Summary: Lucy Heartfillia is the heiress of the Heartfillia family, use to be one of the wealthiest and most influential conglomerate families in the country of Fiore but after the huge bankrupt Lucy was force to transfer in Fairy Tail Academy from her prestigious school. Can she deal with her new 'ordinary' life while trying to fit in with her chaotic new school?
Pairing: LucyXVarious (LoL)
Genre: Comedy, School Life, Romance, Spice of Life, Drama, Friendship, Family
Ratings: Rated T
Disclaimer: Fairy Tail® by Mashima Hiro
Beta'd by:Ventiwings
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-Part Time Job-
Lucy follows Erza to the table with three girls occupying it. Erza drops her tray of food on the table. Lucy's having a second thought about eating food with the girls. Erza notices that Lucy is still standing; she just chuckles and grabs Lucy's arms, gently pulling her to the empty seat across from her.
"Hey guys, mind if Lucy joins us today?" Erza asks. The beautiful girl with pinkish-white hair sitting next to her smiles warmly, causing the blonde girl to blush in deep red.
I thought Erza is the prettiest girl I've seen today! I spoke too soon! Lucy inwardly says while giving the girl a small and shy smile.
"My name is MiraJane, nice to meet you, Lucy-chan. I'm from class 2-C." the pinkish-white-haired girl says while outstretching a hand to Lucy. The blonde girl immediately took the hand and gently shakes it.
"Nice to meet you, MiraJane-senpai."
Mira pouts and waves her hand at Lucy. "Oh please stop being so formal, just call me Mira."
"B-but..."
"I insist, okay?" Mira smiles gently at Lucy again; the latter smiles back and nod.
"Hey, girl, my name is Cana Alberona." the girl with wavy and long brown hair who's seated next to MiraJane winks at Lucy. "From class 2-C. And please call me Cana, I don't want to be called senpai, I feel too old." Lucy chuckles at Cana and nods.
The blue-haired girl seating next to Erza leans forward offering a petite hand to Lucy; the latter gladly accepts it and smiles. "The name's Levy McGarden, nice to meet you Lu-chan... oh can I call you Lu-chan?"
Lucy nods. "Nice to meet you too Levy-chan."
Huwaa~ never expected to make friends this fast. Lucy says to herself. Levi and Erza are in the same class as her, while Cana and Mira are in the second year class C. It seems that they know each other way back from elementary days. They talk about anything, asking Lucy about something but they're obviously avoiding asking her about what happened to her family, which Lucy is grateful for.
Lucy was enjoying her girl time with her newly founded friends when an irritating voice spoils her moment.
"Hey Luigi!" says the familiar goofy and loud voice from behinds her back. Lucy frowns and slowly turns her head behind her and sure enough her chocolate brown eyes meet up with Natsu's goofy grin while he exaggeratedly waves his hand at her.
"Luigi?" the girls repeated in unison. Lucy rolls her eyes and frowns again.
"Seriously, that boy is so stupid. I've already told him my name is Lucy not Luigi." Lucy said looking annoyed while watching Natsu approach their table and comfortably sitting next to her.
"Hey Luigi, what's up?"
Lucy sighs and presses the bridge of her nose trying her best to calm herself. "Dragoneel-san." Natsu twitches at Lucy's formal voice and at the honorific Lucy used. He pouts childishly at Lucy. "For the record, my name is Lucy not Luigi."
"Well, I'll call you Lucy if you'll start calling me Natsu; Dragoneel-san is too formal."
"I've been calling you Natsu ever since we met in Principal's office and you still dare call me Luigi. I think it's only fair to call you Dragoneel-san since we're not that close." Lucy explains but Natsu still pouts at her.
"Fine then I'll be calling you Luigi from now on." Natsu declares making the blonde girl sigh in frustration again.
I can see an upcoming headache. Lucy inwardly groans.
"Hey Lucy." another familiar voice calls. Lucy turns her eye behind her again and sees Gray smirk at her. "So what role are you in our play?"
Lucy gave him a teasing smile. "Prop maintenance, Sleeping Beauty." Lucy clearly emphasizes the pet name causing the black-haired boy to twitch and animatedly glare at the blonde girl. Lucy smirks at him.
"I'll get you for that someday." Gray animatedly warns Lucy. Natsu started to laugh hard, slapping the table with his hand while clutching his stomach with the other hand. The boys around Gray laugh out as well.
"Hai, hai." Lucy rolls her eyes and spun her back to Gray and frowns at the laughing Natsu. "You know you shouldn't be laughing hard like that, Wicked Queen." Natsu automatically stops laughing and glares at Lucy. The laughing from the boys got louder earning a comical death glare from the pink-headed boy.
"What the hell! You should be the 'Wicked Queen'!" Natsu exclaims while pointing a finger at Lucy. The blonde girl brushes the finger away from her face and smirks.
"Not likely to happen." Lucy says. Natsu erupts with anger and starts calling Lucy 'Luigi', 'weird girl' or any out-of-this-world names as his revenge to the blonde girl, but Lucy merely rolls her eyes again and ignores Natsu's temper tantrum, concentrating on her food.
Mira and the other girls admire her for speaking like that with Gray and Natsu. Usually whenever some girls try to talk to Natsu or Gray its either they'll be intimidated by their cold and rough expression or simply squeal because of their handsome faces.
