It's the end of the day (Friday- TGIF!), and Erza, Levy, Juvia, Lisanna and I are meeting up at the horse stables. We've been in school for about 2 weeks, and it's become an unsaid agreement that unless something extremely important comes up, we all meet here.
"So," says Erza. Apparently she's on the student council so she doesn't have to attend 7th period shift edd. "Have you guys heard about the upcoming dance? I'm actually kind of excited because even though it's only semi-formal, there will be dance lessons instead of 7th period for the next few days."
Dance lessons? Dance? It's not like I've never been to a formal dance or taken dance lessons, I've done both for my father. But now that I have a choice, it seems like it would be a pain getting a dress, and doing all that stuff.
"I don't know…" I say. "I'm not sure if I'll even go."
Erza glowers at me and then says menacingly, "It's mandatory."
She then stalks off in the direction of a group of boys in our grade that look like they're about to fight. I shiver. That was scary…
"What's her deal?" asks Juvia, peering over Levy's shoulder.
"Well, Erza's pretty into the whole dancing thing," says Lisanna, sitting down on the fence and fishing through her bag. "Despite what you might think, Erza really likes dressing up, and doing girly things like that. I guess it's kinda because of us though. Me, Natsu, and Gray. I sometimes get the feeling that we were a bit of a handful for her… After all, it's because of us that she's not in her second year right now."
Lisanna's face lights up and she whips out a stick of chapstick, followed by a tube of lipgloss.
"What do you mean?" asks Levy. I have to admit, I'm pretty curious to. Ugh, so many mysteries, so little time.
"Well," Lisanna continues, "Me, my brother and sister, Natsu, Gray and Erza were all raised super close to each other. I guess that you could even say that we were a little family. Erza and Mira were kinda like the parents that argued a lot, and the rest of us were like their kids. It was actually kinda fun cause none of our parents were really around a lot anyways. And Erza and Natsu's parents, heck, we didn't even know who they were! But anyways, Gray and Natsu were always fighting, and Erza was always there to break it up. Always. She was the mediator, always taking care of the rest of us, and so she never really got to do a lot of the things that she wanted to do. Plus she didn't really have the funding anyways.
"I was super young when she moved in with her fosters, but Mira remembers it. Erza was crying the whole time. Apparently she never wanted to leave the adoption home she had come from, but they were demolishing it so all the kids had to break up and go to different orphanages or foster homes. And the fact that we lived in a kind of rough neighborhood didn't help her at first I guess. But, according to Elfman, my older brother, Mira and her really after the first day with her fosters, Erza never cried, even when Natsu pushed her off the roof of our garage by accident once. She's always been the tough one that supports others, so the girly stuff never happened for her. But nowadays, she's super into it. I don't think she'll admit to it any time soon, but I've even caught her playing dress up a couple of times."
I don't know wether to be shocked, amused, sad, touched, or something else in between.
"Wow... That's kinda intense." says Levy, voicing my thoughts.
I thought I had had a rough childhood. I guess there's more to the people here than meets the eye. But now that I think about it, that's the way it is with everyone.
"So… You and Natsu, riiiiight?" Levy says, in an attempt to change the topic. She scootches over towards Lisanna and wiggles her eyebrows. "Or is it you and Gray. Or Erza and Gray? I mean, now that ther-"
"Juvia really doesn't think that Gray and Lisanna or Gray and Erza would look very good together." Juvia interrupts, getting some weird glances from the rest of us.
"Juvia, you just referred to yourself in the third person." Says Levy. "Anyways, what I was gonna say was now that there's a dance, there are gonna be people asking people out."
I actually didn't think of that. I have a suspicion though, that Juvia might ask Gray out.
"Do you know if it's gonna be all grades, or separate? And what about the whole Wolf Vamp division?" I ask. If it's all the grades, then I might have to brace myself a little more for a wilder party.
Just then, Erza comes back. I can only assume that the boys had gotten either a beating or a lecture, and maybe a full informational speech on the dance and how they should behave there. I only make this assumption because I was eavesdropping for half of her conversation. Another werewolf perk.
"To answer your question Lucy, it is a Werewolf and Vampire dance, with all the grades." she says, sitting down next to Lisanna on the fence.
"So, anybody gonna ask anyone?" Lisanna pipes in, looking pointedly at Juvia. By now everyone but Gray has noticed that Juvia has a HUGE crush on said boy.
"Maybe…" giggles Juvia.
"And who might this lucky guy maybe be?" asks Lisanna. We all laugh and start walking aimlessly around campus. I don't know if this is gonna be fun, or miserable. But I think there's a high possibility of it being both.
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After about a half hour, we start to head back to Levy's room. She's the only girl that doesn't have a roommate (lucky her, there was an odd number of girls) so there's more space to spread out and talk, and later if we decide, to maybe sleep over.
"So," says Levy. "Make yourself at home. I have no roomie, so don't worry about messing anything up. Just don't touch the books."
Which is kinda hard to do, considering the fact that Levy's room is practically all books. Her walls are lined with bookcases and I see classics and modern books alike. In fact, the only place that didn't have books was a small sliver of wall dedicated to a shelf of snack foods like trail mix and potato chips.
Lisanna flops on the bed, followed by Juvia. Erza and I sprawl out on the floor and Levy plops down in her chair.
After several minutes of silence, I say to no one in particular, "Do you like bread?"
I honestly don't know why I said it, but everyone laughs.
Then, Erza starts talking about what she's gonna wear to the dance, how she might change a few times, how she would do Lisanna's makeup, how she would do Juvia's hair.
All the things that normal girls talk about on T.V.. I guess it is kinda nice to have something normal going on, compared to the weird classes and even weirder classmates. Maybe I'll have a semi-normal highschool life after all.
Who knows, I might even get asked out.
Before the important stuff: All right, before I get criticism on using divorced parents, because I get that it's a sensitive subject for some people, but I don't mean it to be offensive.
The important stuff: Hai. How's life? Do you like bread? Yeah, ok, I'm weird. If you hadn't already figured that out, I'll say it for you. That's kinda how I pick up conversations with my friends after everyone's gone quiet. 'Do you like bread' or 'So how's life'. Both are fabulous conversation starters.
To the guest who corrected my spelling: Hehe, thanks. I tend to get a little mixed up with that sort of thing. Pole, poll, you're, your. And don't even get me started on their, they're, and there. No matter how much I try, I still suck at it XD (P.S.- awesome idea with Kevin being the coordinator, I shall use it! Hahaha people who don't read the author's notes, I just gave you a story hint and you don't even know…)
The next chapter will take a little longer than usual (maybe a week or two) mainly because I'm gonna get some of my friends to help me out on it. I want to make sure that the dance (cause it's gonna be kinda important) is super well written, and I have a friend who I sometimes convince to be my personal editor. Sooo, enlight of that, the chapter will probably also be a little longer than my chapters usually are. If that makes sense. I don't know, I'm confusing.
Aaaanywhooo, thanks for reading my weird writing!
