"Nice to meet'cha. Lucy Heartfilia, age 17."
Natsu and Gray fell off of their seats, making everybody laugh at them.
"O – Oi, Gray…" Natsu whispered to him, still lying on the floor.
"Y – yeah…" Gray replied back, not knowing what to say.
"You can sit in that empty seat there." Lucy followed her eyes towards the teacher's fingers. He was pointing towards an empty seat next to Gray where two tables had been pushed together next to a window. Natsu's seat was right in front of it.
"S – sensei! Isn't there another empty seat somewhere?" Gray yelled out frantically, trying to prevent Lucy sitting next to them. After all, what if she was the Lucy they once knew? No, it couldn't be. She looked so… so different.
"Why? Have you got a problem with Heartfilia-san sitting next to you?" Sting-sensei asked, raising his eyebrow and glaring at Gray.
"N – No sir." Gray replied almost immediately.
"Good. Now, we'll start class. First off, I want you to all listen to my eules in the classroom." Once he started his long lecture about rules, Lucy slowly walked towards her new seat. Natsu and Gray sat up straight and stiff as two wooden planks.
Lucy sat down slowly, putting her things on the table and making the chairs scrape against the floor agonisingly slowly. Gray had an urge to just slap her on the head and tell her to stop, but he was too scared to do that.
"First, always put your hand up. Never call out. I will not tolerate calling out." The teacher wrote this on the board with a piece of chalk and everybody copied it down. Gray shakily took out a pen out of his pencilcase and scribbled it down, glancing over to Lucy.
Her writing was the neatest writing he had ever seen! It was a cursive type of writing, slanted to the right side. It looked so much like the calligraphy on those ancient books!
He kept staring at her book and Lucy caught him staring and an evil smirk appeared on her face. She put on the scariest face she could and put it in front of his.
Gray, alarmed by the sudden change in Lucy's face and the fact that the horrific expression was 5 cm away from him, let out the highest shriek in an octave that hadn't even been heard yet.
Heads turned around and eyes stared as Gray clutched his beating heart in his chest, staring at a snickering Lucy. She twirled her pen in her two fingers and mouthed something towards him – 'Nice reaction, idiot.'
He blushed red and collected himself again, sitting up straight and staring at the teacher, who raised an eyebrow, shrugged, and continued writing things on the board again. Gray glared at Lucy, who just snickered again and twirled her pen.
He ripped out a small piece of paper from his book – quiet enough so the teacher couldn't hear – and grabbed his pen tightly.
Are you the Lucy from back then?
He gave the note to Lucy and looked away from her, hands crossed. Lucy grabbed the note and read it, grabbing her pen and looking at the note amusingly.
I don't know. Am I?
When she handed back the note, he snatched it up immediately, not noticing that his behaviour had attracted the attention of their teacher. Lucy noticed the teacher's gaze and pretended she was working. Just when Gray was about to read the note, the teacher interrupted him.
"Fullbuster! No passing around notes!" He snapped, storming up to Gray and snatching the note away from him.
"B – but I –"
"No buts! Detention in my office at 10:00 sharp!" He read the note briefly and looked towards Lucy, who was copying the things down from the board.
"You too, Heartfilia!" Lucy stayed silent and put down her pen and yawned, covering it with her mouth. Sting-sensei continued writing, mumbling something along the lines of troublesome students.
Lucy turned towards Gray, who felt a shiver down his spine whenever she looked at him.
"I guess we'll be seeing each other during our breaktime, too, Gray." She gave him a devilish smile and yawned again, leaning back on her chair and staring at the board blankly.
-X-
"Psst. Oi. Gray!" Gray turned around to see Natsu behind him, who quickly walked so he was next to him.
"Did you find out if she was LUCY?" Natsu whispered to him, his back hunched, his hand over his mouth. Gray shook his head.
"Nope. Teacher snatched the note off of me before I could read it," he sighed, running a hand through his hair.
"Gray!"
"Graaaaay!"
Gray turned around again to see Levy and Lisanna. He put his hand in front of them.
"No, I did not find out whether she was the Lucy we knew or not." Lisanna made a thinking pose and Levy pouted.
"She couldn't be, could she? If she is, she's changed a lot!" Levy exclaimed.
