Sorry for the delay! I'm trying to write as many chapters as possible before I go on holiday next week!

Lucy yawned, her English class had been a dull lesson and she still had two more hours of it to endure; which was just perfect, because it meant that she would miss out on meeting up with Levy like she would normally do after class.

Can't meet up today - boring lecture is taking my soul.

She was thankful that she was in the middle row of the lecture hall so no one could spot her texting, not that it mattered because as she looked around the room Lucy saw the exact same features on the other student's faces as her, boredom.

Haha! Poor Lucy! Do I need to send help? ;)

We'll be in the lunch hall when you've got your soul back, Natsu, Gray and Erza are with me too!

Lucy smiled, Levy would have to deal with the two boys for a few hours whilst she had to deal with the excitement of this lecture - at least the boys were more entertaining than this!

"Ugh, that had to be the worst lesson ever." Lucy sighed as she grabbed her things and left her seat, only to notice someone familiar standing by the door of her room.

"Loke?"

"Hey Lucy,"

"Uh, don't take this the wrong way, but what on earth are doing here?" she asked, Loke laughed,

"Levy told me you were dying of boredom, so told me to come and save you - I don't know what she expected me to do.." he smiled, Lucy laughed, she had to thank her best friend later for this.

"How thoughtful of her, although she was right. That was worse lecture I've ever had to sit through."

"I'm sure it was, but then again you've never had to listen to Natsu and Gray go on and on about nothing…" Loke replied as both of them walked towards the lunch hall.

"I'm sure I'll have to time to endure that," she rolled her eyes.

As Loke and Lucy arrived in the lunch hall, they both noticed how quiet it was, something wasn't right - Natsu and Gray were still sitting down next to Erza and Levy and the lunch hall was still in one piece.

"This doesn't feel right," Lucy stated as she sat down at the table with the others, "Natsu and Gray should have at least broken one table by now,"

"They almost did, until Erza…" Levy began

"Until they made me loose my cake, the last slice as well of strawberry cake, my favourite and now look at it!" the redhead pointed to the floor where said cake had landed on the floor, butter icing creating a cake puddle.

Lucy looked over to Erza, no one loved cake more than her and she could feel the atmosphere that surrounded their table,

"We didn't mean to!" Natsu began, only receiving another death glare from Erza, he gulped

"It was an accident! Honest!"

"Enough!" Erza shouted, grabbing both boys and dragging them outside to what Lucy could imagine were their deaths.

"Someone remind me to never get in the way of Erza and her cake," both Loke and Lucy nodded to Levy's statement as the sound of boys screaming could be heard.

As evening crept around, Lucy had found herself sat in the bar with the boys drinking, it wasn't as bad as she thought, although she noticed how much they were drinking she could only ask herself how long it would take before she had to call it a night an head back to her room to get away from the drunkness of the two of them.

"So Luce, why are you working and not drinking with us?" Natsu whined as Lucy held her bed to her lips,

"I think you'll find I am drinking with you two losers," she smiled, holding up the class of vodka and lemonade the boys had bought her

"But that's your second, you're not on the same as us!" Gray interrupted, there was hurt in both their voices and Lucy could see her not drinking enough as them was effecting them. Sighing in defeat she put her pen and book back in her bag and took the glass and downed it in one.

"Happy?" she raised an eyebrow at the two boys who returned it with a smile

"Who knew that would have worked?" Gray laughed as he went to the bar laughing, Lucy blushed, wether it was from the vodka or annoyance she didn't know; but she did know one thing, it was going to be a long evening.

"Hey Loke! Come join us! We're trying to get Lucy to have fun! But she's being boring and not joining in the fun!" Lucy came out of her thoughts as she saw Natsu call Loke over,

"I'm sure Loke has better things to do than watch you get absolutely shit faced."

Gray had walked back at that time with four drinks in hand as all three boys stood shocked at Lucy's words.

"Lucy swore!" Natsu pointed at the blonde, "Lucy never swears!"

"Fuck," she muttered, that vodka had already started to have a small effect on her. It was true, she hardly ever swore unless angry or drunk, and she knew she wasn't drunk just yet as she still had control over her body.

"Well, who knew you had such a potty mouth," Loke winked as he took a seat and grabbed one of the drinks Gray brought back to the table,

"Hey! I do occasionally swear, just not often," Lucy stated, pointing her finger in to Loke's arm, as he laughed at how easily she took offence to his words.

"I didn't mean it in an offensive way," he winked, leaving a small pink blush on Lucy's face. "In fact, it's quite cute," that definitely left her with a pink stained face

"Lucy's blushing!" Natsu pointed out, as the boys laughed at her, Lucy did nothing but giver her best death glare at the two across the table from her, it was all she could muster instead of leaving and going back to her room. After all there wasn't any entertainment in her room, unless you counted the amount of books she had on her shelf which she had read thousands of times.

"What ever," she huffed, folding her arms. "I knew I should have just gone straight back to my room… At least I wouldn't have you pesky boys there…"

September and soon vanished; the first month had been a breeze for Levy and Lucy - although Lucy was sure Levy had barricaded herself in her room for the last couple of days reading, but she couldn't be blamed; there had been an incident where a certain pink haired boy had ended up breaking the boiler for the accommodation rooms which left everyone to suffer in coldness until it could be fixed.

