Hi guys! Here's another new chapter. Laxus is starting to show more of his soft side huh? Everyone loves the soft side of him, he's so lovable! xD
I hope you guys enjoy reading this chapter!
Pairing: Laxus x Lucy
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail, it is own by Mashima Hiro.
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Chapter 8: Caring Support
Lucy was caught off guard and stared at Laxus with shock written on her face. 'D-did he found out? W-was it that obvious?'
"Blondie answer me, did someone slap you?" He frowned at her with his deadly glare.
'W-what do I say… I don't want him to know what had happen earlier…' She was looking away from him, not wanting to meet his eyes. She suddenly had a feeling of guilt in her. But why was she feeling guilty she does not know.
"Look at me when I'm talking to you. Or do you want me to forcefully make you look at me?"
She quickly looked up to his face seeing his seriousness that he will make her look at him. He sighed and his face softened slightly. The way he spoke was also toned down from the aggression when he had her earlier.
"Tell me truthfully, did someone slap you?" Worry was evident in his voice.
Her eyes shifted away from his face. "N-no…"
"…really?"
"Y-yeah…" 'Why…why am I lying to him? This isn't like me to lie…' She didn't dare look at him worrying what he might do or say to her.
"You know, you're a horrible liar." She winced, she had forgotten that she was never good at lying to people. Hearing him sighing, she timidly looked up to see Laxus had his eyes closed and rubbing his temples. 'He must be annoyed at me for lying to him…'
He opened his eyes and crossed his arms looking at her. "…why would you lie? Why would you want to keep quiet that someone had slapped you?"
She wondered the same thing. 'Why did I do that?' She thought about it in silence before giving him an answer in a whisper however he still heard it.
"I…didn't want to bother you. You have more important things to do than to worry over a small matter…"
"So you think it's a small matter then?" His voiced out in a serious tone.
"...yeah. I can handle it myself."
"…" He sighed again. "Whatever you say then." He walked back to his seat looking at the report, it's like as if the talk earlier hadn't happen at all.
She stood there for a couple of minutes, feelings of hurt flowing through her. Before exiting the room he heard him calling her.
"Hey…no matter what happens, it's not your fault ok? You're…doing a good job, helping me I mean…" He never looked up from the report, covering his face preventing her to see his face. She was a bit confused but also happy. She smiled and left the room, unbeknownst that he was looking at her the whole time and saw her radiant smile.
She went to the closest restroom before heading back to the classroom, she didn't want any of her friends to find out about the swollen on her cheek. She didn't want anybody else to worry about her.
Saturday, Six Day
The next few days passed by in a flash. She was still helping Laxus out and it seems like his fan girls didn't bother her anymore. How wrong she was, during the nights she has messages from an anonymous messenger. Each one of the messages said the same thing, "Stay away from Laxus-sama girly!" She has a hunched who that person was but she continued ignored it.
It was a Saturday evening in Lucy's mansion, she was exhausted.
Thinking back about how she has gotten her exhaustion, Macao sensei told them that she had to go to school on a Saturday to check the equipment and instruments that the principal had brought. The Student Council, the Student Representatives and the helpers were supposed to inspect them, unfortunately for Lucy she had to skip her one weekend off.
So here she was, on a Saturday, walking around and checking each equipment in the room.
Laxus was also annoyed that he had to spend his Saturday in school so he decided to vent his frustration on Lucy by disturbing her.
"Blondie will you hurry up with the inspection already?" He shouted at her. He was annoyed by the sound of his voice.
"Give me a break will you! I'm doing all the work here while you're sitting over there doing nothing!" She was just as annoyed as he is so she will not tolerate being bullied by him today.
"Che, just hurry and finish this. You don't have to stay here after your inspection girly. I still have to practice for the performance and I don't want to waste my time spending the whole day of my weekend in school."
"Whatever you lazy ass…" she whispered loud enough for him to hear.
"I heard that blondie!"
"That was meant for you to hear!"
She gave up trying to stop him from calling her blondie, he would still call her that anyways. After another hour she was finally done with the inspection and the two of them walked in silence to the principal's office to tell that their inspection was done.
Lucy complained to Makarov that Laxus didn't do anything and she had to do the inspection alone. Makarov gave him a displeasing look and lectured him that he shouldn't let a girl do everything. Laxus just shrugged off and said that he had a nice view from the angle where he was sitting.
She was confused until she realise that he was checking her out the whole time. He smirked at her when he saw her blushed as she figured out what he meant. She tried to hit him several times but he dodged all of her attacks and laughed at her. Makarov looked at the spectacle, he was surprised with his grandson's actions towards the other blond.
Makarov gave a cough and the two of them stopped their movements. He told the two of them to leave their antics outside the room as he is still busy with other things. Lucy blushed and tried to convince their principal that they weren't doing anything together but he continued to shoo them out of the room. Once they were out of the room, he had a hidden smirk plastered on his face. He suspects that there was something going on between the two and he was going to question his grandson about it.
While they were walking on the hallways Laxus started to ask her something, breaking the silence.
"Did anything happen to you the last few days?"
She gave him a puzzled expression before she realised that he was talking about the incident the other time. She still has threat messages from the anonymous messenger but she decided not to tell him.
"No nothing happen."
"Really?" He arched his brow.
"Yup."
"…alright then."
She smiled and her heart skipped a beat at Laxus's concern. Even if he doesn't look like he is, he still cares for her.
Back to the Present
She was already out of her bathroom in her pyjamas when she heard a ring from her phone. She quickly ran to her desk and answered the phone.
"Lucy-san? This is Juvia speaking."
"Ah Juvia. Good evening."
"Good evening. Juvia is sorry for suddenly calling you this late." She can hear her apologetic tone.
"It's fine Juvia. So what's up?"
"The whole gang wanted to watch a new movie coming up in the theatres tomorrow and we wanted to invite you to join us."
"Oh that would be awesome! I would love to join you guys!" This is her first time hanging out with her friends outside of school. She's ecstatic to meet up with them.
"That's great! Oh we also invited Laxus and his friends as well, they also wanted to watch the same movie as us so we decided watch it together."
"Oh…why did that pervert also had to go…" She sighed, great just when she thought she can spend some time with her friends he had to come to.
"D-does Lucy-san not want to go?" She heard a faint sobbing noise coming from the other line.
"N-no Juvia! I want to go to the movies with you guys!" She spoke franticly.
"Ok then! See you tomorrow 10am outside the theatres Lucy-san, bye!" Juvia suddenly sounded cheery and quickly cut the line leaving Lucy hearing the beeping sound. She stared at the phone and laughed it off. She's still annoyed by the fact that Laxus was going to be joining them but she will not be to upset by this. She will just have to ignore him to have fun with her friends.
She lay on her bed and punched her fist up to the air. 'Yosh! I will not let that pervert ruin my day tomorrow!' She switched off the lights and went into a deep slumber dreaming of tomorrow's event.
Yay group date with the whole gang! This is going to be exciting no? If I had made any grammatical mistakes on this chapter I apologize for that!
I'll see you guys on the next chapter!
Note to all readers: I've been thinking lately, do you guys want a chapter dedicated to Laxus, it's like a POV of his version with the parts where he's with Lucy and hanging out with his friends. I'm sure some of you guys are curious about what is going on in his head when he's with her and behind the scenes with Laxus right? I'll put up a poll on my profile for you guys to vote whether you want me to write it or not. If you guys do want me to write it, I don't know when I'll put that chapter up so it'll have to wait for the time being.
