I've gone over this chapter a thousand times, but alas, I am only a mere human. I apologize for any spelling/grammar errors. Please let me know if you see any so I can correct them *puppy dog eyes*
Enjoy chapter three ;D
Two days came and went in the blink of an eye. Lucy and Levy decided to walk to class together, since they both had the same homeroom.
"So, are you going to join any clubs?" Levy asked while they navigated their way through a sea of people. "Try outs are coming up."
"I was actually thinking of trying out for the football team. Or maybe the wrestling team, or the boxing team, or the-"
"Wait. You know those are all guys' sports, right?"
"Who cares," Lucy shrugged, and readjusted her bag on her shoulder.
"Well, seeing as you're a girl, I think they would."
"That won't stop me from trying."
They entered a building and walked into the first class room on the left.
"This is… interesting," Lucy mumbled while looking around at all the chaos.
She took one of the only two seats available, which of course, was at the front of the class.
The bell rang and a man walked through the doors and set his briefcase on the desk.
"Quiet!" he yelled, gaining everyone's attention.
"My name is Professor Gildarts, I'll be your mathematics teacher for the year."
Groans rang through the air, and the teacher sighed.
"Look, I don't want to be here as much as you don't. But, unfortunately, we're stuck with each other. Let's see," he looked around the class room and then pointed to Lucy. "You, hand out these textbooks to everyone. Once you've received your textbook, turn to page 15."
The blonde got up and grabbed a stack of textbooks before walking down one of the aisles. She set a book down on a desk, then moved onto the next person. When she got to a guy with wild orange hair, she noticed that he was staring at her. Well, more like her chest.
"Hey, my eyes are up here," Lucy growled at him.
"Hm?" he looked up. "Sorry, I couldn't help myself. You're just such a beautiful – gah!" he was cut off when Lucy used the textbook to whack him upside the head.
"Loke, you should know better," Gildarts chuckled from his desk.
He grumbled something inaudible before opening the book.
After she got the final set of textbooks, she walked down the row who hadn't gotten theirs. Lucy's eyes widened slightly when she saw him, the guy sitting at the back of the class.
The pink hair.
"Here you go," she smiled softly at him.
His onyx eyes were locked onto her chocolate brown ones as his hands took the book from her.
"T – Thanks," he managed to stutter out.
As Lucy walked away, Natsu couldn't help but watch her.
'Get ahold of yourself! What's wrong with you?! You're supposed to be the cool one in front of girls, what made this one make you all nervous?' he was mentally scolding himself while pretending to pay attention to the lesson.
"Natsu," Gildarts had just finished writing something on the white board. "Come solve this problem."
'So his name is Natsu,' Lucy watched him make his way towards the front of the class room.
The grumpy pink haired boy slowly walked to the front of the class room, and grabbed a marker that was on the shelf.
'Think, idiot, think! You learned about this last year, right? So if you put this number here and that number there then-' he was snapped out of his thoughts by his teacher.
"Would anyone like to show this idiot how to solve the equation?" after a moment, the Professor nodded at the girl. "Go ahead."
Natsu heard someone get up from their desk and walk towards him. She was absolutely beautiful, Natsu could hardly think straight.
"Can I see the marker?" a small smile graced her lips.
"Uh – yeah, sure," he nervously smiled back, and handed her the marker.
Their hands touched for a millisecond but it managed to make him freeze on the spot.
"You ok?" her deep browns eyes were full of concern.
He gulped and nodded his head, trying to make sense of the weird feeling in his stomach.
"Ok, so you have to use this formula," Lucy wrote a series of numbers and variables on the board. "And then plug the problem into that," she wrote more numbers down. "Then solve for x," more numbers. "The answer is 73 with a restriction of x cannot equal 5."
"Impressive, Miss…" Gildarts trailed off, waiting for Lucy to introduce herself.
"H – Ashley. My name's Lucy Ashley."
"Nicely done, Miss Ashley. Natsu, thank her for saving your ass."
"Thanks," he managed to keep breathing while staring at her.
"You're welcome."
"Back to your seats, and Mr. Dragneel, pay more attention."