It had been two weeks since that happened and there was still repairs going on as Lucy wrapped herself in her extra blanket and took her work down to the bar, which had been fixed with warmth.

"Jesus," Lucy stated as she walked in to the bar and saw how full it was. It seemed everyone had thought of the same idea and to bring their work down to the bar and work on it for the day. She noticed Mira had waved to her to come over to the bar, well it was much better than standing in the doorway to the bar.

"I thought I was being smart and coming down here to work, but it seems everyone else had the same plan," Lucy mumbled as she held her blanket around her tighter, Mira laughed

"It does seem that way. Drink?"

"You know, just a caramel latte will do; it should help me finish this essay before friday. Don't suppose there's any space left to do my work is there?"

"No problem, and there looks like there could be some space next to Loke," Mira winked at Lucy, who turned and faced the direction Mira was pointing to to see Loke wrapped up in a green hoodie writing down notes from his book in front of him.

"Great, that's all I need, the worlds biggest flirt and a ton of English work to do," Mira laughed handing her her coffee and another hot drink,

"I only.."

"I know, but Loke looks like he could do with one, and it would be nice especially since you'll be ignoring one another to do work." And there was that wink again, Lucy sighed, Mira was up to something and it involved her and Loke; and she knew Mira was trying to set her up with him even Levy was on the case it seemed.

"Hey, mind if I join you?" she asked, smiling and handing him his hot drink. Loke looked up from his notes and greeted her with his signature smile,

"Sure, same idea huh?" he nodded towards the two books Lucy held to her chest whilst still clinging on to her blanket.

"Yeah, although none of this would have happened if a certain Natsu hadn't crashed in to the boiler…" they both laughed,

"True, but it would also mean that I never got to spend today spending it with you." Lucy rolled her eyes,

"Nice try Loke, but I'm too cold for your pick ups, and I'm already struggling with this essay," he leant over to look at her essay so far.

"Is that it?" Lucy frowned, "Don't look at me like that, I was just asking if that was what you were stating with,"

"And all mighty Loke, what would you suggest I stat with?" the sarcasm was in full swing today for Lucy, she knew she should have just stayed in her cold room and just worked there instead of tolerating Loke.

Loke laughed at her outburst in annoyance,

"I see that coffee has yet to take effect, you're normally so sweet," he winked "But I would just suggest re-thinking the opening sentence that's all, the rest looks fine."

Lucy sighed, he knew exactly how to push her buttons and it was more annoying that he was good looking as well.

"Fine."

Lucy spent two hours rewriting certain points in her essay, with the help of Loke reading what she had wrote so far, it was just like having Levy with her. It gave her some comfort in a way due to Levy locking herself away from the world and studying non-stop. Or more to the point Levy was being Levy when she got herself in to something and would be gone until she had completed it to the best of her ability.

Hope you haven't buried yourself in books again ;)

A text couldn't hurt could it? After all, this was Levy; Levy who could go months not seeing anyone and forgetting what day it was because she had read non stop for days.

One time that happened ;) But no, just been super busy with work!

Who knew one essay would cause me this much trouble?!

I'll be out of my room by next week if you want to fill me in with the outside world ;)

Lucy laughed, she had been thankful that Levy took time out of her day to reply back, at least she knew she had been working hard on her essay just like she was trying to do, but Loke was distracting her thoughts every now and again.

The way he wrote down notes from the book he had been working on to the way he drank his coffee, the little details Lucy was noting in her mind had distracted her completely from her concentration in her essay and had led her to write about Loke instead.

"Fuck sake," she cursed under her breath, scribbling out the section on Loke in her book; why was it so difficult for her to work when he was by her, it wasn't like she was having a crush on Loke.

Loke looked up from his book and saw Lucy frowning at her work, he leaned over and put his arm around her side so he could read, he smirked as he saw the crossed out section and spotted his name

"That bad huh?" he joked, as Lucy faced him, a light pink showing on her face as she tried not to look him in the eyes,

"I was talking to you and then I must have wrote down what we were saying…"

"Terrible excuse Lucy," he smirked, Lucy sighed in defeat, he had caught her and there was no explanation as to why she did it, nothing.

"Fine, you win." she held her hands up in defeat as she pulled her blanket around her again to feel the warmth instead of the slight breeze coming from the door reaching and touching her shoulders.

Loke noticed the sudden change in her mood and helped her with her blanket, he noticed how cold she still felt even though the warmth was better than it was outside,

"Take this, it'll be better than your blanket." Lucy faced him as he handed her his hoodie,

"Don't you need it more than me? It's still cold and…"

"And I'll be fine, you're shivering and in all honesty I'm quite warm now, plus think of it as a souvenir of today," he smirked, Lucy rolled her eyes and face palmed. He just wasn't going to let her forget that she wrote his name in her work.

Hopefully, I';ll be able to get two more chapters out!

(Or I'm hoping to at least get two out - instead of packing!)