Chapter 2

"i can't wait to eat my lunch." Lucy's stomach growled as if she hadn't eaten in years.

"i'm going to get my strawberry cheesecake for sure." Erza put her fist up and her eyes sparkled brightly.

"is the strawberry cheesecake that good?" Lucy questioned as the three of them made their way to the school's cafeteria.

"it's amazing, Lu-chan! I have to agree with Erza for this one." Levy said, almost drooling just thinking about her lunch.

They went on to take their food in the cafeteria, and it was crowded as always.

"How are we going to find seats with this many people?" Lucy sighed, when she heard a voice call out to her.

"Yo Lucy, Erza and Levy! Come sit with us! We have extra seats!" Loke called out to the trio while waving his arm high up in the air.

They walked towards the table with Loke, Gray, Jellal and Gajeel. But they noticed that someone was missing.

"Eh? Where's Natsu?" Levy asked as they sat down.

Gray pointed towards one of the tables at the side of the cafeteria, where Natsu was sitting with a bunch of girls around him and chatting happily. What a flirt. Lucy looked around at the bunch of girls with Natsu and she noticed that Lisanna wasn't there. That's strange.

"He's always been popular with the ladies." Jellal said to Lucy.

"Does he do this everyday?" Lucy seemed annoyed.

"Almost, usually when he's in a good mood. But despite what he looks and does, he's actually not an asshole." Gray said.

"He is still a really great friend to us." Loke smiled.

"Aren't you really popular with the girls as well, Loke?" Erza teased him while using her elbow to nudge him.

"But you're not a flirt at all." Lucy said.

"Well, flirting just isn't really my thing." Loke laughed nervously as he turned around to look at this group of girls sneakily peaking at him.

"Tch." was all Gajeel said as he took humongous bites of his lunch at one go.

Levy looked at him and blushed a little, then looking away nervously and trying not to have eye contact. Lucy noticed and giggled to herself. Someone's in love.

"It's only been a year since I left and you all look so different already!" Lucy said in awe.

"A year is definitely enough for puberty to do it's job, especially for Loke. Did you know that when he transferred in last year he was still really chubby? He would always bring snacks to school and secretly eat them in class when the teacher's aren't looking!" Gray exclaimed as he laughed really loudly with his mouth still full of food.

"H-Hey Gray!" Loke tried to cover Gray's mouth to stop him from revealing anymore.

"I have a picture of Loke when he was younger in my phone, Lu-chan!"

"Really? I wanna see!"

"Oh shit my life is over." Loke said as he covered his face embarrassingly.

Lucy took Levy's phone to see a really cute chubby middle school boy holding an ice cream cone with three scoops of ice cream to go with it. "Wow you were so cute, Loke!"

"Y-You think so?"

Just then she thought, wait a minute. This boy looks oddly familiar. Have I seen him before? Lucy glanced at Loke at then back to the picture multiple times. She gasped.

"What's wrong, Lucy?" Erza inquired.

"Loke, were you from Sabertooth Middle School?" Lucy leaned forward and Loke nodded.

She knew it. It was him. This was the guy that Lucy cruelly rejected three times in a row back in middle school when he was head over heels in love with her! Why didn't she notice earlier? Lucy mentally slapped herself with guilt rising up her chest. Oh shit.

"Do you remember me now, Lucy?" Loke asked with a huge smile spread across his perfect face.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier it was you?" Lucy replied in shock with the rest of their friends glancing back and forth at the both of them questionably.

"I wanted to give you a surprise!"

Loke didn't seem to remember the rejection, maybe he did, but he didn't want to mention it since it was so long ago. Lucy placed her palm on her face and sighed. Yeah, puberty really does do a great job. Could my senior year get any more interesting?

After a few hours, it was finally time for gym class, their last class for the day. The 3 best friends slowly made their way to the sports hall, pretty hesitantly, after changing into their gym clothes. When Lucy entered the sports hall, the first thing she noticed was a certain salmon-haired boy standing in the middle of the hall. He slowly ran his fingers through his ever so perfect hair, subtly trying to fix it. Lucy couldn't help but notice Natsu's toned arms that were covered in sweat from his workout, there were obvious veins on the back of his hand as well. How does he look good so effortlessly?

"Lucy, your face is red." Lucy noticed Erza's face merely just 3 inches away from her's, looking at her with a suspicious expression.

Lucy quickly backed away in embarrassment. "I-It's r-really hot in here!"

Erza and Levy looked at her, puzzled. But then decided to mind their own business and started helping the gym teacher with setting up the equipment for their activity. Lucy heaved a big sigh of relief. That was close.

"Alright class! Today we will be doing high jumps! I'm pretty sure you all know how to do it so I can't be bothered to demonstrate. Let's get started go go!" Ms Aquarius shouted.

"Why is her name Aquarius?"

"Does she think she's a horoscope?"

"She does have mermaid hair though."

Lucy could hear whispers behind her and just thinking about Aquarius sent shivers down her spine. Ms Aquarius was a scary one, you would not wanna piss her off unless you're prepared to get drowned by her in the school's swimming pool.

After many turns of high jumps, it was finally Lucy's. She stood infront of the starting line, shifting her feet to get ready.

"You can do it, Lu-tan!"

"Jump will all your might, Lucy-pyon!"

Lucy heard her fanboys cheering her on from the side of the hall and cringed in disgust as she heard the names they were calling her. This is embarrassing.

