Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. Fairy Tail belongs to Hiro Mashima. I am not writing this for profit, only for fun.
Natsu ran down the hall despite the teacher telling him to stop. He reached the cafeteria waiting for a certain spiky, black-haired guy. He saw Gajeel running towards him.
"You're late," Natsu said, giving him a death-stare.
"It's just lunch man!" Gajeel replied, a bit of anger stirring up.
"The lunch where you do your dare!"
"Arguing isn't going to get you anywhere, yet you still do it," a voice interrupted them.
Natsu and Gajeel turned around to see a dark blue-haired guy with a tattoo over his eye.
"Who are you?" Natsu asked, trying to remember if he knew him.
"I'm Jellal Fernandes," he replied.
"Are you new here?" asked Gajeel, failing to know who he was.
"Yes. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a few jobs to take care of that the president forgot to do," Jellal replied, walking away.
Natsu and Gajeel watched him walk away, and then walked into the cafeteria, slamming the door behind them. Natsu looked around and saw a certain blonde.
"That's the new kid. Name is Lucy," Natsu said to Gajeel, pointing at her.
"So you actually did do the dare," Gajeel replied, sounding amused.
"Now it's time for yours," Natsu said, smiling mischievously.
"I don't like the sound of this."
"Come on, it'll be fun. Besides it's not such a big deal 'cause you're gonna do it eventually."
"Huh? Where is this heading?"
"You like Levy right?"
"N-N-No!" Gajeel stuttered blushing.
"Right…" Natsu said, rolling his eyes. "Anyway, why don't you tell her?"
"I can't do that!"
"But you like her!"
"No I don't!"
"You're scared that she doesn't like you back, right."
"I guess. WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING FLAME BRAIN!
"We're gonna find out if she likes you."
"And how are we gonna do that?"
"Eavesdropping."
Natsu and Gajeel quickly sat down in the table next to Lucy and the others, just in time to hear Levy admit she liked Gajeel. Gajeel smirked and turned to Natsu.
"I have math with that shrimp later on. I'll do it then," Gajeel whispered to Natsu still smirking.
"I have to agree on that one," Natsu replied.
The two of them munched on their lunches which they had bought after finding money on the sidewalk. People were too careless. They ate happily until they saw that Lucy had noticed them.
"She noticed us. Are we gonna die?" Gajeel asked.
"Um… no," Natsu replied, eyeing his friend.
"They probably think that they're dead."
"Gajeel still has a huge ego. Thinking he's scary… "
"YOU WANNA GO FLAMEBRAIN?"
"You can't do that when you're eavesdropping, idiot."
Gajeel held back from breaking the table. Natsu was trying to be smart again. He may have good comebacks, but when it came to actual smartness, he didn't know a thing.
The bell finally rang. Natsu and Gajeel sprinted out.
"Where are you going?" Natsu asked.
"Somewhere in the school. I don't wanna miss the bell. My math teacher would definitely not let me in if I'm late," Gajeel responded.
"I'm gonna go to the computer club room. No one's gonna be there."
"I'm joining you then."
Gajeel and Natsu ran up the stairs to the hallway where the after school clubs were located. They went to the computer room. To their surprise, Jellal was on a computer typing away.
"Don't you have to go to class?" Gajeel asked Jellal.
"Free time," Jellal replied not looking up from the screen.
"What are you doing?" Natsu asked.
"Student council stuff. Like I said before, the president forgot to do a lot of things," Jellal responded, still not looking up from the screen.
Natsu and Gajeel looked at each other. They had to find a different place to avoid messing with the student council.
"The music club room should be empty," Jellal said, continuing to type.
"Uhh… thanks?" Natsu replied. This was not the reaction he had expected from a student council member. Not to mention the student council was able to suspend any student if they had valid reasons. Though no one had suspended any gang members before.
Gajeel and Natsu sprinted down the hall to the music room.
"Why music?" Gajeel asked. "It's my least favorite."
"It's empty. Where else do we go?" Natsu replied.
Gajeel and Natsu went into the music room. As Jellal had told them, it was empty.
"How many more minutes 'til class?" Gajeel asked.
"Fifty minutes," Natsu responded.
"Why so long?"
"Because one class is fifty-five minutes. There is a five minute break in between each class. There are six classes. Lunch is thirty minutes. If the school starts at 9:00, it ends at 3:30."
"How do you know all this stuff?"
"I skipped school and was sent to the principal's office where Makarov told me this stuff. They gave up trying to get me to go to the classes though."
After fifty minutes of trying (and failing) to play the drums, the bell finally rang.
"Tell me how it goes," Natsu yelled to Gajeel sprinting to the computer room for free time.
Gajeel ran down the stairs to the first floor where the classrooms were located. He found math and sprinted towards it. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) for him, he slammed right into a certain shrimp.
"Ow…" Levy said, rubbing her head and looking up to see Gajeel looking down at her.
Levy was about to scream, but Gajeel covered her mouth before she did.
"Sorry. You were too short to see," Gajeel said, taking his hand back when he was sure she wouldn't scream.
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SHORT?!" Levy exclaimed.
"You."
