Spring of freshman year
"Lucy!!" Comes the high pitched screams of her bestfriends
The blonde turns around, hair flipping as she waves happily "Guys!! come fast!"
"I swear, Juvia made us wait for an hour!" Erza says glaring at the girl who was dusting off her dress
"It's the first day of college! what do you expect?"
"ahh ahh, stop fighting" levy stop them, pushing them apart "Go to your departments and we can meet for lunch"
"there she goes forgetting again, what should we do with you levy"
"What?"
"we have orientation together and a campus tour"
"Ah right...we do...let's go grab the centre seats then" the petite says embarrassed grabbing Lucy's arms to drag away
the girls laugh but follow through, following many others into a large ancient building having a banner 'Welcome freshmeat'
As all gawk and laugh at it, there were few students at the side getting an earful from a short professor
"Isn't he the dean?" Levy points
"Dean? Mr.Makarov?"
"I didn't expect him to be that short" Juiva says leaning over the two girls
...
"YOU BRATS! what the hell is this?" He shouts, fuming mad at the two students before him
"Ahh...you said to make it a fun looking banner...so" One of them starts
"So!? This is fun? THIS IS WHAT YOU SAY AT A BUTCHER SHOP"
"College isn't any different...they'll realize sooner or later"
"Ahh, my head hurts...get out of here, take off that banner!" He says grabbing his forehead "DO IT NOW! RUN!" He shouts again
The students trip on their feet, walking towards the side of the wall were the ends of the banner were tied
"What's the old man so mad about? Anyone important coming?"
"I don't know...Mavis..I spend the whole night painting this, gray!"
Gray laughs, throwing his head back as he untied one of the wire loose "I told you to check with Jellal, dragneel"
"Jellal gave me a thumbs up with a serious face...forget it...I'm done with doing anything now" he gathers his side of wires looking at gray
"Yeah, college also doesn't want to do anything with you too. I'm done natsu, pull them from your side!" He says
"What? no...wait!" Natsu says seeing students passing by as the banner falls "Hey! watch out!" He shouts over the girls who scream as they fall back on their butts escaping the huge sheet
"I'm so sorry...are you okay?" Gray rushes to help the girls, offering a hand
"It's okay...ow!" Juvia says grabbing the hand to stand "Ah...my dress is spoiled"
"I'll compensate...sorry..." gray says
"how--" Juvia pauses looking at guy "Sure, give me your number"
"eh?" Gray's faces scrunched in confusion "my nu-number?"
Lucy and levy pulls the bluenette back "shutup..." They whispered, scolding her
"to-t-to...call you! how else will you pay for the cleaning?" Juvia says grabbing the girls hands for support
"Oh...okay" Gray scratches his head, looking for natsu who was busy pulling off the loose ends "It's..."
By now the boys were sure, they gonna get more than verbal beatings.