Chapter 3 is now out and a lot of things will happen here so get ready hahaha *evil laugh*
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Chapter 3: The letter
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Two weeks had gone by since their first day of school and Erza was already drawn out of energy, she was so busy with her council affairs and she thought it was even more tiring than last year, somehow… and it was only the first two weeks! She pretty much didn't see Gray or Natsu at all for these last 10 days and was worried they would be doing a mess without her knowing it, and that was the reason she asked Lucy to look out for them for the time being, she knew the blond girl couldn't possibly stop those two imbeciles, although at least she would tell her if they did something, so she would punish them… hard.
Erza was on her way to her locker when she heard Lucy shouting her name from behind. Her best friend approached the red haired girl panting as she halted in front of her.
"Geeez why do you always have to be on a rush?" She complained to her Scarlet haired friend. "I was looking for you this morning, you received another letter, here!" she said handing her the envelope.
Erza glared at it and took it hesitantly… "Thanks." She murmured, and walked away quietly.
Why do you always have that kind of expression when you get a letter from him? The blond haired girl pondered with a sad smile on her face… She knew Erza always behaved suspiciously quiet when her father sent her a letter.
It all started after Makarov died. Some months later she suddenly started receiving letters from her father, the first letter she got from him was the first and only one she ever opened, after she read the first words which were "My daughter, It's me…" she immediately frowned, crumpled the poor paper and threw it away, as if it had some kind of poison. Lucy sadly collected it from the ground and put it inside an empty box. She somehow convinced Erza to do the same to the rest of the letters she was getting every two times in a year.
But she never read them… and Lucy thought she would never do it anyway, but at least she wasn't throwing them away anymore.
She sighed in defeat and left to join Natsu and Gray, again, hoping they wouldn't be in trouble.
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Erza immediately shoved the damn paper inside her pocket and opened her locker, she grabbed her Math book and closed it with more strength than necessary, startling passing students.
She nervously walked towards the student council office and didn't notice how the letter fell from her pocket to the ground.
She didn't get why he was still sending her letters, but if he thought he could make her worry about it, he was completely mistaken, she though.
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"Oi, where's Ultear?" asked the blue haired young man to Meredy, who was trailing behind him on the school corridors.
"She said she would go grab something on her locker and then go to the student council office." She replied absently, while licking a Popsicle.
"Student council office? Why would she go there?" He asked, confused.
"Oh, right, you didn't know but Ultear is one of the student council members, so she sometimes go there to help the president." She replied, half smiling, she couldn't understand how Ultear had the patient and time to do those kind of things. "I think they are having a studying section or something..." she added.
Studying uh? thought Jellal as an idea popped out of his head.
"Ah, Jellal… That reminds me, I have to go to the library, one of my friends is waiting for me. See ya later." She said suddenly and walked away, she seemed to be really in a hurry, maybe she also had to study. Meredy was a year younger than Jellal or Ultear, she was in a different grade so he couldn't possibly know her class schedules.
Jellal sighed at her sudden action, but took this opportunity to go visit Ultear on the so important student council office, he would be asking her to help him with Sciences, only to get closer to her and see if she would give some information about the girls in this school, or herself.
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Ultear was closing her locker after grabbing her Math book, they would be holding a studying hour section at the student council office during their lunch time. She needed to get higher on her grades this year, so she took this opportunity and accepted being part of the student council. She would not only study with the best but obtain some positive points among the teachers for being part of it, it was perfect.
She started walking towards the student council direction when she spotted a letter on the ground.
She grabbed it at once and looked at it with a grim expression… Who the hell lost a letter like this? But she couldn't pick any name on it, it only had a black seal and it was firmly closed, she didn't want to open it but she also didn't want to get trouble asking people for it.
Well, Ultear wasn't as kind as to waste her time anyway, so she just glanced over searching for a trash can and angrily threw it inside before pacing towards the student council office once again… That letter somehow pissed her off, even though she didn't exactly know why.
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Jellal stood there watching how a somehow angry Ultear threw an unknown letter to the poor trash can nearby… He would never understand the students from this school.
Before he got to call her, he decided that it was better for him to let her go and inspect the insides of that suspicious letter first. He was curious enough to let it go, maybe he could use some information on that letter to get closer to the girl.
As soon as he saw no one was looking, he took the letter from the trash can that luckily it wasn't deep inside. He suspiciously glared at the letter and frowned… It was still closed.
"Well… it was on the trash can so even if I open it, it's okay right?" He whispered to himself to get assured of it and slowly opened the letter, noticing the black seal on its back.
"My daughter…" He started reading… So this was from Ultear's parents? Why didn't she read it…? He wondered, frowning. Something wasn't right. "It's me again, your hateful father. I write to you again knowing you still attend to that school even after my warnings on my previous letters. I hope you can reconsider and leave the school as fast as you can. Probably you don't believe me, since I really did the worst to you... and your mother. I had some complications I explained to you on my previous letters, you should already know how dangerous it would be for you to stay there, your life may be in danger like mine is and like your mother was. Please reconsider leaving. I won't ask you anything more, it is also a danger to me, you being there... so just do it before it's too late. Sign: Your father, Faust!"
Jellal finished reading the letter but couldn't express what he felt right now… He was confused, curious and at the same time scared.
Confused of what the hell was going on with this girl and her father, curious and scared because he feared his father was behind this and now he seriously thought it was a bad decision picking up this letter, even though he did it because he already knew Ultear was suspicious.
But right now he wanted so bad to believe this was just a small family issue, that it had nothing to do with his father, but he wasn't sure… He could only try and calm himself and somehow get the information out of Ultear without her knowing he knew something about it.