"You know the new girl, shrimp?" A deep voice rumbled. Levy felt a pressure on her head and sighed when she looked up to see Gajeel's arm on her head and his grinning face.
"Well, sort of. We don't know if she's the right person though," Levy frowned, making him ruffle her head.
"She's pretty hot, you know." Natsu cackled, chucking his things in his locker.
"I agree," Gray said, sulking at the same time. She was also a big tease, which he didn't like. She had already managed to make him blush to the point where he was uncomfortable with his own actions.
"Why, thank you."
Gray slammed his locker door closed.
"You're welcome."
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"Wait, what?!" He turned around and saw Lucy standing behind him, smirking. He leaned against his locker and covered tried to cover his blushing face with his hand.
"Oh, she's here! Hi Lucy!" Natsu waved at her and she ignored him, making him pout.
"A – ano… Lucy-san…" Levy started, twiddling with her fingers.
"Yes?" Lucy asked her, shifting her weight to her right foot.
"A – Are you the L – Lucy that went to school w – with us?" Levy asked timidly, looking to the ground and shuffling her feet.
"Who knows?" Lucy shrugged. Levy opened her mouth to say something but closed it. She found Lucy quite scary, to be honest.
"Well, Gray, shall we get going?" Lucy asked, looking at the still blushing boy. He took a few deep breaths and calmed himself down, nodding towards Lucy. They both walked off when Erza had just decided to arrive.
"What are you all staring at?" Erza asked them, holding a plate of strawberry cake.
"Lucy…" Levy started.
"Walked off…" Lisanna whispered.
"With Gray." Natsu ended, shoving a hot dog coated in chilli flavour into his mouth.
"L – Lucy? Lucy Heartfilia?" Erza asked, shocked.
"We don't know if it's the Lucy we know, though…" Levy whispered.
"I should've been in class. I had to many Student Council papers to sort out," Erza muttered. Gajeel, not knowing the whole issue about Lucy being bullied, just shrugged it all off and continued using Levy as his headrest.
-X-
"Um…" Sting-sensei sweatdropped at the scene before him. Lucy was sitting in her usual seat, near the window, but Gray was sitting all the way on the other side of the room.
"Why are you two….?" He trailed off, shaking the thought out of his head.
"This time, it's only going to be a warning. You two are dismissed."
"Hai," the two said simultaneously. They both bowed and walked out, Lucy munching on some chips. Not knowing where they were heading, they just walked on and on and on.
"So...uh…" The air was very stale and awkward between them and Gray was trying to make conversation with Lucy.
"Yes?" She looked at him and crunched on a chip, raising an eyebrow. He opened his mouth to say something but then shook his head.
"N – Nothing." Lucy shrugged at him and munched on another chip.
"So, why don't you show me around the school? I am new here and all, so I don't know my way around the school," Lucy offered, throwing her wrapper in the bin.
"U – Um…" He was quite taken aback by the offer, but at least it was a start to finding out who she really was.
"S – sure." Gray had decided to go to the rooftop, since you could see everything there.
"So, those are the classrooms and the building. That big field is obviously an athletic track. That part there with the big tree and the grass is just a chilling out area. The other side of this building are the teacher's offices, along with the toilets, drink taps and the gym," Gray explained, pointing to every one of the places.
Lucy just nodded silently and looked at the great view, enjoying the breeze in her hair.
"Are we even allowed here?" Gray twiddled with his fingers and motioned for her to look at the door.
Please don't come up here!
From the Principal.
Lucy understood why the Principal didn't want students on the rooftop – there was no gate or any protection to help someone if they fell. Lucy stared at it intently and jumped onto the rooftop ledge, making Gray alarmed.
"O – oi! What if you fall?" Gray yelled at her. She shrugged and walked slowly, step by step across the rooftop.
"OI!" Gray yelled. Lucy was a bit startled that he raised his voice and accidentally slipped.
"AHHHHHHHH!"
A/N: Ah man I can't believe the anime ended ; A ; I really hope that it's going to continue in the future. I can't imagine Saturday afternoons without an episode of Fairy Tail!
Make sure to review & read / support my other stories: Valentine's Day, Darkness, Of Dragonslayers love and best friends, The proposal, Fairy Tail Academy and Replacement!
- hime