"Yes sir," he rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly and walked back to his desk.
As soon as he sat down, he couldn't help but notice Gray smirking at him.
"What's with the look on your face, ice princess?"
"Nothing. It's just I've never seen a girl do that to you before."
"Do what?"
"Make you all nervous. You looked like you were going to pass out."
"I was not!"
"You were-"
"Fullbuster, Dragneel! Detention after school!"
"Sorry sir," they recited in unison, and started to actually pay attention.
"So, you've got your eye on Natsu, huh? AKA the most popular guy in school," Levy playfully nudged Lucy in the side as they were walking back to the dorms.
"No!" her cheeks instantaneously became pink. "What makes you say that?"
"Nothing," she shrugged with a devilish smile, and quickly changed the topic. "Do you want to go to the girls lounge? That way you can meet all of the other students."
"There's a girls lounge?"
"Yeah. It's behind the girl's dorms. You see there are three sets of girl's dorms, then behind that is the girl's lounge."
"Wow, I never knew."
"It's awesome, come on!" Levy grabbed Lucy's wrist and started dragging her off.
Lucy just stared around the lounge, it was honestly amazing.
"Hey Levy!" a voice called from the upstairs part of the room.
"Mira!" Levy waved. "Come on, I want you to meet Mira!"
The two girls walked up the stairs and was greeted by possibly one of the most beautiful women you've ever seen. She looked like an angel with her long white hair, milky skin, and bright blue eyes.
"Who's this?" even her voice sounded angelic.
"This is Lucy Ashley, she just started school here. Lucy, this is Mira. She's probably the nicest girl you'll ever meet."
"Nice to meet you," Lucy held her hand out.
"Likewise," Mira ignored her hand and pulled her into a hug.
After releasing her from her death grip, Mira and Lucy exchanged cell phone numbers.
"Mira!" a girl with short white hair came running up the stairs.
"Lisanna, hey!" Mira waved. "This is my younger sister, Lisanna. Lisanna, this is Lucy."
"Nice to meet you," they said at the same time and then laughed.
"Let's all go get a snack, and then we can get to know each other," Levy suggested, and everyone agreed.
The girls were munching on some pretzels with an open jar of peanut butter for dipping. They had moved to two couches facing one another with a coffee table in the middle. Levy was next to Lucy on one couch, and Lisanna next to Mira on the other.
"So, Lucy," Lisanna took a bite of a pretzel. "What made you come to school here?"
"My Dad said 'it's for the best' and then threw me on a plane out here," the tone of her voice changed, and Lucy was no longer her sweet self.
"What about your mom?"
"I lost my mom when I was little," she bit her lip in order to keep it from quivering.
"Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to make you upset!" Lisanna started panicking and apologized over and over.
"No, it's alright. I just miss her is all," Lucy started remembering her mom and some tears pricked at her eyes.
"Don't cry! We won't talk about it, ok?" Mira reached out and grabbed Lucy's hand. "We're like family here at Fairy Tail, so you can come to us for anything. Got it?"
"Mmmhm," she nodded, a sad smile creeping its way onto her face, Levy and Lisanna grabbed Lucy's hand too.
"Uh – what do you like to do for fun?" Lisanna quickly changed the subject.
"Oh, I'm really into sports. In fact, I've been trying to decide what I should try out for," the tears quickly left her eyes as new thoughts rolled into her head.
"You would be good friends with Erza! She's a major athlete, like you!" Levy said.
"Yeah, Erza is really nice. A little scary, but she's the best friend you'll ever meet," Lisanna agreed.
"Where is she?"
"She had to go home due to family complications, but she is due back any day," Mira explained. "So, when are you going to get the tattoo?"
Lucy sweat dropped.
"What's the tattoo?"
So you've probably figured out by now who the main pairing in this story is. If you haven't go eat the hunk of cheese and think about your life!
Alright, the options for what sports is still undecided! Feel free to let me know what you think about that, or anything else ;)
Shout out time:
WaterDragonMaverick - You've contributed a lot to this story. Thanks, my friend *hands virtual cookie* And thanks for reviewing too!
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