"You can't do this to me! What have I done to deserve this!" Burring my face in my hands, as I pulled out the best card I had. Crying girl. I usually always worked with the teachers. "You want me to fail!? He will destroy me!" Peeking between my fingers as I looked up at Gildarts. He didn't even care about me, he just kept watching his clock. "Destroy me you hear!"
Still, nothing.
"Why Gildarts!" Natsu Dragneel came running in behind us, pushing me away and grabbed Gildarts by his collar. Shaking him back and forth. "Why did you pare me up with the that!? I thought we were friends!?" Gildarts pushed Natsu away in annoyance, making him stumble backwards. I laughed at his stupidity.
"Finally, now both of you are here." Fixing his shirt.
"Both?" Said the two of us in sync. Giving the other one a glare.
"I have thought about this for a while now. And I came to the conclusion that this would be for the better. Solving your problems."
"What problems?" Was there a problem with my grades or something?
"Your lack of sexual appeal, you look like a walrus-" Kicking him in the leg, before he could finish that sentence. He silently cursed to himself as he gave me an angry look.
"Stop flirting now and listen to what I have to say."
"We're not flirting!" Crossing our arms in annoyance. Why would he think that? He should be aware of our relationship.
"I paired the two of you together so you could help each other."
"Why would I help him? It's not my fault that Natsu is skipping school."
"Yeah, listen to the one with no social life. At least I have one." That's it. He was getting another kick in the leg!
"Okay, okay guys!" I controlled my anger as Natsu only smirked at me, that bitch. "If you don't bring me something good in two weeks, then I will fail the both of you. Now go, I don't have time to more of your whining. I have a date."
Storming out in anger. I knew it was pointless to talk to Gildarts now. He meant what he said, and he would not hesitate to fail us, not even Natsu.
"Lucy! Natsu came running after me. I didn't have time for his bullshit now. Can't even look at him now, so I kept walking straight forward. "Stop." A warm hand grabbed me, pulling me backwards.
"Leave me alone!" yanking my hand out of his grip. I began to walk, with a steady paste.
"No!" Natsu jumped in front of me. "Maybe you want to fail, but I don't. You were the last one out of all people I thought would do that." If I failed this, my life would be over. My dream was crushed. I couldn't fail, I had to get an A! "I can't fail. My dad will kill me." Was he trying to get on my good side? I cant feel pity for that fool.
"You're already failing anyway, so why bother-"
"I get a fucking C in English literature, so don't even try it."
"Really? How is even that possible!?" I knew Gildarts and Natsu some how knew each other, but I thought Gildarts had more pride then that! Just giving him a C!
"I'm not completely useless as you think. I'm doing just fine on school."
"I'm not convinced." It would take me quite the time and some evidence before I believed that.
"Fine, just meet me at my dorm six o'clock-"
"No way, I'll meet you at the library." There was no way in hell I would just walk in to his love nest! No, gross, I have heard rumours on what's going on in there. That would be over my dead body, if I stepped one foot inside that place.
"As you wish, six o'clock at the library."
It was starting to get dark outside.
If Natsu was just as sincere as he was acting, then there would actually be a hope fore our grade. We had to write a short novel. The novel would be cut in half, so each of us would write our part of the story. But the hard and challenging thing would be that the writing style should be the same. If we're not able to do that, then we're fucked.
Now that I give it a second thought. We are fucked anyway. There's no way in hell we can pull this off.
I stopped in front of the library, as I opened the heavy wooden door. It was dark, probably empty too. He wasn't even here. I knew it. That bastard-
"There you are." A voice startled me. "You actually came? I was starting to think you wouldn't show up." I believe I'm the one to say that.
"The clock is not more then five minutes past six."
"That's five minutes late."
"You weren't even here!"
"I brought coffee. I've been here for twenty minutes already, so I went to get some coffee. Then I thought you wanted some."
"..Thanks." He just had to have some hidden intention, he wasn't going to fool me that easily.
"Have you thought about the genre we should write about?"
"Romance."
"Action."
"..."
"there is no way in hell that I will write about romance! What do you know about it anyway.?"
"Hey! I know plenty about romance! The one thing for sure is that we're not going to write about people fighting!" Was he really thinking that he would convince me to write about something like that? At least romance is for everyone.
We walked over to one of the tables close to the window. Natsu turned on a lamp as he seated himself in the chair over mine. Sighing loudly, while he frustrated buried his face in his hands.
"Meet me in the middle here. What about action with romance?"
"... Forget it." This was hopeless! We're not getting anywhere with this. There has to be something we can do, set us on the same page at least.
Both of us sat there for several minutes, trying to figure out a solution. We didn't think it would be this hard. We hadn't even decided which genre we were going to write about. Say goodbye to AW Academy!
"I got it!" Natsu startled me as he jumped off his chair.
"Do I even want to ask what your thinking about?" I had already given up on the assignment.
"Let's write Fifty shades of-"
"Don't you even dare to finish that sentence!" With a frown on his face, fell Natsu back down in his seat annoyed.
"Yeah, you're right. You probably don't know anything about such thing." Now it wasn't even bothering me, he was just looking for me to snap. Completely ignoring him, as I imagined the two of us write a dirty novel. That's what you call a failure.
Then it hit me. A war scenario. It would be perfect for us.
"What about a war scenario? We follow a couple that gets separated because of the war, he has to leave her behind to save his country."
"Lucy, that's genius!" That was the first compliment I had heard coming from him. "We can make it a provoking beginning, by staring in the middle of a war scene." What was going on here? Natsu actually said something that made sense and was a really good idea. "Maybe he gets shoot?"
"Her way to help her country is to take care of the wounded, working as a nurse. What if she met him there after they have been years apart?"