She paced herself and then she took off, sprinting towards the pole and jumping as high as she could. She landed on the mat perfectly and all of her classmates started clapping for her. But in a split second, Lucy lost her balance and fell off the mat. She crashed onto the floor with a loud thud. "Oww... That hurt." She rubbed her back with her hand.

"Woah, are you okay?"

Lucy looked up just to see Natsu squatting infront of her and giving off a look of concern.

"Y-Yeah, I'm good!" she quickly got up and brushed the dust off her clothes.

Natsu raised a brow. "Are you sure? Your elbow is bleeding."

He grabbed Lucy's arm to take a look and she noticed blood oozing out from her badly bruised elbow. She pulled her arm away to release it from Natsu's grab. "Oh no!"

"That was a good jump though, Luce." Natsu said with a grin.

Luce?

"Thank you, Natsu." Lucy said shyly while looking away.

"Lu-chan! Are you alright?" Levy and Erza came rushing over.

"Your elbow is bleeding! We better take you to the nurse's room, come on!"

"Guys, it's no big deal-" Lucy couldn't finish and Erza started dragging her away.

"Seriously, Lucy. You are so careless!" Erza scolded.

"I'm really sorry, Erza."

Lucy watched as the nurse started to bandage her elbow and the memory of Natsu grabbing her arm and praising her came to her head. I shouldn't be thinking of that. He has a girlfriend! It probably didn't have a special meaning anyway.

Lucy decided to brush that aside.

Natsu walked back to where Gray was seated and fell onto the floor. "Gosh I'm exhausted."

Gray started at Natsu for awhile. "So what was up with you back there?"

"What do you mean?"

"You praised Lucy." Gray had a baffled expression.

"So what?" Natsu asked innocently.

"You don't usually praise girls, do you? Do you like Lucy?" Gray smirked.

"No freaking way. I was just trying to save her from the embarrassment of falling." Natsu said as he ruffled his hair full of sweat, seemingly oblivious to Gray's teasing.

"Sure Natsu, sure." This flamebrain can't get any denser.

Lucy threw her school bag onto the couch and lay beside it. Plue jumped onto the couch beside her and started cuddling with her.

"Today totally drained me, Plue." Lucy patted her furry friend's head.

"What? You want me to take you for a walk? But I'm so tired!" Plue started barking continuously so Lucy realized she had no choice.

"Alright alright. After I take a bath, okay?"

By the time Lucy took a bath and procrastinated for awhile, it was already 7pm when she finally got her ass up and decided to take Plue for a walk down the neighbourhood.

"It's really dark outside already, isn't it Plue?" Lucy looked down at the panting Plue as they roamed the quiet streets of Magnolia.

She walked Plue to a nearby playground and sat down on the swing. "I miss Mom and Dad, Plue. Do you?" Plue just wagged his tail in response.

Lucy just sighed, and looked up to the stars. I honestly do feel kinda lonely when I'm at home. I wish there was someone I could spend time with. "Well, at least I got you Plue!" Lucy smiled.

All of a sudden, Lucy noticed a small creature running towards her and Plue started barking furiously. She held Plue down and signaled him to stay quiet. She walked towards the creature, being careful to not scare it away. "A cat?"

Lucy picked the animal up and sat on the swing once again. "Wow it has blue fur! Look Plue!"

"Happy! Where are you? Happy!"

Lucy could hear the voice of a male in the distance and the person that came running over to her definitely wasn't someone that she expected.

"N-Natsu Dragneel..."

"Oh if it isn't Luce! What are you doing here?"

"I was taking Plue for a walk."

Natsu looked to what she had in her arms. "That's my cat, Happy, by the way."

"O-Oh r-really? I'm so sorry, I thought it was stray." She handed the cat back to it's owner.

Just then, Natsu took a seat on the other swing beside Lucy. "Happy and I have always been best buds! But he ran away this time because I refused to feed him."

Lucy just let out a nervous laugh, not knowing how to respond as there were a million things going through her head right now.

"Where's your girlfriend?" she asked as she started looking around her awkwardly.

"We broke up."

"W-What? When?! And why?!" Lucy was extremely astonished. So Levy's prediction was true!

"You sure like to ask a lot of questions huh." Natsu stared at Lucy with an unreadable expression.

"You don't have to answer me, sorry I asked. But you don't seem upset at all." Lucy muttered under her breath, but loud enough for Natsu to hear.

"Well, in the first place, I didn't really like her. So what's there to be upset about?"

What is up with this guy? He dated a girl that he didn't even like? He is the definition of asshole.

"How could you do that?! She seemed to really like you and you were just playing with her?" Lucy raised her voiced.

"Hmm, more like I was bored." Natsu said without even looking like he was guilty.

What the heck? This guy is getting on my nerves.

"I DIDN'T THINK YOU WERE SUCH A JERK! YOU'RE THE WORST!" Lucy shouted as she picked Plue up and ran back to her apartment.

Natsu watched her run away, completely clueless about what just happened. "What's her problem?"

Why was I so angry? Why did I get so worked up? I don't even like Natsu! His problems are none of my business! But why? Didn't Gray say that he wasn't an asshole?

Millions of questions ran through Lucy's mind at once, questioning herself and her own judgment.

I can't believe I actually thought he was nice! Ugh player!

Notes:

Hi readers! thanks for reading chpt 2 and i hope u like it! stay tuned for the next one :)

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