Lyon smirks at raging Natsu and the Lucy girl, the only girl brave enough to tease Natsu and Gray. The bluish-haired boy turns his eyes to Gray seated beside him and are surprised to see that a red tinge appears on Gray's cheeks while he gives Lucy's back an interested look. Lyon, seeing Gray looking interested in a girl for the first time, silently praises the blonde girl's gut.
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Lucy swings her school bag onto her shoulder after properly putting her notebooks and textbooks inside of it. She's slipping her feet into her shoe when someone calls her.
"Lu~chan!" Levy sang her pet name. Lucy flashes a smile at Levi and Erza. "We're playing to buy something for the school play, wanna come?"
Lucy bit her lower lip. "I can't, today is my interview on my part time job. I'm sorry."
Levy's shoulders drop, her cute and petite face saddens. A pang of guilt hit Lucy's chest. Erza smiles understandingly at Lucy then she taps Levy's shoulder.
"It's okay Lucy, maybe next, ne?" Erza said. Lucy nods and gazes an apology at Levy. The petite girl smiles widely at Lucy.
"I understand, Lu-chan, but next time you should come with us. I'm sure it'll be fun." Lucy agrees and says her goodbye to the two girls.
The blonde girl stops in front of a small convenience store near the Magnolia Train Station. Lucy glances at the small paper on her hand, confirming the address on the paper. Lucy was a bit scared. It'll be her first time to work, since sixteen years of her life she was practically pampered by her mother. With just one pout she'd definitely have the toys, dresses or shoes she wanted. But everything's different now; she had to have a job for her daily expenses. She's no longer 'Lucy-ojousama'; now she's just an 'ordinary' Lucy who has to work to survive. Lucy sighs; it's been a very long time the she's self-pitied. Lucy shook her head gently and inhales deeply.
It'll be okay, Lucy, fight! Lucy encourages herself before entering the said convenience store. The blonde girl sees a tall man with light tan skin and one sided black hair in front of the cash register on the counter reading a magazine. Lucy, with sweating palms and a pounding heart, approaches the man slowly. The blonde sixteen-year-old girl lets out a fake cough to get the man's attention.
The tan man is too busy reading the magazine and is oblivious at the blonde girl standing in front of him. Lucy inwardly sweats drops. Lucy coughs out again but still the man ignores her.
"Uhm… Excuse me…?" Lucy says raising her voice a little. The tall man twitches and puts the magazine down without glancing at Lucy. He straightens up his apron and flashes the business smile.
"Welcome to G2G store, how may I help you?" With the obvious scripted greetings, Lucy winces at the man. The man frowns at Lucy with a baffled expression. "Who're you?" he asks. Lucy immediately bows her head at the man and smiles weakly.
"M-my name's Lucy H— I'm here for the interview for the part time job," Lucy says, intentionally not mentioning her last name, since every time she mentions her last name, everyone casts a pitiful and sorry look at her which she never truly enjoys.
The man raises an eyebrow, gazes Lucy up and down and nods. "You're hired," he suddenly says.
Lucy gives the man an 'are-you-serious' look. "Huh?"
"You heard me, you're hired."
"What about my interview?"
The man waves his hand at Lucy. "Oh that's just formality, and besides, the Manager is not here, so no one will interview you. But he did mention a new employee coming today. He said to automatically hire you though."
Lucy's frown deepened, eyeing the man with suspicion. The man in return cast an offended look at Lucy. "What, don't you want to work here?"
Lucy shakes her hands and head at him looking flustered. "Of course I want to! I'm sorry, it's just…"
The man flashes a smile and nods at her. "Good, wait here." The man enters the door that connects to the back room. "Yo, the new employee is here. Can you show her around?"
"Yeah, sure. Be right there." Lucy frowns after hearing an awfully familiar voice coming from the back room. Lucy gasps when the man returns and sees the boy following him from behind.
"Gray?" Lucy utters in disbelief. Gray's eyes widen as he stares at the blonde teenage girl standing in front of the counter.
"Lucy?" Gray mutters.
"What're you doing here?" they both ask in unison. The tall man furrows his eyebrows and gives both Lucy and Gray a confused look.
"You know each other?"
Lucy and Gray nod at him. "Classmates?"
Lucy and Gray nodded again. "It must've been fate then!" the man says with a teasing expression. Lucy rolls her eyes as Gray shakes his head and sighs. "Che~ Kill joy." the man mutters looking offended at Lucy and Gray's reactions. He comically walks back behind the counter mumbling something.
TBC
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-Worries-
"Lu-chan?"
"Huh?" Lucy raises her eyebrows at the timid blue hair girl in front of her. There's a worried expression on her petite face. Levy seated next to Lucy.
"Are you okay? You've been very quiet since morning,"
"Oh, it's nothing… I'm fine." Lucy feeling a bit guilty lying to her new friend, she avoided Levy's eyes and focus on the prop castle before her.
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Sabrina-chan's Musing Corner: presenting the chapter three of FTA. Like it? Review ne?
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Japanese Translation: -senpai – Use to add to the name if someone is level/year/by experience higher than you; Hai – yes; ne – right; -chan – an intimate way to address someone; -ojousama – Young Miss/address to a lady;
Question: WHERE WOULD YOU WANT TO PLACE YOUR FAVORITE GUILD'S STAMP AND WHAT COLOR? SHARE YOUR ANSWER THROUGH REVIEW. THANK YOU XP. Me? Since I like exposing my nape I wanted Fairy Tail's guild stamp on my nape of course with my favorite color Forget-me-not blue!
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-For the future reference, this story is inspired by another manga named 'Monkey High™' (Standard Disclaimer is applied)-
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