"Perfect! We will ace this!" My hope was finally back. Only if we kept it up like this. And most important of all, we had to have a truce, for a short time period.
A few hours later.
"Good, now that we have that settled. Let's start writing." I looked down at my watch. It was already eleven thirty. Wow, was it already that late? We had actually sat there for over five hours!
"Maybe we should call it a night."
"What? No, it's now the night begins."Totally forgot that his a night animal. Sleeps all day, while he is out all night.
"I'll head back to my dorm." I began to pack my things, but Natsu grabbed a hold off me and ran out of the library. "What are you doing!?"
"I want to take you somewhere." Was this a prank off his?"
"It's late, I have to get early up-"
"Come on, live a little!" I looked up at the pink haired male. He smirked at me, as he pulled me after him. "It's quiet, you'll like it there."
"I'm quite sceptical to all this Natsu." I might think so, but if I really didn't want to go would I have said something already. I don't know, maybe I wanted too? He had surprised me a lot today, so why not give it a try. Maybe it was a good suggestion to get to know each other better. In fact, we hadn't argued for the past few hours. Or wait, we did. But that was only when Natsu kept on suggesting we should change it to a fifty shades novel.
"I'll be nice." Why was he so convincing?
"... Fine." We ran out of the school building and down streets. People gave us looks as we passed them. Natsu jumped in on a side street, as I tried my best to keep up with him.
"It's right up a head. I promise you, you won't regret it." Well, I regret it already.
Finally he stopped.
Outside a bar? On a big sign it said 'Bickslow's Bar'.
"You brought me to a bar?"
"Yeah, go on in!" He opened the doors for me and pushed me through them. It was a quite, but crowded and yet comfortable surrounding. Natsu walked past me, while I was taking it all in. Seating himself at the bar where two seats were free. "Give me two beers and two shots!"
"Coming right up, Natsu!" A tall man behind the counter began pouring Natsu's order. He had blue hair and a tattoo covering parts of his face, and kept his tongue strangely out.
"Sit Lucy." Natsu nodded to the seat next to him.
"Here you go." The blue haired man swiftly sent them sliding down on the counter to us
"Here, drink." Handing me the cold drink.
"Oh.. no thank you. I don't drink."
"Come on, just one.
General POV
"Give me another one!" Lucy's voice drowned out everyone inside the bar. Waving with her glass at Bickslow.
"On it's way!" Bickslow sent the glass down the counter. Lucy concentrated and prepared herself to catch the in coming glass. Right before it was in her grasp, caught another hand it before her.
"Hey!"
"Don't you think you had to much to drink?" Lucy smiled at him, as she swayed back and forth.
"No! I just started!" She leaned over Natsu, trying to get her glass back.
"I thought you said you didn't drink." Smirking satisfied at her.
"I don't. Wow, it's hot here."
"Maybe we should head back to your dorm, I'll follow you to your door-" He was about to leave, but his eyes fell on Lucy who had began unbuttoning her shirt. "What are you doing!?"
"It's so hot!"
"You can't just undress yourself here!" Not happy with the answer she got, made Lucy a big scene. Shouting out as she moved around in her seat dramatically.
"Am I not attractive enough for you!? Are you cheating on me!?" People turned around, staring at him, judging him as the drunk blond cried in her seat. Some began to whisper to each other.
"Stop it!" Natsu hurried and gave her the beer. "I often come to this place!"
"Thank you." She smiled happily as she drank a sip.
"At least take a few more buttons, it's still revealing." Leaning forward as he buttoned a few more buttons on her uniform.
"Natsu?"
"Yeah?"
"Did you know that dolphins are gay sharks?" Laughing to himself as she stirred with her finger in the beer. She gave him a smile before she turned serious. "Do you hate me?"
"No."
"Then why are yo so mean to me all the time?" Laying her head on the counter as she looked questioning at him. "Why?"
For a few minutes sat the two of them only staring at each other. He didn't know how to response to her question. Lucy's face was flushed, with her red cheek rested on the counter. Gently, Natsu reach over and brushed away her bangs. Her eyes watched his movement, closing her eyes at his touch.
"I'm tired."
"Let's go." Natsu left the money they drank for.
"Piggyback me home."
"... Get on." She threw her arms around his neck and clung herself to him.
After they had walked for thirty minutes had Lucy fallen asleep.
"To answer your question, Lucy. I don't hate you."
"...Mhm." Completely lost in dream land, as she held Natsu around his neck.
"I just made a mistake." Snuggling closer to him, smiling in her sleep. "There was a girl I liked. I destroyed something precious to her by an accident and tried to make up for it. I brought her to this place I thought no one would find us. You see, I was going to give her a kiss. To tell her I was sorry. But my friends found out." Natsu looked up at Lucy who was right next to his face. He could see every freckle and her rosy pink lips. Hair fell down in her face, tickling her nose, making her frown her nose. He chuckled at her cuteness. "They thought it would be funny if they cut her ponytail. She had long beautiful hair and every girl was jealous of her. Before I knew it had they sneaked up behind her with a scissor in their hand." He stopped, looking up at the their school. "It was already too late. I was a coward."
Lucy moved slightly.
"You probably know the rest." Natsu sighed heavily. "I'm her mortal enemy."
Finally, it's updated!
For you who thought Natsu was mean, it was all a misunderstanding. Everything will get revealed in time.
Hope you're happy with the chapter and there will be more updates in the future.
I will begin to update my stories in order. This way if will be fair to every one. I'm working three jobs at the moment, so I don't got much time to update, but I'll do my best.
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- Fairy Tail x2 (Two chapters)
- Mermaid
- Off We Go
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