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Chapter 4: I won't lose!

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Erza was happy with her new year at school, Natsu and Gray were behaving way better than last year… Lucy was getting more and more friends, which made Erza really happy. Lucy always trailed behind Erza since they were young, not that she complained about it, but she wanted for Lucy to get more confident, she was kind and pretty after all, and she deserved more friends than she already had.

Even though this year was busier, she was still happy being with Lucy and her new colleagues. Mirajane was a kind girl that she knew already but Ultear surprised her in a good way, she recalled how last year she caused some trouble… But now it appeared that she was redeeming herself for what happened.

And Erza… she was glad she made out this far on her own, she always tried to be responsible and strong and she wanted to continue this way through her last two years of High School.

But this situation…

Erza was facing a new blue haired student who was staring back at her. She didn't have any kind of problem helping students study, she preferably chose girls though, boys would always be some stupid perverts or lazy enough to even try to learn… She was okay with dealing with them though, she would mostly the cases, punch them or leave them to Mirajane. But this guy…

"And so, this goes like this…" Erza continued, explaining him an exercise.

This guy was calmly taken her advice and that is to be normal but, what wasn't normal was he could perfectly complete even more complicated exercises than some he asked for, what was he playing at?

Jellal was quietly completing the exercises on his notebook while thinking about how to get some information out of Ultear, even though he couldn't concentrate much as he felt the mighty president's stare on his face the whole time… He felt like she was calculating him and he didn't like that feeling.

He glanced up at her and tried to start a conversation with her, to see if she would calm down around him. "W…What about you? Aren't you going to study?" He asked, unsure on how to start.

He saw her flinch at his comment, like he snapped her out of her thoughts.

"I will, I'm taking a break." She told him, nervously.

He glanced over her table as if not believing her much... her book was opened and he could spot a broken pencil beside it, he was sure he saw her broke it earlier when he entered the office.

"What happened to your pencil?" He asked smirking.

"I…I don't know!" She answered, louder than she expected. How amusing.

"Well, why you didn't tell me about it earlier, I can lend you one of mine." He said, calmly searching for one and lending it to her. She was kind of cute when embarrassed. He thought smirking, it was interesting to see a cute side out of the mighty president everyone talked about, he imagined her being a lot more scarier.

"Oh... T…thank you." She took the pencil from Jellal's hand unsure and he couldn't understand why she was so nervous around him, but he thought it was really amusing.

"That was nothing… thank you for helping me study by the way."

He saw her nodding briefly and grabbing her book to study.

She seems much more normal than I thought after that scene the first day. He pondered.

"AHHH, I can't take this any longer." Natsu shouted suddenly. "Oi Erza, let's just go eat something, I'm starving!"

He saw Erza getting up and throw a book at Natsu, handing perfectly on his face.

"Shut up!" She shouted angrily. "If you want to go eat, just go by yourself!"

Then she went back to her seat opening another book and acting like nothing happened. Never mind what I said.

Natsu's weak "aye, sorry." Was heard as he left quietly -probably to go eat something - getting Gray with him.

Jellal could notice how one by one, the students were leaving, they were going to take some lunch, he guessed, they were here for already one hour, even though Jellal arrived only 30 minutes ago, slightly after Ultear. The blue haired boy realized the one hour section turned out to be more like two hours now.

"You should make a break too, go grab something to eat, we can continue later." Erza told him, absent minded.

"Nah, it's okay. I just started." He answered. Ultear was still there too, he would wait for her. "Shouldn't you be the one taking a break?" He stated.

Erza lifted an eyebrow. "It's okay, I can eat later and I'm not that hungry anyway." She said. "However, I feel like we may need at least a drink, let me go get some." She got up in an instant and left.

He could have proposed her to go take her something but he knew she would have said no… most likely.

Jellal thought about to take this opportunity to talk to Ultear but he saw how she left her seat and followed Erza, saying she also wanted a drink. Bad timing … He sighed as a blonde haired girl sat in front of him, taking Erza's place.

"Hey!" She started with a happy smile on her face. He sweat dropped, here we go again. "How's study going? I know studying with Erza must be difficult but you actually surprised me hanging on for 30 minutes… Most of the boys only take 5 to 10 minutes before Erza sends them flying." She added giggling.

He didn't know how to feel about that, should he be proud? He sighed again.

"And who are you?" He asked, not really interested to know but what else could he say?

"Oh... Sorry I guess I didn't even present myself. I am Lucy, one of Erza's friends, nice to meet you!" She told him happily. "You are Ultear's friend right? I'm actually happy she got another friend apart from Meredy, after all that happened last year."

