A/N: Okay, sorry for updating so late everyone! I was actually thinking about not continuing with the story because it didn't seem to be well liked, but a couple of you posted asking for another chapter and that did motivate me so thanks you guys :) I will try to update more often after Otakon this weekend.

In class the next day, the statistics professor droned on about some statistics theory that Erza wasn't particularly concerned about, when the door to the classroom creaked open. In walked the mesmerizing beauty with hair as black as a raven's wing. The professor glanced at her disapprovingly for showing up five minutes late, but said nothing. Everyone knew today was the last day of add/drop for classes, which meant the end of the grace period.

Erza followed the field hockey captain with her eyes as she made her way to the empty seat in front of her. She had only ever seen her in a field hockey uniform, but the girl was very well dressed. She pulled off the sophisticated style in a way that seemed almost effortless.

Unfortunately for Erza, the rest of Stats class involved a lot of glancing at the cascade of raven locks in front of her. Every slight turn of the head caused light to reflect and shift off the hair, distracting her further.

When the professor announced that class was over Erza paced herself to the girl, making sure she would end up packing up and walking out at the same time.

"Hey," she said when they were finally standing next to eachother. "I'm Erza from the other day, with the football team."

The girl looked back at her for a moment, and Erza couldn't tell if it was with surprise or disappointment, but she simply responded with, "Oh, yeah I remember. I'm Kagura."

Kagura walked off in another direction. Yellow eyes peaked out from under onyx bangs, gazing at Erza before disappearing with the turn of her head. Erza was left inexplicably flustered as she watched the figure walk out of sight.

What was it about this girl that made Erza nervous? But it was a good nervous.

She desperately wanted to make a good impression.

This became something of a routine for Stats class. They would sit in the two same spots, with Erza wondering why Kagura fascinated her so much all the while.

Perhaps it was the air of mystery. She didn't seem to talk much, except to some of the girls from the field hockey team. Or maybe it was her sense of style she always seemed to be well dressed, but never overdressed. She was smart too. A couple times the professor called on her for an answer and she had it correct each time.

One thing was that she didn't pay any attention to Erza, which was a change. Erza was a natural leader and on good terms with everyone she knew (well, sometimes she'd have to get Gray and Natsu, sophomores on the football team, to smarten up).

It was just another usual day in stats class when the professor made the dreaded announcement.

"We'll be starting a group project." A couple people let out a groan.

"And I'll be assigning groups." Most people in the class made noises of annoyance and exasperation.

The groups were projected onto the board. Erza searched for her name, hoping her luck wouldn't run out now. She located her name, which was group with Kagura's (at least that was good) and Bacchus's (not so good). Erza sighed at his name, one that she only associated with a drunkard and a slacker. He also happened to be the boyfriend of her roommate Cana, which she did not approve of. He never treated her with the respect she deserved.

There was a shuffling as everyone moved to find their groupmates. Kagura turned around to look at Erza with honey colored eyes.

"So," she said, "do you know who this Bacchus is?"

"Yeah.. and unfortunately he's not exactly a star student. He probably won't even show up to class. It'll probably just be us for this project." Erza shrugged. Honestly it would be better this way. She didn't need Bacchus here to cause arguments and created unneeded work.

The professor called the class's attention to explain the project. They had to pick a topic, interview students, and create a statistic based on those results. Later steps that get more complicated would follow, but for now it was easy as that.

"So what topic do you want to pick?" Erza asked, eyeing Kagura as pulled out a clean sheet of paper.

She tapped her pencil on the paper absentmindedly. "I don't know. What about drinking habits of students?"

Erza shrugged. "We could do that, but I figure that's going to be what everyone else is doing."

"That's true." Kagura began tapping on the paper again. "Well… what about sexuality?"

"Yeah… but how are we going to get people to tell us. A lot of people don't feel comfortable coming out to complete strangers."

"How about an anonymous form? We can have slips of paper and have people put them in a box."

"You know, that could work. I think we should do it." Erza grinned, watching as her partner wrote down a simple outline of their question form.

"Alright." Kagura flashed her a slight smile as the professor dismissed the class.

FTFTFTFTFTFT

"Everyone come take this quick survey!" Erza yelled. She was armed with multiple surveys in each hand.

Erza and Kagura had set up a table in the campus square with a box they made with a slit in the top, and slips of paper where people could check off the following:

"I identify as: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Pansexual, Asexual, Demisexual, Other." And an option for gender.

"Hey guys, come take our survey!" Erza waved to some guys from the football team. They all took a slip and she watched as their expressions turned slightly uncomfortable. "It's alright, it's anonymous guys, no one will know or care for that matter."

They all mumbled and started filling out the paper.

"Thanks, guys." She slapped Gray on the back playfully as he submitted his paper.

"No problem, Erza." She waved as they hurried to class.

Erza greeted person after person that she knew someway or another, either from classes or the football team or one of Cana's crazy parties. The only people Kagura greeted were the girls from the field hockey team.

If Kagura was being honest, she admired Erza's ease of dealing with people. She had always been a little shy, and it certainly didn't help that her face looked more intimidating than she intended it to. Some people were blessed with a charming personality, but she had unfortunately been curved with chronic bitch-face.

She couldn't help but wonder how her partner would fill out this survey. Most people she could get a read on, but Erza just didn't register on her radar. It was kind of a bummer, available women who were looking to date women are hard to find on campus. Even if she did find them, there was no telling if she'd be interested in them.

Erza Scarlett had definitely sparked her interest. She lived up to her name with that flowing red hair. Her brown eyes were friendly, but on more than one occasion while waiting for the football team to finish, she'd seen a fierceness in them, determination. Kagura craved that look.

She tried not to think about it as much as she passed out surveys, but Kagura didn't know how successful she was at that.

Erza sighed, looking out into the skyline. "It looks like the sun's about to set, and we've got plenty of answers. How about we call it a day?"

Kagura paused for a minute, looking over at Erza nervously. "But we should probably include our own answers, right?"

Erza seemed unphased. "Right!"

Kagura took a sheet of paper and tried to sneak a peek over at Erza's response, but didn't get to see it before she folded it up and put it in the box.

Kagura checked off the box labeled 'lesbian" and put it with the others in the box.