and book club!" Everyone started clapping for the students who obviously felt quite uncomfortable. I continued on with the speech,
"Now, I'm sure you guys are wondering about when meetings will be. Okay, I'm about to pass out a schedule to all of you." I walked around and handed schedules to everyone. I kept talking.
"Now, everyone should know book club is not just about books. It's about making friends, and about books and your knowledge on books." Everyone just stared at me with bored expressions. I looked down at the rest of the speech Lucy made for me, and groaned in my head. She was sometimes the capital of Boring. I decided to spice things up a little, so I jumped on the table and threw the cards everywhere. There were gasps from the book club members. I smiled and yelled to all of them,
"Well! Are you interested to have awesome fun! I know I am! We are going to have contests, parties, and all right… some serious meetings, but we are going to make book club totally worth it! Now, who's with me?" People stood up and started whooping. I just laughed.
I had no idea what the hell I was even doing.
I got down from the table and made up a game quickly in my head.
I called it the "If you can't say a book that this author made, then you have to dance around like a crazy person and sing loudly". I put everyone in a circle and made a dozen flash cards with authors' names on it. I then found a hat, and drew on one for each student. Almost very student knew some books that the authors wrote, but when I told a student the name "J.K. Rowling", she just stared at me and squeaked.
I actually laughed as she continued on to be stumped by the author's name. Who didn't know Harry Potter? Apparently, this girl didn't. She was obviously a freshman, and she was obviously one of those girls we called, "clueless". After she danced and sung (quite badly), I told her that J.K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter.
She groaned and called herself a "stupid dumbelina", which made me laugh even harder. I told her that it was okay she didn't know who J.K. Rowling was, but she just ducked her head embarrassed. Pretty soon, book club was over, and I was actually sad that it was, which surprised me. As I walked, Lucy's friend Flare caught up with me. She shoved me playfully and said,
"Good job back there gurlllll…" she said the last word as if it was the best word ever. Then, she said it.
"Will you be my girlfriend?" I almost choked. I just stared at her.
"Ummm… what?" She smiled and said,
"I find you very attractive." I continued on to stare at her, before I finally found my words.
"I like guys, Flare." She pouted.
"You do? You seemed kind of like a guy back in there." I chuckled nervously. She was totally right.
"I'm sorry Flare, but I'm pretty sure I'm straight." Her pout fell even more, and she said,
"It's okay. You're not the first I girl I've had a crush on and turned me down." She turned around and walked away. I breathed a sigh of relief. Man, Lucy better thank me for what I did for her. I walked out to the back and saw myself standing there with my hands on my hips. I looked totally gay. I walked up to her and said,
"I know someone who has a crush on you." My/her eyes widened and she asked who it was. I smiled then.
"You know your friend Flare? Yeah, she likes you. She asked you out a while back, but I said no." She seemed surprised at first, but then her face transformed into an angry thin line.
"I have a crush on her too and you said no to her!" She pushed me back. My mouth dropped open. Did Lucy like girls too?
Oh fuck.
The words poured out of my mouth,
"You're a lesbian? Oh, sorry I didn't know." She looked at me with a serious face and started cracking up. She shoved me and said,
"You actually bought it? Priceless!" She fell on the ground and started clutching her stomach to try and calm down her laughing. I looked down at her and finally realized, "Oh… so you're not a lesbian? I mean, I'm totally cool if you are." She frowned then. She grabbed my arm and pulled me down. She leaned in close and I smelled well… me. She whispered in my ear,
"What does that mean Natsu?" I froze. What did I mean? Of course I wasn't totally cool with that! Wait, why was I not totally cool with her being lesbian, even though she isn't? Oh crap. I suddenly dawned on me that I might be falling hard for Lucy Heartfilia. Did she like me back? I leaned forward to whisper back in her/my ear.
"Do you have a crush on me Lucy Heartfilia?" I felt her freeze. She looked at me with my dark blue eyes and said,
"No Natsu, I don't." I felt myself go numb. I stood up suddenly and said to her with a cold voice,
"Well, good. I don't like you either." She just nodded expecting this. She stood up to and told me we should get going to my house.
We walked in an awkward silence on the way there, but she turned to me and said,
"We can be friends, right? I felt as if I just ruined our friendship back there." I shrugged and said,
"Of course we can be just friends." She smiled sadly. She then opened the door and we walked into my house.
What the hell am I feeling?
*HERRO! Well, yeah I already updated (took like ten minutes to edit out names and such) but I probably won't update this for a while since I REALLY need to update my other FIVE stories where I still have to WRITE in them. :3 Anyways, leave a review and tell me what you think! :)
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