One of Jellal's eyebrow raised at the comment. "What happened last year?"

"Oh… you didn't know?" She answered unsure, this time she had a sad smile on her face. "Well, I guess Ultear wouldn't like to talk about it… What I can tell you from what I know is that Ultear passed through a lot, and last year she caused a big commotion… And I know Erza and Gray helped her a lot that time around, I also know it happened because of her parents death!" She dropped her head at the thought.

"Wait, her parents died?" He questioned confused, if her parents died, how did she received a letter from her father? Was it an old letter?

"Yes… They died 2 years ago and she started to have a break down, but last year she almost didn't make it, it was that bad… I feel bad for her too, she loved her parents." Lucy said, bringing her right hand to her chest.

He was so confused at this point… it didn't make any sense… when he read the letter he had the impression it was as if the man wasn't living with his daughter and he even wrote something like 'hateful father' on it… what was happening? Could the letter not belong to Ultear after all?

Lucy snapped him out of his thinking asking. "You okay?"

"Y…Yeah… I was just taken aback with all this… I didn't know at all." He lied, but it was true he didn't know about it at least.

"Sorry if I made you worry… but it's okay now though, she came a long way but she is happier now!" She showed him an honest happy smile.

"Hm, thank you for letting me know." He told her, sincerely.

Jellal was starting to get tired from all this mystery. Now that he supposed the girl wasn't Ultear, he had to start all over again. Still, he had to ask Ultear about that damn letter anyway, so it wasn't all lost.

Speaking of it, Erza and Ultear were back… Lucy happily jumped from her seat and run to hug the scarlet head girl.

"Oh Erza, you brought me my favorite drink, thank you!" She said to her friend kissing her on the cheek, taking the drink from her hand and going back to her previous seat, leaving an embarrassed Erza blinking.

Erza came to sit again in front of Jellal, lending him a drink. "Here, Ultear told me you like this one."

"Oh... Yes, thank you, you didn't have to." He said calmly opening it to take a sip.

"Well, how could I possibly bring something only for me? Also, we are studying for 30 min more before going to lunch… even though you don't really need to… Are you going to tell me why you lied to Ultear saying you need her to help you on sciences?" She said smirking while opening her strawberry flavored drink.

Jellal almost choked on his drink when he heard what she said… He tried to keep it cool outside but the fact she just saw through him got him panicking, this girl was dangerous.

"So?" She asked amused.

He wasn't about to go down by this scarlet haired girl, if she wanted to play, he would play, hell he didn't really had a choice anyway.

"You got me…" He started, a smirk appearing on his face. "You know, I heard from her about the mighty student council president and I wanted to see by myself how she was like…" He said teasing her, touching the tip of her hair with his right hand's fingers.

Erza flinched at the touch and blushed slightly at the comment, feeling embarrassed, she backed up a little bit… This guy… She wanted to punch him so bad. She thought while a vein popped out on her forehead while she took a sip of her drink to calm herself. But I'm not gonna lose to you!

He saw her pink cheeks at his action and smiled, she was incredible cute, this side of her was really interesting too.

Erza tried to calm herself down, she stared at him and quirked her eyebrow. She knew he was just lying to make her think that was the reason, but she also didn't really mind he did, she wasn't really interested about knowing his real reason, she just didn't want to lose to him.

She observed how he understood she didn't buy his excuse by the look on his face, his smirk from before replaced with a frown.

They somehow started a staring contest, both not wanting to lose to each other… Fortunately Mirajane seemed to feel this and came by, joining them at the table.

"Erza… do you help me with this question?" She tried, trying to break the ice.

"Oh… Yes, of course Mira." Erza said, breaking the eye contact with Jellal and focus on her friend.

Jellal took in a deep breath, secretly thanking Mirajane in his head… He didn't know what to do anymore, he just wanted to go away from this room and go get some lunch now that his mind was exhausted.

"Oi Jellal, let's go eat something!" Ultear suddenly said, as if reading his mind.

Jellal excused himself taking on his bag and utensils happily accepting Ultear's request. They both left the room leaving only Erza, Mirajane and Lucy inside.

Erza frowned watching them leave, she was finally at peace… She didn't know why but this Jellal guy unsettled her more than she would like, he was like those kind of people she had at the 'annoying person list', and of course Natsu and Gray were listed there too.

She glanced down at her book and tried to concentrate for like the 3rd time in this freaking hour. She noticed the pencil and remembered it was Jellal's… She sighed annoyingly, she will have to give it back later, Great!

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I am leaving it at this, next chapter more revelations will take place, ahahaha, and even though Erza and Jellal's relationship seem a little weird for now, they will get their moments later ;D