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Sprained my big toe so now I had time to write this chapter, yay!
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"Lucy, I'm sorry, but that's utterly impractical."
"But, dad!" Lucy yearend for him to understand how desperately she needed to go to Fiore High.
"No buts, Lucy," he said. "You go to the best school in the whole region. There is no reason for you to switch."
"And Fiore High is one of the best as well!" Lucy disputed.
"Pray tell, why exactly do you want to change schools?"
"Because…because…" She couldn't say it was because of Natsu… and now she was choking on the spot…Great…
"It's because of that Natsu fellow, I presume?" his voice held a hint of humor.
Lucy remained silent.
"Look, Lucy, you can't switch schools for a boy," he plainly stated. "Besides, you see him all the time after school, don't you?"
She took a deep breath, "That's not why I want to switch."
"It isn't?" he sounded skeptical.
"Nope," she said again. "I want to join the Fiore High's fight club. They are number one in all of Fiore and I want to be a part of that team."
"You want to…? Wait what?" he was completely off guard.
Lucy licked her lips before talking slowly into the phone, "Watching them fight…it made me want to give it a go and since my school doesn't have anything of the sort, I figured it would be a great idea to transfer…and Natsu being there is just a bonus."
"Lucy…" Her father's voice expressed worrisome doubts. "I'll need time to think about this, alright?"
"Thank you!" Lucy couldn't stop the grin spreading onto her cheeks.
"It's not a yes, Lucy," her father said sternly.
"I know," she tried to keep her smile out of her voice. "Bye!"
And then she hung up.
Lucy ran back to the cafeteria to tell Levy and Juvia that she might be leaving the school.
But then she froze up.
Her stomach churned.
How would they react to the news?
Maybe I should wait until I find out for sure…
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"I have so much homework," Levy complained. "It should be considered illegal to give so much…"
"Well you are in all the advanced placement courses," Lucy pointed out.
"Juvia thinks Levy set herself up for this," Juvia teased as the three friends exited the building, for it was time to go home.
Lucy looked around hoping to see a familiar mop of pink hair, but to her disappointment, no one's hair matched the depiction.
Suddenly hands wrapped around Lucy's face, effectively covering her eyes, "Guess who?" the voice lowly whispered.
She let out a happy squeal as she shook the hands off her eyes and whirled around. She instantly threw her arms around the boy's neck, taking in his mane of orange hair, and leaned up to—Orange hair? "Loke?" she blinked.
"My Queen," the orange-haired boy winked.
Her eyes widened with both fear and anger, "WHAT ARE YOU—" She was about to cry before she was interrupted.
"Lucy, what the hell?" a very familiar voice sounded disgruntled.
"EEP, Natsu!" She disengaged herself from Loke. "It's not what you think!" She cried to her boyfriend who was staring at her with his face all twisted up.
"Don't be too upset at her, Natsu," Loke apologetically smiled. "It's just the effect I have on all females…"
Lucy's hands curled up as her insides began to boil, "YOU ASS!" She kicked him flying several yards away.
Natsu's disturbed expression quickly broke away as he clutched his stomach and bawled with laughter.
"Sorry, Natsu," Lucy sheepishly apologized, clasping her hands behind her back. "I was really hoping you would be here and when Loke put his hands over my eyes and said guess who, I let my excitement get the best of me…"
"It's alright, Weirdo," Natsu wiped the tears from his eyes. "Oi, you should show me what you were gonna do to Loke when you thought he was me." His eyes held a look of mischievousness.
Lucy's face flushed, "I wasn't going to do anything, Stupid."
Natsu let out an exaggerated sigh, "Well if you're gonna be that way…" he shrugged.
Lucy raised a brow in question and before she could move away, he snatched her into his arms and—
"Can you guys flirt somewhere else?" a voice droned.
Before either Lucy or Natsu could react, a loud "GRAY-SAMA" rang between them.
Lucy turned around to see her friend engulfing the boy in a bear-tight hug.
And then Lucy heard Levy let out a squeak. She looked over to see her tossed over Gajeel's shoulder.
"Wh-what are you doing, Gajeel!" Levy screamed, squirming all about.
"Walkin' you home, Shrimp," he grinned.
She stopped squirming and sighed, "I think you've missed the concept of walking."
"Gihi," he began to walk off.
"MY HOUSE IS IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!" Levy exclaimed, but Gajeel kept walking in the direction he started in.
Lucy giggled at the ridiculous scene.
"Gray-sama," Juvia breathed, clutching Gray tightly, "Juvia thinks we should make love tonight."
"Juvia!" Gray's face turned a shade of red.
Lucy watched as Juvia grabbed his hand and dragged the blushing boy off to the direction of her house.
"What's with the ugly face?" Natsu quirked.
