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Chapter 10: Lucky and Unlucky

I was near the park when Erza saw me and called my attention.

"Are you alright?" She asked. I nodded. She continued, "We actually have a guess on who sent notes Belle. It could only be Annie or Amy." I shot a confused look at her. She looked around us to see if anyone could overhear and she lowered her voice. "Gray said that Belle didn't trust anyone except her cronies and himself of course. Her bag has a small chain which needed the password to be entered. The only ones who know the password are Gray, Annie, Amy and Belle, herself. Belle is stupid to trust it to them. But I'm positive. It's either Amy or Annie."

"Or Gray," I added.

Erza just shook her head, "Gray is with us. He would never frame you. He has no reason to. Believe in him okay? There isn't much evidence but Jellal and I are looking for some."

"Jellal and you?" I questioned her.

"Oh, Jellal's good in things like snooping around or planning in things like that. But for the good."She added, "And he's clever too and he's good in lying. Well he's lousy in lying," she laughed for a moment and I realized that Erza really likes Jellal. "But he's good to be with," she smiled.

I sighed. Erza seems to be in good mood even if tomorrow was Friday. Wasn't she preparing for a plan or something? I wonder if it's because she gets to be with Jellal. Oh well, they are the lucky ones but I decided to confess that Gajeel overheard them. At first Erza looked worried but she said, "I guess it is okay for me to tell you what we were really talking about...

This was their real and complete conversation:

"It was a failure. They succeeded and hurt Levy," the principal's voice.

"I guess it's time we need to make up a plan," Gray's urgent voice.

"Just do your work for the meantime;" Erza scolded Gray but then said in a much softer voice, "She's not suspecting anything yet, your girlfriend?"

"No, I guess. I don't know how but she got my pen in the park. Juvia, I mean. I know I had it before I met up with ...Belle and her friends.

"Are you sure that they didn't steal anything from you? Like your pen?" Erza asked in another muffled voice.

"I'm thinking 'bout a plan," Mr. Happy suddenly said. Erza and Gray were quiet.

"We could use Natsu and Jellal's help." Then he whispered something, "It's not much of a plan but I want Gray to check and make sure you hear all about the notes from Belle. You said she received it during recess. But the only people with her are Annie and Amy. Jellal and Erza will be following the two girls and find out more about them. And I get the feeling that there is a man involved here because a girl wouldn't be able to beat Levy that much right." Everything was quiet for a moment.

"We'll put the plan to action on Friday... After the employees meeting..." Makarov said. "I know that there will be two people to be hurt on Friday. I received a letter myself a while ago but it didn't mention the name. Gray, find out who these two are. The note mentioned that it will happen here in school in the afternoon after or maybe during our meeting. I want you to follow one of them and Natsu will be following the other. Jellal and Erza, you should find out who the man involved is before Friday. I'm sure he'll be doing it again and you should be following him on Friday. When you find out his plan, call three or five policemen and they will help you in following him. There are cameras hidden around the school building only. Make sure he does the crime here in the building so that we'll see him he can't say lies and defend himself anymore. That's the simplest plan actually. Just following them around and making sure the police will see it with their own eyes. But what I really need you to focus on is the man. You should really find out who he is and also about Annie and Amy. If you don't find out who he is, the plan on Friday will be useless.

Erza finished her story.

"So, did you find out who the man is? Tomorrow is Friday. And who are the two students?" I asked her.

"Jellal and I have a guess but we're not 100 percent sure," Erza answered. "And Gray said that one of the students in danger tomorrow is Belle. But the other one, Belle didn't say anything."

So Belle wasn't the one setting me up after all. But Belle wouldn't tell Gray who was the other one? That's making Gray's work harder... "Just do your work for the meantime" I remembered Erza scold Gray.

"Erza, what exactly is Gray's work?" I curiously asked.

"Oh, you know. Getting information from Belle," Erza answered.

A little hope lit inside me. Gray became Belle's girlfriend when Belle started receiving letters.

"How did you find out that Belle was receiving letters?" I asked again.

"She came into the office one day and gave the letter to the principal. It said: 'Beware. Phantom strikes back one student at a time.' But she didn't report anything else so we figured she was keeping the letters to herself. Gray became his boyfriend and he figured that the one who sent letters didn't want Belle to tell it to anyone. But Gray is successful. We've been able to know before something happens but there are times that I'm a little late. Just like in the case of Levy and some other students,"Erza explained.

I couldn't help but smile a little. So it was just Gray's work. He was just trying to do his job, to find out who was the next one in danger. It wasn't because he likes Belle. Erza seemed to notice my smile and she understood. "Sorry if I didn't tell this earlier. But don't worry; the work of Gray will be finished soon," and with one last smile she waved goodblye.

I waved and said goodbye to her left for the park when I bumped into Gray, Natsu and Jellal. They were talking about something serious but when they saw me they tried to look more relaxed.

"Oh hi guys," I waved at them and they greeted back.

"Oh Juvia, did someone ask you out already?"Natsu asked in his own carefree way.

"Huh?"

"For the dance, I mean," Natsu clarified.

"Um, none yet actually," I admitted and blushed despite of myself. Natsu's companions, Gray and Jellal, were looking uncomfortable.

"See, Gray already asked someone out and so did Jellal. Soon all the girls would be gone and so will my additional 10 points," he said. I just laughed nervously at his statement. So Gray probably asked Belle, and Jellal asked Erza. I sighed again and decided to lie. "Oh, actually, I forgot but someone already asked Juvia out."

"Who?," Gray asked suddenly. I was surprised and so were Natsu and Jellal. "I mean," Gray said calmly, "who asked you out?"

I blushed a little more then smiled at them, "It's a secret."

"Oh. Then I guess I'll find someone else," Natsu muttered.

"Um...Mr. Makarov actually said that you should ask a person out and give her something, not just for the 10 points you know. It should be because you want to," I reminded him.

"That's the problem. I want to ask her out but I'm afraid I'll get rejected," Natsu complained.

I'm not really sure who Natsu was talking about but somehow I got a feeling – and my intuitions are usually correct – that Natsu was talking about Lucy. "Well, you should try at least. You know, she's actually waiting for you to ask her out," I advised. And I guessed Natsu knows that I know who he was talking about but Gray and Jellal looked clueless. Then I realized it was only 15 minutes before the end of recess, so I waved my goodbye to them. Natsu yelled his thanks and his companions waved.

Now, I'm worried that nobody would really ask me out. How unlucky could I get? I decided to go and hurry to our eating place behind the bushes.

"Oh, hi Juvia," Lucy greeted me while Mirajane moved aside to make place.

"Hi," I sat down and brought out my food.

"So, anybody asked any of you yet?" Mirajane asked.

"No luck," one of us said and the rest of us shook our head.

"At least we still get 10 points?" Cana said but it was more like a question.

"But it's going to be boring without a date," Biska complained. Nobody disagreed.

"Don't worry, Juvia thinks boys are just nervous that we'll let them down," I said trying to comfort them.

"What makes you say so?" Everyone asked.

"Well because that's just the nature of some boys, Juvia thinks," I said.

"Maybe."

A/N: Please review. And in the next chapter, it's Friday. My story is near its end.