A/N: Hope you enjoy the chapter!

PREVIOUSLY...

After sorting her problems with the commenters she began to get ready for school, then she realized that she didn't bring spare clothes, but it didn't matter to much Lucy could just wear the clothes from the day before. After getting ready and eating breakfast (by then it was an hour still school) the group of girls packed away their bedding.

An Unexpected Couple

Chapter 8

After cleaning every single sweet wrapper off the floor the group of teens set off to go to school, the walk was a lot more enjoyable for Lucy than before, but she does normally walk alone so having her friends there whilst she walked was a nice change, when they arrived at Fairy Tail High, they all left to go to their different home rooms, Lucy and Levy were in the same class, whilst Erza and Juvia were in a different one and Mirajane was a senior (You may remember that she was a supply teacher – Seniors at Fairy Tail High tend to use free seniors as teachers when their absent...yup budget cuts...). After a short lecture about getting into fights by their home room teacher (Gildarts Clive) about getting into fights and how to win them (it was mostly aimed at Lucy, it was obvious she'd been fighting or beaten up if you saw the amount of bruises on her) when the bell rang to mark the begging of first period, which for Lucy was a library lesson, her favourite(A/N: You basically read for forty five minutes then write about the chapter you just read, it's a real thing, I have them at my school). Each lesson went by, some quicker than others, eventually it reached lunch, as the blonde entered the hall, she noticed her a group of people sat around a table smiling at her, she quickly ran towards them and sat down at the only empty seat between Natsu and Gray, it was extremely unfortunate for Lucy as they were half way through an argument about who's stronger...an argument that would end in a physical fight...not good. "Shut it popsicle face!" the pink-ette yelled

"You wanna fight me?" Gray shouted back with anger,

"Hell yeah! Then I can prove that I'm better than you!"

"DON'T YOU DARE!" Erza interrupted from across the table causing both boys to quiver,

"Y-yes ma'am..." they both stuttered, the rest of the table continued with their conversation, Lucy, however, was isolated, Natsu and Gray were pretty silent for the rest of the time till Erza left for a 'meeting' with Jellal, then they restarted the conflict, which soon broke into a food fight, unfortunately for Lucy, Gajeel and Juvia joined in, the blue-nette said started saying she only joined in to get revenge on Natsu for something about hurting her beloved Gray...yup she was crazy. The fight went on for another twenty minutes till Lucy eventually stopped it by saying yelled: "If you don't stop now, I WILL call Erza." which caused everyone to shiver with fear and they went back to their original seats, the Erza trick always works. It was strange how Natsu had settled in so quickly, he'd only joined the group of friends a few days ago, literally, a week ago he was a moody delinquent with no friends, as sad as that sounds, it was true.

After a few minutes they began a conversation, one about prom, Lucy wasn't really paying attention, in-fact it only made her remember she was decorating the prom hall after school with Natsu, it was slightly awkward everyone except Lucy and Natsu were going with someone, Gray with Juvia, Gajeel with Levy and Erza and Jellal (who had just returned after their 'meeting'), everyone apart from the blonde and the pink-ette were in deep conversation, the two were, too put it simply, sat there doing nothing, after the bell rang to mark the end of lunch, Levy asked, "Hey, Lucy, who're you going with?"

"No one Levy, and you know that." She replied, as she walked away with Levy whilst they all went separate ways

"Hey Natsu, who you going with?" Gajeel questioned,

"For what?"

"Prom, idiot..." Gray replied,

Natsu - "No one, and I don't intend on even going to prom,"

Gray - "Ooh, 'intend'? That's a fancy word. Don't think so much or you'll hurt yourself!"

Natsu - "Shut it. And it's not that fancy..."

Gajeel - "You're going to prom whether you like it or not..."

Natsu - "What do you mean by that?"

Gajeel - "You'll see..."

Erza - "Keeping secrets from each other? That's not how friends work."

Gajeel - "Well, he's not a friend, so it's fine."

Erza - "You sure about that? But we're friends, right? So you can tell me this secret."

Gajeel - "We're not exactly friends, besides you already know."

Erza - "Oh, it's that..." after walking to the end of the corridor Erza and Gray left to go to their home room, Jellal left to go to his and it was just Gajeel and Natsu left,

Gajeel - "Do you like her?"

Natsu - "Who?"

'Gajeel - "Lucy, dumb***."

