As Lucy roamed the halls during her planning period, she cursed herself for being ahead of herself in grading and planning, if she was, then she wouldn't be heading to the gym. She had expertly avoided talking to Natsu's face since the incident the week before. Even though she had convinced Levy to talk to Lisanna about her outing with Natsu, she still rest easy. She knew it was incredibly immature and petty, but she couldn't get the images of Natsu and Lisanna as a lovey-dovey couple out of her head.

Pausing when she reached the gym door, she took a deep breath and opened the door. She was instantly hit with the smell of sweat and rubber; she had to admit she'd missed it just a bit. Her eyes searched until she found Natsu. He was talking to guy who looked a good few years younger than him; it must be the new student teacher Natsu had talked. Taking another few steps inside, she examined his appearance a little bit more and couldn't help but note that he looked like a blonde Natsu.

Natsu turned around and saw her standing awkwardly by the door. Sending her a smile he waved her over. Biting her lip she contemplated for a few seconds whether or not to walk over, but she knew she couldn't avoid him forever, that was the reason she had come to the gym in the first place!

"Hey, Luce! It's been awhile since we've talked face to face" Natsu said to her when she walked over.

"I know, the last time I saw your stupid face was last Thursday" Lucy teased, she had missed talking to him, curse her stupid imagination.

"Oi, my face isn't stupid weirdo" Natsu teased right back.

"Speaking of faces, who is the blonde guy?" Lucy asked pointing to the blonde, who was staring at her intensely, in confusion or interest, she didn't know. His cheeks turned slightly red when she pointed at him, opening his mouth it looked like he was going to speak, when Natsu slapped his hand down on the boys shoulder.

"This is the student teacher I was telling you about, name's Sting Eucliffe" Natsu said.

Holding out her hand, she smiled at the boy and said "Hello, my names Lucy Heartfilla."

Taking her hand and shaking it he replied "Nice to meet you Lucy."

"So I thought you said that there were two up for questioning?" Lucy asked Natsu.

"Yeah but" Natsu said as he rubbed the back of his neck "the other guy had a bit of a….bad background."

"Really? How bad?" Lucy asked with a raised eyebrow.

"He had like, six restraining orders against him."

"Actually seven" Sting butted in "A girl this year had to get one against him."

"Ah, so he was a creeper, got it" Lucy said.

"Yeah, so speaking of creepers" Natsu began.

"Please don't tell me you want to spy on Gray again, because this time I'm not going with you" Lucy said.

"What, no! I was going to ask if you wanted to go see this movie with me tonight?"

"Oh? What kind of movie?" Lucy asked.

"That one creepy one about guy who leaves presents on his neighbors steps and stuff and is kinda stalking the guy's wife."

"That creepy movie? Can't we see one that won't make me paranoid?" Lucy asked.

"I guess, it's not like I had my heart set on that movie. I just wanted to have some movie I knew of before I asked you if you wanted to go."

"Ok then, as long I get to pick it and you pay for popcorn I'll go" Lucy reasoned.

"Fine, deal" Natsu said.

"Holy mavis" Lucy said as she looked at her watch "I need to start heading back to my class, you better remember to pick me up this afternoon you idot!"

"Yeah, sure" Natsu called.

"You were right Coach" Sting said.

"Hmmm" Natsu asked with a raises eyebrow.

"She is pretty cute."

A/N: So yeah, Sting won 13 to 11.