Levy was about to explode. Then she took a deep breath and calmed herself. She entered the room to see Gajeel following her. She sat in the left most seat in the back row. She wanted to once and for all show everyone that she was not short. To her surprise, Gajeel sat next to her.
"Why are you following me?!" she asked slightly annoyed.
Gajeel just shrugged his shoulders, which pissed her off even more. Once again, she took a deep breath and calmed down, and then ignored him.
"Hey shrimp," Gajeel said.
"What?!" she asked, trying to hold back her anger.
"Do you like me?"
Levy sat there in her seat, frozen. 'Why would he ask that all of a sudden? W - What should I say?'
"No…" she replied.
"Don't lie. I heard you tell the others."
Levy froze again. Her life was over.
"F-F-Fine. I do l-l-like you,"
"I like you too, shrimp. Gehee," he said smirking.
Levy didn't know what to say. She confessed and he confessed. She was shocked. She blushed.
Gajeel heard a quiet laugh to the right of him. He turned around to see Jellal, who had obviously heard the conversation.
"You again?" Gajeel asked.
"I just happened to be in your math class and just happened to hear what you guys said," Jellal replied.
"I don't know how you do it," Gajeel sighed, returning to his seat.
The teacher started class and Gajeel sprinted out the door. As normal, he didn't want to be in class. To his surprise, Natsu was outside the classroom grinning.
"I heard everything. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some things to do," Natsu said.
Gajeel was bewildered. Natsu never had to do anything. He shrugged and went to the other gang members at the back of the school.
Levy blushed in her seat the entire time during math class, thinking of what had just happened. She had to tell Lucy.
Class went by at an incredibly slow rate. But sure enough, 50 minutes later, the bell rang, and Levy got out to her seat to go to gym. She would be able to see everyone then.
After Lunch, Lucy POV
Lucy came out of the cafeteria slowly. Levy wasn't saying anything. She knew something was bothering Levy. 'I'll let her have her own time,' Lucy thought.
She went down the hall to science and entered the room, slowly closing the door behind her. She saw Erza and Juvia. Class went on as it usually did, but she couldn't help but worry about Levy. She assumed it was because Gajeel may have heard her confess. She would have been embarrassed too.
Class soon ended and Lucy left the class. To her surprise, she saw Levy at the door. To Lucy's relief, Levy seemed to be feeling better.
Lucy walked up the stairs and went to the library seeing a strange girl. The nametag read 'Librarian/Book Club Leader: Mavis Vermillion.' No way. The girl was a librarian, but she looked to be barely 13.
"Are you new here?" Mavis asked.
"Yes…" Lucy replied.
"I'll help you find books then!"
"Okay…"
"What is your name and what are your interests?"
"Lucy Heartfillia. I like fiction, fantasy, and a bit of romance."
"I have the perfect book for you, Lucy!"
Mavis brought a small ladder and climbed to the top shelf and pulled out a gold and silver book. She handed it to Lucy. Journey was the title. It looked very long and interesting.
"I guess I'll try it," Lucy said.
Mavis scanned the book. "You're a writer, right?" she asked, handing the book back over.
"Yeah… how did you know?" Lucy asked, taking the book.
"You look like one."
"Oh," Lucy said, unsure of how else to respond.
"Do you want to join the book club?"
"Sure. I guess."
"Great! Here is your pass. Please sign it."
Mavis handed Lucy a slip of paper and Lucy signed her name.
"Meetings are every Thursday. We are just about to start a new book. Talk about perfect timing," Mavis said.
"Got it," Lucy said. Today was Monday, so just three more days.
"Enjoy!"
"Thanks."
Lucy sat down and started to read her book. Not before long, she heard a voice.
"I knew you'd be here!" a voice said.
Lucy turned around. It was Natsu.
"W-W-Why are you here?!" Lucy asked.
"Like I said before, 'I knew you'd be here,'" Natsu replied, rolling his eyes.
"Why do you want to see me?"
"I wanted to ask you a question."
"Yes?"
"Will you be my friend?"
Lucy didn't know what to say. A person she barely even knew asked her to be his friend. A person who was in a gang. What would her other friends say?
Something told her one answer. And that was exactly what she said.
He had done it. He had asked Lucy to be his friend. He had seen Lucy and the others smiling and laughing together. It had never hit him until now. Of course, there was always Gajeel, but no one else. He hoped she said yes, but he felt like it was going to be a no.
"Okay," Lucy said.
Okay? Did she actually agree? Natsu could not believe his ears, but he and Gajeel did have good hearing. He couldn't have heard wrong.
"Really?" he asked though, still in disbelief.
"Yes, really, idiot," she replied smiling.
He smiled back. "So what do you wanna do first, friend?"
Hey Guys. Sorry for not updating. I stayed on vacation a bit longer than I had planned.
I probably won't update every other day because I am going to try and provide more and better content for you guys (and Fairy Tail ended so I was maybe (just maybe) reading the last chapter for the 100th time).
For the people who are going to get mad at me for Natsu and Lucy only being friends right now: Love doesn't happen instantly!
Thanks to my sister for editing.
See you in the next chapter!
-RainbowMagic657