Natsu - "What? No." A blush crept along his face,

Gajeel - "Really? Cuz your face tells me otherwise?"

Natsu - "What do you mean?"

Gajeel - "You're blushing."

Natsu - "NO I'M NOT!" he shouted which earned them a few stares as they continued to walk along the corridor till they got to their home room.

Lucy P.O.V

Her next lesson was art, a lesson she had one friend with her, well two if count Juvia, but she was, well, well...over protective? Yeah...she was over protective over her 'dear Gray-sama'...every woman in existence was her rival, half way through the lesson Lucy drifted into a slumber, she was awoken when the her teacher, Mr Jonah, asked her a question: "Miss Heartfilia, would you mind telling me about what I was just saying, or were you busy sleeping?"

"Uhh...sorry sir, I went to a sleep over and we stayed up pretty la-"

"I know, Mr Dreyar showed us your post."

"WHAT THE HECK? I really need to block him..."

"So, you going to tell me what I was just talking about?"

'How to blend water colours.' Gray mouthed at her (Yes Gray was the one friend with her),

"How to...bend...slaughter columns?"

"Close enough, but I'm still giving you a detention for sleeping in class."

"I guess that's fair...but please don't tell my dad!"

"I have to, I'm about to send an Email," He walked over to his computer and quickly typed a note "And sending in three...two...-" his hand inched closer to the computer mouse,

"PLEASE DON'T! HE'LL LITERALLY-"

"One...and send!" he clicked 'send'

"Kill me..." Yup, Lucy was dead...this could be interesting...

Another twenty minutes passed and after receiving her detention slip from My Jonah, she left her class room and entered the prom hall to continue with her work, after a few minutes, Natsu joined her in painting the stage background, "So, how you doing?" he asked,

"We only saw each other an hour ago, y'know..."

"I know but we didn't really talk that much..."

"True...well I got a detention..."

"What for?"

"I fell asleep..."

"Oh...well I got a total of three detentions, one for skipping, one for attitude and one for no homework."

"So your mood in class hasn't changed..."

"Nope, not in class anyway..."

"Why does that not surprise me." the two continued to paint until they had finally finished, two hours later, they packed away their paints and locked up the hall, as they walked along the street home, Lucy noticed a poster with 'Sabertooth prep's prom! Join us for a magical evening!' written on it, "I can't believe it! They stole our theme!" she cried as she read the bottom line: 'Don't forget the theme is: Midnight!'

"Well, why don't we go take a look at it?"

"You mean break into their school?"

"Yeah, why not?"

"Well, I'm already in major trouble with my dad..."

"Why?"
"He's going to kill me when I get home...I got a detention, remember?"

"He's going to kill you over a detention? Little over dramatic, don't you think?"

"Yeah, well that's my dad for you..."

"Let's go anyway!"

"Even, if I did agree to go, how would we get there, I'm pretty sure it's on the other side of town...but I'm not going so it doesn't matter!"

"Whyyyy?"

"Because we're going to get caught!"

"By who?"

"The police!"

"We'll only get caught of we're not careful, and if we do, I'll make sure that your dad doesn't find out!"

"Hmph...okay, but if we get caught I'm blaming you!"

"Lets go!" he pulled her wrist and walked the opposite way,

"Wait! You don't really expect me to walk there?"

"No, I'm getting my bike,"

"M-motor bike?"

"Duh."

"No. Way."

"Do you want to go or not?"

"Okay...fine...wait...why didn't you just ride your bike home?"

"I do enjoy walking y'know...well sometimes anyway..."

"Oh..." Lucy and Natsu walked back towards the school car park, where they found his bike waiting for them, as he climbed on and secured his helmet, the pink-ette gave Lucy one, which she also secured, a little hesitant she climbed into the back of the bike,

"Hold on..." he suggested as they quickly zoomed off causing Lucy to scream and wrap her arms around Natsu's waist automaticity, causing the both of them to blush, "EEK! Sorry..." She mumbled.

"It's fine..." he replied, also mumbling, "But if you let go, you'll most likely fall off."

"O-ok..." she continued to wrap her arms around him, even though it felt awkward for both of them, after minutes of travelling, they reached Sabertooth Prep.

"It's good that we're here and all, but how exactly are we going to get in?" questioned Lucy,

"Well," Natsu looked at her seriously, "I was planning on getting my grappling hook and going in from the roof."

"Really?"

"No. the door's open." he pushed lightly on the door and it opened.

