Chapter 7

"What's wrong, Luce? You've been acting weird since this morning." Levy leaned over the cafeteria table to get a better look at Lucy. "You got the part, didn't you? You should be happy."

Lucy's head snapped up. "Oh… um, sorry. I guess I've kinda been spacing out all day…"

All of a sudden, Levy's eyebrows shot up. "Oh my god! I almost forgot to ask you. Gray got the part of Alexander, didn't he? I heard some people talking about it earlier. That's what this is all about! You're freaking out because you have to kiss Gray!"

"Shut up!" Lucy's cheeks burned. "Don't remind me…"

Levy leaned back in her seat and crossed her arms over her chest. "Oh, chill, will you? It's nothing to get all worked up over."

"But that's the thing." Lucy whispered. "It is something to be worked up over. It's my… um, first kiss. I don't want it to be fake and I certainly don't want it to be with him."

Levy sighed. "Like I said before, it's just a stage kiss."

"Yeah, but I've fantasized about how my first kiss would be ever since I was little." Lucy folded her hands in her lap, deep in thought. "I want it to be alone, not in front of the whole school. I want it to be with someone I've known for a while and trust, not some psycho stripper I've known for like two days who shows up in my house all the time!"

It took a while for Levy to respond and she seemed to be in a state of shock. "Holy shit." She finally whispered. "He… shows up… in your… room?"

"Oh." Lucy felt the color drain from her face. "I guess I never told you about that, huh?"

"Well, give me the details!" Levy wriggled excitedly. "Oh, right! He lives in the room next to yours, right? So you let him into your room? Lucy, you naughty little-."

"Stop!" Lucy shrieked. "Quit jumping to conclusions! Of course I don't let him in. He just comes in. It's so irritating, believe me."

"Don't you lock the door?"

Lucy nodded. "Yeah, but there's this weird door that connects our rooms and he gets in from there."

Levy smirked. "He must really enjoy coming into your room then."

a.a.a.

"Alright, then! Let's start!" Ms. Yuka called to everyone who was cast in the play. "I need Lucy and Lisanna to come up here for the first scene."

Lucy walked up to the stage, Lisanna by her side. They began reading from the script and eventually, it was time for the next scene.

"Great job, girls." Ms. Yuka handed a script to Freed and motioned him to step onto the stage for scene two. Lucy's heart stopped when Gray joined him in reading the lines.

Did she really have to kiss someone like him? Honestly she would have preferred anyone but him. He was so… irritating. That was the only word she could come up with right then and there.

"Lucy? Lucy, you're up!" Ms. Yuka called to her. Lucy stepped forward and slowly began climbing up to the stage. Here goes nothing.