"Hey!" She smacked his chest.
"Why do you look all sad?" Natsu rephrased, rubbing the spot Lucy had hit.
"I'm not sad," She said with her face scrunching up from minor confusion.
"Look, Lucy," Natsu sighed. "Droopy Eyes and Blue-Haired Girl have been datin' for a while so of course they have a sexual—Mmph!"
Lucy had smacked her hand over his mouth, "I WASN'T THINKING ABOUT THAT! I SWEAR!"
Natsu licked her hand and Lucy automatically recoiled with disgust.
"Alrighty then," Natsu smiled at Lucy's menacing glare. "Gimme your bag."
"My bag?"
"Yeah," he held his hand out for it.
"Why?" Lucy cocked her head to the side.
Natsu let out an impatient noise, "Well this morning you were pretty adamant about me holdin' your bag."
"Oh!" She happily slid the bag off her shoulder and handed it over to Natsu, as they began their walk home.
Lucy swiftly entwined their hands, keeping her eyes trained on the path in front of them.
"Are your hands like permanently sweaty or somethin'?" Natsu inquired.
"YOU'RE SO RUDE!" Lucy tried to pull her hand out of his, but Natsu's grip tightened.
"Guess that's somethin' I'll have to get used to," he shot her a cheeky grin.
Lucy blushed and looked away.
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"Gajeel," Levy's voice was crisp. "PUT ME DOWN!" she banged her arms against his back.
"Oi, Shrimp," Gajeel said with his hands placed firmly on the small of her back, "Where the hell do you live? And where the hell are we?"
"I don't live anywhere near here, Gajeel," she exhaled.
"Why didn't you tell me that earlier?!" Gajeel growled.
"I told about a thousand times!" Levy cried.
"Don't make up lies, Shrimp," he simply stated. "So where exactly are we?"
"How am I supposed to know?" Levy sweat-dropped. "Can you put me down now? Your shoulder is starting to dig into my stomach…"
But Gajeel ignored her and continued off into another direction.
"THIS IS STILL THE WRONG DIRECTION!" Levy wailed.
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Natsu sat behind Lucy on her bed and played with her silky hair while Lucy worked on her homework.
The TV was on in the background to keep Natsu entertained, though he could hardly focus on it.
Lucy was far too distracting. Even though she was only doing homework, Natsu couldn't take his eyes off her. She looked so focused and cute…
Natsu leaned his forehead against the back of her head, breathing in her wonderful floral scent.
How did he end up so lucky?
"Naattssuuu," she moaned. "You're too distracting!"
Natsu pulled away and ogled at the back of her head.
He distracted her?
"How am I distracting?"
"I don't know…You just are…" And then she mumbled, "You make me want to do things…"
Natsu's heart skipped, "What kind of things?"
"This," Lucy whirled around and clambered onto his lap. Her hands grasped his cheeks and roughly pulled him down so that his lips were close to hers.
Natsu felt like he was going to combust with the anticipation.
So close.
His breathing had hitched.
"But I can't," her cool breath gently brushed over his lips, sending a shiver down his body. She released his face and climbed off him to go back to her spot in front of him.
Natsu's heart rate was erratic.
He tried to calm himself down by playing with her hair.
Lucy certainly knows how to build up a moment, he painfully swallowed.
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"GAJEEL, I MEAN IT! PUT ME DOWN RIGHT NOW!" Levy floundered and thrashed all around.
"Alright, alright," Gajeel chuckled as he plopped Levy down on her feet.
"About time," she muttered, clutching her stomach that ached from his hard bones. "Now how are we—Gajeel?" She noticed he was walking inside some random building.
She quickly followed him.
It was some fancy restaurant that had a strange museum-vibe to it.
"Where are we?" Levy whispered.
"Name please?" The hostess said.
"Gajeel Redfox," he grunted.
The woman searched down her list and asked, "Party of two?"
"Yup," Gajeel replied.
"Great," she grinned, grabbing two menus and handed them to a waiter standing nearby.
He took the menus and said, "Follow me, please."
Levy was beyond confused as Gajeel grabbed her hand and dragged her over to the table the waiter had led them to.
"Gajeel," Levy steadily said. "What are we doing here?"
"Eating," he sounded nonchalant as he looked over the menu.
"But this restaurant is super expensive!" Levy gaped at the prices on the menu.
"Your point?" Gajeel looked up from the menu.
"Why are we here?!"
"It's the anniversary of when we first started texting…About four-ish months ago? Maybe five months? Ehh who cares about the exact month, right?" He grinned. "So we are celebrating."
Levy awed at the boy across from her.
Now this…this was the sweetest thing ever.
Her eyes welled up.
"Thank you, Gajeel."
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Eep! Chapter 30 is next!
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