"Oh...right...I knew that..."

"Course you did..." the two teens walked inside,

"Wait, why was the door open?"

"How should I know? But my guess is that they forgot to lock it or there's still someone inside..."

"SOMEONE INSIDE?"

"Yeah, so be quiet...just in case..."

Lucy nodded in reply as she walked in alongside Natsu, neither of them had been there before, so

navigating was a little difficult.

After a few minutes, they found the hall where Sabertooth's prom would be held, as they walked in they noticed that the decorations were nearly identical to theirs. Including the fountain, stage background and table decorations, the duo walked around the area looking at each aspect, everything except from the Fairy Tail emblem (that had been replaced by the Sabertooth emblem), time passed and they were still walking around until they saw bright lights outside and a man dressed in a police uniform looked for them through the window. "N-Natsu...we have company..."

"What?" he whispered I return,

"I saw a police man...outside."

"We need to hide then...follow me, there's a supply cupboard down the hall..." Natsu and Lucy walked off quickly, soon they found a closet, as soon as they found it they hid inside and closed the door, just by chance they picked a small, narrow closet, meaning theirs faces were close to each others, it was awkward...

Minutes passed, and they were still listening for foot steps, eventually they did the man was now accompanied by two others, they seemed to be heading from Sabertooth's prom hall, the trio of officers stayed there for a while and searched the area, then left, locking the doors behind them. "They locked us in..." Lucy mumbled,

"You don't happen to know how to pick locks, do you?" Natsu whispered back,

"No, I was hoping you would know..."

"Great...we're stuck in here..."

"Well, shouldn't we at least get out this cupboard..." As Lucy tried to open the door it wouldn't budge... "Crap...we're locked in here..."

"Sh*t...my mum's going to kill me..."

"Your mum? I don't think you've mentioned her before...what's she like? I mean.. if you don't mind telling me."

"No, I don't mind telling... my mum works hard for me and my lil' sis Wendy..."

"What do you mean?"

He sighed, "We don't exactly have a lot of money, so my mum has to work nights, and I was supposed to be looking after Wendy tonight..."

"Oh..right, I could call Levy, she might know something about picking locks...no offence, but this is a little to close for comfort..."

"No, I agree, a bit to close. So you gonna call Levy?"

"Yeah," The blonde whipped out her phone, and dialled the blue-nette's number "Hey Levy, I'm kinda stuck in a closet at Sabertooth...no...mhm...okay, thanks...see you in a minute! Thank you so much! Bye!" Lucy ended the call, "She's on her way!"

"Good...what's it like, having a dad?"

"You never met yours?"

"Not exactly...he was murdered when I was three, Wendy never met him..."

"I am so sorry!"

"Don't be, but seriously what's it like having a dad?"

"Well, my dad is a little up tight, but I expect most dads are laid back and-" she stopped when she saw a tear falling from Natsu's eye, "I won't talk about it if it hurts you."

"No, tell me more..."

"Okay...my dad is really nice, even if he is really annoying..." another tear rolled down his cheek "I'm not saying any more, not if you're going to cry..."

"Okay...thank you,"

"Thank you? For what?"

"You're one of my first friends, as sad as that sounds it's true, people bullied me so it was hard making friends..."

"Really? What did they say?"

"Things like my dad killed himself because he hated me, that I was gay 'cuz I had pink hair..., y'know that sort of stuff."

"Wow...I didn't realise you had it so rough,"

"You're the only one who knows, including my parents,"

"Really? But why me?"

"You're the first person that I feel like I can trust," Lucy blushed but smiled at his comment, did he really feel that way? Then they realized how close they were, the two inched closer and closer, their noses touching...then the door swung open to reveal Levy, "Hey Lucy! Sorry I- oh...I'm sorry I didn't realise you were with someone...shall I leave you two or-"

"Oh no, thanks Levy but I better go home!" Lucy replied hastily,

"Oh okay...you two need a lift?"

"Uh, yeah please, what about you Natsu?"

"No, I've got my bike, see you tomorrow!" Natsu walked off with Lucy and Levy, who parted in the car park of Sabertooth.

A/N: Hope you enjoyed the chapter and sorry it's late.

MANGA SPOILER WARNING - CHAPTER 539

WTF is going on? if Ichiya is alive i might cry, someone has to die, I don't care who it is, some one DIIIEEE! fhvinuyxfurdejsfguichixzzyfubcnxjfiubchnjxk