He shoved the letter into his school bag and as calmly as he could walked in the student council office direction.
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"Natsu, stop tapping your feet on the ground and answer the damn question!"
Lucy giggled at the voice of her best friend scolding Natsu, again! She convinced Natsu and Gray to come study with her before they got to another fight leading them to a real problem with Erza… Though this wasn't any different but at least Lucy wasn't going to be blamed by it, she smirked.
"Lucy, you told us we were going to pick Erza up and have some lunch." She heard Gray whispering to her, trying to avoid getting caught by Erza.
Yeap, she had lied in order to convince them, what else?
"We will Gray, after this studying hour I will try bring Erza, you know we can't do anything before that. Also, this is a good opportunity for you and Natsu to study Math, you both suck at it." She said giggling, amused.
She saw Gray wasn't really satisfied with her comment but he sighed in defeat and tried to concentrate on the damn book in front of him, he knew he hadn't much of a choice now.
Erza was concentrated in studying with Ultear and Mirajane. Mirajane was a girl with long white hair and big blue eyes, she was the student council vice president so she was casually seen with Erza inside the office helping her with documents or studying with her, when the president wasn't overworking alone by herself, of course. Ultear joined them both this year, Erza found she was confident enough in studying so she gladly accepted helping her out, she already knew Ultear from last year and even though not everything started out well with them, she was happy with the girl's friendship now.
She absent minded heard someone knocking on the door and Mirajane getting up from her seat.
She easily answered a difficult question from her book before Mirajane's voice got her attention.
"Ultear, someone is here for you!" she said, a little louder than she intended.
Erza glanced at the door, expecting a pink haired girl only to spot a blue haired guy with some kind of tattoo under and above his dark green right eye. His shirt was untucked from his pants and its top button was unbuttoned. She broke her pencil without realizing it and a vein popped out on her head. This guy had trouble written all over his face.
"Oh, Jellal, come over!" She heard Ultear shout to him.
She saw him getting closer and tried to calm down, not today, she thought. He was probably a new student, since she hadn't see him before, she would ask Ultear to recall him the rules, later.
She turned to her book again and tried to concentrate on it again. Uh what happened to my pencil? She wondered, confused after seeing it broken in half, only then realizing she could've had broken it earlier by surprise.
Jellal was getting closer to Ultear's table and he glanced at a familiar Scarlet hair, she was in front of Ultear's seat, and next to them was a white haired girl and a pink haired guy, the same from before, fighting alongside Gray.
He also saw Gray studying, which was quite new to him. He suddenly realized this was probably the most unsettling and stressing room he stepped on. With all the people he didn't want to get involved with… Oh dear lord help him.
He finally reached Ultear's seat and talked to the girl. "I was thinking if you could help me with sciences, and what a good idea I had coming here, it seems you are studying already." He commented, as if he didn't know.
"Oh…? You want to study? I never knew you were interested in it." She responded, she seemed amused, in these two weeks he had avoided talking about any kind of school subject.
Jellal wasn't really interested, she was right, but he had to do something to get closer, even though it annoyed him to do so.
"Hm yea… I am good with almost anything but sciences, and I need to get a better grade at it." He lied.
It was true sciences was his worst subject, but he was still not that as bad as to need any help.
"Well you know, sciences isn't really my best subject, I am better with geometry. I really suck at Math and Sciences though…" She said, a little too embarrassed to admit it in front of them. "But, I know who can help you instead, the student council president is pretty much good at every subject, right Erza?"
He saw the scarlet haired girl in front of Ultear slightly flinch at the mention, still not looking up and nervously avoiding him, was she the president of the student council? So her name was Erza… He wasn't liking how this was going on, he didn't think about Ultear actually not being good at sciences, how stupid of him. He assumed she was good when watching earlier how Ultear had helped Meredy with her Science Homework, but he didn't realize it could have been because Ultear always got help studying, and the fact Meredy was actually one year younger was even more clear now why.
He cursed in his mind, he first wanted to study with Ultear only to get some information out of her, but now he seemed stuck on a dangerous predicament with a certain person he wanted to avoid, after the scene he witnessed on his first day of school.
"Ah, no it's oka..." he didn't have the time to finish his thoughts as he saw Ultear getting up suddenly from her seat.
"Here, I give you my seat, I can keep studying with Mirajane." She said while pushing Jellal down on her previous seat, she really looked amused. "Have fun!" She mocked, smirking while taking Mirajane and Natsu to another table… This girl… did she notice I was avoiding the scarlet haired girl?
Jellal sweat dropped while he saw Ultear happily seating with the others, he turned to the scarlet girl in front of him and she was now staring at him. She had fiery brown eyes that were glancing over his tattoo... then went down to his shirt…
He swallowed nervously, she was pretty now that he could see her face up this close… but she had trouble written all over her attitude. He didn't want to get involved with this girl at all!
Erza was glancing over the blue haired guy in front of her, she pretty much heard Ultear calling him Jellal before, not that mattered, he was the kind of person she wanted to avoid, but she thought she didn't have a choice, after all, he was also a student and Ultear asked her to help him… she only had to help him study right? His unnerving face won't unsettle me, she thought sighing… She didn't want to get involved with this guy at all!
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That is it for my 3rd chapter, it was really funny how Erza and Jellal seemed to have the same thoughts about each other right, hehehe :D I really enjoyed writing this chapter, and things are getting interesting and mysterious, but I won't spoil anything *evil smile*
I hope you enjoy this new chapter, and wait for the next one soon ;D Have fun!